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UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md

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-# Russia
+# Module 1 (Cold War)
 ## Background on Russia
 - Long history of expansion
 - A multinational empire
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-		- Gorbachev ending the Cold War
+		- Gorbachev ending the Cold War
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+# Module 2 (Early Modern)
+- Ordering time
+	- Chronology: Placing of events in a sequence of occurrences
+	- Periodization: Divide, categorize and name chronological periods of blocks of time
+- Traditional way:
+	- Ancient era: Until the fall of the roman empire in the 5th century
+	- Medieval era/middle ages 5th to 15th centuries
+	- Modern era: from the 15th century until the present day
+	- Then historians began to conceive of an early modern era, from the beak of modernity in the 15th until the 18th century, calling after the french revolution as truly modern
+- Basic prioritization for European history
+	- Ancient era: Same
+	- Medieval era/middle ages: Same
+	- Early modern era 15th -18 centuries
+	- Modern era: 19th until the present day
+## Defining Early modernity
+- How "new" and different was the early modern period?
+- How and when did the early modern period end?
+- And how different was it from what came after?
+- Degree of continuity/discontinuity between historical periods depends on what aspects of history one focuses on
+### When did the modern era begin?
+- Possible events
+	- Siege of Constantinople: 1453
+	- Gutenberg Bible: 1454
+	- Columbus first voyage: 1492
+	- Martin Luther's 95 theses: 1517
+- Or a process
+	- The Renaissance
+	- Religious reformation
+	- Large-scale gunpowder warfare
+	- Bullion from the "New World"
+	- Early nation ... 
+- Or features
+	- Global interaction and exploration
+	- Shift in global trade flows
+	- Unprecedented rise in slave trade
+	- Emergence of new cash crops
+	- Shifts in political ideology
+	- New technologies
+	- New types of public sphere and collective identities
+### Great Chain of Being
+- God
+- Angels;Demons
+- Stars, moon
+- Kings, Princes
+- Nobles
+- Commoners
+- Animals
+- Plants. minerals, etc