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Course Outline given to students:
(will be posted shortly)

Chapter 1 - The Modern Age
1.) Introduction - Guns, Germs, and Steel (part 1) 2.) The Renaissance - Kings Gain Power, A Prosperous Age, A New View of Humanity, A New View of the World

Chapter 2 - English Civil War
1.) English Geography 2.) English Society in the 17th Century 3.) The Stuarts 4.) The Civil War 5.) The Triumph of Parliament

Chapter 3 - French Revolution
1.) French Geography 2.) French Society in the 17th Century 3.) Louis XIV & XVI 4.) The Enlightment 5.) The French Revolution 6.) The Reign of Terror

Chapter 4 - Napoleonic Era
1.) Early Career 2.) Making France Strong 3.) The Emperor 4.) Napoleon & Europe 5.) Abdication & Exile

Chapter 5 - Industrial Revolution
1.) Intro - Dickens' Oliver Twist 1.) Why Britain? 2.) Agricultural Revolution 3.) Economic Revolution 4.) Transportation 5.) Factory System 6.) Society & Culture

Chapter 6 - Regional Geography of North America
1.) Appalachian Region 2.) Coastal Plains 3.) Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowland 4.) Interior Plains 5.) Canadian Shield 6.) Western Cordillera 7.) Intermountain Region 8.) Arctic

Chapter 7 - First Nations People of North America
1.) Inuit 2.) Iroquois 3.) Peoples of the Plains 4.) Peoples of the Plateau 5.) Peoples of the Coast

Chapter 8 - Arrival in Canada
1.) The Vikings 2.) European Explorers 3.) The Founding of New France - Samuel de Champlain 4.) Settlement & Colonization - Jesuit Missionaries, Coureurs de Bois 5.) The Royal Province of New France - first government, Seigneuries, habitants, women 6.) The Seven Years' War

Chapter 9 - Canada Moves West
1.) Hudson's Bay Company 2.) North West Company - voyageurs 3.) Western Canada Exploration - Alexander Mackenzie, David Thompson, Alex Fraser, James Cook, George Vancouver 4.) Women in the Fur Trade

Chapter 10 - American Rev & British North America
1.) After the Fall of Quebec - British rule, sentiments, Quebec Act 2.) The American Revolution 3.) British North America - Constitutional Act of 1791, pioneeers, John Graves Simcoe 4.) The War of 1812