Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: compare and contrast how absolutism and constitutionalism affected Western Europe and how power shifted in the old empires through Western and Eastern Europe; explain world economies in the 1700s and society and culture of the 18th century; analyze the leaders of the scientific revolution and the enlightenment, breakthroughs within science and the effects on societies and political theory; examine the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon, his reign of terror and the fall of his empire; outline the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution and the British Reform movement; demonstrate the political developments, such as liberalism, radicalism, republicanism and socialism and the various revolutions resulting throughout Europe and the Americas; illustrate the spread of Nationalism and the second industrial revolution throughout Europe and the Americas in 19th and early 20th century; discuss imperialism in the 19th and 20th century; examine the main causes of WWI and study the famous battles; analyze what happened in Europe and Asia between the World Wars; categorize what caused WWII, why and how America entered the fight, and the development and use of the Atom bomb; and investigate the world following WWII and learn about economic and political reconstruction in Europe, the Chinese revolution and the creation of Taiwan.