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A History of the Modern World
A History of the Modern World, 9/e
R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

The Transformation of Eastern Europe

Internet Exercises

Religious conflict in the 17th century

Why, two centuries after the Reformation, did this event take place?



Link 1
(http://europeanhistory.about.com/homework/europeanhistory/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm'site=htt... )

Army, state and society in eighteenth-century Prussia



Link 1
(http://europeanhistory.about.com/homework/europeanhistory/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm'site=htt... )

Maps for 1415, 1618, 1648, 1763

How did the peculiar geographical setting of Prussia affect the relationship between army, state and society in eighteenth-century Prussia?



Link 1
(http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/fgp/terri... )

Early modern Russian folk prints (lubki)

Use the lubki to discuss how ordinary Russians understood themselves and their times.



Link 1
(http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/Lubok/lubok.html)

Ottoman Empire

Use this web site to determine the motivation of the Gazi warriors, who the Janissaries were, or why the Islamicisation of Bosnia was so different than elsewhere in Balkans.



Link 1
(http://www.ucalgary.ca/HIST/tutor/islam/empires/ottoman/)

Growth of St. Petersburg

Use four maps c. 1698-1737 to chart the growth of the new Russian capital.



Link 1
(http://www.300.spb.ru/maps/1698/index_ru.htm)

(1698)
Link 2
(http://www.300.spb.ru/maps/1717/index_ru.htm)

(1717)
Link 3
(http://feature.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/stp.gif)

(1731)
Link 4
(http://www.300.spb.ru/maps/1737/index_ru.htm)

(1737)

Russian ethnic groups and languages

Utilize these sites to analyze the diversity of Russian ethnic groups, languages and regional identities.



Link 1
(http://www.nupi.no/cgi-win/Russland/etnisk.exe?listalle)

Link 2
(http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/RusE.html)

Peter the Great and social reform

Discuss Russian marriage practices in the eighteenth century.



Link 1
(http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/HISB07/6.PG/6.L/8.pg.21-23.html)