Course Background
            
             Dominant Civilizations
            
             1. The dominant civilization at the time was the Roman Empire.
             2. Western Europe was right behind the Roman Empire in civilization.
             3. With the fall of the Roman Empire, Western civilization fell.
            
             The split of civilization
            
             1. Western Europe began to slit in to seperate counries.
             2. Less people used Latin as a form of communication.
             3. This made international communication difficult.
             4. Many different languages emerged.
             5. Christianity split up with the rise of Protestantism.
             6. Religeon began to decline.
             A. There were lees religeous wars.
             B. The last religeous war was in 1648 (The 30 yrs. war)
             1) Millions of people died.
             2) Approxmiatley 1/3 of the population perished.
            
             Science and TEchnology
            
             In the early 1830's Faraday discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism
             This allowed for the abilit yot generate electrcity
             Samuel Morse developed the telegraph
             By the late 1800's radios and x-rays were developed
             Chemistry took off in the 1860's
             Scientists discovered that there were such things as elements
             The periodic table was invented
             Synthetic chemicals took off
             Biology took off in the 1850's
             Pastuer discovered what bacteria were
             Charles Darwin worked out the relationship between the species
             He came up with the theory of evolution and Natural Selection
            
            
             The development of Nationalism
            
             France
             In France Napoleon III harnesses Nationalism as a motivator tio get thim elected as president.
             THis of course worksmand the people later grant him the status of Emperror.
             TO make the people happy he held frequent votes in the National Assembly but kept little power with them
            
            
             Italy
             People wanted to unite
             The government was run by Cavour
             Garribaldi holds a revolution and conqueres the southern parts of Itlay then just hands them over to Cavour
             order toi unite Itlay
            
            
             Germany
             THey also wanted to be united
             Prussia was th...