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Turning Points in
Modern History
Taught by Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE
LECTURE TITLES
- 1433—The Great Voyages of Admiral Zheng He
- 1453—The Fall of Constantinople
- 1455—Gutenberg’s Print Revolution
- 1492—The Columbian Exchange
- 1600—The British East India Company
- 1648—The Treaty of Westphalia
- 1676—Van Leeuwenhoek’s Microscope
- 1751—Diderot’s Enlightenment Encyclopedia
- 1787—The American Experiment
- 1789—The French Revolution
- 1838—The British Slavery Abolition Act
- 1839—The Opium War in China
- 1859—Darwin and the Origin of Species
- 1869—Binding Continents
- 1893—First Women Voters in New Zealand
- 1896—The Invention of Motion Pictures
- 1903—Kitty Hawk and Powered Flight
- 1904—The Russo-Japanese War
- 1928—The Discovery of Penicillin
- 1942—The Dawn of the Atom
- 1969—Walking on the Moon
- 1972—China Enters the World Balance
- 1989—The Fall of the Berlin Wall
- 2004—The Rise of Social Media
Turning Points in Modern History
Course no. 8032 | 24 lectures (30 minutes/lecture)
Examine History’s
Watershed Moments
What do the fall of Constantinople, the French Revolution, and the
invention of the Internet have in common? If any one of these turning
points had not occurred, or had happened differently, the trajectory
of modern history—and even your own life—would have been
dramatically altered.
In 24 riveting lectures, Turning Points in Modern History tells the
amazing story of how life as we know it developed. Taught by award-
winning history professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius of the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, this course takes you on a far-reaching journey
around the globe—from China to the Americas—to shed light on how
two dozen of the top discoveries, inventions, political upheavals, and
ideas since the year 1400 shaped the modern world.
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