► What is the role of the bubonic plague in the movement to the towns from rural manors and the rise of the guilds?
► What is the beginning of a new economic and social system after the stagnant medieval era?
► What sweeping changes in world result from the Renaissance?
► What are both the creative and destructive changes in the world order brought by the Age of Exploration?
► How is the Protestant Reformation an extension of capitalism?
► How does the Enlightenment influence the French Revolution?
► How does the Napoleonic War bring the modern age to others?
► How does the Closure Act force millions of peasants to seek work in the cities?
► What is the impact of the canal system and railroads on the growth of modern industrial capitalism in England?
► How does 19th century culture reflect the change of the New Modern Age from set forms of the conservative period?
► What is Marx’s mixed view of capitalism in contrast with free market advocates?