Before	"MAGIC BOX" Revolutions	After
Political System: Monarchy	English Glorious Revolution	Political System: Constitutional Republics
Philosophy: Divine Rights of Kings	The American Revolution	Philosophy: Enlightenment
Economic System: Feudalism	The French Revolution	Economic System: Capitalism
holding space	The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions & the Philosophes	holding space

FEUDALISM

This is an easy explanation of feudalism:

http://www.mauigateway.com/~john/Feudalism/feudalism.htm

This is a more detailed explanation of feudalism:

http://www.ukans.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/feudalism.html

A very nice site with links to specific information:

http://www.fidnet.com/~weid/feudalism.htm

Interactive site about everyday life during feudalism:

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/feudal.html

Sites about monarchy and the divine rights of kings:

Specific information about what "divine rights" means:

http://www.bcpl.net/~cbladey/guy/html/kings.html

Encyclopedia article and definition:

http://www.britannica.com/seo/d/divine-right-of-kings/

Talks about "The rise and fall of Absolute Monarchs:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf/bnf0005.html

Good Web Sites to better understand capitalism:

Really good answers to common questions site and it has a virtual tour of capitalism:

http://www.capitalism.org/

Encyclopedia article about capitalism:

http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/02275.html

Not a lot of pictures, but really good information:

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~shadab/

 

The Enlightenment:

A handy overview of what the Enlightenment means:

http://www.mrdowling.com/705-enlightenment.html

Great links to the "Philosophes"

http://www.fresno.k12.ca.us/schools/s090/lloyd/scientific_revolution_%26_en.htm

Article about "The Age of Enlightenment" with pictures:

http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/enlightenment.html

 

The American Revolution:

Homepage with timeline and biography:

http://webpages.homestead.com/revwar/files/INDEX2.HTM

Every day life during Revolutionary times:

http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3803/

Links to primary sources and documents like the Declaration of Independence:

http://www.ushistory.org/

 

British History and the Glorious Revolution:

The official British Monarchy Homepage:

http://www.royal.gov.uk/history/index.htm

A useful site of British History:

http://britannia.com/history/

A timeline of the Tudor Dynasty and the Glorious Revolution:

http://britannia.com/history/reftime.html

 

The French Revolution:

A brief overview of the French Revolution:

http://www.mrdowling.com/705-frenchrevolution.html

Timelines, biographies and lots of pictures:

http://www.woodberry.org/acad/hist/FRWEB/

Links to relevant sites about the French Revolution:

http://members.aol.com/agentmess/frenchrev/index.html

 

The Industrial Revolution:

A huge amount of information:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html#The%20Industrial%20Revolution

Neat interactive site with focus on inventions of the time:

http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html

Great site from Think Quest Jr.

http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4132/?tqskip=1

ALSO LOOK FOR INFORMATION UNDER ENLIGHTENMENT

Constitutions

Links to sites relevant to the American Constitution and its history:

http://tcnbp.tripod.com/indexi.htm

Information about the history of the constitutional convention and the founding fathers:

http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/constitution/confath.html

The actual U.S. Constitution:

http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html