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Chapter 36: The Rise of Protestant Europe — World History 101

How Martin Luther’s 1517 challenge to Rome — amplified by the printing press — fractured Western Christianity, reshaped European politics, and ended a millennium of papal supremacy.
Chapter 38: The French Revolution and Its Aftermath — World History 101

How the 1789 storming of the Bastille produced the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the Reign of Terror, and ultimately the imperial dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Chapter 40: Europe in the Age of Napoleon — World History 101

How Napoleon Bonaparte conquered most of continental Europe, codified a legal system that still shapes global law, and accidentally unleashed nationalism by trying to suppress it.