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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 48: The Three Ages of Modern China — World History 101

From the fall of the Qing dynasty to the founding of the People’s Republic — three political systems in less than four decades, and the rise of a twenty-first century superpower.
Chapter 59: The Paradox of Iranian Democracy — World History 101

Mossadegh, the 1953 CIA coup, the 1979 revolution, and the layered theocracy that grew from a stolen democracy.