St. Augustine s City of God. The age of Aquinas, the cathedrals, the Crusades, courtly love, Dante. Florence, the Medici, the growth of trade and cities. New art, music, literature, philosophy. Louis XIV and Versailles.
Modern philosophy begins.
Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Milton. Plymouth Colony founded. Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Swift, Pope, Johnson. The triumph of Whiggism, the bourgeoisie, and the Evangelical movement. Beethoven and romanticism in music.