General knowledge of Secondary Education on all historical periods.

1. Chronological and geographical limits. The "trade" of the Historian of the Modern Age and the basic lines of the current modernist historiographic research. 2. Humanism and the humanists. Scope and diffusion of the new culture. 3. The Protestant reforms. The Catholic reform. The Council of Trent and its projection in Europe. 4. Dynastic rivalries and religious conflicts. 5. The technique and the geographical discoveries. 6. Population and the ancient demographic cycle. Behavior, quantification and distribution. 7. Social organization: estates, orders and social groups. 8. Agricultural expansion, industrial horizon and commercial development. 9. The crisis of the 17th century. Baroque and classicism. 10. The Thirty Years' War and Westphalia. The Europe of Louis XIV and international conflicts. 11. The great colonial empires and the extra-European world. 12. Old and new social and economic attitudes in the 18th century. 13. The Enlightenment and its social projection. 14. International relations in the 18th century.

AF1. THEORETICAL-PRACTICAL CLASSES. In these classes the knowledge to be acquired by the students will be presented. They will receive the class notes and will have basic reference texts to facilitate the follow-up of the classes and the development of the subsequent work. Exercises and practical problems will be solved by the student and workshops and evaluation tests will be carried out to acquire the necessary skills. AF2. TUTORIALS. Individualized assistance (individual tutorials) or in group (collective tutorials) to the students by the professor. AF3. INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP WORK OF THE STUDENT. MD1. THEORY CLASS. Class lectures by the professor with the support of computer and audiovisual media, in which the main concepts of the subject are developed and materials and bibliography are provided to complement the students' learning. MD2. PRACTICES. Resolution of practical cases, problems, etc. posed by the teacher individually or in groups. MD3. TUTORIALS. Individualized assistance (individual tutorials) or group (group tutorials) to students by the professor.