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HIST103: World History in the Early Modern and Modern Eras (1600–Present)
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Course Syllabus
Unit 1: Global Networks of Exchange in the 1600s
Unit 2: Conflict and Empire in the 1600s and 1700s
Unit 3: Religious, Intellectual, and Political Revolutions in the 1600s–1800s
Unit 4: Scientific and Industrial Revolutions of the 1600s and 1700s
Unit 5: New Imperialism during the Long 19th Century
Unit 6: World War I
Unit 7: The Rise of Totalitarian States in the 20th Century
Unit 8: The Second World War and the New World Order
Unit 9: The Cold War and Decolonization
Unit 10: Global Society in a Post-Cold War World
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-- Course Syllabus --
-- Unit 1: Global Networks of Exchange in the 1600s --
-- 1.1: The Atlantic World --
-- 1.1.1: European Colonization --
-- 1.1.2: The Slave Trade and the Expanding Atlantic Economy --
-- 1.1.3: Demographic Shifts and Settlement Patterns --
-- 1.1.4: Spain and Portugal's Global Connections --
-- 1.2.1: Trade Networks and State Monopolies --
-- 1.2.2: Supply and Demand --
-- 1.2.3: Economic and Political Impact of the India Trade --
-- 1.3.1: Ecological Impact --
-- 1.3.2: Changing patterns of Production and Consumption --
-- 1.3.3: Shifting Power Balance between European States --
-- 1.3.4: Changing Economic Relationship between East and West --
-- Unit 1 Assessment --
-- Unit 2: Conflict and Empire in the 1600s and 1700s --
-- 2.1: Information Exchange and Changing Political Systems --
-- 2.2.1: Europe --
-- 2.2.2: Middle East and Asia --
-- 2.2.3: Challenges to Absolutism --
-- 2.3.1: Warfare in the Americas --
-- 2.3.2: Growing Economic Power of Northern Europe --
-- Unit 2 Assessment --
-- Unit 3: Religious, Intellectual, and Political Revolutions in the 1600s–1800s --
-- 3.1: Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe --
-- 3.1.1: Origins of the Reformation --
-- 3.1.2: Political Impact of the Reformation --
-- 3.1.3: The Counter-Reformation --
-- 3.2.1: Spread of Islam --
-- 3.2.2: Political and Cultural Impact --
-- 3.3.1: Origins --
-- 3.3.2: Ideas --
-- 3.3.3: Political and Social Impact --
-- 3.4.1: Europe --
-- 3.4.2: The Americas --
-- 3.4.3: The Emergence of Liberalism and Nationalism --
-- Unit 3 Assessment --
-- Unit 4: Scientific and Industrial Revolutions of the 1600s and 1700s --
-- 4.1: The Scientific Revolution --
-- 4.1.1: Origins --
-- 4.1.2: Social Impact --
-- 4.1.3: Political Impact --
-- 4.2.1: Origins --
-- 4.2.2: Social and Political Impact in Europe --
-- 4.2.3: Global Impact --
-- Unit 4 Assessment --
-- Unit 5: New Imperialism during the Long 19th Century --
-- 5.1: The New Imperialism --
-- 5.2.1: Racism and Social Control --
-- 5.2.2: Destruction of Native Cultures --
-- 5.2.3: Imposition of European Ideas and Values --
-- 5.3: Imperialism and Modernization --
-- 5.4.1: China: Opium Wars --
-- 5.4.2: China: Taiping and Boxer Rebellions --
-- 5.4.3: Sepoy Rebellion-India --
-- 5.4.4: Western Anti-Imperialist Movements --
-- Unit 5 Assessment --
-- Unit 6: World War I --
-- 6.1: Causes --
-- 6.1.1: Military and Economic Competition among the Great Powers --
-- 6.1.2: Power Politics and the European Alliance System --
-- 6.1.3: The Summer of 1914 --
-- 6.2.1: The War in Western Europe --
-- 6.2.2: Colonial Warfare --
-- 6.2.3: New Weapons of War --
-- 6.3.1: Devastation of Europe --
-- 6.3.2: Treaty of Versailles --
-- 6.3.3: The Postwar Settlement --
-- Unit 6 Assessment --
-- Unit 7: The Rise of Totalitarian States in the 20th Century --
-- 7.1: The Interwar Years, 1918–1938 --
-- 7.1.1: Social and Political Impact of World War I --
-- 7.1.2: Economic Depression --
-- 7.1.3: Experiments with Liberal Democracy --
-- 7.2.1: The Russian Revolution, 1917 --
-- 7.2.2: The Bolsheviks Consolidate Power --
-- 7.2.3: The Rise of Stalin --
-- 7.3: Italy --
-- 7.4.1: The Origins of the Nazi Movement --
-- 7.4.2: Hitler's Rise and Consolidation of Power --
-- 7.4.3: Race in Nazi Germany --
-- 7.5.1: Nationalism and Colonialism --
-- 7.5.2: Hirohito, Tojo, and Japanese Militarism --
-- 7.5.3: East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere --
-- Unit 7 Assessment --
-- Unit 8: The Second World War and the New World Order --
-- 8.1: The "Gathering Storm" --
-- 8.1.1: Italian Imperialism --
-- 8.1.2: Japanese Imperialism --
-- 8.1.3: Responses --
-- 8.2.1: The War in Europe --
-- 8.2.2: The War in Asia and the Pacific --
-- 8.2.3: The Allied Victory --
-- 8.3.1: Creation of the United Nations --
-- 8.3.2: United States and USSR Emerge as Global Superpowers --
-- 8.3.3: Reconstruction of Western Europe --
-- Unit 8 Assessment --
-- Unit 9: The Cold War and Decolonization --
-- 9.1: Restructuring Europe and Asia --
-- 9.1.1: New Political, Economic, and Military Alignments --
-- 9.1.2: The Marshall Plan and the Occupation of Japan --
-- 9.1.3: NATO and the Warsaw Pact --
-- 9.2.1: "Wars of National Liberation" --
-- 9.2.2: Decolonization and Nation Building --
-- 9.2.3: The Non-Aligned Nations --
-- 9.3.1: Atomic Arms Race --
-- 9.3.2: Revolutionary Politics in the West --
-- Unit 9 Assessment --
-- Unit 10: Global Society in a Post-Cold War World --
-- 10.1: Global Society and the End of the Cold War --
-- 10.1.1: Fall of the Iron Curtin --
-- 10.1.2: Reorganizing and Realigning --
-- 10.2.1: "Chinese Democracy?": Tiananmen and Communist Rule in China --
-- 10.2.2: The Asian Miracle --
-- 10.2.3: Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics --
-- 10.3.1: Population Growth and Immigration --
-- 10.3.2: Economic Inequalities --
-- 10.3.3: Technology, Information Flow, Development, and Globalization --
-- Unit 10 Assessment --
-- Course Feedback Survey --
-- Certificate Final Exam --
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