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HIST103: World History (1600–Present)
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COURSE INTRODUCTION
Course Syllabus
Unit 1: What is History?
1.1: Developing a Global Perspective of History
Developing a Global Perspective
Global Citizenship
1.2: Primary Sources
Primary Sources
How Historians Use Newspapers
1.3: Causation and Interpretation in History
What Is History?
Causation and Interpretation in History
Unit 1 Assessment
Unit 1 Assessment
Unit 2: Trade in East Asia and the Indian Ocean
2.1: India and International Connections
India and International Connections
The Mughal Empire
The Portuguese Empire
The British Empire
2.2: The Malacca Sultanate
The Malacca Sultanate
2.3: Exchange in East Asia
Exchange in East Asia
Emperor Qian Long and the Qing Dynasty
The Tokugawa Shogunate
Unit 2 Assessment
Unit 2 Assessment
Unit 3: Early Modern Africa and the Wider World
3.1: The Mali Empire
The Roots of African Trade
The Mali Empire
3.2: The Songhai Empire
The Songhai Empire
3.3: The Swahili Coast
The Swahili Coast
Swahili Mosques
3.4: The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 4: The Islamic World
4.1: A Connected Islamic World
The Connected Islamic World
4.2: The Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires
4.3: The Safavid Empire
The Safavid Empire
More on the Safavid Empire
Unit 4 Assessment
Unit 4 Assessment
Unit 5: Foundations of the Atlantic World
5.1: The Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation
The Political Impact of the Reformation
The Protestant Reformation, Science, and Religion
The Counter-Reformation
5.2: Crossing the Atlantic
Crossing the Atlantic
Exploration and Global Trade
The Columbian Exchange
5.3: Indigenous Americans
The New World
The Aztecs of Mexico: A Zero-Waste Society
Colonialism and Indigenous Response in the Americas
5.4: The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Barbados, Jamaica, and Slave Rebellions
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Impact of the Slave Trade through a Ghanaian Lens
Unit 5 Assessment
Unit 5 Assessment
Unit 6: Colonization and Economic Expansion
6.1: European Colonization in the Americas
European Colonization in the Americas
Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
English Settlements in America
The Americas and Columbus
The New World
Settlement Patterns in New Spain, New France, and British North America
6.2: The Rise of a Global Economy
Mercantilism
Exploration and Mercantilism
The Rise of a Global Economy
6.3: Capitalism and the First Industrial Revolution
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Karl Marx
Industrial Revolutions
The Origins of the Industrial Revolution
Unit 6 Assessment
Unit 6 Assessment
Unit 7: Revolutions in Europe and North America
7.1: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
The Origins of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution Enlightenment
Scientific and Political Revolutions in the 17th and 18th Centuries
7.2: The Exchange of Ideas in the Public Sphere
The Exchange of Ideas in the Public Sphere
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
John Locke (1632–1704)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78)
7.3: Revolutions in America, France, and Haiti
Revolutions in America, France, and Haiti
The American Revolution
More on the American Revolution
Common Sense
The French Revolution
More on the French Revolution
Rights of Man
The Haitian Revolution
Dessalines, the Flag, and Independence
7.4: Nationalism, Liberalism, Conservatism, and the Political Order
The Napoleonic Wars
Nationalism, Liberalism, Conservatism, and the Political Order
The Congress of Vienna and Growth of Nationalism
Why No Revolution in 1848 in Britain?
7.5: Revolutions in Latin America
Spanish America: Revolution for Whom?
Spanish North America
Revolution in Latin America and South America
Spanish South America
Simón Bolívar
Portuguese South America
Unit 7 Assessment
Unit 7 Assessment
Unit 8: Expansion in the Industrial Age
8.1: The Second Industrial Revolution
The Second Industrial Revolution
8.2: Motives and Means of Imperialism
The Motives and Means of Imperialism
Imposition of European Ideas and Values
Facilitating Imperialism through Advanced Technologies
Imperialism: A Study
8.3: Colonial Empires
Colonial Empires
8.4: Exploitation and Resistance
Exploitation and Resistance
The Boxer Rebellion
Unit 8 Assessment
Unit 8 Assessment
Unit 9: Life and Labor in the Industrial World
9.1: Inventions, Innovations, and Mechanization
Inventions, Innovations, and Mechanization
The Philosophy of Manufacturers
Steel: Carnegie and Creative Destruction
9.2: Life in the Industrial City
Life in the Industrial City
Urbanization and Its Challenges
The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements
9.3: Immigrants and Settlers
Communities in Diaspora
Settler Colonies
9.4: Regulation, Reform, and Revolutionary Ideologies
Coerced and Semicoerced Labor
Regulation, Reform, and Revolutionary Ideologies
Socialist Economics
Unit 9 Assessment
Unit 9 Assessment
Unit 10: World War I
10.1: Alliances, Expansion, and Conflict
Alliances, Expansion, and Conflict
Planning the First World War
The Collapse of the Ottomans and the Coming of War
10.2: Total War
Total War
New Weapons of War
War on the Homefront
Southeast Asia and World War I
America and World War I
10.3: The Peace Settlement
The War Ends
The Fourteen Points
The Final Treaty
The Middle East and World War I
10.4: The Russian Revolution
Rising Discontent in Russia
The Romanovs and the Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution
Women and the Russian Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of the Toiling and Exploited Peoples
Unit 10 Assessment
Unit 10 Assessment
Unit 11: The Interwar Period
11.1: Recovering from World War I
Recovering from World War I
The European Economy in the Interwar Period
Internationalism between the Wars
The Effects of the First World War
Post World War I Area: Extreme Nationalism
11.2: The Formation of the Soviet Union
The Formation of the Soviet Union
First Five-Year Plan
11.3: The Great Depression and Fascism
The Great Depression
Fascism
11.4: Demands for Rights and Freedom
Ho Chi Minh Petition
Old Empires and New Colonies
Mahatma: A Great Soul of the 20th Century
Resistance, Civil Rights, and Democracy
Unit 11 Assessment
Unit 11 Assessment
Unit 12: The Causes and Consequences of World War II
12.1: The Lead-Up to World War II, an Unstable Peace
An Unstable Peace
Prelude to World War II
12.2: Theaters of War, World War II
Theaters of War
World War II
The Holocaust
End of World War II
12.3: Reconstruction and the Effects of World War II
Out of the Ashes
Keeping the Home Fires Burning
The Reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War
The Manhattan Project
The Atlantic Charter through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The United Nations
Unit 12 Assessment
Unit 12 Assessment
Unit 13: Cold War Conflicts
13.1: The Cold War
The Cold War Begins
The Cold War
The Long Telegram
Rethinking the Space Race
13.2: The Spread of Communism
The Spread of Communism
The Great Leap Forward
The Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong's Victory and Its Aftermath
13.3: The Non-Aligned Movement
The Non-Aligned Movement
Jawaharlal Nehru Speaks to the Bandung Conference Political Committee, 1955
13.4: Global Tensions and Decolonization
Global Tensions and Decolonization
The Vietnam War
The Decolonization in the British Empire
The Angolan Civil War
The Cold War and Decolonization
13.5: A New World Order
A New World Order
Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History
Glasnost, Perestroika, and the End of the Soviet Union
Unit 13 Assessment
Unit 13 Assessment
Unit 14: The Contemporary World and Ongoing Challenges
14.1: A Global Economy
A Global Economy
Globalization
Economic Development in East Asia
14.2: Climate Change and the Environment
Debates on the Environment
Global Climate Change
14.3: Science and Technology for Today's World
Science and Technology for Today's World
Globalization and Technology
The Clean Energy Hub of the Future
14.4: Ongoing Problems and Solutions
Ongoing Problems and Solutions
The Syrian Refugee Crisis
What the War in Ukraine Means for the Global Order
Unit 14 Assessment
Unit 14 Assessment
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