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HIST103: World History (1600–Present)
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Course Introduction
Course Syllabus
Unit 1: What is History?
Unit 2: Trade in East Asia and the Indian Ocean
Unit 3: Early Modern Africa and the Wider World
Unit 4: The Islamic World
Unit 5: Foundations of the Atlantic World
Unit 6: Colonization and Economic Expansion
Unit 7: Revolutions in Europe and North America
Unit 8: Expansion in the Industrial Age
Unit 9: Life and Labor in the Industrial World
Unit 10: World War I
Unit 11: The Interwar Period
Unit 12: The Causes and Consequences of World War II
Unit 13: Cold War Conflicts
Unit 14: The Contemporary World and Ongoing Challenges
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Course Syllabus
Developing a Global Perspective
Global Citizenship
Primary Sources
How Historians Use Newspapers
What Is History?
Causation and Interpretation in History
Unit 1 Assessment
India and International Connections
The Mughal Empire
The Portuguese Empire
The British Empire
The Malacca Sultanate
Exchange in East Asia
Emperor Qian Long and the Qing Dynasty
The Tokugawa Shogunate
Unit 2 Assessment
The Roots of African Trade
The Mali Empire
The Songhai Empire
The Swahili Coast
Swahili Mosques
The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Unit 3 Assessment
The Connected Islamic World
The Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires
The Safavid Empire
More on the Safavid Empire
Unit 4 Assessment
The Protestant Reformation
The Political Impact of the Reformation
The Protestant Reformation, Science, and Religion
The Counter-Reformation
Crossing the Atlantic
Exploration and Global Trade
The Columbian Exchange
The New World
The Aztecs of Mexico: A Zero-Waste Society
Colonialism and Indigenous Response in the Americas
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
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
Mercantilism
Exploration and Mercantilism
The Rise of a Global Economy
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Karl Marx
Industrial Revolutions
The Origins of the Industrial Revolution
Unit 6 Assessment
The Origins of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution Enlightenment
Scientific and Political Revolutions in the 17th and 18th Centuries
The Exchange of Ideas in the Public Sphere
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
John Locke (1632–1704)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78)
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
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?
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
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Motives and Means of Imperialism
Imposition of European Ideas and Values
Facilitating Imperialism through Advanced Technologies
Imperialism: A Study
Colonial Empires
Exploitation and Resistance
The Boxer Rebellion
Unit 8 Assessment
Inventions, Innovations, and Mechanization
The Philosophy of Manufacturers
Steel: Carnegie and Creative Destruction
Life in the Industrial City
Urbanization and Its Challenges
The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements
Communities in Diaspora
Settler Colonies
Coerced and Semicoerced Labor
Regulation, Reform, and Revolutionary Ideologies
Socialist Economics
Unit 9 Assessment
Alliances, Expansion, and Conflict
Planning the First World War
The Collapse of the Ottomans and the Coming of War
Total War
New Weapons of War
War on the Homefront
Southeast Asia and World War I
America and World War I
The War Ends
The Fourteen Points
The Final Treaty
The Middle East and World War I
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
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
The Formation of the Soviet Union
First Five-Year Plan
The Great Depression
Fascism
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
An Unstable Peace
Prelude to World War II
Theaters of War
World War II
The Holocaust
End 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
The Cold War Begins
The Cold War
The Long Telegram
Rethinking the Space Race
The Spread of Communism
The Great Leap Forward
The Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong's Victory and Its Aftermath
The Non-Aligned Movement
Jawaharlal Nehru Speaks to the Bandung Conference Political Committee, 1955
Global Tensions and Decolonization
The Vietnam War
The Decolonization in the British Empire
The Angolan Civil War
The Cold War and Decolonization
A New World Order
Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History
Glasnost, Perestroika, and the End of the Soviet Union
Unit 13 Assessment
A Global Economy
Globalization
Economic Development in East Asia
Debates on the Environment
Global Climate Change
Science and Technology for Today's World
Globalization and Technology
The Clean Energy Hub of the Future
Ongoing Problems and Solutions
The Syrian Refugee Crisis
What the War in Ukraine Means for the Global Order
Unit 14 Assessment
HIST103 Study Guide
HIST103: Certificate Final Exam
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