Tuesday - Friday, September 3-6
Events: Monday, 9/1, Labor Day.
Day 1: Early Modern China
- In-class: Review key terms from week 1; discuss reading handouts and questions from The World that Trade Created, ed. Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, pp. 9-11, and "The Chinese Tribute System," from The World that Trade Created, pp. 11-14.
- Homework (for Day 2): Review Pacific Journeys," Parts 1&2, in Charles Mann, 1493, pp. 157-247, especially p.161f (on silver trade and woukou), and p. 217ff on the impact of the Colombian exchange on China (see also p. 29 and p. 45 for review).
Day 2: Pacific Journeys on the Colombian Exchange
- In-class: Discuss Pacific Journeys," Parts 1&2, in Charles Mann, 1493, pp. 157-247.
- Homework: Read "Funny Money, Real Growth," "When Asia Was the World Economy," and "Treating Good News as No News," in The World that Trade Created, ed. Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, pp. 14-20 (in-class handout), and answer the related questions on the handout.
Day 3: When Asia Was the Center of the World Economy
- In-class: Discuss the reading and questions from "Funny Money, Real Growth," "When Asia Was the World Economy," and "Treating Good News as No News," in The World that Trade Created, ed. Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, pp. 14-20 (in-class handout).
- In-class: Review the materials from Weeks 1 and 2.
- Homework: Prepare for the first current events reports. Think about a book of historical interest (fiction or non-fiction), or a "monograph" on a topic that interests you, e.g. the history of dance, sports, science, fashion, politics, etc., between 1400 and 1815. Look over "Atlantic Journeys," in 1493, pp. 51-151 for Monday and Tuesday discussions.
Key Terms: Fujian Province, Diaspora,
Tribute System, Zheng He, the Ming Dynasty, the Treasure Fleets,
Woukou, Potosi, and the Loess Plateau.
Key Historiographical Arguments: The insularity of China, the Hydraulic Model of Asia, and the impact of the Colombian exchange on China.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner
Course Description
Welcome! This site is for students, parents, teachers and anyone else interested in the tenth-grade World History 2 Course at Santa Fe Prep.
The overall course covers the history of the world from roughly 1500 to the present. The first quarter opens with the time when Asia was the center of world affairs, then traces European encounters with Asia and the Americas, and the complex interactions and consequences of the so-called "Columbian Exchange" between Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. The first quarter ends with a survey of the European Renaissance and Reformation, in both its local and global dimensions. The second quarter will focus on the rise of absolute monarchies and new ideas and practices, especially with the scientific revolution and Enlightenment. The second quarter ends with assessments of the legacies of the French Revolution, Napoleon and the emergence of the British Empire. The third quarter starts with the implications of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars in the wake of the Congress of Vienna, i.e., the discourse on rights, reaction, revolution and reform, the rise of new ideologies, in particular, Classical Liberalism, nationalism, and romanticism, and conservative reactions to the changes wrought by the American and French Revolutions. The course then examines the rise of industrialization and social change in 19th-century Europe, and the emergence of middle and working class cultures, followed by new iterations of liberalism and conservatism, the proliferation of more ideologies, e.g., socialism, communism, ultranationalism, social Darwinism, and antisemitism. Then the course examines the unification of the Italian and German nation states, and the creation of the modern welfare state. From there the course traces the rise of a new wave of Western imperialism, followed by the rest of the world's reactions to the rise of European empires and ideas, and in particular, the emergence of industrial Japan and their surprising victory over Russia. The third quarter ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The fourth and final quarter surveys the effects of the First World War, followed by the brief peak of classical liberal nation states and promises for peace, and the rapid rise of authoritarianism, in both communist and fascist variations, with a special focus on the rise of Nazism, the Nazi racial transformation of Germany and the Holocaust and Shoah of modern Europe. The fourth quarter concludes by looking at the causes and effects of the Second World War, the Cold War, the end of European empires in Asia and Africa, the emergence of the Modern Middle East and China, the end of the Cold War, history since 1989, all the way to the present, including current events.
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