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.

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Week 4 - The Rise of the West

Monday through Friday, September 15-19
Online quiz#2 opens on Thursday afternoon at 3:30, 9/18 (covers Week 3 & 4), and closes at midnight on Saturday, 9/20. Follow this link: https://www.myhaikuclass.com/rspinney/worldhistory/assessmentshttps://www.myhaikuclass.com/rspinney/worldhistory/assessments
Guest lecture from Ellen Zieselmann on the art history of contact and conquest (Period 1, 4, and 6 on Monday, 9/15).
- Long periods: Time in library to look over possible book selections and discuss research topics with the instructor.

Day 1: Spain in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
- In-class: Guest lecture by Ellen Zieselmann, Curator of Education at New Mexico Museum of Art.
- In-class: Introduce the SOAPSTONE rubric for primary source analysis.
Speaker (who?)
Occasion (when, where? what is the source?)
Audience (to whom?)
Purpose (why?)
Subject (what is it about?)
Tone (what does it feel like?)

- Homework for Day 2: Analyze 2 primary source HANDOUTS using the SOAPSTONE rubric, #1: Gomes Eannes de Azurara, "The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea," and Christopher Columbus, "Letter to Lord Sanchez, 1493". - Using these sources, ANSWER the question: why did the Europeans, i.e., the Portuguese, begin exploring. Discussion on Day 2 will be graded based on this preparation and discussion.

Day 2: The Rise of Portugal and Spain.
- In-class: Discuss the primary source readings on Spain and Portugal from homework.
- Homework: Read the two secondary source HANDOUTS, Richard B. Reed, "The Expansion of Europe," in Western Civilization, ed. Sherman, pp. 41-43, and Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, "Woods, Winds, Shipbuilding, and Shipping: Why China Didn't Rule the Waves," pp. 47-49.
- For each secondary source, ANSWER the question: What is the author(s) argument about the rise of Europe vs. China, and what kind of evidence do they use to support their argument (DUE in class on Day 3)? Discussion on Day 3 will be graded based on this preparation and discussion.

Day 3: Why China Did not Rule the Waves.
- In-class: Discuss the secondary source readings on Europe and China from homework.
- In-class: Read the secondary source handout (included in the original handout packet for the week), by M. L. Bush, "The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World," and identify the author's main argument(s) and evidence.

Day 4: Research and Reading Time.
- In-class: Finish selecting a book, and use class time to read and research.
- Homework: Use time on the weekend to read from your selected book; finalized book selections are due by Monday, 9/22. 

Key Terms: The Reconquista (Reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula), nation state, the "new monarchies," joint stock company, entrepot, and market forces.

Key Persons: Gomes Eannes de Azurara, Prince Henry the Navigator.

Key Historiographical Arguments: The reasons for the rise of Europe and retreat of China.
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