Course Description

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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.

Friday, September 18, 2015

Week 5 - The Colombian Exchange

Monday through Friday, September 21-25, 2015
*Event and Holiday: Yom Kippur, Wednesday, 9/23 (still school!); Parents' Open House, Saturday, 9/26
**Leading questions: How did the "Colombian Exchange" impact the development of early modern Asia, Europe and the Americas in ambivalent ways? 
***Quiz#1.1 Enter the Homogenocene opens online on the Haiku World History page on Friday, 9/25 at 3:30PM, and closes Friday, 10/2 at midnight. The quiz is open note and open book.

Day 1: Iberia: The Multiple Perspectives of Encounter, Conquest and Exchange.
- In-class: Guest lectures by Ellen Zieselmann, Curator of Education at New Mexico Museum of Art Monday, 9/21().
- Homework for Day 2: Read "Confrontation of Cultures," in the textbook, The West in the World, ed. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 367-375 (up until the section entitled "The African Slave Trade," and prepare answers for the following 2 questions. Homework questions will be collected after class discussions.
- Homework question #1: What were the Americas like before contact with the Europeans?
- Homework question # 2: What were relations like between the original Americans and Europeans?

Day 2/3: The Confrontation of Cultures in the Americas.
- In-class: Current event reports and chronicles.
- In-class: Discuss the textbook reading and homework questions.
- In-class: Read and discuss the primary source handout, "The Siege of Tenochtitlan," from The Broken Spears, and the excerpt from Bartolome de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies (1542).
- In-library: Independent research and conference time with instructor.
- Homework for Day 3: Read/Review "Family Values," in Mann, 1493, pp. 393-410. Prepare notes on the casta system, how it was supposed to function and how it actually worked. Homework questions and notes will be checked during class discussions. ALSO: Make sure you can access the Haiku World History site.
- See also Maria Elena Martinez, "Social Order in Spanish New World", PBS online for a visual discussion of the effects of Spain on the New World.

Day 3: The Casta System of New Spain.
- In-class: Discuss the caste system, based on the homework reading and question.
- Homework for Day 4: Read and discuss the secondary source handout, M. L. Bush, "The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World," from Western Civilization, ed. Sherman, pp. 43-44; for discussion, clearly identify the author's argument and evidence (as well as the limits and problems with the argument), and think of other possible effects, other arguments and evidence that we have seen this semester.
Homework notes will be checked during class discussions.

Day 4: The Effects of the Colombian Exchange on the Americas.
- In-class: Discuss the secondary source reading on the effects of European expansion.
- In-class: Review key terms, persons, and historiography from the week.
- Key terms: Tenochtitlan, repartimiento (or mita), encomienda, syncretism, purity of the blood, casta system, casta paintings, Peninsulare, Criollo, Mestizo, and Mulatto.
- Key persons: Motecuhzoma, Cortes, Malinche, Pizarro, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Bartolome de Las Casas.
- Key historiographical debate: The effects of European colonization.
- Homework over the weekend: Continue strategically reading book selected for the book review project; review notes and materials on the key debates in historiography.
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