Unit
1 Introduction
- How has geography influenced
the course of history?
- What is history?
Unit 2 Seventeenth-Century Europe
- Why did Parliament succeed
in expanding its powers in England?
- What were some of the
characteristics of political modernization in England?
Unit 3 Persia, a Gunpowder Empire?
- What factors allowed the Ottoman Turks to create such a
large empire?
- What was the key to Akbar's success as a ruler?
Unit 4 East Asia and Japan
- What were some of the characteristics of Chinese and Japanese
society in the early modern period?
- How did Japanese
society respond to Western contact in the early modern period?
Unit 5 Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
- What was the scientific
method?
- Why was the era called the
"Enlightenment?"
Unit 6 Industrialization and Western Modernization
- How did industrial production
change Western society?
- Compare and
contrast some of the major characteristics of economic and political
modernization in England and Japan in the seventeenth through
nineteenth centuries.
Unit 7 Nineteenth-Century World
- Why did Britain (and other European countries) expand its
(their) overseas empire(s)?
- Why did most of the African continent come
under the control of Europeans?
Unit 8 Russia
- Why did Lenin establish the New Economic Policy (NEP)?
- What factors promoted the
collapse of the tsarist autocracy in Russia in February 1917?
Unit 9 World War I
- How did Remarque's portrayal
of the war differ from what governments described to their citizens during
the war?
- Why did nobody stop the
rush to war in 1914?
Unit 10 World War II
- How did World War II differ
from the Great War?
- How do you explain why the
genocide carried out by Nazi Germany occurred?
Unit
11 Worldwide Modernization
- Why did China and India react differently to the Western challenge?
- Why did Marxist ideas become popular in China?
Unit 12 Cold War
- How did the Cold War begin
and how did it encompass the entire world?
- Did the Cold War ever end?
Unit 13 Decolonization and Nation-Building
- What were some of the common features experienced by countries of the "Developing World"
since 1945?
Unit 14 South Asian Independence
- Why did South Asian leaders insist on the
partition of the subcontinent?
- Compare and contrast some of the
major characteristics of economic and political modernization in
England and Japan in the twentieth century.
Unit 15 Final Exam
- How has geography influenced
the course of history?
- What is history?
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