MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

HIS111  2003 Fall – 2009 Spring

World History 1500 to the Present

1.

Explain the factors behind European exploration in the 15th – 17th centuries. (I, II)

2.

Describe the problems within the Roman Catholic Church in the 15th century and their role in creating the Reformation in Europe. (III)

3.

Describe the varieties of Protestantism that emerged in the 15th century and analyze the Catholic Church's response. (III)

4.

Describe the establishment of Moghul rule in India and its interaction with Indian society. (IV)

5.

Analyze Chinese history under the Ming dynasties and its conquest by the Ch'ing. (IV)

6.

Explain the impact of the Ottoman Empire on European history. (V)

7.

Explain the impact of the Scientific Revolution on Western thought. (VI)

8.

Describe the transformation the Enlightenment effected in Western civilization. (VI)

9.

Analyze the causes, commonalities, and legacies of the revolutions in the British colonies, France, and in Latin America between 1763 and 1821. (VII)

10.

Analyze the patterns of the Industrial Revolution and their impact on Western and world society. (VIII)

11.

Explain the factors that led to the decline of the Chinese empire in the 19th century. (IX)

12.

Describe the factors in the contraction of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries. (IX)

13.

Explain the factors behind the national unifications of Italy and Germany in the mid-19th century. (X)

14.

Analyze the shift among the Western powers from colonialism towards imperialism in the late 19th century. (X)

15.

Describe the conditions of combat on the Western Front in the First World War and explain their effect on Western thinking. (XI)

16.

Analyze the causes of the Russian Revolution. (XI)

17.

Explain the impact of the Great Depression on the world and the role that it played in triggering global war. (XII)

18.

Analyze the reasons for Allied victory in the Second World War. (XII)

19.

Describe the factors behind the start of the cold war. (XIII)

20.

Explain the factors that brought about Western decolonization after the Second World War. (XIII)

MCCCD Official Course Outline:

HIS111  2003 Fall – 2009 Spring

World History 1500 to the Present

I. Introduction: The World in 1500

II. The Age of European Exploration

A. The commercial revolution

B. European exploration and settlement

III. The European Reformation

A. Church and society

B. Luther and the Reformation

C. Expansion of the Reformation

D. Counter-Reformation

E. Religious wars

IV. The Expansion of Order in Asia, 1500-18th Century.

A. India

1. Moghul India

2. The European arrival

B. China

1. Ming dynasty

2. The Manchurian conquest

C. Japan

1. The warrior culture

2. The Tokugawa shogunate

V. The Moslem Empires

A. The Ottoman empire

B. Safavid Persia

VI. The European Enlightenment

A. The Scientific Revolution

B. The early Enlightenment

C. The later Enlightenment

VII. The Age of Revolutions, 1763-1821

A. The American Revolution

1. The American colonies

2. The Revolutionary War

3. The Constitutional period

B. The French Revolution

1. Origins

2. Phases:

a. The reform phase, 1789-92

b. The radical phase, 1792-9

c. The authoritarian phase, 1799-1815

C. The Latin American revolutions

1. Bourbon reforms

2. Wars of Independence

VIII. The Industrial Revolution

A. Origins

B. The first industries

C. The Second Industrial Revolution

1. Regional variation

2. Social impact

IX. Civilizations in Crisis

A. China

1. Signs of Decline

2. The Chinese Revolution

a. Western erosion

b. The Taiping Rebellion

c. Reform and reaction

d. The end of the Manchus

B. The Ottoman empire

1. European reversals

2. Ottoman contraction

3. The Young Turks

C. The Islamic East

X. The West in the Age of Imperialism

A. The Age of Nationalism

1. National unification

a. Italy

b. Germany

B. The Age of Empire

1. The Western Powers in Asia

2. The Scramble for Africa

XI. War, Revolution, and Depression, 1914-1931

A. The origins of the First World War

B. The experience of war

C. The impact of war

D. The Russian Revolutions

E. The end of the First World War

1. The Paris Peace Conference

2. Creation of the modern Middle East

F. Modernism

XII. A World at War, 1931-1945

A. The Great Depression

1. Onset

2. Effects

B. Conflict in Asia

1. The Chinese Civil War

2. Japanese aggression

C. War in Europe

1. The rise of dictatorships

2. The coming of war

a. The Spanish Civil War

b. Appeasement

3. Nazi victories

4. Towards global war

a. Operation Barbarossa

b. American involvement

c. Turning points

d. Defeat of the Axis powers

XIII. The World in the Cold War

A. Shaping a new world

B. The origins of the Cold War

C. Decolonization

1. Asian decolonization

2. The Middle East

3. Africa

D. Superpower difficulties

1. Cuba

2. Vietnam

E. Two Europes

F. The end of the Cold War