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This is a survey course that provides students with an investigation of important political, economic, and social developments in American history from the pre-colonial time period to the present day. Students will be engaged in activities that call upon their skills as historians (i.e. recognizing cause and effect relationships, various forms of research, expository and persuasive writing, reading of primary and secondary sources, comparing and contrasting important ideas and events).
1. Analyze the changes in global commerce from 1750 to 1914 due to changes in technology, communication and economic theory.
2. Analyze the demographic changes between 1750 and 1914 due to three of the following:
industrialization
food supply
immigration
birth rate patterns
health
slave trade
3. Analyze the social, economic and political changes and continuities facing women between 1750 and 1914 in the industrialized world.
1. Compare and contrast American slavery with one of the following coercive systems of labor - Russian serfdom or the encomienda system.
2. Describe and analyze the impact of the Columbian Exchange on one of the following regions between 1400 and 1700. Be sure to discuss the causes of the changes as well as reasons for the continuities.
3. Compare and contrast the exploration and colonization practices of the Portuguese and Spanish with one of the following:
French
1. Analyze the changes and continuities in the Arabic world’s acceptance of ONE of the following items between 700 and 1400. Be sure to discuss the causes of the changes as well as the reasons for the continuities.
Arts
Technology
Sciences
2. Describe and analyze the cultural, economic, and political impact of Islam on ONE of the following regions between 700 C.E. and 1450 C.E. Be sure to discuss the causes of the changes as well as the reasons for the continuities.
1. In what ways did geography and climate affect the development of human society?
2. What were the economic and social results of the agricultural revolution?
3. What are the issues involved in using “civilization” as an organizing principle in world history?
4. What is the most common source of change: connection/diffusion or independent invention?
5. How do agricultural, pastoral and foraging societies differ? Use evidence from Africa, the Americas and Southeast Asia.
6. What was the impact of agriculture on the environment?
7. What was the importance of the introduction of bronze and iron?
8. Compare the basic features of two early civilizations? Choose two of the following: Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, Shang, Indus
9. Compare the development of political structures in China with those in India.
10. How did social and gender structures in India differ from the Mediterranean?
11. Which regions were favored as areas of human settlement, given the technology available during the Classic period?
12. Describe the major classical period trading patters within and among China, India, and the Mediterranean?
13. What were the scientific and technological contributions of China, India, and the Mediterranean?
14. What were the artistic contributions of China, India, and the Mediterranean?
15. What were the basic features of the major world belief systems?
a. Polytheism
b. Hinduism
c. Daoism
d. Judaism
e. Christianity
f. Buddhism
16. What were the main emphases and the main changes in organized religion during the Classic period?
17. What interactions among regions favored changes in human society?
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