World History from 1500

1. Superpower Empires on the Eve of Modernity (1200-1400)
2. The Edges of the World & Europe’s Hunger for Power (1300-1688)
3. The Byproducts of European Competition (1300-1800)
4. Clashing Social Interests and New Visions of Social Order (1760-1840)
5. Imperialism and Its Defenders (1840-1910)
6. New Imperialism, WWI, Anti-Colonial Revolutions (1850-1919)
7. WWII and the Cold War (1930-1985)
8. The New World Order & Weakenings (1992-present)

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There is no need to purchase materials for this class. Almost all can be found on Canvas.

Articles: Brendan O’Neill, “History Begins”; James Hancock, “Indian Ocean Trade Before the European Conquest”; Lt. Cdr. Benjamin Armstrong, “From River Pirate to Ming Emperor”; Min Shu, “Balancing in a Hierarchical System”; Richard Blanton, et al, “Moral Collapse and State Failure: A View From the Past”; Fariha Kanwal and Fatima Ali, “Mughal Rulers’ Religious Tolerance”; The Lion of Mali – Hajj of Mansa Musa; Mansa Musa I of Mali: Gold, Salt, and Story Telling; George Hicks, “Flowery War” in Aztec History; Alfredo Lopez Austin, et al., “Aztec Human Sacrifice”; Michel Graulich, Aztec Human Sacrifice as Expiation; Ray Kerkhove, “Dark Religion?”; Monica Green, Review of The Great Transition; Sara E. Cohen, How the Aztecs Appraised Montezuma; Alfred Crosby, The Columbian Exchange; “Dzungar Genocide”; Victor Kamenir, “Russia’s Conquest of Siberia”; Constitutional Rights Foundation, “Bringing Down an Empire”; National Army Museum, “The British Army in Palestine”; George F. Kennan, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct”; Francis Fukuyama, The End of History; Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilization?; Christian Welzel, Why the Future is Democratic; Louis Menand, Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History.

Conference Talks: Hinckley, “With All They Getting Get Understanding”; Christofferson, “One in Christ”; Cook, “Safely Gathered Home”; Nelson, “Where is Wisdom?”; Uchtdorf, “The Infinite Power of Hope”; Bednar, “Things as They Really Are”; Uchtdorf, “The Love of God”; Robbins, “Until Seventy Times Seven”; Perry, “United in Building the Kingdom of God”; Robbins, “Finding Your Sweetheart”; Faust, “What’s in It For Me?”; Oaks, “Unselfish Service”; Rasband, “By Divine Design”; Benson, “Beware of Pride”; Uchtdorf, “Perfect Love Casteth Out Fear.” [Note: These talks will be read for 10th Grade English, but will also referenced in the World History course.]

Maps: Slave Trade Routes in East Africa; Trade Routes Across the Sahara; Aztec Tributary Provinces on the Imperial Frontier, 1519; The Rise of the Aztec Empire, 1200-1500; Templo Mayor; Coal Mining in the British Isles; Plan of a Medieval Manor.

Novels/Treatises/Books/Monographs: Secret History of the Mongols; Episodes in the Life of Akbar; Roger Bigelow Merriman, Suleiman the Magnificant; Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron; Nicolo Machiavelli, The Prince; Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier; René Descartes, Discourse on Method; Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan; John Locke, Second Treatise of Government; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract; Friederich Engels, The Conditions of the Working-Class in England; Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations; Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities; J.A. Hobson, Imperialism; Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; Private Donald Fraser, My Daily Journal; Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front; Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf; Rudolph Hoess, Memoirs; Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning; Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place; E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa; George Orwell, 1984; Ayyub Baghirov, Bitter Days of Kolyma: Memoir of a Soviet Gulag; Amy Chua, World on Fire.

Movies/Videos: For the Salvation of Zion, Cave of the Yellow Dog, Amazing Grace, Modern Times, Gandhi, Darkest Hour, To Live, Invictus.

Poems: Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden”; Wilfred Owen, “Anthem for a Doomed Youth”; Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”; T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men.”

Primary Sources: Letter from Pope Innocent IV to Güyük Khan; Letter from Güyük Khan to Pope Innocent IV; Marco Polo’s Journey Home; Zhu Yuanzhang: Manifesto of Accension as First Ming Emperor; Michael Kritovoulos of Imbros on the Fall of Constantinople; Writings of Al-Bekri; Advice of an Aztec Mother to Her Daughter; Peasant Servitude and Obligations—Rulings by Louis VI and Louis VII of France; The Black Death and the Jews; Johann Tetzel, Sermon on Indulgences; Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India, 1497-1498; Hans Mayr, The Voyage and Acts of Dom Francisco; English and Dutch Rivalries in the Spice Islands; Mughal Emperor Jahangir’s Letter to King James I; Hernan Cortez, Letter to Charles V; Olaudah Equiano, “They … Carry Off as Many as They Can Seize”; John Barbot, “Prepossessed of the Opinion … That Europeans are Fond of Their Flesh”; Traffic in Slaves: England, 1065-1066; James I (VI), The True Law of Free Monarchies; Cardinal Richelieu, Political Testament; Duc de Saint-Simon, The Court of Louis XIV; Act Against Jesuits and Seminarists; The English Bill of Rights; The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633; Sentence of the Tribunal of the Supreme Inquisition against Galileo Galilei; Abraham Cowley, Of Agriculture; Robert Clive: Letter to William Pitt on India; Emperor Ch’ien Lung, Response to George III’s Petition for Commercial Relations; Francis Xavier, Letter from Japan to the Society of Jesus at Goa; The Chinese Rites Controversy; Tokugawa Iemitsu, Closed Country Edict; Tokugawa Iemitsu, Exclusion of the Portuguese; John Trenchard & Thomas Gordon, Cato’s Letters (1720), Freedom of Speech; Trenchard & Gordon, Cato’s Letters (1721), Evils of Slavery; Voltaire: Letter XIV: On Descartes and Sir Isaac Newton; Thomas Paine, Common Sense; Declaration of the Rights of Man; Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women; Jean-Paul Marat, Freedom is Lost; Maximilien Robespierre, On the Moral & Political Principles of Domestic Policy; Petition of the Leeds Wool Workers; Letter of the Leeds Cloth Merchants; Observations … on the Loss of Woollen Spinning; Sadler Committee Reports to British Parliament; Mine Commission Report to British Parliament; Chadwick Commission on Laboring Sanitation; Harriet Robinson, Lowell Mill Girls; Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures; Thomas Carlyle, Signs of the Times; Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto; John Stuart Mill, On Colonies and Colonization; Dadabhai Naoroji, The Benefits of British Rule; John G. Paton, Letter from a British Missionary; Jules Francois Camille Ferry, Speech to French Chamber of Deputies; The Practice of Sati; Raja Rammohan Roy, A Second Conference [on] the Practice of Burning Widows Alive; Charles Creighton Hazewell, The Indian Revolt; Feng Kuei-Fen, On the Manufacture of Foreign Weapons; George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant; Captain F.D. Lugard, The Rise of Our East African Empire; Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League; Edward Morel, The Black Man’s Burden; Sol Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa; Captain von Richthofen, The Red Barron; Woodrow Wilson, ‘Fourteen Points’ Speech to Congress; Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau’s Letter to Paris Peace Conference; Benito Mussolini, What is Fascism?; Vladimir Lenin, Declaration of the Rights of Exploited Peoples; Alexandra Kollontai, Communism and the Family; Leslie Mason, The Incompatibility of Communism and Religion; Japanese Ministry of Education, The Way of Subjects; Adolf Hitler, The Obersalzberg Speech; Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Arsenal of Democracy Speech; Winston Churchill, Their Finest Hour Speech; Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms Speech; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pearl Harbor Speech; United Nations Charter; Winston Churchill, The Iron Curtain Speech; The Economic Recovery Act: The Marshall Plan; The North Atlantic Treaty: Establishment of NATO; Anwar el Sadat, World Mission of the Peoples of Africa and Asia; Mao Zedong, The People’s Democratic Dictatorship; Josef Stalin, Concerning the Policy of Eliminating the Kulaks as a Class; Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of Democratic Republic of Vietnam; UN Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples; John F. Kennedy, Address on the Cuban Missile Crisis; Mikhail Gorbechev, Address to the 43rd UN General Assembly; Nelson Mandela, South African Presidential Inauguration Speech.