Week 1: The Transformation of Europe A) The Maritime Revolution B) The Renaissance & Reformation C) The Scientific Revolution             Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 16            Week 2: When Worlds Collide: The American Colonies A) The Spanish Conquest of the Americas B) The Columbian Exchange C) Early European Colonization in North America  D) Map Assignment Due  Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 17            Week 3: Africa and the Atlantic System             A) Sub-Saharan Africa & Coastal States B) The Caribbean Slave System C) The Atlantic Economy   Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 18   Week 4: Islamic Gunpowder Empires and the Indian Ocean   A)  Expansion and the Ottoman Empire B)  Culture and the Safavid Empire C)  Coexistence and the Mughal Empire D) Movie Review Due   Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 19             Week 5: Northern Eurasia A) China: The Qing Dynasty and Growth                   B) Japan: Unification and the Shogunate C) Russia: Expansion and Westernization Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 20 Week 6: Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World A) The Enlightenment & the American Revolution  B) The French, Haitian, and Latin American Revolutions C) Chaos and the Conservative Order Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 21             Week 7: New Nation Building and the Old Imperialism            A) The Industrial Revolution  & Nationalism            B)  The Republican & Imperial, Civilized and Primitive            C)  The New British Empire        Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 23 Week 8: Mid-Term Exam - Bring a Scantron (886-E), and a No.2 Pencil            A) Tuesday Review            B) Thursday Mid-Term Exam   C) Historical Identification Assignment Due

Week 9: The West and the Rest A) Science and Invention (2 nd  Industrial Revolution) B) Capitalism, Class and Socialism C) Migration and Urbanization Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 26 Week 10: European Dominance & a Western World A) New Imperialism & Nation - Empires B) The Scramble for Africa and Asia C) The Changing World Economy Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 27 Week 11: World War I and the Imperial Order Shaken            A) Causes and Outbreak of World War I B) The European ‘Civil War’ C) Communism and the Wilsonian Moment Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 31 Week 12: World War II: A War for Empire and Independence A) Causes and Outbreak of World War II B) The Axis, Allies and Independence Movements C) Primary Source Analysis Assignment Due Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 32 Week 13: The Cold War and Decolonization             A) The three U’s: UN, US and USSR B) Superpower Rivalry: West vs East C) The Third World D) Thursday: No class Thanksgiving Holiday Reading: The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 33 Week 14: Globalization and the Nation-State System A) The Prosperity of Capitalism B) Changing Global Gender and Social Norms C)  The End of the Cold War and the American Moment D) Outline and Works Cited Due Week 15: The 21 st  Century A) A Growing Global Population – Migration B) The Information Revolution C) Continued Competition and Conflict D) A Global Culture Week 16: Thursday, 12/14/17: Final Exam @ 6:30PM Bring a Scantron (886-E), and a No.2 Pencil! Research Essay Due @ 9:40PM