Week 1: The Transformation of Europe A) The Maritime Revolution B) The Renaissance & Reformation C) The Scientific Revolution             Reading:            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:            Week 3: Africa and the Atlantic System             A) Sub-Saharan Africa & Coastal States B) The Caribbean Slave System C) The Atlantic Economy   Reading:   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:             Week 5: Northern Eurasia A) China: The Qing Dynasty and Growth                   B) Japan: Unification and the Shogunate C) Russia: Expansion and Westernization Reading: 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:             Week 7: New Nation Building and Old Imperialism            A) The Industrial Revolution  & Nationalism            B)  The Republican & Imperial, Civilized and Primitive            C)  The New British Empire        Reading: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: : Final Exam Bring a Scantron (886-E), and a No.2 Pencil! Research Essay Due