The West and the World since 1500

1) Topic: Exploration, Trade, and Colonization

Question: Why did interaction with other cultures promote change?

Reading: West and the World (hereafter abbreviated WW), document 5, pp. 85-118

2) Topic: The Scientific Revolution

Board Question: Why did a new way of seeking knowledge promote change?

Reading: WW, document 17, pp. 167-191

3)What were the consequences of Europe’s expanding internal and external world?

Reading: WW, documents 8, 9, 10, pp. 123-143

4)Topic: Absolutism

Board Question: What are the benefits and drawbacks of absolutism?

Reading: WW, document 19

5)Topic: Glorious Revolution

Activities: What is a Primary Source? Position Statements

Reading: WW, documents 21, 22

6)Topic: French Revolution, Liberal Phase

Activities: Thesis Statements and Supporting Evidence; What is a Liberal?

Reading: WW, documents 40, 44

7)Board Questions: How did the Enlightenment present a challenge to Absolute Monarchy? How is the Declaration of the Rights of Man an Enlightenment document?

Reading: WW, documents 24, 25, 35, 38

8)Topic: Women’s Rights and the Haitian Revolution

Activities: Students As Teachers: What was the relationship of women to the Revolution? Of slaves to the Revolution?

Reading: WW, documents 56, 57

9)Topic: Nationalism

Activities: Response Question: What are possible consequences for a nation forged through war?

Reading: WW, document 70

10)Topic: Social Effects and Socialism

Activities: Who Was P Gaskell?; Let’s Form a Phalanx

Reading: excerpts from Charles Fourier, Theory of Social Organization; P. Gaskell, “The Physical Deterioration of the Textile Workers”

11)Topic: Class Formation and Communism

Activities: Create a Fictional Character; Response Question: What would your character think about Fourier and Marx?

Reading: WW, document 74

12)Topic: Revolution and Reform

Writing Question: contrast the experience of political change in France and in Britain. Which do you think was more successful, and why?

Reading: Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Speech on the Reform Bill of 1832”

13)Topic: Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the Soviet Union

Activities: What would Wilson think about…; written Response: What was the Crisis of Liberal Democracy? How was Communism a response?

Reading: excerpt from Jochen Hellbeck, Revolution on My Mind

14)Topic: Fascism

Activities: Mein Kampf Quote Response; Written Response: How was Fascism a response to the Crisis of Liberal Democracy?; Film Response

Reading: WW, document 101, pp. 673-687

15)Topic: European Integration and Human Rights

Activities: Board Question: Describe the new world order that arose in the postwar period. How was it a response to the Second World War?

Reading: WW, documents 106, 108, “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”

16)Topic: Cold War

Activities: Board Questions: Was the Soviet Bloc an Empire? Was the United States an Imperial Power?

Reading: WW, documents 105, 107, excerpts from Winston Churchill, “Iron Curtain Speech,” and Joseph Stalin, “Response to Churchill”

17) How to Dismantle an Empire in Ten Easy Steps (Results May Vary)

Reading: excerpts from Timothy Garton Ash, Magic Lantern