Europe & Its Impact on the World ((4 Credits))

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This study will focus on the growth and impact of a market economy throughout the world and explore the ways European economic development helped to transform societies in Africa, the Americas, and Asia since (approx.) 1400. Through tracing the emergence of a market economy, students will assess social, political and cultural trends in Europe that were effected by economic change and consider how Europe was transformed by contact with the rest of the world. Similarly, they will examine how the traditional relationships in Africa and the Americas dissolved in the face of international economic expansion coordinated by European businessmen. Students will: analyze the growth of international trade; trace the interaction between rural and urban areas within Europe; explain how developments in one part of the world had consequences in other regions; and discuss how economic change influenced ideas and politics the world over.