Modern World History History

Catalog description

This course explores big questions about the global connections and conflicts that have shaped the world from 1500 to the present. How did European exploration and colonization of the Americas change societies in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe? How did different political systems and political ideas develop over time, and what allowed revolutionary movements to set up new regimes in countries like the United States, France, Russia, China, and Iran? How has the Industrial Revolution chang