AP World History
Course Syllabus
Mr. Moynihan
mmoynihan@ci.stamford.ct.us
AP World History is for the exceptionally studious high school senior who
wishes to earn college credit in high school through a rigorous academic
program. This class approaches history in a nontraditional way in that it
looks at the common threads of humanity over time—trade, religion, politics,
society, and technology—and it investigates how these things have changed
and continued over time in different places.
Chronological Boundaries of the Course
The course has as its chronological frame the period from approximately
8000 b.c.e* to the present, with the period 8000 b.c.e. to 600 c.e. serving as the
foundation for the balance of the course.
An outline of the periodization with associated percentages for suggested
Course content is listed below.
Foundations: circa
8000 b.c.e.–600 c.e.
600 c.e.–1450
1450–1750
1750–1914
1914–the present
19–20% (6 weeks)
22%
(7 weeks)
19–20% (6 weeks)
19–20% (6 weeks)
19–20% (6 weeks)
Specifically, the following AP World History themes will be used
throughout the course to identify these broad patterns and processes that
explain change and continuity over time.
The Six AP World History Themes:
1. The relationship of change and continuity from 8,000 BCE to the present.
2. Impact of interaction among and within major societies.
3. Impact of technology, economics, and demography on people and the
environment.
4. Systems of social structure and gender structure.
5. Cultural, religious, and intellectual developments.
6. Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward states
and political identities, including the emergence of the nation-state.
Taking the AP World History exam is a requirement of the course.
Themes
The AP World History course requires students to engage with the dynamics
of continuity and change across the historical periods that are included in the
course. Students should be taught to analyze the processes and causes
involved in these continuities and changes. In order to do so, students and
teachers should focus on FIVE overarching themes which serve throughout
the course as unifying threads, helping students to put what is particular
about each period or society into a larger framework. The themes also
provide ways to make comparisons over time and facilitate cross-period
questions. Each theme should receive approximately equal attention over the
course of the year.
1. Interaction between humans and the environment
• Demography and disease
• Migration
• Patterns of settlement
• Technology
2. Development and interaction of cultures
• Religions
• Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies
• Science and technology
• The arts and architecture
3. State-building, expansion, and conflict
• Political structures and forms of governance
• Empires
• Nations and nationalism
• Revolts and revolutions
• Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations
4. Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
• Agricultural and pastoral production
• Trade and commerce
• Labor systems
• Industrialization
• Capitalism and socialism
5. Development and transformation of social structures
• Gender roles and relations
• Family and kinship
• Racial and ethnic constructions
• Social and economic class
CONTENTS
Part One: Human Origins and Human Cultures
Chapter 1: The Dry Bones Speak
2
4
Part Two: Settling Down
Chapter 2: From Village Community to City-state
Chapter 3: River Valley Civilizations
Chapter 4: A Polycentric World
40
42
64
88
Part Three: Empire and Imperialism
Chapter 5: Dawn of the Empires
Chapter 6: Rome and the Barbarians
Chapter 7: China
Chapter 8: Indian Empires
122
124
162
204
240
Part Four: The Rise of World Religions
Chapter 9: Hinduism and Buddhism
Chapter 10: Judaism and Christianity
Chapter 11: Islam
268
270
306
344
Part Five: Global Trade: The Beginning of the Modern World
Chapter 12: Establishing World Trade Routes
Chapter 13: The Opening of the Atlantic and the Pacific
Chapter 14: The Unification of World Trade
Chapter 15: Migration
388
390
422
450
484
Part Six: Social Change
Chapter 16: Political Revolutions in Europe and the Americas
Chapter 17: The Industrial Revolution
Chapter 18: Nationalism, Imperialism, and Resistance
518
520
560
596
Part Seven: Exploding Technologies
Chapter 19: Methods of Mass Production and Destruction
Chapter 20: World War II
Chapter 21: Cold War and New Nations, and Revolt Against Authority
Chapter 22: China and India
646
648
684
724
766
Part Eight: The Usefulness of History
Chapter 23: Contemporary History: Evolution, Settlements, Politics, and
Religion
Chapter 24: Contemporary History: Trade, Social Revolution, Technology,
Identity
804
806
848
UNIT ONE: SETTLING DOWN
10,000 B.C.E.–1000 C.E.
The First Cities and Why They Matter:
Digs, Texts and Interpretations
CHAPTER 2
FROM VILLAGE COMMUNITY TO CITY-STATE
Food First: The Agricultural Village
10,000 B. C. E. – 750 B. C. E.
(5 Days)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Humans started settling down in agricultural villages c. 10,000 B.C.E. (pp. 43-46)
First Cities (pp. 46-48)
Sumer Overview (pp. 48-49)
Characteristics of City-State (pp. 49-59)
Why should we care about early cities? (pp.59-62)
DBQ Preparation
Chapter 2 Key Topics and Ideas
 Why did humans settle down to agriculture?
 Why did they develop cities, rather than stick to small agricultural villages?
 Why, since for most of history most people have lived in the countryside, do we
blow trumpets and make such a big thing of urbanization?
Chapter 2 Primary Source Documents
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
The Advent of Agriculture (pp. 18-19)
World: 5000–2500 B.C.E. (pp. 20-21)
The Fertile Crescent (p. 25)
Urban Centers and Trade Routes (pp. 26-27)
Websites
Ancient Sumer History: http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Sumer.html
A website that provides a good overview of Sumerian history, with many links to
more detailed articles.
Ancient World Web: http://www.julen.net/ancient/Language_and_Literature
This website gives a great deal of information about early language studies,
including examples of cuneiform writing as well as writing samples from other
ancient cultures.
Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World: http://stoa.org/diotima
This useful website has information on women and gender issues in the ancient
world, including many links to related websites.
Internet Resources on Mesopotamia: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESINRES.HTM
Includes links to primary sources, art, and historiography.
Videos
The Agricultural Revolution: 1985. [video: 26 minutes, color]
This film examines the rise of agriculture and the development of village communities.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
2.1 Marshall Sahlins, “The Original Affluent Society,” from Stone Age Economics
2.2 James Cook, from Captain Cook's Journal During his First Voyage Round the World
2.3 Jack Harlan, from Crops and Man
2.4 David Rindos, from "Symbiosis, Instability, and the Origins and Spread of Agriculture: A
New Model"
2.5 Charles Darwin, "Cultivated Plants: Cereal and Culinary Plants" from The Variation of
Animals and Plants under Domestication
2.6 The Code of Hammurabi
2.7 Sumerian Law Code: The Code of Lipit-Ishtar
2.8 Excerpts from The Epic of Gilgamesh
2.9 The Babylonian Chronicles, "The Fall of Nineveh Chronicle"
Dalley, Stephanie, trans. Myths from Mesopotamia (Oxford University Press, 1998) 368 pp.
This is a collection of all the most important early Mesopotamian myths and legends,
including The Epic of Gilgamesh, the myth of creation, and the tale of the flood.
*Sandars, N.K., trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin, 1972) 128 pp.
The oldest surviving epic.
Sandars, N.K., trans. Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia (Penguin, 1971) 175
pp.
This very readable collection includes short works, such as “A Prayer to the Gods of the
Night,” and two larger texts: “The Babylonian Creation” and “Inanna’s Journey to Hell.”
(*available at discounted price when purchased with textbook from Prentice Hall.)
CHAPTER 3
RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS
The Nile and the Indus: 7,000 B.C.E.-750 B.C.E
(5 Days)
1. Egypt as “gift of the Nile” (pp. 65–66)
2. Early Egypt (pp. 67–75)
3. Old Kingdom, c. 2686–2181 B.C.E. (p. 76), Middle Kingdom, c. 2050–1750
78), New Kingdom, c. 1550–1050 B.C.E. (p. 78)
4. Indus Valley (or “Harappan”) civilization (pp. 79–84)
5. What Difference Do They Make? (pp. 85–86)
B.C.E. (pp. 77–
Chapter 3 Key Topics and Ideas
 The development of cities took very different shapes in the ancient world;
 Without texts, it is impossible to understand a culture;
 The great power and continuity of the ancient Egyptian state.
Chapter 3 Primary Sources
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
The Fertile Crescent (p. 25)
Urban Centers and Trade Routes (pp. 26-27)
The Growth of the City (pp. 30-31)
Websites
National Geographic: Secrets of Egypt: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids/
An interesting site with interactive displays (including how to make a mummy) and links to
ancient Egypt in the news.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures: http://eawc.evansville.edu/egpage.htm
This site provides many good links to images and issues of ancient Egypt.
Digital Egypt for Universities: http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/
A very rich source of scholarly articles and just about everything you could want to know
about ancient Egypt.
Videos
Egypt Uncovered, Discovery Channel [5 videos; 260 minutes, color]
A thorough overview of ancient Egypt.
Great Builders of Egypt, A & E [video; 100 minutes, color]
This is a guide through the great monuments of Egypt, including the Great Pyramid, the
temple of Karnak, and Hatchepsut’s mortuary chapel at Thebes.
Great Pharaohs of Egypt, A & E [4 videos; 200 minutes, color]
A survey of the history of the great rulers of Egypt from Menes to Cleopatra VII.
The Pyramids and Cities of the Pharaohs, 1995 [video; 75 minutes, color]
A video focusing on Old Kingdom Egypt.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
3.1 Mission to Byblos: The Report of Wenamun
3.2 Egyptian Diplomatic Correspondence: excerpts from The Amarna Letters
3.3 Ancient Egyptian and Hittite Voices: (a) letter from the Pharoah to Harkhuf the explorer;
(b) Ramses III, "The War Against the Sea Peoples;" (c) Hittite soldiers' oath
3.4 Workings of Ma'at: "The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant"
3.5 Ptahhotep, from the Egyptian Book of Instructions
3.6 Praise of the Scribe's Profession: Egyptian Letter
3.7 Early Criminal Justice: The Nippur Murder Trial and the "Silent Wife"
Parkinson, R.B., ed. and trans. The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940–1640
BC (Oxford, 1997). 296 pp.
This is a collection of short works from Middle Kingdom Egypt.
Lichtheim, Miriam, ed. and trans. Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol 1: The Old and Middle
Kingdoms (University of California Press, 1973). 235 pp.
A rather different collection of Egyptian works, including older items like the “Pyramid
Texts.
CHAPTER 4
A POLYCENTRIC WORLD:
Cities and States in East Asia, the Americas,
and West Africa, 1700 B.C.E.–1000 C.E.
(4 Days)
1. China (pp. 89-97)
2. The Americas (pp. 97-107)
3. South America (pp. 107–110)
4. North American towns (pp. 110–111), West Africa, Niger Valley (pp. 111–114), The first
cities: What difference do they make? (pp. 115-116)
5. Multiple Choice Exam: Unit 2, Chapters 2, 3, 4.
6. FRQ/DBQ
Chapter 4 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Early Peoples of North America (pp. 12-13)
Early Peoples of South America (pp. 14-15)
The Advent of Agriculture (pp. 18-19)
The World: 5000–2500 B.C.E. (pp. 20-21)
The First East Asian Civilizations (pp. 22-23)
Websites
The Civilization of the Olmec: http://loki.stockton.edu/~gilmorew/consorti/1bcenso.htm
An important archaeology-based website on Olmec history and culture.
Ancient China: An Interactive Guide: http://www.ancient-china.net/
A good resource for the early dynasties of China.
Jenne-Jeno, An Ancient African City: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~anth/arch/brochure/
A detailed account of the city of Jenne-Jeno, including the story of its discovery.
Maya Ruins: http://www.mayaruins.com/
An excellent collection of photos of Mayan sites.
Videos
The Incas: PBS Home Video [video; 60 minutes, color]
A comprehensive overview of Inca civilization.
The Maya: Lords of the Jungle: PBS Home Video [video; 60 minutes, color]
A survey of Mayan civilization.
Out of the Past: Annenberg/CPB [eight 60-minute videos; color]
This series includes surveys of ancient civilizations and their legacies in the modern
world. There is coverage of Sumer, Egypt, India, China, Africa, and the Americas.
Wonders of the African World: PBS Home Video, 2000 [3 videos; 360 minutes, color]
A comprehensive look at Africa from Egypt to Great Zimbabwe. Applicable to this
chapter is a segment on the city of Jenne-Jeno.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
4.1 Liu the Duke and Tan-Fu the Duke, from the Shi Jing
4.2 Hou-Ji, from the Shi Jing
4.3 Ancestor Worship: from the Shi Jing
4.4 from the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean
4.5 Procopius of Caesarea, History of the Wars, c. 550 CE
4.6 Nineteenth-century description of Cahokia
*Confucius. The Analects, trans. D.C. Lau (Penguin, 1979). 233 pp.
The most influential book in Chinese history, in a very readable translation.
Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching, trans. D.C. Lau (Penguin, 1963). 174 pp.
The central text of Daoism.
(*available at discounted price when purchased with textbook from Prentice Hall.)
UNIT TWO: EMPIRE AND IMPERIALISM,
2000 B.C.E.–1100 C.E.
What are Empires and Why are they Important?
CHAPTER 5
DAWN OF THE EMPIRES
Empire-buildings in North Africa, West Asia,
and the Mediterranean
2000 B.C.E.–300 C.E.
Chapter 5 Overview:
 Chapter 5 focuses on the question of what an empire is and why empires developed.
This issue is presented as a second stage of civilization, as societies mastered the
needs of independent city-states and moved to the problem of organizing diverse
peoples on a large scale. This chapter examines such empires in Mesopotamia,
Egypt, Persia, and—at first sight surprisingly—among the Greeks. Introduction of
the Greeks, however, presents the issue of cultural empires, regions that are not
unified politically but share a common religion, language, and worldview.
(5 Days)
1. Meaning of “empire”, Earliest empires (pp. 125–131)
2.
3.
4.
5.
Egypt, Persian Empire (pp. 131–139)
The Greeks (pp. 139–153)
The Greeks (pp. 139–153)
Alexander the Great (pp. 154–159)
Chapter 5 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
The First Empire (pp. 28-29)
The World: 750–500 B.C.E. (pp. 32-33
The Mediterranean World 700–300 B.C.E. (pp. 34-35)
The Empire of Alexander (pp. 36-37)
The World: 500–250 B.C.E. (pp. 38-39)
Trade in the Classical World (pp. 40-41)
Websites
Alexander the Great on the Web. http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/alexander/
An impressively comprehensive resource, with links to 1,000 items on Alexander the Great,
including the Oliver Stone movie.
The Ancient City of Athens. http://www.stoa.org/athens/
An excellent tour of ancient Athens, with good photos and descriptions.
Ancient Civilization. http://www.ancient-civilization.info/
A resource for information about many ancient civilizations, including the Akkadian Empire,
the Babylonian Empire, Olmecs, Canaanites, Celts, etc.
Ancient Empires and Cities. http://www.bible-history.com/resource/ah_gen.htm
A large collection of links to sites that deal with the ancient world, including history, art,
archaeology, and literature.
Persepolis, Ancient Capital of the Achaemenian Kings. http://www.art-arena.com/persepolis.htm
An introduction and photographic tour of the city of Persepolis.
Videos
Ancient Greece. Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 60 minutes, color]
This film is a recreation of the Greek world, looking at daily life for Greek citizens ranging
from Homer’s Iliad to the Parthenon and Agora of Athens.
Ancient Warriors: The Spartans. Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 26
minutes, color]
A sometimes startling look at the education and training of Spartan men to be the greatest
warriors of ancient Greece, including reenactments and photography of Thermopylae, all
presented through the eyes on the sole Spartan survivor of the Battle of Thermopylae.
Athens and Ancient Greece: Great Cities of the Ancient World, 1994 [video; 78 minutes, color]
This film studies and reconstructs 25 great Greek architectural accomplishments, including
the Acropolis, Parthenon, and Agora of Athens and the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization. PBS Home Video, 2000 [2 videos; 165 minutes, color]
This is a thorough introduction to the Greeks, including interviews with researchers,
computer recreations, and excellent photography of Greek structures and sites.
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great. PBS Home Video, 1994 [2 videos; 240 minutes, color]
A fascinating modern journey along the route of Alexander the Great’s army through Turkey,
Egypt, and the Near and Middle East, conducted by the popular historian Michael Wood.
The Quest for the Athlos: Investigating the Roots of Greek Athletics. Films for the Humanities &
Sciences, 2005 [DVD or video; 52 minutes, color]
An interesting study of Greek athletic contests and the ideology that lay behind them.
In Search of History: The Greek Gods. History Channel [video; 50 minutes, color]
An amusing look at Greek mythology from the perspective of the History Channel.
Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2005 [DVD or video, 53
minutes, color]
An analysis of the palace of Knossos, Delphi, the theater of Epidaurus, the Colossus of
Rhodes, the sports complex of Olympus, the Parthenon, and the myth of the lost city of
Atlantis.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
5.1 Hittite Law Code: excerpts from The Code of the Nesilim
5.2 The "Cyrus Cylinder": The First Declaration of Religious Freedom
5.3 Homer, Debate Among the Greeks
5.4 Hittite Land Deed
5.5 Hesiod, excerpt from Works and Days
5.6 Aristophanes, excerpt from The Birds
5.7 Plato, The Republic, "The Philosopher-King"
5.8 Plato, The Republic, "On Shadows and Realities in Education"
5.9 Aristotle, excerpts from Physics and Posterior Analytics
5.10 Plutarch, from Life of Lycurgus: Education and Family in Sparta
5.11 Aristotle, The Creation of the Democracy in Athens
5.12 Sophocles, from Antigone
5.13 Thucydides, Pericles Funeral Oration
5.14 Greece and Persia: The Treaty of Antalcides, 387 BCE
*Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, trans. Philip Vallacott (Penguin, 1961). 160 pp.
A collection of powerful plays that explore the nature of humanity.
*Aeschylus, The Oresteia, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1984). 336 pp.
The only surviving complete Greek trilogy, these plays are a powerful examination of human
law and responsibility, following the story of Agamemnon’s murder by his wife
Clytemnestra, their son’s revenge on his mother, and Orestes’ ultimate redemption.
*Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution, trans. P.J. Rhodes (Penguin, 1984). 208 pp.
A leading political treatise of ancient Athens.
*Euripides, Bacchae and Other Plays, trans. Philip Vellacott (Penguin, 1954). 256 pp.
Euripides more than any other Greek tragedian ponders the issues of piety and pride.
*Euripides, Medea and Other Plays, trans. John David (Penguin, 2003). 256 pp.
In these plays Euripides especially considers the tragedy of Greek women in a men’s world.
*Herodotus, The Histories, trans. Aubrey de Selincourt (Penguin, 2003). 784 pp.
A comprehensive view of the Persian Wars from the Father of History.
*Morkot, Robert, The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece (Penguin, 1997). 144 pp.
A useful resource for in-depth study of the Greek world.
*Plato, The Last Days of Socrates, trans. Hugh Tredenick (Penguin, 2003). 304 pp.
Plato’s four dialogues dealing with the trial and execution of his mentor Socrates.
*Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1984). 432 pp.
CHAPTER 6
ROME AND THE BARBARIANS:
The Rise and Fall of Empire, 753 B.C.E.–1453 C.E.
(8 Days)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
The Roman Republic (pp. 163–171)
Social world of the late Republic (pp. 171–177), Military might (pp. 177–179)
From Republic to Empire (pp. 180–187)
Roman culture (pp. 187–191)
Transformation of the Roman Empire (pp. 191–197)
Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), Legacy of the Roman Empire (pp. 198–201)
Multiple Choice Exam: Chapters 5 and 6
FRQ/DBQ
Chapter 6 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Trade in the Classical World (pp. 40-41)
The Roman Empire (pp. 42-43)
Religions of the World after 400 C.E. (pp. 46-47)
The World: 500–750 C.E. (pp. 48-49)
Websites
De Imperatoribus Romanis: An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors. http://www.romanemperors.org/
A very useful source of information and images of Roman emperors.
The Glory of Byzantium. http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Byzantium/byzhome.html
A Metropolitan Museum website with history, some art, and teacher resources.
History of International Migration Site.
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/contents1.html
A series of maps and articles covering migrations (mostly in Europe) from 700,000 B.C.E. to
the nineteenth century C.E..
Justinian, Theodora, and Procopius. http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/justinian/
This website is a directory with about 150 carefully selected links to information about the
emperor, empress, and the great sixth-century historian Procopius.
Link to Ancient Rome. http://www.ghg.net/shetler/rome/
An excellent assortment of links to information about every aspect of Roman life.
Videos
Ancient Rome. History Channel [4 videos; 200 minutes, color]
A narrative history of Rome from its beginnings through the rise of the Roman Empire.
Includes visits to important sites, interviews with ancient historians and classicists, and
readings from primary sources.
The Celts. BBC [3 videos; 330 minutes, color]
A thorough look at Celtic culture and society from its origin to the present.
Cleopatra’s World—Alexandria Revealed. History Channel [video; 100 minutes, color]
Largely a biography of Cleopatra VII, last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, and her
role in the power struggle at the end of the Roman Republic. Includes interesting segments
on the cultural importance of Alexandria.
Empire: The Romans. Films for the Humanities & Sciences [4 DVDs or videos; c. 200 minutes,
color]
The themes of this series are “Who Killed Julius Caesar?”, “The Roman Colosseum,” “Letters
from the Roman Front,” and “The Surprising History of Rome,” a look at daily life.
Journey through Ancient Pompeii. Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 31
minutes, color]
An overview of the history of Pompeii, with evidence of Roman daily life kindly provided by
the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C.E. that destroyed and buried the city.
Rome: Power & Glory. TLC [6 videos; 300 minutes, color]
A history of Rome from its origins to the fall of the western empire, with emphasis on the
cultural legacy of Rome.
Seven Wonders of Ancient Rome. Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 53
minutes, color]
This program examines the Circus Maximus, Trajan’s Forum, aqueducts, roads, the Baths of
Caracalla, the Pantheon, and the Colosseum.
The Wandering Tribes of Europe. Films for the Humanities & Sciences [4 DVDs or videos; 208
minutes, color]
The segments of this series deal with the early encounters between Rome and the Germans,
the movements of the Germans in the first through fourth centuries C.E., the Hunnic
invasion, and the collapse of the western Roman Empire.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
6.1 Pliny the Elder, from The Natural History
6.2 Horace, "Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori"
6.3 Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations, Book Two (167 CE)
6.4 Livy, The Rape of Lucretia and the Origins of the Republic
6.5 Slaves in the Roman Countryside
6.6 Augustus' Moral Legislation: Family Values
6.7 Juvenal, A Satirical View of Women
6.8 Sidonius Apollinaris, Rome's Decay and A Glimpse of the New Order
6.9 Jordanes, The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, Book twenty-six
6.10 Excerpts from the Hildebrandslied
6.11 Ammianus Marcellinus on the Huns
6.12 Eusebius of Caesarea, selections from Life of Constantine
6.13 Liutprand of Cremona, excerpt from Report of his Mission to Constantinople
*Davenport, Basil, ed. The Portable Roman Reader (Penguin, 1977). 672 pp.
A good selection of contemporary works by and about ancient Romans.
*Livy. The Early History of Rome, trans. Aubrey de Selincourt (Penguin, 2002). 496 pp.
*Petronius. The Satyricon, trans. J. Sullivan (Penguin, 1986). 256 pp.
A rather racy look at Roman life.
*Plutarch. Fall of the Roman Republic, trans. Rex Warner (Penguin, 1954). 368 pp.
Very readable biographies of Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, and Cicero.
*Polybius. Rise of the Roman Empire, trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert (Penguin, 1980). 576 pp.
Polybius was a Greek hostage who spent years in Rome in the second century B.C.E.. He
gives a penetrating analysis of Rome’s military and civil strength.
*Scarre, Chris. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome (Penguin, 1995). 144 pp.
*Suetonius. The Twelve Caesars, trans. Robert Graves (Penguin, 2003). 384 pp.
Written in the early second century C.E., these biographies of the first Roman emperors are
among our best sources for the era.
*Tacitus. The Agricola and the Germania, trans. H. Mattingly (Penguin, 1971). 176 pp.
Agricola tells of the final conquest of Britain by Tacitus’ own father-in-law; the Germania is a
romanticized picture of life beyond the Roman border, with an eye to reforming Roman
morals.
CHAPTER 7
CHINA
Fracture and Unification
The Qin, Han, Sui, and Tang Dynasties, 200 B.C.E.–900 C.E.
(5 Days)
1. Qin dynasty, 221–206 B.C.E. (pp. 205–208), Ideologies of empire (pp. 208–215)
2. Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.–220 C.E.) (pp. 215–222)
3. Society and culture (pp. 222–225), Reunification: Sui (581–618 C.E.) and Tang dynasty (618–
907 C.E.) (pp. 225–229)
4. Imperial China (pp. 229–234)
5. Legacies for the Future: Significance of Roman and Chinese Empires (pp. 234–238)
Chapter 7 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Han China (pp. 44-45)
Religions of the World after 400 C.E. (pp. 46-47)
The World: 500–750 C.E. (pp. 48-49)
States and Empires in South Asia 300–1550 (pp. 58-59)
Websites
China the Beautiful. http://www.chinapage.com/main2.html
This page has hundreds of links to other websites dealing with Chinese culture and history.
East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources.
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/index.html
Anything you’re likely to want about China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and other Asian
countries.
Videos
The Great Wall of China, Ambrose Video, 1995 [video; 27 minutes, color]
This video presents the construction of the Great Wall and the reasons for its creation.
History as a Mirror: Using China’s Past to Shape its Future Films for the Humanities & Sciences
[DVD or video; 58 minutes, color]
The focus of this film is modern China, but seen through the lens of China’s ancient legacy. It
explores the delicate balance in Chinese history between governmental control and satisfying
the people’s needs.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
7.1 Liu An, excerpt from Huan Nan Tzu
7.2 Legalism: selections from the writings of Han Fei
7.3 Confucius, selections from the Analects
7.4 Confucian political philosophy: an excerpt from Mencius
7.5 Zhang Quian, Han Shu, “Descriptions of the Western Regions”
7.6 Sima Qian, The Life of Meng Tian, Builder of the Great Wall
7.7 Treaty between Tibet and China, 821-822
7.8 Faxien, Record of Buddhist Countries, chapter sixteen
7.9 Chinese description of the Tibetans
7.10 Tang Daizong on the art of government
7.11 Selection from Nihongi, "The Age of the Gods"
7.12 An Essay Question from the Chinese Imperial Examination System
7.13 Ma Huan, excerpt from The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores
7.14 Lu You, excerpt from "Diary of a Journey to Sichuan"
7.15 Ibn Wahab, an Arab merchant visits Tang China
*Confucius. The Analects, trans. D.C. Lau (Penguin, 1979). 256 pp.
The most influential book in Chinese history.
Murasaki Shikibu. Diary of Lady Murasaki, trans. Richard Bowring (Penguin, 1999). 144 pp.
A look at court life in eleventh-century Japan.
Yohannan, John D., ed. A Treasury of Asian Literature (Plume, 1995). 432 pp.
An anthology of works from India, China, Japan, and the Arabic world.
(*available at discounted price when purchased with textbook from Prentice Hall)
CHAPTER 8
INDIAN EMPIRES
Cultural Cohesion in a Divided Subcontinent
1500 B.C.E.–1100 C.E.
(3 Days)
1. The Indian subcontinent (p. 241), Aryans arrived c. 1500 B.C.E. (pp. 241–246)
2. Mauryan Empire (pp. 247–250), Gupta Empire 320–c. 600 C.E. (pp. 251–256)
3. Regional diversity (pp. 256–257), Cultural influence (pp. 257–260), Comparison of Indian,
Chinese, and Roman Empires (pp. 260–261)
4. Multiple Choice Exam Chapters 6 and 7
5. FRQ/DBQ
Chapter 8 Primary Sources
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
The World: 750–500 B.C.E. (pp. 32-33)
The World: 500–250 B.C.E. (pp. 38-39)
Trade in the Classical World (pp. 40-41)
Religions of the World after 400 C.E. (pp. 46-47)
States and Empires in South Asia 300–1550 (pp. 58-59)
Websites
Creative Impulse: India. http://history.evansville.net/india.html
A rich site, with links to Indian art, architecture, religion, daily life, and history.
Exploring Ancient World Cultures. http://eawc.evansville.edu/
A comparative study of eight ancient world cultures, including that of India.
India: Internet Resources. http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/INDINRES.HTM
An interesting collection of links to information on Indian history and religion.
Internet Indian History Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html
Access to Indian historical documents online.
Videos
Ancient India, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; c. 50 minutes, color]
A good look at Harappan and early Aryan India.
Indus to Independence: A Journey through Indian History, Films for the Humanities & Sciences
[DVD or video; 34 minutes, color]
A quick overview of Indian history from the Neolithic period to the present, valuable for its
photography.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
8.1 Kautilya, from Arthashastra, "The Duties of Government Superintendents"
8.2 Excerpts from The Questions of King Milinda
8.3 Emperor Asoka, from The Edicts of Asoka
8.4 Agatharchides of Cnidos describes Saba
8.5 Indian Land Grants, 753 CE
8.6 Platt Amendment
Johnson, W.J., trans. The Sauptikaparvan of the Mahabharata: The Massacre at Night (Oxford,
1999). 140 pp.
This is the tenth book of the Mahabharata, when battle is joined. It especially explores the role
of dharma in Hindu belief.
Kalidasa. The Recognition of Sakuntala, trans. W.J. Johnson (Oxford, 2001). 192 pp.
The first great dramatic work of India; it tells a story of romance, betrayal, and happy ending
between a king and the daughter of an ascetic.
O’Flaherty, Wendy Doniger, trans. The Rig Veda (Penguin, 1982). 352 pp.
The oldest of the Vedas, this is a collection of 108 hymns.
*Prabhavananda, trans. The Bhagavad Gita (Signet, 2002). 144 pp.
The most-read section of the immense Mahabharata. It is a moment frozen in time before a
great battle, as the god Krishna (disguised as a charioteer) and Prince Arjuna discuss duty
and the nature of the divine. Very powerful.
*Prabhavananda, trans. The Upanishads (Signet, 2002). 128 pp.
The Upanishads are religious texts, composed after the Vedas as the caste system became
firmly established in India.
UNIT THREE: THE RISE OF WORLD RELIGIONS
2500 B.C.E.–1500 C.E.
CHAPTER 9
HINDUISM AND BUDDHISM
The Sacred Subcontinent
The Spread of Religion in India and Beyond
1500 B.C.E.–1200 C.E.
(5 Days)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Historians and religions (pp. 271–273), Hinduism (pp. 274–283)
Hinduism (pp. 274–283)
Buddhism (pp. 283–292)
Buddhism beyond India (pp. 292–301)
Comparison of Hinduism and Buddhism (p. 302), What difference do Hinduism and
Buddhism make? (p. 303)
Chapter 9 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Trade in the Classical World (pp. 40-41)
Religions of the World after 400 C.E. (pp.46-47)
States and Empires in South Asia 300–1550 (pp. 58-59)
Websites
Buddha.net. http://www.buddhanet.net/
An interesting site for information about contemporary Buddhism.
Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library. http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html
A top-ranking website for Buddhist studies, with links to doctrine, scriptures, art, and
history.
Hindu Traditions. http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/rel/hinduism.htm
Access to a number of interesting sites about historical and contemporary Hinduism, both in
India and the United States.
Interreligious Relations and Dialogue. http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/interreligious/index-e.html
A World Council of Churches webpage, with interesting discussion of the ecumenical
movement in modern Christianity.
Videos
The Principles and Practices of Zen, 1992 [video; 116 minutes, color]
This film is about the popular sect of Buddhism known as Zen in Japan and Chan in China.
It includes valuable insight on Buddhist doctrine and practice in general.
Religions of the World: Buddhism [video; 70 minutes, color]
This is an introduction to the history, beliefs, and practices of Buddhism, narrated by the
actor Ben Kingsley.
Religions of the World: Hinduism [video; 70 minutes, color]
An overview of Hindu religion and practice.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
9.1 Vardhamana Mahariva, selections from Akaranga-sutra, "Jain Doctrines and Practices of
Nonviolence."
9.2 Siddhartha Gautama: "Identity and Non-identity"
9.3 Selections from the Rig Veda
9.4 Excerpt from the Upanishads
9.5 The Nyaya School, "Explanation of the Sutra"
9.6 Xuanzang, Buddhist Records of the Western World
9.7 Excerpts from the Taika Reform Edicts
9.8 Buddhism in Japan: The Taika Reform Edicts
9.9 Marco Polo, excerpt from The Travels of Marco Polo
Ballou, Robert O., ed. The Portable World Bible (Penguin, 1977). 624 pp.
*Burtt, E.A., ed. The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha (NAL, 2000). 256 pp.
Johnson, W.J., trans. The Sauptikaparvan of the Mahabharata: The Massacre at Night (Oxford,
1999). 140 pp.
This is the tenth book of the Mahabharata, when battle is joined. It especially explores the role
of dharma in Hindu belief.
O’Flaherty, Wendy Doniger, trans. The Rig Veda (Penguin, 1982). 352 pp.
The oldest of the Vedas, this is a collection of 108 hymns.
*Prabhavananda, trans. The Bhagavad Gita (Signet, 2002). 144 pp.
The most-read section of the immense Mahabharata. It is a moment frozen in time before a
great battle, as the god Krishna (disguised as a charioteer) and Prince Arjuna discuss duty
and the nature of the divine. Very powerful.
*Prabhavananda, trans. The Upanishads (Signet, 2002). 128 pp.
The Upanishads are religious texts, composed after the Vedas as the caste system became
firmly established in India.
CHAPTER 10
JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
Peoples of the Bible
God’s Evolution in West Asia and Europe
1700 B.C.E.–1100 C.E.
(4 Days)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Judaism (pp. 309–317)
Move from Hebrew religion to Judaism (pp. 317–320), Rise of Christianity (pp. 321–325)
Spread of Christianity (pp. 325–332)
Christianity in the Germanic states (pp. 333–335), East-West schism (pp. 337–338)
Chapter 10 Primary Sources
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
The Mediterranean World 700–300 B.C.E. (pp. 34-35)
The Roman Empire (pp. 42-43)
Religions of the World after 400 C.E. (pp. 46-47)
The World: 500–750 C.E. (pp. 48-49)
The Empire of Charlemagne (p. 54)
Websites
The Historical Jesus. http://www.ntgateway.com/Jesus/
An attractive website with links to the Jesus Seminar, information about the Mediterranean
world at the time of Jesus, and other useful materials.
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html
Primary sources as well as other materials relating to Jewish history.
Judaism: Religion and Spirituality Directory. http://www.judaism-links.com/History.html
This site provides links to a wide variety of information about Judaism.
Links Related to Early and Medieval Christianity.
http://faculty.fullerton.edu/bstarr/345A.LINKS.htm
An interesting assortment of material, including primary sources, articles, and art.
Scrolls from the Dead Sea. http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html
This site includes images of some of the scrolls, with English translations, as well as
commentaries on the scrolls and their significance.Theology Library: Church History.
http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/history.htm
A series of links to topics in the history of Christianity.
Videos
Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video;
31 minutes, color]
A quick but attractively-presented survey of German history from the reign of Charlemagne
to the Investiture Contest.
Dead Sea Scrolls—Unraveling the Mystery, Discovery Channel [video; 52 minutes, color]
A look at how scholars have gone about uncovering the meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls and
their role in the history of first-century Judaism and Christianity.
Early Christianity and the Rise of the Church, 1989 [2 videos; 60 minutes, color]
This film is part of The Western Tradition series; it explores the rise of Christianity and its
break from Judaism.
The End of Rome, the Birth of Europe, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 52
minutes, color]
A look at the establishment of the Germanic kingdoms in Europe and the relationship of
these new states to Christianity.
From Jesus to Christ, Frontline [4 videos; 240 minutes, color]
The emphasis of this TV miniseries is the steps taken in early Christianity to build an image
of Jesus as divine figure rather than Jewish holy man.
Great Religions of the World: Catholicism [video; 70 minutes, color]
The early history of Christianity with emphasis on the division of the religion into Catholic
and Orthodox branches, narrated by Ben Kingsley.
Great Religions of the World: Judaism [video; 70 minutes, color]
Also narrated by Ben Kingsley, this is a survey of the history of Judaism and its basic beliefs
and practices.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
10.1 The Book of Job and Jewish Literature
10.2 Prologue of the Corpus Juris Civilis
10.3 St. Augustine of Hippo, Theory of the "Just War"
10.4 Pope Leo I on Bishop Hilary of Aries
10.5 Pliny the Younger, Epistulae Letters
10.6 Paulus Orosius, from Seven Books of History Against the Pagans
10.7 Bishop Synesius of Cyrene, Letter to his brother
10.8 The Acts of the Apostles: Paul Pronounces the "Good News" in Greece
10.9 St. Benedict’s Rules for Monks
10.10 From The Conversion of Kartli (the life of St. Nino)
10.11 Gnostic Teachings of Jesus, According to Irenaeus
10.12 Perpetua, The Autobiography of a Christian Martyr
10.13 The Confession of Saint Patrick
10.14 Nestor, The Russian Primary Chronicle
10.15 Einhard, Preface to The Life of Charlemagne
10.16 Anna Comnena, from The Alexiad
10.17 Ibn Fadlan's Account of the Rus
*Adomnan, Life of St. Columba, trans. Richard Sharpe (Penguin, 1995). 432 pp.
Bokser, Ben, trans., The Talmud: Selected Writings (Paulist Press, 1989). 237 pp.
Ehman, Bart D., ed. and trans., Lost Scriptures: Books that did not make it into the New Testament
(Oxford, 2003). 342 pp.
*Einhard and Notker, Two Lives of Charlemagne, trans. Lewis Thorpe (Penguin, 1969) 240 pp.
*Sanders, E.P. The Historical Figure of Jesus (Penguin, 1996). 352 pp.
*White, Carolinne, ed. Early Christian Lives (Penguin, 1998). 288 pp.
CHAPTER 11
ISLAM
Submission to Allah
Muslim Civilization Bridges the World
570 C.E.–1500 C.E.
(5 Days)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Islam means “submission” to God (p. 345), Origins (pp. 345–353)
The Caliphate (pp. 354–362)
Continued spread of Islam thirteenth century and later (pp. 362–367)
Structures of the Islamic world (pp. 367–370)
Achievements (pp. 370–375)
5. Relations with non-Muslims (pp. 376–380), The three monotheistic religions: What
difference do they make? (pp. 381-382)
6. Multiple Choice Exam Chapters 9, 10, 11
7. FRQ/DBQ
Chapter 11 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Religions of the World after 400 C.E. (pp. 46-47)
The World: 500–750 C.E. (pp.48-49)
The Abbasid Caliphate (p.55)
The Islamic Imprint (p. 56)
African Empires and City-States (p. 57)
The Age of the Crusades (pp. 60-61)
The Age of the Mongols (pp. 62-63)
Websites
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html
Both primary sources and other information about Islam.
Islam. http://www.aril.org/Islam.html
A collection of Internet resources for Islam, both historical and modern.
Islamic Internet Resources. http://www.library.yale.edu/neareast/islamicsites.html
A list of links to Islamic texts, art, and medicine, maintained by the Yale University Library.
Islamic Resources. http://www.gnfcw.com/islamic_resources.htm
An excellent collection of links to information about Islam.
Videos
Beyond the Veil—The Many Faces of Islam, Mundovision, Ltd., 1998 [3 videos; 156 minutes]
This series studies modern Islam, with emphasis on the diversity within Islam and Islam’s
relationship with the Western world.
Christians, Jews, and Moslems in Medieval Spain, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or
video; 33 minutes, color]
An interesting look at the subject of tolerance and religious interaction.
The Crusades, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 50 minutes, color)
A number of historians de-mythologizes the story of the crusades, considering both religious
issues and military tactics.
Religions of the World: Islam [video; 70 minutes, color]
A survey of the origins, beliefs, and varieties of Islam, narrated by Ben Kingsley.
When the World Spoke Arabic, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 7 parts, 26
minutes each, color]
This seven-part series explores the great age of Islam between the seventh and thirteenth
centuries. Topics include the rise of Islam, Baghdad under the Abbasids, Islamic Spain,
traveling the Islamic Empire, Islamic astronomy and mathematics, The Thousand and One
Nights, and the assimilation of Arab knowledge by western Europe.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
11.1 Pre-Islamic Arabic Poetry: "The Poem of Antar"
11.2 Baghdad: City of Wonders
11.3 Al-Ghazzali, "On the Separation of Mathematics and Religion"
11.4 Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya, "Brothers, my peace is in my aloneness."
11.5 Harun al-Rashid and the Zenith of the Caliphate
11.6 Excerpts from the Quran
11.7 Ali: Instructions to Malik al-Ashtar, Governor of Egypt
11.8 Al-Tabari: Muhammad’s Call to Prophecy
11.9 Al-Tabari and Ibn Hisham, from "The Founding of the Caliphate"
11.10 Al-Farabi, from Al-Farabi on the Perfect State
11.11 A selection from Muhammad's "Orations"
11.12 Sufi Poetry: Hafez, from the Diwan
11.13 Abi Yaqubi, excerpt from Tarikh
11.14 Selection from Narrative of the Journey of Abd-er Razzak
11.15 Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battuta, "Ibn Battuta in Mali"
11.16 Excerpts from The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Bar Sauma
11.17 Benjamin of Tudela, selection from Book of Travels
11.18 A Muslim View of the Crusades: Behâ-ed-Din, Richard I Massacres Prisoners after
Taking Acre, 1191
11.19 Anonymous descriptions of the cities of Zanj
11.20 Al-Umari describes Mansa Musa of Mali
11.21 Ibn Battuta, selections from the Rihla
11.22 Abu'l-Fadl 'Allami's Ain-i-Akbari
Dawood, N.J., trans. The Koran (Penguin, 1990). 435 pp.
A good standard translation of the Quran, also available in Arabic-English parallel text
edition.
———, trans. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Penguin, 1973). 416 pp.
Classic Arabian stories, including such greats as Aladdin and the 40 Thieves and the voyages
of Sindbad the Sailor.
Sells, Michael A., trans. Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations (White Cloud Press,
1999). 219 pp.
A very beautiful translation of the early suras of the Quran, catching the poetry of the
original.
———, trans. Early Islamic Mysticism (Paulist Press, 1996). 374 pp.
An interesting collection of early Sufi texts.
UNIT FOUR: GLOBAL TRADE
The Beginning of the Modern World
1300–1700
CHAPTER 12
ESTABLISHING WORLD TRADE ROUTES
The Geography and Philosophies of Early Economic Systems
1300-1500
Chapter 12 Key Ideas:
 The high cost of transport, especially overland
 The need for healthy internal markets to support international trade
 Debates over how much governmental control is appropriate for trade
 The need for peace to sustain long-distance trade
(3 Days)
1. Historical analysis of world trade (p. 391–393), Trade networks (pp. 393–394), Trade in the
Americas (pp. 394–397), Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 397–400)
2. Muslim and Jewish traders (pp. 400–402), Asian trade (pp. 402–412)
3. Mongols (pp. 412–418), Establishment of Ming dynasty in China (1368–1644) (pp. 418–
419), What difference does it make? (p. 419).
Chapter 12 Primary Sources
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Polynesian Migrations (p. 24)
African Empires and City-States (p. 57)
States and Empires in South Asia 300–1550 (pp. 58-59)
The Age of the Mongols (pp. 62-63)
The World: 1300–1400 (pp. 68-69)
The Aztec Empire (p. 70)
The Inca Empire (p. 71)
The Ming and the Outside World (p. 78)
Websites
African Empires. http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h15-af.htm
An extensive article on African states before 1500, with links to maps.
Civilizations in Africa. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAFRCA/CIVAFRCA.HTM
Resources for the study of Africa before the European encroachment.
European Exploration & Discovery.
http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-AgeOfExploration.html
An excellent collection of Internet resources, including information on Chinese, African, and
American trade before the Columbian exchange.
Great Zimbabwe. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/zimb/hd_zimb.htm
An interesting article on Zimbabwe’s golden age, eleventh–fifteenth centuries.
Internet Global History Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/global/globalsbook.html
Still under construction, this website looks at historical links between cultures.
The Spice Routes. http://asiapacificuniverse.com/pkm/spiceroutes.htm
An interesting article on international trade in spices through history.
Videos
Ancient China’s Explorers. NOVA [2 videos; c. 50 minutes each, color]
A fascinating documentary about Admiral Zheng He, who explored the seas for the Ming
emperor in the early fifteenth century.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
12.1 Winada Prapanca, Nagara Kertagama
12.2 The Mongols: An Excerpt from the Novgorod Chronicle, 1315
12.3 Excerpt from William of Rubruck's Account of the Mongols
12.4 al-Tha'alibi, Recollections of Bukhara
12.5 The Book of Dede Korkut, "The Story of Bugach Khan"
12.6 Ibn Khaldun, from “The Muqaddimah”
12.7 Giovanni Di Piano Carpini on the Mongols
12.8 Leo Africanus Describes Timbuktu
12.9 A Contemporary Describes Timur
Hamdun, Said, ed. and trans., Ibn Battuta in Black Africa (Marcus Wiener, 1995). 164 pp.
A selection from Ibn Battuta’s travel account, with his impressions of both West and East
Africa.
Kahn, Paul, trans. The Secret History of the Mongols (Cheng & Tsui, 1999). 201 pp.
Discussed in this chapter, The Secret History is the best source for the early history of the
Mongol Empire.
Niane, D.T., trans. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Longman, 1965). 96 pp.
Based on a griot’s oral account, this is the tale of the founding of the West African kingdom of
Mali.
*Polo, Marco, The Travels, trans. Ronald Latham (Penguin, 1958). 384 pp.
CHAPTER 13
THE OPENING OF THE ATLANTIC AND THE PACIFIC
Economic Growth, Religion and Renaissance, Global Connections
1300–1500
(3 Days)
1. Economic and Social Change in Europe (pp. 424–430)
2. The calamitous fourteenth cent. (pp. 430–432), Italian Renaissance (pp. 436–440)
3. “New World” (pp. 440–447), What difference do they make? (p. 447)
4. Multiple Choice Exam Chapters 12 and 13
5. FRQ/DBQ
Chapter 13 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
The Age of the Crusades (pp. 60-61)
Trade in Medieval Europe (pp. 64-65)
The Black Death (p. 66)
The World: 1300–1400 (pp. 68-69)
Voyages of European Expansion (pp. 74-75)
Websites
Internet Medieval Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
A large collection of primary sources available on the Internet, many of them short excerpts
suited for classroom use.
Internet Resources on the Black Death. http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/death.html
A site with links to several good resources on the topic.
The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies. http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/
A comprehensive collection of material on the European Middle Ages available on the
internet.
La Renaissance. http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/wm/paint/glo/renaissance/
Links to information about Renaissance philosophy, history, and political life.
Resources for the Study of the Age of Exploration.
http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/exploration.html
Selected links to major topics and useful bibliography of early European exploration.
Videos
The Feudal System, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 36 minutes, color]
An investigation of social and political organization in medieval Europe.
First Light: Tuscany and the Dawn of the Renaissance, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD
or video; 4 parts, 49 minutes each, color]
A Florence-centered look at change in Europe between 1200 and 1350. The four parts of the
series are: “A New Saint, A New Art,” “The Invention of Banking,” “The City: Building
Reputations,” and “Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany.”
The Middle Ages, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video, 24 minutes, color]
A lightning tour through medieval Europe, with discussion of the role of the church,
feudalism, the crusades, the Hanseatic League, the plague, trade guilds, the invention of
printing, and the rise of towns.
The Spice Route: The Discovery of the Sea Lane to Africa and Asia, Ebbo Demant, 1999 [video; 90
minutes, color]
A recreation of the first Portuguese voyages of exploration into the Indian Ocean, including
archival material, artifacts, and readings from contemporary explorers’ texts.
The Vikings. NOVA/WGBH Boston Video [video; 120 minutes, color]
A good look at Scandinavian society, explorations, and impact on Europe, Russia, and the
Mediterranean world.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
13.1 The Magna Carta 1215
13.2 Marchione di Coppo Stefani, The Florentine Chronicle, "Concerning a Mortality in the City
of Florence in which Many People Died"
13.3 Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, a fourteenth-century Italian Guide for Merchants
13.4 University of Paris Medical Faculty, Writings on the Plague
13.5 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, "Of Human Law"
13.6 Saint Francis of Assisi, selection from his Admonitions
13.7 Roger Bacon, "On Experimental Science", 1268
13.8 Abelard Defends Himself
13.9 Niccolo Machiavelli, excerpts from The Prince
13.10 Peasant Revolt in England: The John Ball Sermon, 1831
13.11Jean Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth, "The True Attributes of Sovereignty"
13.12 Hugo Grotius, selections from On the Law of War and Peace
13.13 Speculum Principi, "The Animal Life of Greenland and the Character of the Land in
Those Regions."
13.14 Lorenzo Valla Skewers the Supposed "Donation of Constantine"
13.15 Erasmus, "Pope Julius Excluded from Heaven," 1513
13.16 Excerpt from The Broken Spears, an Indian account of the conquest of Mexico
13.17 Smallpox epidemic in Mexico, 1520, from Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex:
General History of the Things of New Spain, 1585
13.18 Smallpox epidemic in New England, William Bradford, from History of Plymouth
Plantation, 1633-1634
13.19 Charles Albanel, from the Jesuit Relation of 1669-1670
13.20 Galileo, "Third Letter on Sunspots" (Italian States), 1612
13.21 Martin Luther, "Ninety-Five Theses" (Holy Roman Empire), 1517
13.22 John Calvin, Ecclesiastical Ordinances (Geneva, Switzerland), 1533
13.23 The Act of Supremacy (England), 1534
13.24 The Edict of Nantes (France), 1598
13.25 The Council of Trent (Italian states), 1545-1563
13.26 John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Great Britain), 1689
13.27 Jean Domat, On Social Order and Absolutist Monarchy
13.28 The Marquis de Mirabeau, The Friend of Men, or Treatise on Population, 1756
13.29 Louis Sebastien Mercier, from Tableau de Paris, vol. 1, "The Saint-Marcel Neighborhood"
13.30 Voltaire: On Social Conditions in Eighteenth century France
13.31 Peter the Great, "Correspondence with Alexis" (Russia), 1715
13.32 The Encyclopédie, "Bakers (Boulanger)" (France) 1763
13.33 Glückel of Hameln, Memoirs (The Holy Roman Empire) 1690
13.34 Jonathan Swift, "A Description of a City Shower" (Great Britain), 1710
Abelard, Peter, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise, trans. Mary Radice (Penguin, 2004). 384 pp.
The world that created the first universities, seen from the perspective of the twelfthcentury’s most famous star-crossed lovers.
*Aquinas, Thomas, Selected Writings, trans. Ralph McInerny (Penguin, 1999). 880 pp.
An exhaustive tome that gives a good sense of medieval theology at its best.
*Castiglione, Baldesar, The Book of the Courtier, trans. George Bull (Penguin, 1976). 368 pp.
An entertaining guide to how to be a perfect Italian courtier during the Renaissance.
*Columbus, Christopher, The Four Voyages, trans. J.M. Cohen (Penguin, 1992). 320 pp.
A very readable first-hand account of the discovery of the “new world.”
*Howarth, David, 1066: The Year of the Conquest (Penguin, 1981). 208 pp.
A modern study of the Norman invasion of England in 1066.
Vasari, Giorgio, The Lives of the Artists (Oxford, 1998). 586 pp.
A series of witty, sometimes touching biographies of the greatest artists of Renaissance Italy.
CHAPTER 14
THE UNIFICATION OF WORLD TRADE
New Philosophies for New Trade Patterns
1500–1776
Chapter 14 Overview:
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The first is the economic “doctrine” of capitalism, which not only permitted but
validated private greed as something to be nurtured for the good of the state.
The second is the development of the nation-state in Western Europe, with its new
understanding that government should care for the economic well-being of its
people.
The third is less directly connected to trade: the Reformation movements that rocked
Europe in the sixteenth century.
(4 Days)
1. Economic systems (pp. 451-453), Iberian empires (pp. 453–461)
2. Reformations (pp. 462–465), The Dutch Republic (pp. 466–469)
3. France and Britain (pp. 469–472), Formation of nation-states (pp. 472–476)
4. Other trade systems (pp. 476–481), Influence of world trade (p. 481)
Chapter 14 Primary Sources
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
The World: 1500–1600 (pp. 76-77)
The Ming and the Outside World (p. 78)
Reunification of Japan (p. 79)
The Religious Map of Europe in 1590 (p. 80)
The Height of the Ottoman Empire (p. 81)
The Mughal Empire (p. 82)
The World: 1700 (pp. 84-85)
Websites
Best of History Web Sites: Early Modern Europe.
http://www.besthistorysites.net/EarlyModernEurope.shtml
Links to information on the Renaissance, Reformation, Absolutism, Exploration, and other
topics of use for this chapter.
Colonial Expansion: the V.O.C. (Dutch United East India Company), 1602–1798.
http://www.zum.de/whkmla/region/lowcountries/voc.html
An interesting study of Dutch global trade, with links to other sites.
East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources.
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/china-history.html
A large collection of resources.
European Exploration and Discovery.
http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-AgeOfExploration.html
Internet resources, both primary and secondary, relating to early European exploration and
world trade.
Russia and the Former U.S.S.R. http://www.teacheroz.com/russia.htm
A very rich guide to Russian history and study aids on the Internet.
Videos
The Aztecs, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 48 minutes, color]
Part of the “Ancient Civilization” series, this film gives a survey of Aztec society and the
impact of the Spanish conquest.
Japan: The Age of the Shoguns (1600–1868), Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video;
53 minutes, color]
This film examines Japan in the period it was sealed off from outside influence, including
social classes, political organization, and the growth of the merchant class.
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude, NOVA/WGBH Boston [video; 60 minutes, color]
This is a docudrama about the discovery of longitude by the English John Harrison in the
eighteenth century.
The Ottoman Empire, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; c. 50 minutes, color]
A program on the structure of the Ottoman Empire from the conquest of Constantinople to
the end of the sixteenth century.
Peter the Great, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [video; 32 minutes, color]
A reconstruction of Peter the Great’s reign, with emphasis on Peter’s efforts to Westernize
Russia.
Reformation: Luther and the Protestant Revolt, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or
video; 52 minutes, color]
A history of both Protestant and Catholic Reformation movements (despite the title), from
Luther to the renewal of Catholicism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Revolution of Conscience: The Life, Convictions, and Legacy of Martin Luther, Films for the
Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 56 minutes, color]
A definitive documentary, chronicling Luther’s life and impact.
The Spanish Conquest of Mexico, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [video; 30 minutes, color]
An analysis of the Spanish conquest from a military and cultural perspective by two British
professors.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
14.1 Murasaki Shikibu, selections from The Tale of Genji
14.2 Ki no Tsurayaki, excerpt from The Tosa Diary
14.3 Al Ghazzali, excerpt from Confessions
14.4 Portrait of an Ottoman Gentleman
14.5 excerpt from the Memoirs of Babur
14.6 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, on the Conquest of China
14.7 Tokugawa Shogunate, The Laws for the Military House, 1615
14.8 Taisuke Mitamura, excerpt from Chinese Eunuchs: The Structure of Intimate Politics
14.9 Shi Daonon, "Death of Rats"
14.10 William Bradford, excerpt from Of Plymouth Plantation
14.11 Thomas Dudey, Letter to Lady Bridget, Countess of Lincoln, 1631
14.12 Saint Francis Xavier on conversion of the Indians
14.13 Jan Hugghen van Linschoten, on Dutch business in the Indian Ocean
14.14 Hans Mayr, Account of Francisco d'Almeida's attack on Kilwa and Mombasa
14.15 Gaspar Correa, excerpt from his journal, 1502
14.16 Excerpts from the journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492
14.17 Excerpt from the travel journal of Vasco da Gama
14.18 Duarte Barbosa, accounts of his journeys to Africa and India
14.19 Domingo Navarrete, "Of My Stay in the Kingdom of Macasar"
14.20 Cotton Mather, from Magnalia Christi Americana
14.21 Christopher Columbus, journal excerpt and letter
14.22 Bernal Diaz del Castillo, from the True History of the Conquest of New Spain
14.23 Bartolomé de las Casas, from Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies
14.24 Voltaire, Letters On England (France), 1733
14.25 Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Great Britain), 1776
Janz, Denis R., ed., A Reformation Reader (Augsburg, 2002). 396 pp.
An interesting array of documents, focusing on the Protestant Reformation.
*Las Casas, Bartolomé de, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, trans. Nigel Griffin
(Penguin, 1992). 1992 pp.
A chilling account of Spanish abuses in New Spain, written by a former member of the
system who became a bishop and the natives’ chief defender in Spain.
*More, Thomas, Utopia, trans. Paul Turner (Penguin, 2003). 176 pp.
This work, by England’s leading sixteenth-century humanist, combines philosophy and
European perceptions of the New World they were discovering.
CHAPTER 15
MIGRATION
Demographic Changes in a New Global World
1300–1750
Chapter 15 Overview:
 The emphasis of Chapter 15 is on demography—population movements and changes
in the period 1300–1750.
 The most important lesson of this chapter is globalization, the creation of the “global
ecumene” of the title.
 This is not just a case of “trade Diasporas” but of real changes in populations.
 Several cases are examined, including European settlement, the trans-Atlantic slave
trade, and the ethnic movements of the Ottoman, Mughal, Safavid, and Qing
Empires.
(5 Days)
1. Issue of demography (pp. 495–500), Transplantation of Europeans to rest of world (pp.
500–507)
2. Slave migration, 1500–1750 (pp. 484–489), Asian Migrations, 1300–1750 (pp. 499–507)
3. Global population growth (p. 507), Cities (pp. 508–513), What difference do migration and
demography make? (pp. 513–514)
4. Multiple Choice Exam Chapters 14 and 15
5. FRQ/DBQ
Chapter 15 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
The Height of the Ottoman Empire (p. 81)
The Mughal Empire (p. 82)
The World: 1700 (pp. 84-85)
Safavid Persia (p. 83)
Colonization of North America (p. 91)
The World Slave Trade (pp. 88-89)
Websites
Africa and Slavery. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/hislavery.html
A very large collection of Internet resources dealing with the issue of African slavery.
The Chicago History Project. http://www.newberry.org/chicagohistoryproject/internet.html
A gateway page with links to all periods of American history.
Epidemics and Diseases! http://stutzfamily.com/mrstutz/Links/diseaselinks.htm
A rather odd collection of information about epidemic diseases, historical and modern.
The First Global Age. http://www.bestschools.org/hs/sstudies/global9/first.html
Useful sites for the history of China, the Ottoman Empire, Spain and Portugal, European
encounters with other peoples, etc.
The Islamic World to 1600. http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/islam/
A beautiful site with information on the Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid Empires.
Videos
Found Voices—The Slave Narratives, ABC News [video; 22 minutes, color]
This program presents interviews of former slaves recorded in the 1930s and 1940s, narrated
by Ted Koppel.
The Ottoman Empire, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [video; 47 minutes, color]
A survey of the Ottoman Empire during its golden age, from c. 1453 to the seventeenth
century. Part of the “Ancient Civilizations” series.
Suleyman the Magnificent, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; c. 52 minutes,
color]
A biography of the last great Ottoman sultan, including his conquests and the great
achievements of Ottoman arts and sciences during his reign.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
15.1 Sunni versus Shi'ite: Letter from Selim I to Ismail I
15.2 Paul Rycaut, on the State of the Ottoman Empire, 1668
15.3 Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, excerpt from "Women in Ottoman Society"
15.4 Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, "Süleyman the Lawgiver"
15.5 Fathers Simon and Vincent Report on Shah Abbas I, the Safavid Ruler of Persia
15.6 Excerpts from the Biography of Shah Abbas I
15.7 Excerpts from the Biography of Emperor Akbar of India
15.8 Matteo Ricci, Selection from his Journals
15.9 Letters of Zheng Zhilong
15.10 Japan Encounters the West
15.11 Guidelines for Tributary Missions, Qing dynasty, 1764
15.12 Thomas Gage, Writings on chocolate
15.13 Pope Paul III, Sublimus Dei, "On the Enslavement and Evangelization of Indians in the
New World"
15.14 Willem Bosman, from A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea Divided into
the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts
15.15 Phillis Wheatly, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth..."
15.16 Olaudah Equiano, excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
15.17 Five African American spirituals
15.18 Bryan Edwards, excerpt from "Observations on the ...Maroon Negroes of the Island of
Jamaica"
15.19 Alexander Telfair, Instructions to an Overseer in a Cotton Plantation
15.20 King Louis XIV, "The Code Noir" (French), 1685
15.21 A Sikh guru’s Testimony of Faith
15.22 James Burney, on contact with the Maori of New Zealand
*Gates, Henry, ed. The Classic Slave Narratives (Signet, 2002). 688 pp.
The classic collection of autobiographical slave accounts.
Martin, Wendy. Colonial American Travel Narratives (Penguin, 1994). 384 pp.
A collection of accounts about life in the early North American colonies.
Murari, Timeri, Taj: A Story of Mughal India (Penguin, 2005). 384 pp.
A modern novel about India in the reign of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal
UNIT FIVE: SOCIAL CHANGE
1640–1914
CHAPTER 16
POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS IN
EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS
The Birth of Political Rights in the Age of Enlightenment
1649–1830
Chapter 16 Overview:
 First is the old lawyer’s question, “cui bono?”—who benefits? Was the revolution
intended to aid the bulk of the population or small elite?
 A second issue to consider is whether the revolutionaries intended social change or
political change only.
 The third core issue is the effects of revolution. A discussion of all these issues here
will make presentation of twentieth-century revolutionary movements easier.
(4 Days)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Political revolution (pp. 521–523), Enlightenment (pp. 529–531)
The Glorious Revolution—England, 1688 (pp. 531–533), The philosophes (pp. 533–536)
The American Revolution (pp. 537–540), The French Revolution (pp. 540–548)
The French Revolution (pp. 540–548), Haiti, 1791–1804 (pp. 548–551), Latin American
independence movements (pp. 551–555)
Chapter 16 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Seventeenth-century Europe (p. 86)
An Era of Revolution (pp. 94-95)
The Napoleonic Empire (p. 96)
Websites
Internet Modern History Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
An extensive collection of primary sources on all aspects of modern history, many of a
convenient length for class reading.
Links: Latin American History. http://www.csuohio.edu/history/courses/Josehis165/LINKS.htm
A good collection of resources on all periods of Latin American history.
Open Directory: English Civil War.
http://dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Seventeenth_Century/Wars_and_Conflicts/
English_Civil_War/
Good links to information about the English Civil War.
Toussaint L’ouverture. http://www.archivex-ht.com/links/Toussaint_Louverture.html
A comprehensive listing of Internet resources in English and French on the Haitian
Revolution.
United States History Resources: From the Discovery through the 1790s.
http://www.ccboe.org/wph/1790-Discovery.html
An excellent site that includes links to writings of the philosophes and other texts that
influenced the American revolutionaries, as well as history and art pages.
Videos
Amistad, Steven Spielberg, 1998 [video; 155 minutes, color]
This movie, troubled though it is by historical inaccuracies, is a good resource for the
cruelties of the slave trade, the conflict between human rights and property rights, and some
of the reasons for the abolition of slavery.
Danton, Andrejs Wajda, RCA Home Video, 1987 [video; 137 minutes, color]
This movie, starring Gerard Depardieu, gives an excellent dramatic presentation of the
French Revolution and the Terror.
The French Revolution: Impact and Sources, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video;
25 minutes, color]
This program examines the effects of the French Revolution on ordinary people.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Retreat to Romanticism, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [video;
25 minutes, color]
An examination of Rousseau’s philosophical views and association with other philosophes.
John Locke, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [video; 52 minutes, color]
This video examines Locke’s political and social philosophy in its historical context.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [2 videos; 110 minutes, color]
An excellent survey of Napoleon’s career, filmed on-site in Corsica, Egypt, Paris, Spain, and
Russia.
The Napoleonic Wars, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [ DVD or video; 30 minutes, color]
Focus on Napoleon’s campaigns, with examination of the strategies and tactics involved.
Simón Bolívar: The Liberator, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 30 minutes,
color]
This popular program examines the Latin American revolutions of the nineteenth century by
focusing on the life of the greatest revolutionary leader.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
16.1 William Harvey, Address to the Royal College of Physicians, 1628
16.2 René Descartes, The Discourse on Method and "I Think, Therefore I Am"
16.3 Nicolaus Copernicus, excerpt from On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
16.4 Isaac Newton, from Opticks
16.5 Francis Bacon, from Novum Organum
16.6 William Hazlitt, selections from The Spirit of the Age
16.7 Voltaire, On Universal Toleration
16.8 Mary Wollstonecraft, Introduction to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
16.9 Marquis de Condorcet, passage from from Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of
the Human Mind
16.10 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters: (a) on Constantinople; (b) on Smallpox; (c) on
Vaccination in Turkey
16.11 James Lind, from A Treatise of the Scurvy, 1753
16.12 Immanuel Kant defines the Enlightenment, 1784
16.13 Daniel Defoe, selection from The Complete English Tradesman
16.14 Cesare Beccaria, from An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
16.15 Denis Diderot, Preliminary Discourse from The Encyclopedia (France), 1751
16.16 The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
16.17 Revolutionary France: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789-1791
16.18 Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
16.19 Edmund Burke, Speech on policy in India, 1783
16.20 Baron de Montesquieu, excerpt from The Spirit of the Laws
16.21 French Peasants, Cahiers de doléances (Grievances) (France), 1789
16.22 Robespierre "Speech to National Convention: The Terror Justified" (France), 1794
16.23 Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Great Britain), 1790
16.24 William James, from Pragmatism, 1907
16.25 John Stuart Mill, excerpts from On Liberty
16.26 Francisco Bilbao, America in Danger, 1862
16.27 Friederich Hassaurek, How to Conduct a Latin American Revolution, 1865
16.28 Alexis de Tocqueville, excerpt from Democracy in America
16.29 Abraham Lincoln, The Emancipation Proclamation
16.30 Jose Morelos, Sentiments of the Nation (Mexico), 1813
16.31 Simon de Bolívar, "Address to Second National Congress" (Venezuela), 1819
*Burke, Edmund, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Penguin, 1982). 400 pp.
A scathing attack on the revolutionaries in France, written only a few months after the
revolution began.
*Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Penguin, 1982). 160 pp.
First published in 1845, this is a moving condemnation of slavery and defense of the abolition
movement.
*Franklin, Benjamin, The Autobiography and Other Writings (Signet, 2001). 352 pp.
An inside look at colonial America and the American Revolution.
*Kramnick, Isaac, ed., The Portable Enlightenment Reader (Penguin, 1995). 704 pp.
A large collection of Enlightenment sources.
*Paine, Thomas, Common Sense (Penguin, 1982). 128 pp.
The most influential justification for the American Revolution.
*Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, The Social Contract (Penguin, 1968). 192 pp.
The most influential work of the leading political theorist of the Enlightenment.
*Voltaire, François, Candide (Penguin, 1950). 144 pp.
A hilarious and biting satire of vain philosophizing, written by a leading philosophe.
*———, Letters on England (Penguin, 1980). 160 pp.
First published in 1734, this view of life in England was perceived as an attack on the French
government; it was suppressed and Voltaire persecuted.
CHAPTER 17
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
A Global Process
1700–1914
Chapter Overview:
This chapter showcases Great Britain as leader of the Industrial Revolution, proceeding from
that point to consider the process in other countries and the social effects of industrialization.
The most important points stressed are:
1. The triumph of Western Europe in terms of economic power
2. The snowball effect of industrialization
3. The efforts of governments and other groups to redress wrongs in the system
4. The catastrophic effect of industrialization on nonindustrial countries.
(4 Days)
1. Significance of Industrial Revolution (pp. 561–563), Britain: Home of Industrial Revolution
(pp. 563–570)
2. Second stage of industrialization, 1860–1914 (pp. 571–574), Social change (pp. 574–578)
3. Political reactions (pp. 579–587)
4. Patterns of urban life (pp. 588–592)
Chapter 17 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Industrial Developments in Europe 1850–1914 (p. 98)
Europe after the Congress of Vienna 1815–1852 (p. 97)
The World: 1850 (pp. 102-103)
North America: 1783–1905 (pp. 104-105)
The Economic Revolution (pp. 108-109)
Global Migration (pp. 112-113)
Websites
Age of Industry. http://history.evansville.net/industry.html
This site includes excellent links on many facets of the Industrial Revolution, including
transport, daily life, and art.
Feminism and Suffrage—History of Women’s Rights.
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminismsuffragerights/
A mammoth collection of Internet resources on this issue.
Industrial Revolution Resources. http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/irev.html
An excellent collection of resources on the Industrial Revolution, topically arranged.
Industrial Revolution Resources. http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/ind_rev.html
The links provided by this website include material not covered in the last entry.
Marxism Page. http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/marx.html
Includes Marxist texts, interesting graphics, and even a recording of the Internationale.
Victorian England: Directory of Online Resources.
http://www.academicinfo.net/histukvictorian.html
A comprehensive collection.
Videos
An Age of Revolutions, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 24 minutes, color]
In this film, the French and Industrial Revolutions are treated together, with their political,
social, cultural, and economic impact on nineteenth-century Europe.
Famine to Freedom: The Great Irish Journey, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video;
50 minutes, color]
The tale of the massive nineteenth-century emigration of the Irish to America.
Industrialization and Urbanization from 1870–1910, 1996 [video; 35 minutes, color and B&W]
This film focuses on urbanization and its woes in the United States.
Karl Marx and Marxism, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 52 minutes,
color]
An interesting look at Marx, the roots of his philosophy, and the greatest product of his
thought—the Soviet Union.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
17.1 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Prometheus, 1773
17.2 Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum (Of New Things), 1891
17.3 Auguste Comte, "Course of Positive Philosophy" (France), 1830-1842
17.4 Thomas Malthus, excerpt from Essay on the Principle of Population
17.5 David Ricardo, excerpt from Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
17.6 David Ricardo, "The Iron Law of Wages"
17.7 The Sadler Report: Child Labor in the United Kingdom, 1832
17.8 Robert Owen, excerpt from Address to the Workers of New Lanark, 1816
17.9 Parliamentary report on English female miners, 1842
17.10 Frederick Winslow Taylor, "A Piece Rate System," 1896
17.11 Fanny Kemble, excerpt from Records of a Girlhood
17.12 Eliza Bishee Duffey, from No Sex in Education; or an Equal Chance for Both Girls and Boys,
1874
17.13 Edwin Chadwick, Summary from the Poor Law Commissioners
17.14 Chartist Movement: The People's Petition of 1838
17.15 Benjamin Disraeli, excerpt from Sybil, or The Two Nations
17.16 Andrew Ure, from The Philosophy of Manufactures
17.17 A Luddite pamphlet
17.18 Thorstein Veblen, excerpt from The Theory of Leisure Class
17.19 Thomas Babington Macaulay, from Minute on Education, 1835
17.20 Matthew Arnold, excerpt from Dover Beach
17.21 Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, from the Communist Manifesto
17.22 Henrik Ibsen, from A Doll's House, Act Three
17.23 Flippo Tommaso Marinetti, “Futuristic Manifesto”
17.24 Ellen Key, from The Century of the Child
17.25 Charles Darwin, from The Origins of the Species
17.26 Emile Zola, Nana (France), 1880
17.27 Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (Germany), 1886
17.28 Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualia (Germany), 1886
17.29 Samuel Smiles, excerpt from Self Help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
17.30 Booker T. Washington, "Industrial Education for the Negro"
17.31 George Eliot, "Review: Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft" (Great Britain), 1855
*Crane, Stephen, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (Penguin, 2000). 272 pp.
Irish immigrant life in New York first published 1893.
*Dickens, Charles, Hard Times (Penguin, 2003). 368 pp.
Almost all of Dickens’s novels deal with the despair and undermining of British society.
Hard Times is the tragic tale of a young woman and her rigidly disciplinarian father.
*Engels, Friedrich, The Condition of the Working Class in England (Penguin, 1987). 304 pp.
A classic text of communism.
*Howells, William, The Rise of Silas Lapham (Penguin, 1983). 400 pp.
A novel about a self-made millionaire in the American Gilded Age.
*Ibsen, Henrik, A Doll’s House and Other Plays (Penguin, 1965). 336 pp.
The title play, first published in 1879, explores the stifling nature of life for middle-class
women.
*Marx, Karl, The Communist Manifesto (Penguin, 2002). 304 pp.
The most famous work of the most famous theorist of the Industrial Revolution.
*Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle (Penguin, 1985). 448 pp.
A chilling look at labor union organization at the Chicago Stockyards
CHAPTER 18
NATIONALISM, IMPERIALISM, AND RESISTANCE
Competition among Industrial Powers
1650–1914
(6 Days)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Nationalism (pp. 597–604)
Imperialism (pp. 605–618)
Africa (pp. 619–628)
Colonial women (pp. 628–631), Anti-colonial revolts (pp. 631–632)
Japan (pp. 632–639)
5. Multiple Choice Exam Chapters 16, 17, and 18
6. FRQ/DBQ
Primary Sources Chapter 18:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Europe after the Congress of Vienna 1815–1852 (p. 97)
Foreign Imperialism in East Asia (p. 99)
Imperialism in the Pacific (p. 100)
North America: 1783–1905 (pp. 104-105)
The Scramble for Africa (p. 106)
The World: 1900 (pp. 110-111)
Movements against Colonial Rule 1880–1920 (p. 114)
Japanese Modernization (p. 115)
Websites
Imperialism. http://www.casahistoria.net/imperialism.htm
Good resources for study of imperialism, both historical and contemporary.
Internet Modern History Sourcebook. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
A large collection of primary sources on all aspects of the modern world.
Japan in World History Internet Guide. http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/iguides/whistory.html
Access to information about the Meiji reforms.
The Nationalism Project. http://www.nationalismproject.org/nationalism.htm
Links to both primary and secondary sources on the subject of nationalism, with breakdown
by specific country.
Videos
Japan: The Meiji Period (1868–1912), Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 53
minutes, color]
A detailed look at Japan’s eruption onto the world stage.
The Nationalists, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 24 minutes, color]
The development of extreme nationalism in Europe in the period between the French
Revolution and the beginning of World War I.
Zulu, MGM, 1964 [video; 150 minutes, color]
A classic war movie starring Michael Caine, showing British soldiers during the Zulu War of
1879.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
18.1 Nineteenth-century European descriptions of the Pacific island of Lelu
18.2 Uthman dan Fodio Declares a Jihad, 1754-1817
18.3 Lord McCartney's observation of the state of China, 1792
18.4 Sumptuary Laws, Tokugawa Shogunate, 1640
18.5 Injunctions to Peasants, Tokugawa Shogunate, 1649
18.6 Peters, "A Manifesto for German Colonization" (Germany and Africa), 1884
18.7 Abu Taleb Khan, A Muslim Indian's Reactions to the West
18.8 Theodore Christlieb, Protestant Foreign Missions: Their Present State, 1879
18.9 Prince Aleksandr Gorchakov, The Gorchakov Circular, 1864
18.9 A British Traveler’s Report on the Sokoto Caliphate
18.10 Joseph Mazzini, Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini, 1805-1872
18.11 Anthony Trollope, excerpt from North America
18.12 Franz Boas, from The Mind of Primitive Man, 1911
18.13 Herbet Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress
18.14 Karl Marx, "The British Rule in India," 1853
18.15 Karl Pearson, "Social Darwinism and Imperialism"
18.16 Mikhail Bakunin, "Principles and Organization of the International Brotherhood," 1866
18.17 Mary Kingsley, Travels in West Africa (Great Britain and Africa), 1893 and 1895
18.18 Watkin Tench, from A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
18.19 Charles Seignobos, The Great African Hunt
18.20 Serbian Society of National Defense, Program for Nationalism
18.21 Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden"
18.22 Robert Louis Stevenson, passage from In the South Seas
18.23 President Millard Fillmore, Letter to the Emperor of Japan, 1852
18.24 Lord William Bentinck, on the Suppression of Sati, 1829
18.25 Carl von Clauswitz, On War, "Arming the Nation"
18.26 Jules Ferry, Le Tonkin et la Mere-Patrie
18.27 James Fenimore Cooper, Author's Introduction to The Prairie
18.28 Irish National Identity: (a) Irish Declaration of Independence; (b) Ulster's Solemn
League and Covenant; (c) Eamon de Valera, radio broadcast
18.29 Fustel de Coulanges, Letter to German Historian Theodor Mommsen, 1870
18.30 Crevecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer, "What is an America"
18.31 Crevecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer
18.32 African American Emancipation Songs: (a) "Many Thousands Gone;" (b) "Kingdom
Coming"
18.33 Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
18.34 Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s Story
18.35 Domingo F. Sarmiento, “Civilization and Barbarism”
18.36 José Fernández, El Gaucho Martín Fierro
18.37 José Martí, "Our America"
18.38 W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk, "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others"
18.39 The Treaty of Nanjing, 1842
18.40 Russo-Japanese War: Imperial Rescript, 1904
18.41 Qianlong emperor, letter to George III
18.42 Long Yu, The Abdication Decree, 1912
18.43 Lin Zexu, Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839
18.44 Lafcadio Hearn on Japanese Geisha: from Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
18.45 José Rizal, excerpt from The Reign of Greed
18.46 Feng Guifen on Western strength
18.47 Emperor Meiji, The Constitution of the Empire of Japan
18.48 Edward D. Morel, The Black Man's Burden
18.49 An Ottoman Government Decree Defines the Official Notion of the “Modern” Citizen,
June 19, 1870
18.50 José Rizal, Noli me Tangere (The Social Cancer)
18.51 Multatuli, Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
18.52 Orishatuke Faduma, "African Negro Education," 1918
18.53 Letter of Phan Chu Trinh to the French Governor-General, 1906
18.54 Nguyen Van Vinh’s View of the Vietnamese, 1913
18.55 The Views of Ii Naosuke, 1853
18.56 Perry's Views of Japanese
18.57 The Views of Tokugawa Nariaki, 1841
18.58 Japanese impressions of American culture, 1860.
18.59 Japan: The Imperial Rescript on Education, 1890
18.60 William Hunter, "Description of European Factories in Guangzhou"
18.61 China: Rules Regulating Foreign Trading in Guangzhou
18.62 "An Appeal to the Members of the Imperial Parliament and Public of Great Britain,"
petition from the South African Native National Congress, 1914
18.63 Al-Afghani on faith and reason, 1883
18.64 Arthur James Balfour, "Problems with Which We Have to Deal in Egypt," 1910
18.65 Woodrow Wilson, "Speech on the Fourteen Points"
18.66 Joseph Conrad, "An Outpost of Progress,” 1898
18.67 Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
18.68 Huda Shaarawi, "Europe on the Eve of War" (Egypt), 1914
18.69 Ho Chi Minh, "Equality!"
18.70 The Iranian and Turkish Constitutional Revolutions of 1906 and (1876) 1908
18.71 China: Questions and Topics of the 1903-1904 Jinshi Degree Examination
18.72 Kartini, Letters of a Javanese Princess (Dutch East IndiesJava) 1899-1904
18.73 Sayyid Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Lecture on Teaching and Learning
18.74 China: Hu Jintao, A "Harmonious Society," 2006
*Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness (Penguin, 1999). 160 pp.
The dark side of imperialism in the Belgian Congo.
Hutchinson, John, and Anthony Smith, eds., Nationalism (Oxford, 1995). 378 pp.
A collection of well-chosen essays on the topic, written between the 1880s and 1990s.
*Tocqueville, Alexis de, Democracy in America (Signet, 2001). 320 pp.
The account of a young Frenchman’s visit to America in 1831; a classic text on the young
nation.
UNIT SIX:
EXPLODING TECHNOLOGIES
1914–1991
CHAPTER 19
METHODS OF MASS PRODUCTION AND DESTRUCTION
Technological Systems, 1914–37
Chapter 19 Overview:
 The transformation of the Western world, thanks to the increasing pace of invention.
 The application of that technology to war between industrialized powers in the First
World War.

The devastation of the non-industrialized world, as the economies of large parts of
the world was destroyed by the industrialized nations.
(5 Days)
1. Science and technological creativity (pp. 650–653), Progress (pp. 653–654), Outside Europe
(pp. 654–661)
2. World War I, 1914–18 (pp. 662–666)
3. Postwar (pp. 666–671)
4. Russian Revolution, 1917 (pp. 671–678)
5. Post-war U.S. (678–682)
Chapter 19 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
The World: 1900 (pp. 110-111)
Movements against Colonial rule 1880–1920 (p. 114)
World War I (pp. 116-117)
Russian Revolution (p. 118)
Europe During the Great Depression (p. 119)
Websites
The Great Idea Finder. http://www.ideafinder.com/home.htm
A fascinating gateway page to a vast number of resources about inventors and inventions.
Internet Resources on the History of China.
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/china-history.html
Links to Internet resources on all periods of Chinese history.
The Roaring 20s and the Great Depression. http://www.snowcrest.net/jmike/20sdep.html
A large number of topically-listed links on the 1920s and the Depression in the United States.
Russian Revolution Resources. http://www.historyguide.org/europe/rusrev_links.html
Some good web pages on revolutionary Russia, as well as writings of Lenin and Trotsky.
World War I: “The Great War.” http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/WWI.html
An award-winning educational site with many resources on all aspects of WWI.
Videos
Between the Wars: The Economic Seeds of World War II, Films for the Humanities & Sciences
[DVD or video; 24 minutes, color]
Focusing on Europe, this short film focuses on the dramatic effects of the Depression in
Europe and the new political leaders who arose in this time of crisis.
Blood and Iron, MPI Video [3 videos; 180 minutes, color and B&W]
This series focuses on the rise of German science and technology during the Industrial
Revolution, with emphasis on the armaments industry. It then examines the use of that
technology in German colonial expansion and the two world wars.
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, PBS Home Video [4 videos; 480 minutes;
B&W and color]
An in-depth look at World War I, with contemporary photos and film and examination of the
impact of this first “total war” on European politics and society.
Mahatma Gandhi: The Great Soul Lives, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 60
minutes, color]
A biography of Gandhi that tries to catch his spirituality and philosophy as he led India to
independence.
Science and Technology—100 Years of Progress, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [video; 42
minutes, color]
A film that examines the impact of modern technology in both positive and negative terms.
Stalin: The Red God, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 62 minutes, color]
A provocative and disturbing film that focuses on how Stalin elevated communism to the
level of a state religion.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
19.1 Francisco García Calderón, excerpt from Latin America: Its Rise and Progress
19.2 Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One's Own (Great Britain), 1929
19.3 The Covenant of the League of Nations
19.4 The Balfour Declaration
19.5 Soldiers' Accounts of Battle
19.6 Sir Henry McMahon: Letter to Ali Ibn Husain
19.7 Roupen of Sassoun, Eyewitness to Armenia's Genocide
19.8 François Carlotti, from "World War I: A Frenchman's Recollections"
19.9 Erich Maria Remarque, excerpt from All Quiet on the Western Front
19.10 British Soldiers on the Battle of the Somme
19.11 John Scott: Behind the Urals
19.12 John Maynard Keynes, passage from The End of Laissez-Faire
19.13 The Bolshevik Seizure of Power (November-December 1917)
19.14 Mussolini Heaps Contempt on Political Liberalism, 1923
19.15 Werner Heisenberg, "Uncertainty" (Germany), 1927
19.16 Jiang Jieshi on the Chinese Communist Party and Japan, 1933
19.17 Korea: Suffering Japanese Torture, 1934
19.18 Sino-Japanese War: Burning Alive a Chinese Collaborator, 1941
19.19 Sofia Pavlova, "Taking Advantage of New Opportunities" (Russia) 1920s
19.20 Irina Ivanovna Kniazeva, "A Life in a Peasant Village" (USSR) 1917-1930s
Gandhi, Mohandas K., The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and
Ideas (Vintage, 2002). 368 pp.
Gandhi, the spiritual force behind the Indian independence movement, gives in these
writings an excellent look at the hardships India suffered in the early twentieth century.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, Essential Works of Lenin: “What Is to Be Done?” and Other Writings
(Dover, 1987). 372 pp.
A good collection of works by the leader of the Russian Revolution.
Remarque, Erich Marie, All Quiet on the Western Front (Ballantine, 1987). 304 pp.
A powerful and chilling look at the psychological devastation of the first world war.
*Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin, 2002). 414 pp.
First published in 1939, this is a moving recreation of the hardships and inhumanities of the
American Dust Bowl migrations of the 1930s.
CHAPTER 20
WORLD WAR II
To Hell and Back, 1937–1949
(7 Days)
1. General sense of coming disaster (pp. 685–686), Contest of fascism and communism (pp.
686–694)
2. Path to world war (pp. 694–701)
3. World War II (pp. 698–706)
4. Results of WWII (pp. 706–711)
5. Image of humanity (pp. 711–715), Post-war recovery (pp. 715–720), Start of the Cold War
(pp. 720-721)
6. Multiple Choice Exam Chapters 19 and 20
7. FRQ/DBQ
Chapter 20 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Japanese Modernization (p. 115)
World War II (pp. 120-121)
Websites
A-Bomb WWW Museum. http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html
A Japanese site, giving the story of the first atomic bombs from a Japanese perspective. The
site also presents information from the Nagasaki and Hiroshima museums.
Cold War Hot Links. http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war.html
An interesting collection of Cold War resources.
Internet Resources for Jewish Studies. http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/jew/internet.htm
An interesting collection of resources on all aspects of Jewish life and culture, including antiSemitism and the Holocaust.
The Nizkor Project. http://www.nizkor.org/
The Hebrew word “nizkor” means “we will remember.” This site presents overwhelming
documentation of the Holocaust to counter claims that it never happened.
U.S. Holocaust Museum. http://www.ushmm.org/
An account of the Holocaust, listing of exhibits, and access to other sources of information
about the Holocaust.
World War II on the Web. http://www.donet.com/~mconrad/
Over 800 links to information about the war, including an Internet museum.
Videos
The Fatal Attraction of Adolf Hitler, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 90
minutes, color]
An in-depth examination of Hitler’s personality and leadership style.
The Genocide Factor, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 4-part, 57 minutes
each, color]
This film series presents such disturbing material that the distributor recommends viewer
discretion; in four episodes, genocide is traced from biblical times to the present day. Part 2
looks at genocide in the first half of the twentieth century.
Judaism: Kristallnacht and the Birth of Israel, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or
video; 51 minutes, color]
Focusing on two days—the first massive attack on Jews in Nazi Germany and the day Israel
declared its statehood—this film powerfully presents the great redefinition of Jewishness of
the first half of the twentieth century.
The World at War, Thames Television [9 videos; 26 hours, color and B&W]
A massive documentary of WWII, ranging from the rise of Hitler in 1933 to a post-war
epilogue.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
20.1 Nadezhda Mandelstam, excerpt from Hope Against Hope: A Memoir
20.2 Nadezhda K. Krupskaya on Communism
20.3 Chicago Commission on Race Relations, The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations
and a Race Riot
20.4 Benito Mussolini, from "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"
20.5 Adolf Hitler, excerpt from Mein Kampf
20.6 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, "Speech to the Nazi Women's Organization" (Germany), 1935
20.7 Kita Ikki, Outline for the Reconstruction of Japan
20.8 Japanese Total War Research Institute, Plan for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere, 1942
20.9 Japan: The New Order in East Asia, 1940
20.10 Transcript of the Rape of Nanjing Sentencing, 1947
20.11 The Charter of the United Nations, 1945
20.12 Roosevelt and Churchill: The Atlantic Charter, 1941
20.13 Lindsey Parrot, "Tojo Makes Plea of Self Defense"
20.14 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms, 1941
20.15 American Investigators, from The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
20.16 Adolf Hitler, The Obersalzberg Speech, 1939
20.17 A. Philip Randolph, A Call to March on Washington, 1941
20.18 Winston Churchill, "Their Finest Hour" (Great Britain), 1940
Camus, Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Vintage, 1991). 224 pp.
A classic statement of twentieth-century despair.
*Chang, Iris, The Rape of Nanking (Penguin, 1998). 304 pp.
A modern study of the Japanese devastation of Nanking (Nanjing) in 1937–38, based on
interviews with survivors and documents.
Hemingway, Ernest, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner, 1995). 480 pp.
One of the most powerful novels ever written about war, Hemingway based this book on the
Spanish civil war on his own experience as a journalist covering the event.
Hitler, Adolf, Mein Kampf (Mariner Books, 1998). 720 pp.
Nokes, Jeremy, ed., Nazism 1919–1945: A Documentary Reader (University of Exeter Press,
1998). 640 pp.
Wiesel, Elie, After the Darkness: Reflection on the Holocaust (Schocken, 2002). 48 pp.
Wiesel’s first book, Night, tells of his experience in a Nazi concentration camp. After the
Darkness, first published in 2002, is a return to the subject after 50 years.
CHAPTER 21
COLD WAR, NEW NATIONS, AND
REVOLT AGAINST AUTHORITY
Remaking the Post-World War II World
1945–1991
(3 Days)
1. Cold War, 1945–89 (pp. 725–738), Creation of new nations (pp. 739–748)
2. “Third World” (pp. 748–751), The End of the Cold War: The Soviet Union Dissolves (pp.
752–755)
3. Pursuit of peace by United Nations (pp. 755–756), Population explosion (pp. 757–761),
NGOs and Trans-nationals (pp. 761–763)
Chapter 21 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
The Cold War (p. 122)
Decolonization of Africa (p. 123)
The Palestinian Problem (p. 125)
Decolonization of South and Southeast Asia (p. 124)
Political Change in South America since 1930 (p. 127)
Websites
Cold War Hot Links. http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war.html
A nice collection of Internet resources on the Cold War.
Imperialism. http://www.casahistoria.net/imperialism.htm
A gateway page to information about imperialism and decolonization around the world.
Imperialism Resources.
http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Classes/Social_Science/Imperialism/Imperialism.html
Links to information on imperialism and anti-imperial movements in Africa and Asia.
Israel. http://www.fastload.org/is/Israel.html
History of the modern state.
The Korean War. http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/koreawar.html
An annotated list of Internet resources.
The U.S.A. and Latin America. http://www.casahistoria.net/uslatam.htm
Links to information about U.S. interventions.
Videos
DEFCON 2: Cuban Missile Crisis, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 52
minutes, color]
DEFCON 2 is the level of military alert one stage short of war—the state the U.S. army
reached during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This film includes recently declassified audio tapes
of Kennedy, secret film and photos, and dramatizations of the events.
The Demise of Western Communism: Fall of a Giant, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD
or video; 24 minutes, color]
The Cold War and the downfall of the Soviet Union.
The Evolution of Chile: Prosperity for Some, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video;
29 minutes, color]
This program uses Chile as a case study to examine the problems facing Third World nations.
Inside the Cold War, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 2-part series, c. 50
minutes each, color]
This documentary, narrated by David Frost, gives an even-handed look at the Cold War,
including Soviet and U.S. manipulations in the Middle East and Latin America.
Palestine: 1890–1990, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 35 minutes, color]
This program shows the history of the region from the beginning of Zionism to 1993.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
21.1 Léopold Senghor on Negritude, 1937 and 1964
21.2 Constancia de la Mora, from In Place of Splendor (Spain), 1939
21.3 Mohandas Gandhi, "Civilization," 1923
21.4 Summary of Orders (For Martial Law in the Districts of Lahore and Amritsar, India)
21.5 Resolution Establishing the Viet Minh, 1941
21.6 Truong Nhu Tang, "Myth of a Liberation"
21.7 The United Nations, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
21.8 Sir Winston Churchill: An Iron Curtain Has Descended (1946)
21.9 Nikita Krushchev, Speech to the twenty-second Congress of the Communist Party, 1962
21.10 Ladies Home Journal, "Young Mother," 1956
21.11 Juan Perón, excerpt from The Voice of Perón
21.12 Joseph Stalin: The Soviet Victory: Capitalism vs. Communism (1946)
21.13 John F. Kennedy, Address Before the General Assembly of the United Nations, 1961
21.14 James F. Schnabel, from United States Army in the Korean War
21.15 James B. Stockdale, excerpt from A Vietnam Experience: Ten Years of Reflection
21.16 Henry A. Myers, "East Berliners Rise Up Against Soviet Oppression"
21.17 Harry S Truman, The Truman Doctrine, 1947
21.18 George F. Kennan, "Long Telegram," 1946
21.19 George C. Marshall, The Marshall Plan, 1947
21.20 General Douglas MacArthur, "Old Soldiers Never Die," 1951
21.21 Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh’s Last Will and Testament
21.22 Fidel Castro, History Will Absolve Me, 1953
21.23 Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring
21.24 Sayyid Qutb, from Milestones, 1964
21.25 Kwame Nkrumah, from I Speak of Freedom: A Statement of African Ideology
21.26 Jomo Kenyatta, from Facing Mt. Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu
21.27 Israel's Proclamation of Independence, 1948
21.28 Frantz Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth
21.29 Mohandas Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa
21.30 Nnamdi Azikiwe on imperialism
21.31 Ho Chi Minh, "Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam"
(Vietnam) 1945
21.32 Gamal Abdel Nasser, Speech on the Suez Canal (Egypt), 1956
21.33 National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose, 1966
21.34 Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail, 1963
21.35 China: A Farmer’s Prespective, 2002
*Akhmatova, Anna, Selected Poems (Penguin, 1992). 160 pp.
Acclaimed as perhaps the finest woman poet in all Western culture, Akhmatova (1889–1966)
movingly portrays the horrors of Stalin’s dictatorship.
Le Carré, John, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (Scribner, 2001). 224 pp.
This is perhaps the best spy story ever written, the tale of a British agent in early Cold War Berlin.
Menchu, Rigoberta, I Rigoberta Menchu (Verso, 1987). 242 pp.
The story of a Guatemalan Maya, narrated to an anthropologist.
*Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet, 1998). 160 pp.
Life in a Soviet work camp in Siberia.
CHAPTER 22
CHINA AND INDIA
Into the Twenty-First Century
(6 Days)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Common features (p. 767-768), China between revolutions (pp. 769–773)
Communist triumph in China (pp. 773–775), Chinese revolutionary policies (pp. 775–782)
India: fight for independence (pp. 782–792)
Problems of the Indian state (pp. 792–796), Economic and technological change in India
(pp. 795–797)
5. Multiple Choice Exam Chapters 21 and 22.
6. FRQ/DBQ
Chapter 22 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Decolonization of South and Southeast Asia (p. 124)
Tiger Economies and Chinese Development (p. 128)
Chinese Expansion Since 1949 (p. 129)
Websites
China in the 20th Century. http://www.kings.edu/history/20c/china.html
Information about both the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.
The Chinese Human Rights Web. http://www.chinesehumanrightsreader.org/
Links to human rights issues, with special focus on China.
India WWW Virtual Library. http://www.webhead.com/wwwvl/india/
This is a site devoted to modern Indian history and culture.
Mahatma Gandhi Album. http://www.kamat.com/mmgandhi/links.htm
An interesting collection of materials on Gandhi, including a photo gallery.
Videos
Biography—Mao Tse-tung, A & E Home Video [video; 50 minutes, color and B&W]
The life and political career of Mao from the creation of the Chinese Communist Part until his
death.
Caste at Birth, Filmmakers Library, 1991 [video; 52 minutes]
This prize-winning film exposes the continuing oppression of the untouchables of India.
China after Mao, History Channel Videos [video; 50 minutes, color]
A survey of the enormous changes in China under Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin.
The Cultural Revolution: Mao’s Last Battle, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video;
2-parts, 52 minutes each, color]
An intense look at the origins and costs of the Cultural Revolution in China.
The Dynasty: The Nehru-Gandhi Story, PBS Home Video [2 videos; 180 minutes, color and
B&W]
A documentary study of the influence of India’s “ruling dynasty” from the 1930s to the 1990s.
Eqbal Ahmad and the Partitioning of India, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [video; color]
The story of the 1947 partition of India, told by the Pakistani historian Eqbal Ahmad, who
lived through the turmoil.
Mahatma Gandhi—The Great Soul Lives, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [video; 60
minutes, color and B&W]
A documentary study of Gandhi’s life and impact, using vintage film footage, interviews,
and Gandhi’s own writings.
Mme. Chiang Kai-shek: A Legendary Life, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 2parts, 48 and 52 minutes, color]
An interesting approach to the Guomindang and the creation of the state of Taiwan.
Women in China, SVT/Filmmakers Library [2 videos; 100 minutes, color]
Conditions of women in modern China, with a look at four very different regions of China.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
22.1 Amrita Lal Roy, English Rule in India, 1886
22.2 Dadabhai Naoroji, The Benefits of British Rule in India, 1871
22.3 Mao Zedong, "Jian Jieshi is China's Number One War Criminal," 1949
22.4 Mao Zedong, "From the Countryside to the City," 1949
22.5 Mao Zedong, "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire," 1953
22.6 Liu Shaoqi, "How to Be a Good Communist," 1939
22.7 Chinese peasants attack a local despot, 1948
22.8 Mohandas Gandhi, from Hind Swaraj
22.9 Jawaharlal Nehru, from The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru
22.10 China: Cultural Revolution Violence at Qinghua University, 1968
Anand, Mulk Raj, Untouchable (Penguin, 1990). 160 pp.
Anand, acclaimed as the Charles Dickens of India, has produced an embittered masterpiece
about the lives of the untouchables of India.
Chang, Pei-kei et al., eds., The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection (Norton,
1999). 450 pp.
Published as a companion to Jonathan Spence’s history of modern China, this is an excellent
assortment of primary documents.
Gandhi, Mohandas K., An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Beacon,
1993). 528 pp.
More a series of reflections than a conventional autobiography, this work gives a rare insight
into twentieth-century India and its problems.
Mao Zedong, On Guerrilla Warfare (University of Illinois Press, 2000). 114 pp.
Perhaps the most fascinating work of the revolutionary leader.
Mehta, Suketu, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Knopf, 2004). 560 pp.
Written by a native of Bombay, this is an exposé of the interracial tensions and crime of the
world’s largest city.
Pa Chin, Li Fei-kan, Family (Waveland, 1989). 329 pp.
The work of Pa Chin (or Ba Jinn) is among the most durable to come from post-revolutionary
China. This book, written in 1931, explores the clash of traditional and modern values in a
Chinese family.
UNIT SEVEN:
THE USEFULNESS OF HISTORY
Understanding the Present in the Light of the Past
CHAPTER 23
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
EVOLUTION, SETTLEMENTS, POLITICS, AND RELIGION
1. On Evolution (pp. 807-812), On Settlements (pp. 812-818)
2. The United States Stands Alone (pp. 818–831)
3. Religious and cultural identities (pp. 831–845)
Chapter 23 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Communism and the E.U. (p. 130)
The Pan-Islamic World (p. 131)
The Modern World (pp. 134-135)
Websites
Best Environmental Directories. http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/cds.html
A very thorough collection of Internet resources on the environment and ecological activism.
Globalization Issues. http://globalization.about.com/
An interesting source of information about globalization, including regularly-updated news
stories on the subject.
Religious Fundamentalism. http://www.factnet.org/Religious_Fundamentalism.html
A balanced collection of Internet resources on the issue in Christianity and Islam.
Russian History e-Resources Links. http://www.uea.ac.uk/his/webcours/russia/links/
A comprehensive site, with a good collection of links to modern Russian issues.
Terrorism: Selected Internet Resources.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/hispanic/terrorism/terrorism.html
Information about terrorism all over the modern world.
World Trade Organization. http://www.wto.org/
The official WTO website.
Videos
The Age of Terror: A Survey of Modern Terrorism, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or
video; 4-part series, 48 minutes each, color]
A terrifying look at terrorism around the world, including terror in independence
movements, radical political movements, Islamic holy war, and government-sponsored
terrorism.
The Battle for Souls: Nigeria, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 46 minutes, color]
The spread of Christianity in the developing world, focusing on the case of Nigeria and
showing the growing tension and violence between Muslims and Christians.
Faultlines: The Search for Political and Religious Links, Films for the Humanities & Sciences
[DVD or video; 6-part series, 37 minutes each, color
An exploration of the volatile relationship between religion and politics in modern Israel,
Iran, Russia, India, Brazil, and the United States.
Iran and Iraq, History Channel Video [video; 50 minutes, color]
A history of the conflict between the two nations, narrated by Mike Wallace
Islamic Fundamentalism and Democracy, Filmmakers Library [video; 57 minutes, color]
An exploration of the deep divide that lies behind democratic ideology and Islamic
fundamentalism, based on interviews with Muslim religious and political leaders.
The Islamic Wave, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [video; 48 minutes, color]
This film explores the rapid pace of conversion to Islam in recent years and its global effects;
there is also a discussion of Muslim extremism.
The Silent Killer: AIDS in South Africa, SVT/Filmmakers Library [video; 52 minutes, color]
A Swedish Television production that explores the massive HIV epidemic in South Africa
through interviews with those infected and those trying to deal with the problem.
Soviet Disunion: Ten Years that Shook the World, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or
video; 57 minutes, color]
A dark picture of Russian history since the introduction of glasnost and perestroika.
Women in the Arab World, A TV/DITS Production/Filmmakers Library [3 videos; 75 minutes,
color]
The lives of three nontraditional Arab women (in Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco), showing the
diversity of women’s experiences in the Islamic world.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
23.1 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, 1988
23.2 Abu'l 'Ala Mawdudi on the Scope and Purpose of the Islamic State, 1903-1979
23.3 Osama bin Laden, World Islamic Front Statement, 1998
23.4 Excerpt from the 9/11 Commission Report
23.5 Addresses by George W. Bush. 2001: (a) from Address to the Nation, September 11; (b)
from Address to the Nation, November 8; (c) from Address to the United Nations, November
10
*Delillo, Don, White Noise (Penguin, 1999). 320 pp.
A major modern novel, this is the story of a family in Middle America ravaged by an
industrial accident, in the broader context of the numbing effects of technology.
Fukuyama, Francis, The End of History and the Last Man (Perrenial, 1993). 448 pp.
An influential work of political philosophy, arguing the inevitability of capitalist liberal
democracies around the world.
Gardels, Nathan P., ed., At Century’s End: Great Minds Reflect on Our Times (Alti, 1996). 309 pp.
A collection of 30 essays by and interviews with noted world leaders.
Ritzer, George, The McDonaldization of Society (Pineforge Press, 2004). 328 pp.
A work of scathing social criticism about the ironing out of social differences with
globalization.
CHAPTER 24
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY:
TRADE, SOCIAL REVOLUTION, TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY
(5 Days)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
On Trade (pp. 849–859)
On Social Revolution (pp. 859–883)
On Technology (pp. 883-886)
Multiple Choice Exam Chapters 23 and 24
FRQ/DBQ
Chapter 24 Primary Sources:
Maps in Prentice Hall World Atlas
Political Change in South America Since 1930 (p. 127)
The Collapse of Communism and the E.U. (p. 130)
The Modern World (pp. 134-135)
Websites
African Studies Center. http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/Country.html
A large collection of resources on Africa, arranged by country.
European Union Internet Resources. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/gov_eu.html
Access to E.U. documents and other information.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Internet Resources.
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/mideast/me_palestine.htm
Maintained by Duke University, this site provides up-to-date information as well as historical
context.
Latin American Network Information Center. http://lanic.utexas.edu/las.html
The leading gateway page to information about all aspects of Latin American history and
culture.
See also the websites listed for Chapters 22 and 23.
Videos
Americas, Annenberg CPB Videos, WGBH Boston, 1993 [10 videos; 10 hours, color]
All aspects of recent Latin American society and culture.
Archbishop Tutu and the Rainbow Nation, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [video; color]
Through the lens of a typical day in the life of Desmond Tutu in South Africa, this program
explores the question of whether multiculturalism can survive in the post-apartheid state.
Colombia’s Guerrilla War: A Sundered Nation, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [video; 52
minutes, color]
A vivid picture of the ethnic, social, and economic problems that divide much of Latin
America.
The Continent that Overslept, Danmarks Radio/Filmmakers Library [video; 58 minutes, color]
This award-winning film investigates the reasons for Africa’s economic underdevelopment,
presenting the argument that Africans must stop blaming colonialism and take action
themselves.
Mandela: The Living Legend, Films for the Humanities & Sciences [DVD or video; 2-part, 50
minutes each, color]
A recent two-part biography of Nelson Mandela.
Rwanda: History of a Genocide, Robert Genoud/Filmmakers Library [video; 52 minutes, color]
A documentary tracing the origins and course of the 1994 genocide.
South Africa: Forging a Democratic Union, 1994 [video; 28 minutes, color]
The struggle against apartheid.
See also the films listed for Chapters 22 and 23.
Additional Primary Sources
Documents in Global History DVD
24.1 Vietnamese National Anthem, 1946
24.2 Vaclav Havel, "The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World"
24.3 The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,
Article Two
24.4 Saddam Hussein's Invasion of Kuwait: (a) Saddam Hussein, "Victory Day" Speech; (b)
Bishara A. Bahbah, "The Crisis in the Gulf: Why Iran Invaded Kuwait"
24.5 Pope John Paul II, from Centesimus Annus
24.6 Nelson Mandela, excerpt from Freedom, Justice and Dignity for All South Africa: Statements
and Articles by Mr. Nelson Mandela
24.7 Nelson Mandela, Closing Address at the 13th International AIDS Conference, July 2000
24.8 Keith B. Richburg, excerpt from Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa
24.9 Helmut Kohl, Speech to the American Council on Germany, 1990
24.10 François Mitterrand, Speech to the United Nations, 1990
24.11 Deng Xiaoping, on introducing capitalist principles to China
24.12 Alain Destexhe, excerpt from Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century
24.13 Aimé Césaire, from Return to My Native Land
24.15 Famine in North Korea, 2002
24.16 European criticism of American environmental policies, 2007
24.17 Zlata Filipovi, from Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo (Bosnia) 1992
24.18 Treaty on European Union, 1992
24.19 Jörg Haider, from The Freedom I Mean (Austria), 1995
24.20 Justin Vaïsse, from "Veiled Meaning" (France) 2004
24.21 Statement from Chancellor Schröder on the Iraq Crisis (2003)
AP EXAMINATION PREPARATION
April 28 – May 14
(WILL INCLUDE SESSIONS AFTER SCHOOL)
AP EXAM ~ Thursday, May 15
Morning Session: 8 AM
Non-Negotiable Expectations:
1) Be respectful of all students and teachers. You may disagree, but do so
respectfully.
2) Be engaged and participate every day.
3) No use of cell phones, mp3 players, or other electronic devices during
class time unless so instructed by the teacher.
4) Other than during first block, no eating or drinking is permitted in class.
Water in a bottle or other sealable container is acceptable.
5) Be present and on time with all materials and assignments.
6) Do your best work every day. Your best and only your best will suffice.
7) Abide by all school and district rules.
Cheating/Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is defined as the unauthorized use of the language or thoughts of
another author and the representation of them as one’s own. In the interests of
teaching personal and academic integrity, such behavior will not be tolerated.
If a student is found to be engaging in cheating or plagiarism the student will
automatically receive no credit for the particular work in question.
Additionally the student will be subject to additional disciplinary measures,
subject to SHS and school district policies.
Extra Help:
Extra help will always be available upon request. If you have questions, you
may email me at mmoynihan@ci.stamford.ct.us. I check email daily, so I can
respond back to you within one business day.