How do modern human rights expand between the 1700s and 1900s?
2. What does government do for their people and what rights and responsibilities do
the subjects of these governments have?
3. Evolution and expansion of rights from 1500 to present: religion; speech; suffrage;
privacy; equality.
4. Empires and their effects.
5. World War One as a dividing line between historical epochs
6. Looking at the global economy through a regional focus: Africa; South and Central
America; China; India; North America; Russia.
7. The global position of women.
8. Christianity and Islam in recent history.
9. Most historically significant technologies.