Mrs. Humphreys

Honors World History Course Syllabus

Maritime Expansion in the Atlantic World, 1400-1600  (Chapter 15) 

     A.  The Aztec Empire of Mexico

     B.   The Inca Empire

     C.  Intellectual and Geographic Expansion in Europe

     D.  The Spanish and Portuguese Conquest of Mexico, Peru, and Brazil

     E.   The Columbian Exchange

Maritime Expansion in Afro-Eurasia, 1500-1700   (Chapter 16)

      A.  Maritime Trade Connections:  Europe, the Indian Ocean and Africa 1500-1660

      B.  The Politics of Empire in Southern and Eastern Asia 1500-1660

      C.  Eurasian Intellectual and Religious Encounters  1500-1620

 Religion, Politics, Balance of Power in Western Eurasia, 1500-1750  (Chapter 17)

      A.  Land Empires of Western Eurasia and North Africa, 1500-1685

      B.  Struggle for Stability in Western Europe

      C.  Shifting Balance of Power in Western Eurasia and the Mediterranean

Empires, Colonies, and Peoples of the Americas, 1600-1750  (Chapter 18)

       A.  Spanish Empire in the Americas, 1600-1700

       B.  Brazil, the Dutch, New France, and England’s Mainland Colonies

       C.  Connections and Comparisons Across the Colonial Americas

The Atlantic System:  Africa, the Americas, and Europe, 1550-1807 (Chapter 19)

       A. African History and Afro-Eurasian Connections

       B.  Africa and the Americas:  The Plantation Complex

       C.  Europe and the Atlantic World

       D.  Abolition of the British Slave Trade

Empires in Early Modern Asia 1650-1800 (Chapter 20)

    A.  Qing Dynasty

    B.  Russian Empire

    C.  Indian to British Rule

    D.  Tokugawa Japan

Revolutions in the West, 1750-1830 (Chapter 22)

       A.  The American Revolution

       B.  The French Revolution

       D.  The Latin American Wars of Independence

       E.  Reform and Reaction in Latin America (Chapter 25 only p. 733)

Opium Wars, Taiping Rebellion, Boxer Rebellion   (Chapter 24)

War, Revolution and Global Uncertainty, 1905-1928 (Chapter 27)

        A.  World War I-“Total War”

        B.  Postwar Settlements

        C.  Early 20^th Century Revolutions

              1.  Mexico

              2.  China

              3.  Russia

 Responses to Global Crisis, 1920-1939  (Chapter 28)

       A.  The Great Depression

       B.  Fascism, Communism and Authoritarianism

       C.  The Road to War

World War II and the Origins of the Cold War (Chapter 29)

     A.  World War II Battlefields

     B.  Total War and Civilian Life

     C.  The Origins of the Cold War