In this class, we will cover history (shocking!) Our main theme will be that history is relevant and that we can pull lessons from history and apply them to our lives today. Since this is a world history course, this will be the overall outline of the material covered:
- Ancient Mesopotamia
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Empires-Assyria, Babylon, and Persia
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Ancient Asia-China
- The Middle Ages
- The Renaissance and Enlightenment
- The Founding of the New World
- The United States (1776-1900)
- Industrialization
- Imperialistic Europe
- Japan until the US Arrival
- Causes of the First World War
- World War I
- Between the Wars-the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression
- World War II
- Cold War
- Globalization