Course Outline of Lecture and Reading Topics Reading in Textbook

I. Cultures & Civilizations at c. 1000 Heritage, 2

A. Global Geograhy

B. Five Great Eurasian-African Traditions

(Confucianism, Hinduism, Hellenism, Christianity, Islam)

C. Civilization, political control, & organizing production

D. Material culture and modernization

II. China & Confucian Civilization, 1000-1800 Heritage, 8 & 20(546-557)

A. The Tradition Continued under the Sung & Yuan Dynasties

B. Neo-Confucianism in China: Chu Hsi (d. 1200)

C. Chinese Arts & Literature

D. The Ming Monarchy,1368-1644

E. Economic Growth, expansion & changing foreign policy

III. Japanese Culture and History to 1800 Heritage, 920 & 20 (558-574)

A. Decline of the Yamato Universal Monarchy: Feudalism

B. Warring States Era & the Establishment of the Bakufu

C. Tokugawa Uses of Neo-Confucianism, Shinto, & Trade

D. Arts and Literature in Tokugawa Japan

IV. Islamic civilization and the Moslem world Heritage, 14 & 23

A. Religious Community & Political Division, 1000-1800

B. Moslem Science and Mathematics

C. Turkish & Mongol Invasions & their Global Impacts

D. North & Sub-Saharan Africa under Islam

E. Islamic Arts and Architecture

F. Origins & Consolodiation of the Ottoman Empire

G. Rise of the Safavid Empire in Mesopotamia

V. Indian Civilization, 1000 to 1800 Heritage, 14 (387-394) & 23(648-655)

A. Hinduism, Repblics & Monarchies, c. 1000

B. Origins & Nature of the Mughal Empire

C. Politics, Life, & Trade from Akbar to Awrangzeb

D. Arts & Literature in India

VI. Late Medieval Europe: Its Heritage Heritage, 13

A. Traditional Western Europe

B. Commercial 'Revolution' of c. 1000 to 1300;

Bi-Polar World-Economy

C. Rise of the Papal Monarchy after 1000

D. Beginnings of Territorial State-building

E. Late Medieval Arts & Literature

VII. Age of the Renaissance & Reformation, c. 1300 to 1620 Heritage, 16 & 17

A. Economic Decline & the Bubonic Plague

B. Renaissance humanism

B. Humanism and science-technology

C. Protestant & Catholic Reformations

D. Humanist & Reformation Literature & Arts

E. Humanism, the Reformations, & Science/Technology

F. Consolidation of the Sovereign, Territorial State

VIII. Western European Imperialism (Colonialism) Heritage, 18 & 19

& Non-European Peoples

A. Sixteenth-Century World Market: Capitalis & sustained

economic growth

B. Motives for Global Exploration & Imperialism

C. Portuguese Beginnings & Achievements;

Impacts on Africa & Asia

D. Spanish Explorations, Conquests, & Colonial Empire in the Americas

E. French, Dutch & English Imperialism & Non-Western Peoples

IX. Attempts to Perfect the modern state; 1600 - 1800 Heritage, 21

A. Constitutionalism: the English model

B. Absolution: the French model

C. Baroque & Rococo Arts & Literature

X. Rise of the Newtonian World View & Its Denouement Heritage, 24

A. Origins of Newtonianism; the Scientific Revolution

B. The Enlightenment; Newtonianism & Natural Rights

C. Les Philosophes on political reform; Locke to Montesquieu

D. Les Philosophes on economics; Liberals & Physiocrats

XI. The French Revolution and Its Global Importance ">Heritage, 25

A. The background to the French Revolution; the ancien regime

B. Privileged and bourgeois phases of the revolution

C. The Reign of Terror and Virtue

D. Napoleon & the spread of the revolution across Eurasia-Africa

XII. Global Impact of Western Colonialism & Capitalism by 1800