Unit 1. Introduction to World History
Unit 2. Introduction of Early Societies.
Unit 3. From the Beginning of Time
Focus : Africa, Europe till 15000 BC
- Views on the origin of human beings.
- Early societies.
- Historians' views on present-day hunting-gathering societies.
Unit 4. Early Cities
Focus : Iraq, 3rd millennium BC
- Growth of towns.
- Nature of early urban societies.
- Historians' Debate on uses of writing
Unit 5. Introduction of Empires
Unit 6. An Empire across Three Continents
Focus: Roman Empire, 27 B.C to A.D 600.
- Political evolution
- Economic expansion
- Late Antiquity.
- Historians' views on the institution of Slavery.
Unit 7. Central Islamic Lands
Focus: 7th to 12th centuries
- Historians' viewpoints on the nature of the crusades.
Unit 8. Nomadic Empires
Focus: The Mongol, 13th to 14th century
- The nature of nomadism.
- ormation of empires.
- Conquests and relations with other states.
- Historians' views on nomadic societies and state formation.
Unit 9. Introduction of Changing Traditions
Unit 10. Three Orders
Focus: Western Europe, 13th-16th century
- Feudal society and economy.
- Formation of states.
- Church and Society.
- Historians' views on decline of feudalism.
Unit 11. Changing Cultural Traditions
Focus on Europe, 14th to 17th century
- New ideas, and new trends in literature and arts.
- Relationship with earlier ideas
- The contribution of West Asia.
- Historians' viewpoints on the validity of the notion 'European Renaissance'.
Unit 12. Confrontation of Cultures
Focus on America, 15th to 18th century
- European voyages of exploration.
- Search for gold; enslavement, raids, extermination.
- Indigenous people and cultures - the Arawaks, the Aztecs, the Incas.
- The history of displacements.
- Historians' viewpoints on the slave trade.
Unit 13. Introduction of Paths to Modernization
Unit 14. The Industrial Revolution
Focus on England, 18th and 19th century
- Innovations and technological change
- Patterns of growth.
- Emergence of a working class.
- Historians' viewpoints, Debate on 'Was there an Industrial Revolution?
Unit 15. Displacing Indigenous People
Focus on North America and Australia, 18th-20th century.
- European colonists in North America and Australia.
- Formation of white settler societies.
- Displacement and repression of local people.
- Historians' viewpoints on the impact of European settlement on indigenous population.
Unit 16. Paths to Modernization
Focus on East Asia, late 19th and 20th century.
- Militarization and economic growth in Japan.
- China and the Communist alternative.
- Historians' Debate on the meaning of modernization
Unit 17. Map Work on Units 1-16