World History
Course Information
Course Goals
The purpose of this course is not simply to learn about people and events throughout history. This World History Course will serve two purposes:
1. Learn facts about historical people, places, and events and
2. Connect those experiences with one another and analyze their impact on the world today.
History does not occur in a vacuum; therefore we will study how specific events shaped the world we know and how they affected people living at the time.
Student Course Resources
Prentice Hall World History: The Modern Era Edition Companion Website.
Each student will be given a copy of Prentice Hall World History: The Modern Era Edition. Students will have required reading which will be assessed with short un-announced timed, reading quizzes. Students are allowed to refer to notes they took while reading as long as they are written in the student's own hand writing. I highly recommend using the companion textbook website and taking "Progress Monitoring Online" questions found with each chapter. Many questions on the reading quizzes will be taken from this website.
In addition to the companion website, I am also sharing all the textbook PowerPoint files.
World History Master Vocabulary
Students should familiarize themselves with the terms which reflect major concepts that will be introduced duing the the entire school year.
NOTICE: To access course unit folders, viewers MUST be logged into their QCHS Google Account.
Map & Geography Resources
Module 1.1 The Renaissance and Reformation
The School of Life History of Ideas - The Renaissance
Venice and the Ottoman Empire: Crash Course World History #19
The Renaissance: Was it a Thing? - Crash Course World History #22
Luther and the Protestant Reformation: Crash Course World History #218 (Required Viewing)
History 101: The Protestant Reformation | National Geographic
Rick Steves' Luther and the Reformation (full length documentary, 55 mins)
Khan Academy Introduction to the Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther
Khan Academy Introduction to the Protestant Reformation: Varieties of Protestantism
Khan Academy Introduction to the Protestant Reformation: The Counter-Reformation
Henry VIII and the Church - Timelines.tv History of Britain B07
Module 1.2: The Beginning of a Global Age
TED-Ed The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you
Module 1.3: The Age of Absolutism
Tom Richey - The Divine Right of Kings (Bossuet, James I, Louis XIV) (Required viewing for Honors World)
Tom Richey - The Thirty Years War (Required viewing for Honors World)
Tom Richey - The English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution
Quizlets
What Was the Enlightenment? AP Euro Bit by Bit #25 Paul Sargant
Do We Need Government? (The Social Contract) – 8-Bit Philosophy
POLITICAL THEORY - Thomas Hobbes
An Introduction to John Locke's Two Treatises of Government- A Macat Philosophy Analysis
Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer and Philosopher | Biography
Adam Smith The Invisible Hand - 60 Second Adventures in Economics
Tom Richey - Enlightened Absolutism (Frederick the Great, Catherine the Great, Joseph II)
"Amadeus" - Mozart embarrasses Salieri scene
Module 2.2 The French Revolution
The French Revolution In a Nutshell
Module 3.1 1st Industrial Revolution
Module 3.2 2nd Industrial Revolution
Tom Richey The Second Industrial Revolution
Paul Sargent AP Euro: Italian Unification
Imperialism: Crash Course World History #35
Expansion and Resistance: Crash Course European History #28
What Caused the Age of Imperialism? AP Euro Bit by Bit #37
Results of the Age of Imperialism: AP Euro Bit by Bit #38
"Organization Of Cartographers For Social Equality" Clip from The West Wing
"The True Size of Website (Look have map projections distort people view of the world)
Additional General Resources and Links
Digital Textbooks
Links
Crash Course
Crash Course is one of the best ways to educate yourself, your classmates, and your family on YouTube. Author John Green talk about World History in not one, but two playlists:
Mr. Green can talk very fast, so I highly encourage students to use close captions, pause and rewind the video when needed, and watch episodes over multiple times.