COURSE OVERVIEW - WORLD HISTORY

Welcome to World History, Culture and Geography: The Modern World! This course is designed to give an equivalent of one year and 10 credits of the 10th grade world history requirement toward high school graduation. The course provides the foundation for later study of United States history, economics, and government, and it provides students with a greater understanding of world civilizations and cultures. This course covers more than a 250-year period that begins with an important turning point: the transition in systems of governance from a divine monarchy to a modern definition of a nation-state organized around principles of the Enlightenment. The course ends with the present in which students live. As students move through the years from 1750 through the present they consider how a modern system of communication and exchange drew peoples of the world into an increasingly complex network of relationships in which Europe and the United States exerted great military and economic power. They will explore how people, goods, ideas, and capital traveled throughout and between Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe. They will analyze the results of these exchanges.