Unit 1: World Systems 1350 C.E. - 1500 C.E.
Week 1 - January 9 - 11 Introduction,
Emerging global Interrelations
Week 2 - January 16 - 18 Emerging Global Interrelations, including disease
Unit 2: China and Japan in the Early Modern Era
Week 3 - January 23 - 25 China
Week 4 - January 30 - February 1
Japan and South-East Asia - NO CLASS ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1
Unit
3: The Great Islamic Empires of the 16th and 17th Centuries C.E.
Week 5 - February 6 - 8 The Ottoman and Safavid Empires
Week 6 - February 13 - 15 The
Timurids and Moghuls
Unit
4: Europe and the Americas
Week 7 - February 20 - 22
Week 8 - February 27 - March 1
- NO CLASS ON THURSDAY MARCH 1
Unit
5: Industrialization and Empire
Week 9 - March 13 - 15
Week 10 - March 20 - 22
Unit 6: Totalitarianism and Post-Colonialism
Week 11 - March 27-29
Week 12 - April 3-5 - NO CLASS ON TUESDAY
APRIL 3
Unit
7: The Making of the Modern Middle East
Week 13 - April 10-12
Week 14 - April 17-19
Unit
8: Globalization
Week 15 - April 24-26