Course Description

HI 110 Modern World History From 1200   3.0 Credit(s)
The world has been increasingly interconnected through trade, war and religion beginning with the Mongol Empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This course will examine how the world has been globalizing in waves from the Mongol Moment to the Columbian Exchange to the New Imperialism to the growth of global institutions and organizations after World War 2. The course will examine the role of trade in globalization, but also of ideas, religion, state-building, warfare, imperialism, and revolution.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years