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Humanities

World History, Volume 2: from 1400

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OpenStax

World History, Volume 2: from 1400

15 lessons

One lesson for each chapter of World History, Volume 2: from 1400, in the book’s order. The lesson teaches what that chapter says you need to know, then checks it.

  1. 1Understanding the PastYou will gain critical-thinking and analysis skills that will help you fulfill the role of a global citizen in our interconnected world.
  2. 2Exchange in East Asia and the Indian OceanAlthough Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, a Muslim who founded the Mughal Empire, made little effort to assimilate to Indian culture, his grandson Akbar forged a culture that incorporated Indian and Persian, Hindu and…
  3. 3Early Modern Africa and the Wider WorldUntil the sixteenth century, caravans routinely plied the sands of the Sahara, moving goods, especially gold, from distant West Africa to centers of trade in North Africa and Egypt.
  4. 4The Islamic WorldBut although no single powerful caliphate held all these areas together, the religion of Islam allowed for a degree of cohesiveness and unity, despite theological disagreements.
  5. 5Foundations of the Atlantic WorldSome scholars in northern Europe had turned to Christian humanism as a means of making people more pious and thus achieving religious reform.
  6. 6Colonization and Economic ExpansionThe Seven Years’ War (1754-1763) established a new balance of power in Europe in which Britain emerged as the dominant empire.
  7. 7Revolutions in Europe and North AmericaOver the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the public sphere became an increasingly important component in the spread and development of Enlightenment ideas.
  8. 8Revolutions in Latin AmericaThe overthrow of the Spanish monarchy by the French gave creoles the opportunity to participate in local self-governing bodies called juntas, and some were delegates to meetings of the Spanish Cortes, a national…
  9. 9Expansion in the Industrial AgeIn the second half of the nineteenth century, the world’s industrialized nations—Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, and the United States—entered the Second Industrial Revolution.
  10. 10Life and Labor in the Industrial WorldDuring the Second Industrial Revolution, life in industrialized nations changed dramatically.
  11. 11The War to End All WarsAt the beginning of the twentieth century, Europe was controlled by a series of alliances that served to check any one power from becoming too large.
  12. 12The Interwar PeriodThe 1919 Treaty of Versailles fully blamed Germany for the war and sought to punish it by assessing reparations of more than $33 billion and physically shrinking the country.
  13. 13The Causes and Consequences of World War IIAs the 1930s unfolded, it became clear that peace would not last for long.
  14. 14Cold War ConflictsThe Soviet Union responded by forming the Warsaw Pact with the Eastern Bloc countries of Eastern Europe
  15. 15The Contemporary World and Ongoing ChallengesThe poorest groups are also most commonly exploited by MNCs that contract with large factories or sweatshops in developing countries.