Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Supernatural centered world view and its consequences.
• Geographic isolation, its causes and consequences.
• Class and caste social systems and their consequences.
• Tribal and lineage systems and their consequences.
• Religion and linguistic practices.
• Labor intensive and subsistence agrarian economy and its consequences.
• Sacred legitimizing myths of government
• Germanic tribal foundation of kingship and its consequences.
• Christian (Roman) sacred ideas of kingship.
• Feudalism, its geographical limit, its impact on social organization, on government and law.
• What is a city, its geography, social organization, economy and government, individualism, and its origins.
• Differences between western and other urban life.
• Crop-rotation, iron plough, harnessing of animals.
• The consequences of the agricultural inventions in the economy and urban development.
• Church and state controversy and its political consequences.
• Urbanization and the development of bourgeoisie.
• The significance of technology and its impact on the economy.
• The reconquista culture of Iberia (Spain and Portugal).
• The growth of geographic knowledge and discoveries.
• The nature and consequences of Spanish colonization.
• The emergence of parliamentary government in England.
• The emergence of royal absolutism in France.
• The nature and consequences of English, Dutch, and French colonization (the trading companies).
• Galileo, Newton, scientific understanding of the universe.
• The emergence of the scientific method, the quantification of observed phenomenon.
• The political philosophy of Hobbes and Locke, Adam Smith and the theory of market economics.
• Causes and consequences of the French Revolution.
• Nationalism, nation-state, balance of power.
• The Industrial Revolution and the expansion of market economy.
• The Berlin Conference and the last surge of colonization.
• Struggle for the mastery of Europe, causes of World War I
• Marx and Marxism.
• Emergence of totalitarian ideologies and political systems.
• Leninism, Stalinism, Fascism, Nazism.
• Theories of imperialism.