This course will provide you with a broad outline of World History from 1500 to present. We will build frameworks and break down barriers. The course will provide a comparison of world regions at 1500, consider the Western political and economic revolutions, the growth and change of imperial China and Japan, the Islamic empires of Asia and Africa, then review the 20th century World Wars, the Cold War years and decolonization, and life in the 21st century.
