Pre-Globalization: Regional Trade

The Silk Road

• World History: Patterns of Interaction: “Chapter 2 River Dynasties in China”
• World History: Patterns of Interaction: Chapter 7: “Han Emperors in china” (Textbook PDF)
• Crash Course in World History: China’s Dynastic Rule (Video)
• Unit 2: The Silk Road (Google Slides)
  
• The Dynastic Cycle (Google Slides Presentation)
• Crash Course in World History: 2,000 Years of Chinese History (Video)
• Overview of China’s Dynastic Rule (PDF of Presentation)
• Confucius and His Teachings (PDF Chapter Reading)

Videos for Early Globalization & Exchange...

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• What is power?
• How is knowledge a form of power?
• How have ideas sparked revolutionary changes within society?
• To what degree were the ideas of the Age of Reason powerful?
• Which ideas were more powerful than others?

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Videos for Power & Revolution

 Resources for research on The Power of ideas & Age of Reason:

• The Power of Ideas  (Google Slides)

The Scientific Revolution:

• Videos on Scientific Revolution & The Enlightenment Period (History.com)
• Copernicus and the Scientific Revolution: Past to Present (16 min.)​
• Sparknotes Timeline of Scientific Revolution
• Student-created version of Crash Course “The Scientific Revolution

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The Enlightenment in Europe:

• Videos on The Enlightenment (History.com)
• The Enlightenment - Overview (ABC-CLIO)
• Political Transitions 1600 - 20th Century (Google Slides)
• Introduction to the Enlightenment (Google Doc)
• Enlightenment (Britannica Online Encyclopedia)
• Enlightenment - Overview and Timeline (History.com)
• The Enlightenment - Overview & links to other resources (Stanford.edu)
• The Enlightenment - (“History of Our World” Textbook chapter pages)
• Social Contract Theory - comparing philosopher’s thoughts (website)

• Bacon
• Descarte
• Jefferson
• Hobbes (video)
• Locke
• Montesquieu
• Machiavelli  (document)
• Marx
• Newton
• Paine
• Rousseau
• Smith
• Voltaire
• Wollstonecraft (female philosopher)

• Salonnieres (ABC-CLIO) -- username: sastigers; password: sastigers
• Enlightenment Salons (Mount Holyoke College - website)
• “Becoming Madame” (Wordpress blog page)
• Marie-Therese De Geoffrin  (ABC-CLIO)

Intro to revolutions

Intro to Revolution (PDF)

Political Revolutions:

• French Revolution 
• England’s Revolution (a.k.a. "Glorious Revolution")
• Haitian Revolution​ (a.k.a. "slave revolt")
• Russian Revolution (focus on the 1st revolution)
• ​Cuba’s Revolution (Fidel & Raul Castro + "Che" Guevara)
• Mexican War of Independence (part of the Latin American Revolutions)