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World History
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Free World History study notes for Common Test for University Admissions students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
Rekishi Sogo (Modern and Contemporary History)
A. The Door to History: sources and historical accounts
B. Modernization and Us
C. Changing International Order, Mass Society and Us
D. Globalization and Us
World History Inquiry A/B: Perspectives and Formation of Regional Characteristics
Human history seen from the global environment
World history seen from everyday life
Historical characteristics of ancient civilizations
East Asia and Central Eurasia
South Asia and Southeast Asia
West Asia and the Mediterranean world
World History Inquiry C: Interaction and Reorganization of Regions
Eurasia connected: maritime and inland networks
Expansion of regional trade and European advance
Characteristics of Asian regions and their empires
Sovereign state system and global trade
World History Inquiry D: Integration and Transformation of Regions
Nation states and modern democratic society
Formation of the world market and change in Asian countries
Partition of the world and rising nationalism
The First World War and regional change
Tension and confrontation in international relations
The Second World War and regional change
World History Inquiry E: Issues of the Global World
International organizations and the search for peace
Economic globalization and redressing inequality
Advanced science and technology, knowledge-based society
Inquiry into issues of the global world
Source Reading and Historical Thinking Skills
Reading written sources with notes and translations
Statistics, graphs, maps, images and chronologies
Period, change, comparison and interconnection
Hypothesis, evidence and verification
Cross-period and cross-region themes
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