World History

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Comprehensive History

    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

      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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