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Chapter One Creating European Trades
  1. Introduction to World Civilization III
  2. Introduction to 1450-1750 & World of Columbus
  3. Global Geography & Overview
  4. Domination of the West
  5. Map Projections
Chapter Two The Decline of the Moral Value
  1. The Eurasion – African Commercial System
  2. Impact of the Encounters
  3. Developing Societies to “Reforming Land” etc.
  4. The Legacy of Reformation & the Art of Bruegel
Chapter Three Gunpowers and the Slavery Trades
  1. Guns & Gunpowder Empires
  2. Africa & the Slave Trade
Chapter Four China
  1. Asia’s Response to Europe’s Challenges
Chapter Five Industrialization
  1. Looking Back, Looking Ahead
  2. 1750 – 1914
  3. Diffusion of Industrialization
  4. Nature & Causes
  5. Impact of European Society & the World
Chapter Six A Dark Side of Revolution
  1. Europe & The Idea of Revolution
  2. The Revolutions in the West, 1776 – 1848
  3. Wars of Independence in Latin America
  4. Women in Political Revolutions
  5. Nature of Imperialism
  6. Causes of Imperialism
  7. Imperialism in Africa
Chapter Seven The Consolidation of the Western Political Policy
  1. The West & The Rest
  2. Japan & China: Separate Paths Compared
  3. China, 1750 – 1914
  4. Chinese & Islam’s Response to the West Compared
Chapter Eight The US Becoming a World Power
  1. A New Phase in World History
  2. Decline of the West?
  3. Other 20th Century Themes
  4. Total War
  5. Boer War
  6. Russo-Japanese War
  7. Russian Revolution of 1905
  8. 20th Century Revolution
Chapter Nine The American Wars
  1. Internationalism on War’s Eve
  2. The Grand Plan
  3. The Somme
  4. Significance of War Plans & Trench Warfare
  5. The War Outside Europe
  6. The Great Depression & It’s Causes
  7. Global Impact
  8. Women in Asian & African Nationalist & Revolutionary Movements
  9. Women & Culture of Machismo
Chapter Ten A Lesson form the Bomb at Nagasaki
  1. Introduction & Thesis
  2. Road to Hiroshima
  3. The Bombing of Hiroshima
  4. The End of the 20th Century