Unit 2 The Making of Early Modern World 1450-1700 CE

Unit Description

Lesson Sets

Chapter 1: Asia & Oceania
Lesson 1
Pax Mongolica`
Lesson 2
East Asian Interactions with Europe`
Lesson 3
Ming and Qing Dynasties`
Lesson 4
Aboriginal Australians`

Chapter 2: Islam & Southeast Asia
Lesson 1
Islam and Eurasia: An Introduction`
Lesson 2
Origins of the Ottoman, the Safavid, and the Mughal Empires`
Lesson 3
Shiite Islam and Safavid Dynasty`
Lesson 4
Decline of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires`

Chapter 3: Africa
Lesson 1
Early Africa`
Lesson 2
Islamic African Empires`
Lesson 3
Early European Exploration of Africa`

Chapter 4: Latin America
Lesson 1
Origins of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas`
Lesson 2
Maya`
Lesson 3
Aztecs`
Lesson 4
Incas`
Lesson 5
Mississippian Peoples`
Lesson 6
Pueblo Peoples`

Chapter 5: Europe
Lesson 1
The Historical Background of the Reformation`
Lesson 2
Witch Hunts`
Lesson 3
The Protestant Reformation`
Lesson 4
The English Reformation`
Lesson 5
French Wars of Religion`
Lesson 6
English Civil War`
Lesson 7
The Counter Reformation`
Lesson 8
Catholic Spain`
Lesson 9
The Thirty Years' War`
Lesson 10
The Peace of Westphalia`
Lesson 11
Absolutist France`
Lesson 12
Hobbseian Philosophy`
Lesson 13
Absolutist Prussia, Austria and Russia`
Lesson 14
Maintaining the Balance of Power in Europe: The Seven Years War`

Chapter 6: Exploration
Lesson 1
Age of Discovery: Exploration`
Lesson 2
European Explorers’ Links to the Islamic World`
Lesson 3
Reconquista and Technology`
Lesson 4
Portuguese Colonization`
Lesson 5
Spanish Colonization`
Lesson 6
French Colonies in the Americas and the Caribbean Sea`
Lesson 7
Dutch Trade in the Pacific, South Africa, and Japan`
Lesson 8
English Colonization`
Lesson 9
Oceania and the Expeditions of James Cook`
Lesson 10
Impact of European Settlement in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific`
Lesson 11
Early Modern Northeast Asia`
Lesson 12
The Development of the African Transatlantic Slave Trade`
Lesson 13
Impact of the Transatlantic Slave Trade`