World History I

World History I Module 1
Dawn of Early Civilizations

• The First Humans
• The Emergence of Civilization
• Civilization to Mesopotamia
• Egyptian Civilization
• New Centers of Civilization
• Rise of New Empires

World History I Module 2
Early Civilizations of India and China

• Aryans in India
• Religious World of Ancient India
• Indian After the Mauryas
• Indian Culture
• The Zhou Dynasty
• The Qin Dynasty
• The Glorious Han Dynasty
• Daily Life in Ancient China
• Chinese Culture

World History I Module 3
Greek Civilization and The Roman World Empire  

• Early Greece
• Greek City-States (ca. 750 – ca. 500 B.C.E.)
• Classical Greece
• The Rise of Macedonia
• Conquests of Alexander
• The World of Hellenistic Kingdoms

World History I Module 4
The Americas and the Middle East

• The Peopling of the Americas
• Early Civilizations in Central America
• The First Civilizations in South America
• Stateless Societies in the Americas
• The Rise of Islam
• The Arab Empire and Its Successors
• Islamic Civilization

World History I Module 5   
Early Civilizations in Africa, South and Southeast Asia

• The Coming of Islam
• States and Noncentralized Societies in Central and Southern Africa
• African Society
• African Culture
• The Silk Road
• The Arrival of Islam
• The Golden Region: Early Southeast Asia

World History I Module 6
China and the East Asian Rimlands

• China After the Han
• The Sui, the Tang, and the Song
• The Mongol Empire
• The Ming Dynasty
• The Apogee of Chinese Culture
• Japan
• Korea
• Vietnam

World History I Module 7
Europe and the Byzantine Empire

• Emergence of Europe in the Early Middle Ages
• Europe in the High Middle Ages
• Medieval Europe and the World
• From Eastern Roman to Byzantine Empire
• The Zenith of Byzantine Civilization (750 – 1025)
• The Decline and Fall of the Byzantine Empire (1025 – 1453)
• The Crises of the Fourteenth Century
• The Renaissance

World History I Module 8
Emergence of New World Patterns  

• An Age of Exploration and Expansion
• Portuguese Maritime Empire
• The Conquest of the “New World”
• Africa in Transition
• Southeast Asia in the Era of the Spice Trade
• Europe in Crisis, 1560 – 1650
• The Practice of Absolutism
• England and Limited Monarchy

World History I Module 9
Muslim Empires and the East Asian World

• The Ottoman Empire
• The Safavids
• The Grandeur of the Mughals
• China at Its Apex
• Changing China
• Tokugawa Japan
• Korea and Vietnam

World History I Module 10
New World Order

• An Intellectual Revolution in the West
• Economic Change and Social Order
• Colonial Empires and Revolution in the Americas
• New Political Order and Global Conflict
• French Revolution
• The Age of Napoleon

**Outlines are subject to change, as courses and materials are updated.**