Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• Assess how global trade networks shaped economic development during the 17th and 18th centuries
• Identify the origins of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Europe
• Indicate the social and political consequences of Reformation and Counter-Reformation movements for the people of Europe
• Evaluate how the Enlightenment ideas led to political and social revolutions in Europe and the Americas
• Identify the origins and impact of the Scientific as well as Industrial Revolutions
• Compare how European imperialism affected Asia, Africa, and the Americas in the 19th century
• Outline the origins of World War I
• Discuss how the war's outcome altered economic and political balances of power worldwide
• Summarize the origins of totalitarian political movements and assess how these movements led to World War II
• Describe how World War II reshaped power balances, leading to the emergence of global superpowers
• Assess how decolonization movements in the 1950s and 1960s altered international relationships
• Recall the contemporary issues, developments, and politics of the global world