HIST 103: Global Problems in Historical Perspective

Gregory S. Brown
gbrown@unlv.nevada.edu
Phone: 895 – 4181
Off Hrs: Tu 2-3 pm and by appointment
Fall 2005

Course Syllabus

I. Map of the World (1688)

II. Wills (Part 1): China, Mali, Portuguese Empire

• Photo of Coronelli globe
• Map of Portuguese Empire Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
• Statistics of Slave Trade
• Timbuktu (World Heritage Site)
• Map of Mongol Khanate
• Map of Islamic heartlands
• Overseas trade routes (c. 1450)

II. Wills (Part 2): Dutch Empire

• Map of Dutch Empire
• Java, Spice Islands
• French Colonies: Americas and Southeast Asia/ Pacific Islands

III. Wills (Part 3): Russia, China, Japan

• Topographical Map of Asia
• Growth of Russian Empire; Russian Empire in Asia; Key to "Growth of Russian Empire"
• Map of Qing Empire (China)
• Interactive "virtual tour" of 18th-Century Edo
• Maps of Japan (16th-19th centuries)
• Map of Japan (contemporary)

IV. Wills (Part 4, 5): Europe

• Golden Bull (1356)
• Map of Holy Roman Empire (1648)
• Chateau de Versailles
• Huguenot exiles from France (1685)
• Louis XIV acquisitions (1668 - 1697)
• Britain (1603 - 1688)
• Stuart family tree
• United Provinces (contemporary Netherlands)

V. Wills (Part 6): Islamic World

• Map of Ottoman Empire, 1481 - 1683
• Other maps of Ottoman empire
• Photo of the Ka'aba in Mecca
• Map of Safavid Empire (1660)
• Map of Ottoman and Safavid empires (c. 1600)
• Map of Mughal India
• Maps of Mughal Empire (1500s - 1700s)VI. Landes (Industrialization)

VI. Landes (Industrialization)

• British Raj (after 1857)
• Detaied map of British India (1875)
• Meiji Restoration (1868)
• Map of Bakumatsu-controlled regions
• European influence in China (1905)