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					Reading Assignments: *The Mid-East and India to the 1700s* *WSU: World Civilization:* *The Ottomans* *Origins* Suleyman the Great Class Presentation: Empire of Faith: Islam Part 3 This is the 3rd part in a 3-part documentary narrated by Ben Kingsley. This portion deals with the growing Ottoman Empire, which would control the bridge between 3 continents: Africa, Europe and Asia.	Reading Assignments: *The Mid-East and India to the 1700s* *MacroHistory:* Iran, the Safavids and Ottomans *Shia versus Sunnis* Video Presentation: "Sunni Ottomans versus the Shiite Safavids"
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	Reading Assignments: *The Mid-East and India to the 1700s* *MacroHistory:* The Last of the Safavids Decline of Islamic and Ottoman Power Class Presentation: Iran The Savafids 15th-17th Century Empire of Faith: Islam Part 3 *(note start at 36 Minutes)*	Reading Assignments: *The Mid-East and India to the 1700s* *WSU: World Civilization: Mesopotamia* *Origins of the Mughals* *Babur* The founder of the Mughal dynasty was Babur, "The Tiger," who ruled from 1483 to 1530. *Akbar* *(1556-1605)* Muslim, Indian, and Western historians all see Akbar as the greatest ruler of Indian history.	Reading Assignments: *The Mid-East and India to the 1700s* *WSU: World Civilization: Mesopotamia* *The Last Three Great Emperors* Class Presentation: *" Mughals"*	Reading Assignments: *The Mid-East and India to the 1700s* *WSU: World Civilization: Mesopotamia* The Marathas *The first major threat to Mughal imperial power came from a Hindu tribal confederacy known as the Marathas.* The Sikhs *The Sikhs are one of the most prosperous and politically important religious minorities in India.The Sikh community has been one of the major factors in Indian history*	Class Presentation: *The Mid-East and India to the 1700s* Class Presentation: *" Mughals"*	Reading Assignments: *The Mid-East and India to the 1700s* *WSU: World Civilization: Mesopotamia* *The Europeans and the Decline of the Mughal Empire* In 1627, the Mughal Emperor Jahangir granted the British East India Company permission to build a fortified factory at the principal Mughal port of Surat. *British rule in India lasted nearly two centuries, matching the longevity of the Mughal Empire.* Regents Prep Global History: British Imperialism in India During the 1700s, a joint-stock company called the British East India Company was chartered by Queen Elizabeth I of England. The company’s main objective was to make a profit for shareholders by exploiting the abundant natural resources and gaining access to the markets in India.
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	Essay Exam Due in Class Reading Assignments: The Americas, Europe and Africa to 1700 *MacroHistory:* The Thirty Years' War *The Peace of Westphalia and a Changed Europe* The rages, bloodlettings and devastations of the Thirty Years' War had awakened in people the need for at least a modicum of tolerance. The Peace of Westphalia readjusted the religious and political affairs of Europe Class Presentation: "Witchcraft in post Medeival Europe" 17th Century Europe The Thirty Years War *The first half of the seventeenth century is shaped by the last of the great wars of religion, The Thirty Years War (1618-1648).*	Reading Assignments: *WSU: World Civilization:* The Scientific Revolution *Of all the changes that swept over Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the most widely influential was the "scientific revolution."*	Reading Assignments: *WSU: World Civilization:* 17th Century Enlightenment Thought When the writers, philosophers and scientists of the eighteenth century referred to their activities as the "Enlightenment," they meant that they were breaking from the past and replacing the obscurity, darkness, and ignorance of European thought with the "light" of truth. Class Presentation: *Isaac Newton* *(1643-1727)* Newton vehemently rejected the corruption of the Christian establishment and the innovation that is the divinity of Jesus, his belief was the revealed God is one God. During his life he was forced to keep this belief secret for fear of being labelled a heretic and after his death this information was carefully suppressed	Reading Assignments: *WSU: World Civilization:* *Pre-Enlightenment Europe* Age of Absolutism Divine Right of Kings	Reading Assignments: *WSU: World Civilization:* The Case of England *Pre-Enlightenment Europe* While continental European states were developing absolute and centralized monarchies, England, in a chaotic and violent century, radically reduced the power of the monarch and developed an alternative state in which the powers of the monarch became subsidiary to the power of the branches of government. Class Presentation: Western Tradition: The Enlightenment Intellectual theories about the nature of man and his potential come to the fore.	Reading Assignments: *WSU: World Civilization:* The Eighteenth Century *The Philosophes* The eighteenth century was a century of mind-boggling change. The ideas of the philosophes were translated into new governments--one in France and one in America--that shook the old order down to its very roots.
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	President's Day HOLIDAY	Class Assignment: *Video Presentation:* *Western Tradition:* *The Enlightenment and Society* *Scientists and social reformers battled for universal rights during a peacful and prosperous period*	Reading Assignments: *WSU: World Civilization:* *Women: Communities, Economies, and Opportunities During the European Enlightenment* Jean-Jacques Rousseau *The Social Contract* *"Man is born free but everywhere is in chains."* Class Presentation: Western Tradition: *The Modern Philosophers* *Freedom of thought and expression opened new vistas explored by French, English, and American thinkers*		*Essay Assignment*

Review and Discussion

Reading Assignments:

War and Revolution
Europe and America

WSU: World Civilization:

The Beginnings:

Revolution in France

The revolution in France has captivated the imaginations of historians since it exploded the European landscape two hundred years ago. There are few if any events in European history that are regarded as fundamental to the character of the European world as the giddy, frightening, farcical, and overwhelmingly tragic events during and after the French Revolution

Review and Discussion

Reading Assignments:

War and Revolution
Europe and America

WSU: World Civilization:

The Crisis of the French Monarchy

The latter half of the eighteenth century saw fundamental challenges to the absolutist monarchy that had been built in France in the seventeenth century. Louis XIV and his advisors had attempted to centralize the monarch's authority by both limiting the power of regional aristocrats and parlements and by establishing a civil bureaucracy loyal to the king.

Class Presentation:

Western Tradition:

The Death of the Old Regime

In France the old order collapsed under revolutionaries' attacks and the monarchy's own weakness