Welcome to the homepage for History 105!

Click on the links above to consult the course syllabus, review slideshows seen in class, or review class handouts. This semester we will analyze the following case studies (see the syllabus for further details):

1. The Spanish conquest of Mexico in the early sixteenth century.
2. The transatlantic slave trade.
3. The crisis of Imperial China in the early nineteenth century and the Chinese emigration to Thailand and California.
4. The "New Imperialism" of the late nineteenth century and the partition of Africa.
5. The apartheid regime in the Republic of South Africa and the recent transition to majority rule.

The following map depicts the opening of regular contact among the major civilizations of the world around the year 1500:

From Margaret King, WESTERN CIVILIZATION: A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY. VOL. I: PREHISTORY--1750

(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000), p. 491.

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