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Class 11

History: Themes in World History

29 lessons in 7 chapters, explained in plain words.

Writing and City Life

  1. Early societies and Mesopotamia
  2. Cities and writing
  3. Temples, kings and city life
  4. The legacy of writing

An Empire Across Three Continents

  1. Empires: an overview
  2. The early Roman Empire
  3. Crisis, society and economy
  4. Labour, society and late antiquity

Nomadic Empires

  1. Studying nomadic empires
  2. The Mongols and Genghis Khan's career
  3. Organising the empire
  4. Settling down and remembering Genghis Khan

The Three Orders

  1. Changing traditions: Europe 9th-17th centuries
  2. Feudalism and the nobility
  3. Clergy and peasants
  4. Change, crisis and new monarchies

Changing Cultural Traditions

  1. The Renaissance and Italian cities
  2. Universities and humanism
  3. Art, printing and new ideas of the person
  4. Reformation, science and a changed world

Displacing Indigenous Peoples

  1. Towards modernisation
  2. Native Americans and Europeans
  3. Natives lose their land in the USA and Canada
  4. Australia's native peoples

Paths to Modernisation

  1. East Asia and Tokugawa Japan
  2. The Meiji Restoration and modernisation
  3. Japan: nationalism, daily life, war and recovery
  4. China: from the Qing to the Republic
  5. Communist China, Taiwan and Korea