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Patterns of Power: A World History Survey, c. 1200-Present (Part 2)

Grade 10, Units 5-8 · 376 pages · 40 lessons · PDF, print at home

This course traces how states, economic systems, and belief systems have interacted from the late medieval world to the present, with emphasis on connections and comparisons across regions rather than a region-by-region march. Students investigate recurring historical patterns: how empires expand and collapse, how exchange networks redistribute wealth and disease and ideas, how revolutions change who holds power, and how industrial and global systems create new winners and losers, using primary and secondary sources as evidence, not illustration. Religion, caste, and belief systems are treated as historical and social phenomena studied comparatively, never devotionally. By June, students should be able to take an unfamiliar historical case and argue, with sourced evidence, which of the course's recurring patterns explains it and where the pattern breaks down. This volume holds units 5 to 8: Empire and Its Costs: Global Imperialism, 1850-1914; Total War and Its Ideologies, 1914-1945; Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1991; A Connected World: Globalization and Its Fault Lines, 1991-Present.

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Patterns of Power: A World History Survey, c. 1200-Present

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Unit 5: Empire and Its Costs: Global Imperialism, 1850-19149 lessons
  1. 38.The three mechanisms of imperial control: concession, protectorate, direct rule
  2. 39.The rhetorical function of 'mutual benefit' framing in colonial justification versus extraction as an economic mechanism
  3. 40.Selective emphasis and omission in colonizer versus colonized accounts of the same event
  4. 41.The Berlin Conference: stated purpose and actual effect
  5. 42.The temporal and causal relationship between economic/political imperial expansion and social Darwinist justification
  6. 43.Competing causal explanations for imperialism (economic, nationalist, ideological) and the distinction between necessary and contributing causes
  7. 44.Transfer of the concession/protectorate/direct-rule framework to an unstudied contemporary case
  8. 45.Categories of anti-imperial resistance strategy and their conditions for success
  9. 46.The economic or ideological mechanism underlying a specific paired colonial policy source set, expressed in Unit 4 vocabulary
Unit 6: Total War and Its Ideologies, 1914-194512 lessons
  1. 47.The Triple Alliance/Triple Entente treaty-obligation chain
  2. 48.Necessary vs. contributing causes of WWI's outbreak
  3. 49.Ranked causal argument for WWI's outbreak
  4. 50.Persuasive techniques in WWI/WWII propaganda
  5. 51.Transfer of propaganda technique across historical and contemporary contexts
  6. 52.Bureaucratic administration of the Holocaust
  7. 53.The limits of bureaucratic explanation for the Holocaust
  8. 54.Continuity and change in total-war home-front mobilization, 1914-1945
  9. 55.Permanence of wartime government mobilization powers
  10. 56.The necessary-vs-contributing causal-ranking method applied beyond WWI
  11. 57.Unit-specific vocabulary: total war, propaganda, totalitarianism, fascism, genocide, bureaucracy
  12. 58.Causal argument essay on the origins of WWI
Unit 7: Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-199110 lessons
  1. 59.Mechanisms of decolonization (imperial financial exhaustion; nationalist mobilization)
  2. 60.The Non-Aligned Movement and the distinction between non-alignment and neutrality
  3. 61.Proxy war as a category of Cold War conflict
  4. 62.Named Cold War crises: dates and involved blocs
  5. 63.Framing of Cold War events in aligned vs. non-aligned sources
  6. 64.Post-colonial economic dependency as a legacy of forced-labor and industrial-capital systems
  7. 65.Competing explanatory patterns for post-independence trajectories
  8. 66.Superpower interest as an explanatory factor in untaught proxy conflicts
  9. 67.Agency in decolonization narratives (granted vs. won)
  10. 68.Cross-unit evidence organization for the case-study argument
Unit 8: A Connected World: Globalization and Its Fault Lines, 1991-Present9 lessons
  1. 69.The four recurring course patterns (exchange network, revolution-vs-reform, industrial extraction, ideology-as-administration) and their diagnostic features
  2. 70.Definitions and mechanisms of exchange network, revolution-vs-reform, industrial extraction, and ideology-as-administration
  3. 71.The four-question sorting protocol for pattern identification
  4. 72.The limits of pattern-matching when applied to a genuinely contested contemporary case
  5. 73.Structural similarities and differences between Columbian Exchange-era demographic disruption and contemporary migration/displacement
  6. 74.The structural limits of multinational institutions when national sovereignty conflicts with institutional authority
  7. 75.Peer arguments about which course pattern best explains a contemporary case
  8. 76.An original evidence-based argument applying the course's cumulative pattern toolkit to a novel case
  9. 77.The structure of a relational evidence-based historical argument (claim-evidence-linking explanation) as opposed to a multistructural list

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