World History: Recent Episodes
Michael Hall
Here I finish our discussion on these new economic theories. We work our way down the spectrum all the way to Communism.
Starting our lesson on new ways of thinking, I began with economics. This episode discusses some of the most hand off approaches to economics and how they were developed given the social happenings in Europe.
This episode I discuss how labor itself has changed, and the social and economic impacts that has.
This episode I talk about the new social classes that we see rising. We talk about how those classes came to be, what new social trends do we see, and how these interactions have a larger effect on society.
This episode I will introduce the reasons why the Industrial Revolution began in England. I will also talk about what the average person's life begins to look like and how it has changed in the last generation or so. This is Part 1 of our politics and lifestyle lectures.
This episode we will look at some of the new Tech that emerges at the very start of the Industrial Revolution. We will finish by examining the feedback loop this tech creates.
This episode introduces our Industrial Revolution unit. We are focusing on the agricultural revolution that precedes the industrial revolution.
This episode I talk about the downfall of Napoleon and what legacy does he leave behind in France and throughout the rest of the world.
This episode will talk about Napoleon's Empire. How it rose, what policies he implemented and which nations he was able to control.
This is our first Episode in our Topic 3 for this course. This Topic will be looking at the French Revolution and this episode talks about the problems in France leading up to the French Revolution.
This episode covers the scientific revolution, and what impact did this have on humanities way of thinking about the world around them.
This episode covers the second half of the Protestant Reformation. From Martin Luther's break from the Catholic Church to the creation of other denominations (Calvinism, Anabaptists, Anglicanism, etc.). This ends with the Catholic Reformation (aka the Counter Reformation).
This episode covers the first half of the protestant reformation. From the rise of Martin Luther and his Diet of Worms through his formal break from the Catholic Church.
This Lecture follows along with the Renaissance slides attached to the assignment on the Google Classroom
This will walk you through the syllabus of the course and introduce information that you will need throughout the year.