HIST-125: The Atlantic World, 1450-1800

Credits 3
Grade Scheme
BC
Session Cycle
FS

Examines the rise and fall of an Atlantic World system that tied Europe, Africa and the Americas into a web of cultural, political and economic interdependence. Major themes include different models of New World exploration, colonization by European colonial powers, missionary activities and religious migrations, the ramifications of New World slavery, encounters and conflicts between native and colonial peoples, and the development of nation states in the Western Hemisphere. FILA general education: history.

Corequisites or Prerequisites
Term Offered
Fall and Spring