Illustrative Example (p. 163) – Governments’ increased encouragement of free-market policies
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AP 24.1185 Crash Course – Conflict in Israel and Palestine
This conflict is often cast as a long-term beef going back thousands of years, and rooted in a clash between religions. Well, that’s not quite true. What is true is that the conflict is immensely complicated, and just about everyone in the world has an opinion about it.
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AP 24.1063 WWII – The Atomic Bombs: 1945
ONLY 2 BOMBS DROPPED
ESTIMATED CASUALTIES AND LOSSES
90,000–166,000 killed in Hiroshima
60,000–80,000 killed in Nagasaki
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AP 24.820 Crash Course – Asian Responses to Imperialism
“The rise of the West from the perspective of the people who DON’T live there”.
ASIA
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AP 23.681 Crash Course – The Modern Revolution
What is “modernity”?
Take Note: Our species (Homo sapien sapien) has been around for approximately 250,000 years. What were the major break throughs that led us to the year 2021?
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AP 23.588 Enlightenment Thinker – Thomas Hobbes
Academic, Philosopher, Political Scientist, Journalist, Historian (1588–1679)
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AP 23.459 Holland – the Dutch Empire (and vs Portugal)
A map of the Dutch colonial empire.
Light green – territories administered by or originating from territories administered by the Dutch East India Company;
Dark green – the Dutch West India Company
Yellow – are the territories occupied later, during the 19th century.
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AP 23.388 Crash Course – Reformation and Consequences
The Protestant Reformation didn’t exactly begin with Martin Luther, and it didn’t end with him either. Reformers and monarchs changed the ways that religious and state power were organized throughout the 16th and early 17th centuries. Jean Calvin in France and Switzerland, the Tudors in England, and the Hugenots in France also made major contributions to the Reformation.
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