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This program will allow you to update your knowledge of the history of the world, from prehistory to present day, in a practical way, 100% online, and without sacrificing the maximum academic rigor”
This program presents a rigorous curriculum in World History, one of the continually evolving fields in the discipline of history today. In a globalized environment, students are turning to programs in world history to prepare them for future careers and studies. Even for academics and professionals who later decide to specialize in more specific topics and geographic areas, this training provides the essential education and comparative framework necessary to analyze history from our human origins to present day.
The teaching staff is made up of internationally recognized experts who have been trained by and/or have worked for leading institutions. Thus, they give it an academic and rigorous orientation, based on scientific evidence, which will serve to update knowledge in Prehistory, Ancient, Medieval, Modern and Contemporary History.
This program is aimed at those interested in attaining a higher level of knowledge in World History. Take advantage of the opportunity to take this training in a 100% online format, without giving up your obligations, making your return to college easy and convenient. Students will update their knowledge and get the qualification they need to continue growing personally and professionally.
This program will enhance skills and update knowledge in World History"
This Master's Degree in World History contains the most complete and up-to-date academic program on the university scene. The most important features of the program include:
- Development of 100 simulated scenarios, presented by experts in history
- Its graphic, schematic and eminently practical contents, with which they are conceived, provide scientific and practical information on the History of the World
- News on the latest discoveries in the history of our civilizations
- Contains practical exercises where the self-evaluation process can be carried out to improve learning
- Interactive learning system based on the case method and its application to real practice
- All of this will be complemented by theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
- Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device , with an Internet connection
This program is the perfect option to learn about world history and human behavior from their inception”
It includes, in its teaching staff, professionals belonging to the World of History, who pour into this training the experience of their work, in addition to recognized specialists belonging to reference societies and prestigious universities.
Thanks to its multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, it will allow the professional a situated and contextual learning, that is to say, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive learning, programmed to train in real situations.
The design of this program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the teacher must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the course. To do so, the professional will be assisted by an innovative, interactive video system created by renowned experts in World History with extensive teaching experience.
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Syllabus
The structure of the contents has been designed by a team of historians, aware of the current relevance of training to be able to deepen in this area of knowledge, in order to humanistically enrich the student and raise the level of knowledge in World History, through the latest educational technologies available.
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Module 1. Ancient World History I
1.1. Introduction to Ancient History
1.1.1. Concept of Ancient History
1.1.2. Geographic Framework
1.1.3. General Features of Ancient History
1.1.4. Chronology
1.2. The Urban Revolution and the Formation of the State
1.2.1. Origins (15000-9500 B.C.)
1.2.2. Neolithic in the Near East (9,500-7000 B.C.)
1.2.3. The Urban Revolution in Mesopotamia (7000-5100 B.C.)
1.3. Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium B.C. and Egypt from the Tinite Age to the First Intermediate Period
1.3.1. Mesopotamia in the 3rd Millennium B.C.
1.3.2. The Tinite Age in Egypt
1.3.3. The Old Kingdom (III-VI dynasty)
1.3.4. First Intermediate Period (VII-XI Dynasties)
1.4. II Millennium B.C.
1.4.1. The Paleobabylonian Era
1.4.2. New Populations: Hittites and Hurrians
1.4.3. Late Bronze Age
1.5. Egypt in the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period
1.5.1. The Middle Kingdom: the XI and XII Dynasties
1.5.2. The Second Intermediate Period (XIII-XVII dynasties)
1.6. Mesopotamia in the 1st Millennium
1.6.1. The Assyrian Empire (934-539 B.C.)
1.6.2. The Neo-Babylonian Empire (626-539 B.C.)
1.7. Egypt: The New Egyptian Kingdom
1.7.1. The XVIII Dynasty
1.7.2. The XIX Dynasty
1.7.3. The XX Dynasty
1.8. Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period
1.8.1. The XXI Dynasty
1.8.2. The Libyan Dominion: XXII and XXIII Dynasties
1.8.3. The XXIV Dynasty
1.8.4. The XXV Dynasty: Nubia Dominates Egypt
1.9. The Late Egyptian Period (664-332 B.C.)
1.9.1. The XXVIth Dynasty or Saite Stage
1.9.2. XXVII to XXXI Dynasties
1.10. The Persian Empire
1.10.1. Introduction
1.10.2. The Zenith of the Empire: Darius I (521-486 B.C.)
1.10.3. Xerxes I (486-465 B.C.)
1.10.4. Monarchs there is between 465 and 330 B.C.
Module 2. Ancient World History II
2.1. The First Greece
2.1.1. Cretan-Mycenaean Greece
2.1.2. The Dark Ages
2.2. Archaic Greece
2.2.1. The Formation of the Polis
2.2.2. The Transformation of the Aristocratic Regime
2.2.3. The Economic Evolution: Currency and the Development of Trade
2.2.4. Greek Colonization: Causes, Characteristics and Development
2.2.5. Sparta and Athens in the Archaic Period
2.3. Classical Greece
2.3.1. The Medical Wars
2.3.2. The Athenian Maritime Empire
2.3.3. Democracy in Athens
2.3.4. Economy and Agrarian Society in the 5th Century B.C.
2.3.5. The Peloponnesian War
2.3.6. Alexander the Great
2.4. Hellenistic Greece
2.4.1. Characteristics of Hellenistic Kingship: The Structure and Organization of the Hellenistic Kingdoms
2.4.2. The Ptolemaic Monarchy
2.4.3. Greek Cities
2.4.4. Greek Leagues
2.4.5. Hellenistic Economy: General Characteristics
2.4.6. Hellenistic Society
2.4.7. Hellenistic Culture
2.5. The Origins of Rome and Monarchic Rome
2.5.1. Pre-Roman Italy
2.5.2. The Foundation of Rome
2.5.3. The City of Romulus
2.5.4. The First Kings of Rome
2.5.5. The Etruscans
2.5.6. The Etruscan Kings
2.6. The Roman Republic
2.6.1. The Origins of the Republic
2.6.2. The Conflict between Patricians and Plebeians
2.6.3. The Conquest of Italy
2.6.4. The Government of the Republic
2.6.5. The Expansion into the Mediterranean: The Punic Wars and the Conquest of the East
2.7. The End of the Republic
2.7.1. Imperialism and Its Consequences
2.7.2. The Attempts of the Gracchi to Reform
2.7.3. Marius and Sulla
2.7.4. From Pompey to Caesar
2.7.5. The Dissolution of the Republic
2.8. Augustus and the Principality
2.8.1. The Creation of the Empire
2.8.2. The Julio-Claudian Dynasty
2.8.3. The First Crisis of the Empire: The Year of the Four Emperors
2.8.4. The Flavian Dynasty
2.8.5. The Antonine Dynasty
2.9. The Crisis and the Recovery of the Empire
2.9.1. The Severan Dynasty
2.9.2. The Great Crisis: Military Anarchy
2.9.3. Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
2.10. The Late Antique World
2.10.1. The New Empire of Constantine and the Constantinian Dynasty
2.10.2. The Julian Emperor
2.10.3. The Valentinian Era
2.10.4. Theodosius I and the Theodosian Dynasty
2.10.5. The Fall of the Empire
Module 3. Medieval World History I
3.1. The High Middle Ages
3.1.1. Concept
3.1.2. Periodization
3.1.3. Sources
3.2. Ancient Rome
3.2.1. The Roman Empire
3.2.2. Socioeconomic Transformations in the 4th century
3.2.3. The Irruption of the Barbarians
3.3. The New Political Organization in the West
3.3.1. The Different Germanic Kingdoms and the Reorganization of the Territory
3.4. The Byzantine Empire
3.4.1. Byzantium under Justinian (s. VI)
3.4.2. Byzantium in the 7th century: Political Keys to the Byzantine Revival
3.4.3. From the Iconoclast Controversy to the Macedonian Dynasty
3.4.4. Decline of Byzantium (ss. XII and XIII)
3.4.5. End of Byzantium (s. XIV)
3.5. Islam
3.5.1. Pre-Islamic Characteristics
3.5.2. Muhammad
3.5.3. The Precepts of Islam
3.5.4. The Death of Muhammad and the Orthodox Caliphs
3.5.5. The Expansion of Islam
3.6. Charlemagne
3.6.1. The Renewal of the Empire
3.6.2. Policy
3.6.3. Economy
3.6.4. Culture and Art
3.7. The Continuity of the Carolingian Empire
3.7.1. Successors
3.7.2. Causes of the Disintegration of the Carolingian Empire
3.7.3. The Carolingian Legacy
3.8. The Umayyad Dynasty
3.8.1. Origins and Rise to the Caliphate
3.8.2. Al-Andalus
3.9. The Abbasid Caliphate
3.9.1. Origin
3.9.2. The 8th Century
3.9.3. The 9th Century
3.10. Byzantine Withdrawal
3.10.1. Heraclian Dynasty
3.10.2. Isauric Dynasty
Module 4. Medieval World History II
4.1. Feudalism and Feudal Society
4.1.1. Feudalism: Nobility and Seigniory
4.1.2. Feudal Society
4.1.3. Forms of Urban Government
4.2. The Revival and Expansion of Europe
4.2.1. The Causes and Forms of European Expansion
4.2.2. Christianity: Evangelization, Crusades and Eastward Expansion
4.3. The Christian Kingdoms in Europe during the 11th and 12th Centuries
4.3.1. The Dissolution of Monarchical Power
4.3.2. The Feudal Monarchies
4.4. Monarchy in Western European
4.4.1. The Consolidation of European Monarchies
4.5. The Confrontation of the Empire and the Papacy
4.5.1. The End of Universal Ideas
4.5.2. The Struggle between the Empire and the Papacy
4.6. The Church and Culture in the Middle Ages
4.6.1. The Church during Feudal Times
4.6.2. Church Renewal
4.6.3. The New Religious Movements: The Gothic
4.7. The Late Medieval Crisis: The 14th and 15th Centuries
4.7.1. Nature and Causes of the Crisis
4.7.2. Demographic, Economic and Social Consequences
4.7.3. The Social Crisis: Popular Uprisings
4.8. The Hundred Years' War
4.8.1. France and England at the Beginning of the 14th century
4.8.2. The First Phase of the War
4.8.3. The Second Phase of the War
4.8.4. France: Louis XI and the Resolution of the Burgundy Problem
4.8.5. England: Wars of the Roses
4.9. The Imperial Territory and the Italian Peninsula
4.9.1. Germany and Imperial Decline
4.9.2. The Political Fragmentation of Italy
4.10. Culture
4.10.1. The Renewal of Philosophical and Political Thought
4.10.2. Universities
4.10.3. Humanism
Module 5. Modern World History I
5.1. Demographics
5.1.2. Population Distribution and Development
5.1.3. Behavior and Causes Influencing Variables
5.2. Economic Transformations in the 16th Century
5.2.1. The Growth of the cities
5.2.2. Economic Transformations
5.3. Social Order and Conflicts in the 16th Century
5.3.1. Social Structures in Western Europe
5.3.2. Social Structures in Eastern Europe
5.3.3. Social Conflict
5.4. Religious Reformation and Counter-Reformation
5.4.1. Causes of the Protestant Reformation
5.4.2. The Protestant Reformation: Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and the Anglican Reformation
5.4.3. The Catholic Reformation and Counter-Reformation
5.5. Culture and Science
5.5.1. Humanism and the Renaissance
5.5.2. Science in the 16th Century
5.6. Daily life, Ideas and Beliefs
5.6.1. Daily Life
5.6.2. Ideas
5.6.3. Beliefs
5.7. European Monarchies in the 16th Century
5.7.1. The Instruments of Foreign Policy: Diplomacy and Armies
5.8. The Wars in Italy
5.8.1. Causes, Development and Consequences
5.9. The Empire of Carlos V and the Spanish Hegemony in times of Felipe II
5.9.1. The Empire of Carlos V
5.9.2. The Spanish Hegemony in Times of Felipe II
5.9.3. The Struggle for Baltic Hegemony and the Russian Advance
5.10. The 17th Century Crisis
5.10.1. The Historiographical Debate
Module 6. Modern World History II
6.1. The 17th Century Crisis
6.1.1. Economic Crisis
6.1.2. Social Crisis
6.2. The Culture of the Baroque and the Scientific Revolution
6.2.1. Characteristics of the Baroque Culture
6.2.2. The Scientific Revolution
6.3. Absolutism
6.3.1. Characteristics of Absolutism
6.3.2. Absolutist States: Spain and France
6.3.3. The Breakdown of Absolutism in England
6.4. The Thirty Years’ War
6.4.1. Origins of the Revolt
6.4.2. Bohemian Revolt
6.4.3. Danish Intervention
6.4.4. Swedish Intervention
6.4.5. French Intervention
6.4.6. Peace of Westphalia
6.5. The Imperialism of Louis XIV
6.5.1. Absolute Monarchy
6.5.2. Expansionism and War
6.5.3. The War of Succession
6.6. The Population in the 18th Century
6.6.1. The Population: Demographic Patterns and Rhythms
6.7. 18th Century European Society
6.7.1. Nobility
6.7.2. Clergy
6.7.3. Third State
6.8. Economic Transformations in the 18th Century
6.8.1. The New Structural Foundations
6.8.2. The Origins of the Industrial Revolution
6.9. The Enlightenment
6.9.1. Characteristics and Dissemination
6.9.2. The Enlightenment in Europe
6.10. 18th Century International Relations
6.10.1. The European Balance System
6.10.2. The Breakdown of the System
Module 7. Contemporary World History I
7.1. Contemporary History
7.1.1. Concept
7.1.2. Features
7.1.3. Periodization
7.2. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire
7.2.1. Historiographical Interpretations
7.2.2. Social and Ideological Foundations
7.2.3. Background
7.2.4. From the Constituent Assembly to the Constitutional Monarchy
7.2.5. The Fall of the Monarchy and the Period of the Republican Convention
7.2.6. The Directory
7.2.7. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire
7.3. Spanish American Wars of Independence and the Spanish Restoration
7.3.1. Spanish American War of Independence
7.3.2. The Spanish Restoration
7.4. The Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
7.4.1. The Industrial Revolution
7.4.2. The Birth of the Factory System: : The Textile Industry
7.4.3. Transport
7.5. First Globalization and the Second Industrial Revolution
7.5.1. First Globalization
7.5.2. The Second Industrial Revolution
7.6. Political Thought in the 19th Century
7.6.1. Revolutionary Thought and Reflections on Revolution
7.6.2. Political Liberalism
7.6.3. Nationalism
7.7. Economic Thought in the 19th Century
7.7.1. Classical Economics
7.7.2. Economic Nationalism and State Intervention
7.7.3. Reforming Liberalism and Neoclassicism
7.8. Socialist and Anarchist Political and Economic Ideas
7.8.1. Socialism before Marx
7.8.2. Marxism
7.8.3. Anarchism
7.9. Population Growth and Urbanization
7.9.1. Demographic growth
7.9.2. Urbanization
7.9.3. Class Society
7.10. Liberal Revolutions, German and Italian Unifications and the Era of Imperialism
7.10.1. The Liberal Revolutions of 1820, 1848 and 1930
7.10.2. Italian Unification and German Unification
7.10.3. The Era of Imperialism
Module 8. Contemporary World History II
8.1. Women in the 20th Century
8.1.1. The Struggle for Citizenship
8.1.2. Women in Interwar Europe
8.2. The First World War
8.2.1. The Causes of the War
8.2.2. The Phases of the War
8.2.3. The End of the Conflict and Peace Treaties
8.2.4. Consequences of the War
8.3. The Russian Revolution
8.3.1. The Revolutionary Process in Russia: From Lenin to Stalin
8.3.2. The Balance of the Revolution
8.4. Postwar Society
8.4.1. Changes in Social Structure
8.4.2. The Urbanization Process
8.4.3. The formation of Consumer Society
8.5. The crisis of Liberal Democracies
8.5.1. The Beginnings of the Social State
8.5.2. Great Britain
8.5.3. The Third French Republic
8.5.4. Germany and the Weimar Republic
8.5.5. The United States
8.6. Italian Fascism
8.6.1. The Birth of Fascist Italy
8.6.2. Fascism Becomes Dictatorship
8.6.3. The Birth of the Empire
8.7. Nazi Germany
8.7.1. Hitler and the Rise of Nazism to Power
8.7.2. Principles of National Socialism and the Structure of the Nazi State
8.7.3. Nazi Foreign Policy before the War
8.8. The Wall Street Crash of 1929
8.8.1. The Great Depression
8.8.2. Responses to the Recession
8.9. The Second World War
8.9.1. Causes of the War
8.9.2. How the War Developed
8.10. The New International Order after the War
8.10.1. Peace Conferences: Yalta and Potsdam
8.10.2. The Consequences of the War
8.10.3. Organizing Peaceful Co-Existence
Module 9. Contemporary History of the Mediterranean Countries
9.1. History, Contemporaneity and the Mediterranean
9.1.1. History, Contemporaneity and the Mediterranean: Basic Concepts
9.2. Contemporary Political Transformations in the Mediterranean World
9.2.1. Evolution
9.3. Society and Culture in the Contemporary Mediterranean World
9.3.1. Society in the Mediterranean World
9.3.2. Culture in the Mediterranean World
9.4. Women in the 19th and 20th Centuries in the Mediterranean World
9.4.1. Evolution
9.5. Contemporary Economic Transformations in the Mediterranean World
9.5.1. The Evolution and Transformation of the Different Economic Sectors: General Features
9.6. Agricultural Transformation in the Mediterranean
9.6.1. General Characteristics
9.6.2. Evolution
9.7. The Industrial Sector in the Mediterranean
9.7.1. General Characteristics
9.7.2. Evolution
9.8. The Rise of the Service Sector
9.8.1. General Characteristics
9.8.2. Evolution
9.9. Tourism
9.9.1. The Emergence of Tourism
9.10. Migratory Movements in the Mediterranean
9.10.1. Migratory Movements in the Mediterranean
9.10.2. Rural Exodus
Module 10. History of the World Today
10.1. Introduction
10.1.1. The Consequences of the Second World War
10.1.2. The Project to Build a New International Order
10.2. Cold War I
10.2.1. The End of the War and the Configuration of the Blocs
10.2.2. Concept, Phases and National and International Implications
10.2.3. The First Phase: From Berlin to Korea
10.3. Cold War II
10.3.1. From Armed Co-Existence to De-Escalation
10.3.2. The 1980s
10.3.3. The Fall of the Communist Bloc and the “Official End” of the Cold War
10.4. The USSR and Eastern Countries
10.4.1. Post-War Reconstruction and Stalinism in the USSR
10.4.2. The Construction of the “People’s Democracies” in Eastern Europe
10.4.3. Khrushchev’s Projects
10.4.4. The 1956 Suez Crisis
10.4.5. The Long Brezhnev Era
10.4.6. From Perestroika to the Collapse of the Socialist System
10.4.7. The Dissolution of the USSR and the Fall of the Communist Bloc
10.5. Socialism Outside the Bloc
10.5.1. China
10.5.2. Other Models
10.6. The Capitalist Bloc: Political and Economic Development
10.6.1. The United States
10.6.2. The Democracies of Western Europe: National Characteristics and Policies
10.6.3. The Southern Exception: Greece, Portugal and Spain
10.6.4. Economic Growth and the Welfare State
10.6.5. The Japanese Case
10.7. The New Social and Cultural Movements: The 1960s and the 1970s
10.7.1. French: May 1969
10.7.2. The Civil Rights Movement in the United States
10.7.3. The Second Feminist Wave and Women’s Liberation
10.7.4. Social Movements and Pacifism
10.8. Decolonization
10.8.1. The Impact of the Second World War and the Factors of Decolonization
10.8.2. National Politics and Nationalisms: Paths to Independence
10.8.3. Political Independence and Economic Dependence
10.8.4. The New African States
10.8.5. The New Asian States
10.8.6. The New State of Israel: The Permanent Conflict in the Middle East
10.9. The “Third World”
10.9.1. Theories and Interpretations of Decolonization, Neocolonialism and Underdevelopment
10.9.2. World Stratification and Globalization
10.10. The Main Problems in the World Today
10.10.1. The End of Real Socialism
10.10.2. The New North American Empire
10.10.3. The Triumph of Neoliberalism
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