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Pre-History (Western Civ) = c3000 BCE Ancient History = c3000 BCE to 500 CE

Pre-History (Western Civ) = c3000 BCE Ancient History = c3000 BCE to 500 CE Middle Ages = c500 CE to c1500 CE Early Modern History = c1500 to c1700 Modern History = c1700 to 2001?? Contemporary History = 2001 to WFP. Modern Times: Hmmm!. The Death of the Unicorn: nation-states & religion,

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Pre-History (Western Civ) = c3000 BCE Ancient History = c3000 BCE to 500 CE

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  1. Pre-History (Western Civ) = c3000 BCE • Ancient History = c3000 BCE to 500 CE • Middle Ages = c500 CE to c1500 CE • Early Modern History = c1500 to c1700 • Modern History = c1700 to 2001?? • Contemporary History = 2001 to WFP

  2. Modern Times: Hmmm! • The Death of the Unicorn: nation-states & religion, • Me and Mini-Me: capitalism • Down with Scholasticism!: technology and science • Imperialism's Rational: A European world • Pegasus: human achievement

  3. NATION-STATE? • Delineated-Bounded, Sovereign Territory • Cultural and Ethnic Identity-usually same language • Common Bonds • Self-Governing • Sovereignty • Usually External Recognition

  4. NATIONALISM • The love of a common soil, race, language, or historical culture • A desire for the political undependence, security, and prestige of the nation • A mystical devotion to a vague, sometimes even supernatural, social organism which, known as the nation or Volk, is more than the sum of its parts • The dogma that the individual lives exclusively for the nation with the corollary that the nation is an end in itself • The doctrine that the nation (the nationalist’s own) is or should be dominant if not supreme among other nations and should take aggressive action to this end.

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