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Aim: What is a World-System, and how can this theory help us understand periodization of period 4?

Aim: What is a World-System, and how can this theory help us understand periodization of period 4?. APWH Unit 4. Prior to this class, how have you studied history?. By “unit” (time period) By nation (American history)

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Aim: What is a World-System, and how can this theory help us understand periodization of period 4?

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  1. Aim: What is a World-System, and how can this theory help us understand periodization of period 4? APWH Unit 4

  2. Prior to this class, how have you studied history? • By “unit” (time period) • By nation (American history) • By individual accomplishments or by watershed events or revolutions (both of which are subsets of the above two categories)

  3. How have you studied history so far in this course? • By “unit” – periodization (Foundations, Classical, Post-Classical) • Inter- and intra-regionally (Byzantine Empire, Han Empire, South Asia, East Asia, etc.)

  4. World-System Theory • Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System, 1974 • “In order to describe the origins and initial workings of a world system, I have had to argue a certain conception of a world-system. A world-system is a social system, one that has boundaries, structures, member groups, rules of legitimation, and coherence. Its life is made up of the conflicting forces which hold it together by tension and tear it apart as each group seeks eternally to remold it to its advantage. It has the characteristics of an organism, in that it has a life-span over which its characteristics change in some respects and remain stable in others. One can define its structures as being at different times strong or weak in terms of the internal logic of its functioning.” • Terms to know: core, periphery, semi-periphery

  5. Marks Reading – Material and Trade World • What did you think? What was interesting, or confusing, or what did you disagree with? • What’s his argument?

  6. Period 4 PEriodization • What happened between 1450 and 1750? • So…why 1450? What’s different? To what extent did a world-system exist in Periods 2 and 3? • Why do most historians mark Period 4 as the beginning of the “modern era,” and to what extent do you agree? (Essential Question for the unit!)

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