Soc 8 Readings

Worldviews - Contact and Change

Unit 1 - Renaissance Europe

          Times of Change                                          Expansion of Trade                                       Humanist Approach

     Exhange of Ideas                                           Age of Exploration                                       "O Brave New World"

Unit 2 - Worldviews in Conflict

     People of the Sun                                          For the Good of the People                         Spain Looks Westward

                         A Deadly Meeting                                      Worldviews in Conflict

Unit 3 - From Isolation to Adaptation

      Shaping a Unique Worldview                   Japan Under the Shogun                             Edo Japan: A Closed Society

                        Contact and Change in Meiji Japan      Return to Roots

Conclusion/Glossary/Index

Key Events

World Map