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The term “genocide” and its codification in international law originate in the mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It was the first genocide of the twentieth century. This set uses the UN Convention as a framework for analyzing the Armenian Genocide, the perceptions of difference and wartime conditions that led Turkish nationalists to commit atrocities, and the responses of Armenians, foreigners, and other nations. The set concludes with the creation of an early relief organization, America’s Near East Relief.

Students can continue to consider the question How did colonization work?in order to understand the concrete results of colonization in a variety of geographic contexts. Colonizers introduced new infrastructures, medicines, educational systems, and cultural norms. Print technology and more rapid transportation aided the growth of organized religion. ... Christian missionaries made use of colonial institutions and infrastructure to educate and evangelize native peoples, helping to broaden Christian presence around the world....

Students can continue to consider the question How did colonization work?in order to understand the concrete results of colonization in a variety of geographic contexts. Colonizers introduced new infrastructures, medicines, educational systems, and cultural norms. Print technology and more rapid transportation aided the growth of organized religion. ... Christian missionaries made use of colonial institutions and infrastructure to educate and evangelize native peoples, helping to broaden Christian presence around the world....

This set contains eight written sources to compare the revolutions in North America, France, Haiti, and Latin America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. There are two sources for each revolution, with the first source focusing on the reasons for wanting independence and the second source on some of the political changes made by the revolution. The set will help students understand the desire for revolution and the transfer of revolutionary ideas and fervor across borders, oceans, and continents.

 In California, the Modern World History curriculum begins with a study of the intellectual foundations of Western political thought. The standards require students to understand “selections from Plato's Republicand Aristotle's Politics” and the role that these ideas have on the making of our political system.