GE-411 World History I

The gospel rests on real events, and every church serves a people with its own past. Learn the human story from the first cities to 1500, and read it as a Christian.

Following From Every Nation, with the OpenStax world history beside it, this course shows how historians work with sources, causes and interpretations. It moves from the first farming peoples and Israel among the empires, through Asia, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Africa, to the church, Islam, the Mongols and the Black Death. You read it with three Christian lenses: what is true by God's gift to all, where sin bends things, and how Christians help to set them right and learn to tell your church's and community's story truthfully.

What you will study

• How historians work with sources, causes and interpretations
• The first farming peoples and cities, and Israel among the empires
• Ancient Asia, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Africa
• Jesus, the early church and Rome
• Constantine, Aksum and the Church of the East
• The rise of Islam, crusade, schism and the Mongols
• Christianity and Islam in medieval Africa
• Plague, fear and faithfulness: the world to 1500

Course materials

• From Every Nation, a WWES textbook
• World History, Volume 1: to 1500, an OpenStax textbook