GE-412 World History II

Since about 1400, ships, trade, empire and the gospel have joined the world together. Learn the modern story that shaped the people you serve, and read it as a Christian.

Following From Every Nation, with the OpenStax world history beside it, this course runs from the Mughals, the Ottomans and the Reformation to the slave trade and its end, the age of empire, the world wars, the Cold War and the church of today. In these centuries the centre of the Christian world moved to Africa, Asia and Latin America. You learn to state a historian's account fairly, weigh it from Christian teaching and tell your church's story truthfully. Some of this history is painful; if it touches your own life, speak with a pastor or a trained counsellor.

What you will study

• Reading the modern past honestly: sources, causes and memory
• Asia, Africa and the Islamic world, and the first modern missions
• The Reformation and Catholic reform
• Conquest, the slave trade and its end
• Colonies, the factory, empire and mission
• The world wars, the Holocaust and the Confessing Church
• The Cold War, independence and the churches of the South
• The church in today's world

Course materials

• From Every Nation, a WWES textbook
• World History, Volume 2: from 1400, an OpenStax textbook