Numbering Code	U-ECON00 20310 LJ43 U-ECON00 20310 LJ42	Year/Term	2022 ・ First semester
Number of Credits	2	Course Type	Lecture
Target Year	From 2nd to 4th year students	Target Student
Language	Japanese	Day/Period	Wed.2
Instructor name	WATANABE JUNKO (Graduate School of Economics Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course	This class focuses on the development of European, American, Asian, and Japanese history over 800 years with a focus on an international order based on hegemony, including Pax Mongolica, Pax Britannica, Pax Americana, and the US-China conflict.
Course Goals	With the aim of enabling high school-university continuity (connection of consistent history education from high school to university), this class covers European, American, Asian, and Japanese history from an economic perspective, and traces the development of history. The aim of this class is to provide students with fundamental knowledge of world and economic history as a basis for them to pursue courses in specialized subjects such as history and economic and business history (European and American economic history, Asian economic history, Japanese economic history, world economic history, business history, international business history, etc.).
Schedule and Contents	1 The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire (Pax Mongolica) 2 The maturity of Japanese feudal society 3 The rise of "Europe" 4 The Ming and Qing Empires 5 The Civil and Industrial Revolutions 6 Pax Britannica 7 World capitalism and the Meiji Restoration 8 The Second Industrial Revolution and the rise of the United States and Germany 9 Japan's industrial revolution 10 World War I and the League of Nations 11 World War II and Pax Americana 12 The Cold War and the Third Industrial Revolution 13 The Iraq War and the "G-Zero" Era 14 Industry 4.0 and the clash of US-China Hegemony 15 Conclusion
Evaluation Methods and Policy	Grading method/perspective: 30 points from quizzes, 70 points from the exam (subject to change based on the status of the COVID-19 measures).
Course Requirements	None
Study outside of Class (preparation and review)	Preparation: Read the designated sections of the textbook in advance. Review: Quizzes
Textbooks	Textbooks/References	Wells, H. G., 世界史概観（上） (Iwanami Shoten, 1966) ISBN: 978-4004130031; Wells, H. G., 世界史概観（下） (2) (Iwanami Shinsho, 1966) ISBN: 978-4004130048; Kanazawa, S., et al., 論点・西洋史学 (Minerva Shobo, 2020) ISBN: 978-4623087792
References, etc.	Introduced during class.