What do you want to learn from this course?

• Team One, Four & Five: "What are the roots of this recession and how can we use history to help us fix the economy?" A total of 8 students asked questions about the economic crisis..

• Team Two "Would the world be different if 911 hadn't happened?" (Historians call this type of "what if" question a "counterfactual"--HS.)

• Team Three: What allowed the West to become so technologically advanced in the 19th century compared to the rest of the world?"

• Team Six: 

1. "How can we better the world around us (poverty, medical care, inequality etc.)?" 
2.  "Will America's international dominance continue to decline in the same fashion as the hegemons of the past?"
3. "How did China come to be the creditor and the US the debtor?"
4. "Will this class experience change our view of the world?" 

• Other Questions: 

1. What caused the "fall" of Mussolini?
2. What can we learn from world history (so as not to repeat the past?)
3. Where did most of our culture come from?
4. "Why can't we rewrite laws for mistake others made?"
5. "Learn more about dictators in Europe" 
6. "How did Europe dominate the globe in the past?"