CHY4U West & the World


Trials of the Centuries




List of Possible Suspects
 

Unit 1:1500-1715

Institutions Challenged


Pope Leo X
Niccolo Machiavelli
Martin Luther
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Galileo
Louis XIV
Francis Bacon
Catherine the Great
Christopher Columbus
John Locke

Unit 2

1715-1815

Revolutions


Napoleon
Louis XVI
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Jesuits
Maximilien Robespierre
Adam Smith
Madame Roland

Unit 3

1815-1914

Birth & Transition


Karl Marx
Vladimir Lenin
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Czar Alexander II
Count Otto Von Bismark
Cecil Rhodes
King Leopold II

Unit 4

1914-

Extremes


Hitler
Stalin
Mao Tse-Tung
Hirohito
Mussolini
Tsar Nicholas II
Rasputin
Roosevelt
Harry Truman
John F. Kennedy
Virginia Woolf
Pope Pius XII
Pol Pot
Castro
Malcolm X
Bill Clinton
Robert Mugabe


It is clear from the list above that the curriculum favours a male dominated view of World History. The above list is a sampling of historical figures highlighted in the textbook, if there is someone else that you would like to put on trial please discuss with the Instructor for Approval.


 


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