Want to know where our modern world came from? This course will give you an understanding of the forces that formed the world we know. Though the eyes of those who experienced them, we will examine interactions of religion, politics, economics and culture across the medieval and early modern world, and the development of warfare as a political, social and cultural phenomenon in the early modern period. This course is also designed to give you the academic skills that will prepare you for upper level courses and the intellectual demands of your military career.

Students planning to enrol in further history studies will normally need to complete this course in addition to ZHSS1202 History1B: Birth of the Modern World II - The Age of Revolutions to be eligible to enrol in second and third year units.