The aim of this course is to analyze the important events, from the pre-modern ages to 1st World War, those give a direction to world history in an inter-state context. Moreover, it aims to understand the contemporary independency revolts particularly as the results of the developments of the period of American and French revolutions.

The basic concepts of political history, the main features of world history until 19th century, the emergence of nation-states, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Italian and German unification processes, colonialism, the way to the First World War and the results of the war, states as the political, social and economic structures, and their relations with each other will be examined.