Reply #6: That seems too far back to cover it all up to present by May.

[Bucky]

As I've revised my schedule (over and over) I keep running into stuff far back in time that I think--oh that's cool, I wanna cover that, too. Currently I'm thinking:

far east: Qing Dynasty, maybe include collapse of the Mings. But it seems that the Qing problems teach us more about modern China

Africa from the Mali and Mideast from the Ottomans, sure, but I want to start in soon enough there to cover the Great Game over India, Persia

Europe: Enlightenment is the very earliest I can justify starting there. Otherwise I'd have to short shrift social and labor history

Americas: I can more or less cover the Amerindian genocide quickly and then jump straight over to the Latin American independence movement. Spanish colonial strikes me as less important to know than the rise of the caudillos.