- Team 1: Why caused the wars, violence and mass murder of the 20th century? (a total of 8 people asked similar questions)
- Team 2: Why were the imperial powers so hungry for African land?
- Team 3: What can we learn from the history of the 20th century to help the economy of today and the future? (5 people asked similar questions)
- Team 4: Why does the US feel responsible for policing the world?
- Team 5: Why did communism fall and capitalism conquer the world?
...also asked: What can we learn from 20th century history to help our world today?/what's similar today? (2 people)
...and some people asked the questions that I posed in the syllabus:
- What was the cause and nature of the west’s “new imperialist” expansion?
- What caused the catastrophic levels of violence that made the 20th century the bloodiest in human history?
- What caused people to embrace radical alternatives to the way their societies were organized? Why did these utopian experiments fail?
- What was the nature of the anti-colonial/independence movements of the twentieth century?
- Why do we now speak of “world civilization” instead of “western civilization”?
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