i.
2/3 of world’s wealth now resides in the G7 countries
ii. 200 years ago, 2/3 of world’s wealth resided in China and
India iii.
What happened to make this happen?
b.
Some Questions to Guide Us (from OMW, p. 2)
i.
How did European industrialized nation-states come to define
our world?
ii. How and why has there been a growing gap between rich and poor?
iii. How and why have G7 countries been able to set the rules of
the game?
2.
Issues and Key Concepts
a.
What is Eurocentrism?
i.
Ethnocentrism + Universalism = Bad Historical
Understanding
ii. Eurocentrism as article of faith in America
iii. Thinking Outside the Eurocentric Matrix