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The purpose of this study is an analysis on the describing system and contents of korean high School <World History> textbooks in sight of the exchange and circulation of civilizations between Eastern and Western. The researcher selected five kinds of high school <World History> textbooks as the subject of this study. This includes textbooks approved by the Ministry of Education in August 2011 August 2013. Because there are differences in the described contents and configuration sections of the <World History> textbooks. In fact, one kinds of unusual worth, textbook writers have a positive narrative about trade activity of Muslim merchants and the expansion of trade networks between Eastern and Western under the Mongol domination. However, since the pioneering of new routes, describing about the integration of the global trade network led by Westerners is negative, such as aggression, plunder, destruction, exploitation, slavery, domination, plague. Current high school <World History> description of the trade routes, transportation network of exchanges connecting civilizations can be called encouraging. Information on the exchange and circulation of civilization in high school world history textbooks will be reduced, because a total of six sections are presented in high school world history curriculum of revision 2015.

Eastern, Western, civilization, exchanges, high school, world history, textbook, describing system, content analysis, Islam, Mongol Empire, the discovery of geography