Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
How did states form, expand, and decline in the world during 1200–1450? What political, social, and cultural developments arose from that change?
1.1 - East Asia
1.2 - Dar al-Islam
1.3 - South and Southeast Asia
1.4 - The Americas
1.5 - Africa
1.6 - Europe
Unit 2: Networks of Exchange
How areas of the world in 1200-1450 were linked through trade and how these connections affected people, cultures, and environments
2.1 - Silk Roads
2.2 - The Mongols
2.3 - Indian Ocean Trade
2.4 - Trans-Saharan Trade
2.5 - Cultural Effects of Trade
2.6 - Environmental Effects of Trade
Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
Explore empires between 1450-1750 that held power of large contiguous areas of land
3.1 - Expansion of Land-based Empires
3.2 - Governments of Land-based Empires
3.3 - Belief Systems of Land-based Empires
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Learn about advances in ocean exploration, the development of new maritime empires, and the effects of new cross-cultural encounters in 1450-1750
4.1 - New Technologies
4.2 - Exploration
4.3 - The Columbian Exchange
4.4 - Maritime Empires
4.5 - Expansion of Maritime Empires
4.6 - Resistance to European Expansion
4.7 - Class and Race
Unit 5: Revolutions
How did new political ideas and developments in technology lead to large-scale changes in governments, society, and economies in 1750-1900?
5.1 - The Enlightenment
5.2 - Revolutions
5.3 - Industrialization Begins
5.4 - Industrialization Spreads
5.5 - Technology in the Industrial Age
5.6 - State-led Industrialization
5.7 - Economic Effects of Industrialization
5.8 - Responses to Industrialization
5.9 - Social Effects of Industrialization
Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization
Learn how different states acquired and expanded control over colonies and territories in 1750-1900
6.1 - Rationales for Imperialism
6.2 - Expansion of Imperialism
6.3 - Indigenous Responses to Imperialism
6.4 - Global Economic Development
6.5 - Economic Imperialism
6.6 - Causes of Migration
6.7 - Effects of Migration
Unit 7: Global Conflict
Study the global conflicts that dominated 1900–present
7.1 - Shifting Power
7.2 - Causes of WWI
7.3 - Conducting WWI
7.4 - Interwar Economy
7.5 - Interwar Politics
7.6 - Causes of WWII
7.7 - Conducting WWII
7.8 - Mass Atrocities after 1900
Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
Learn about colonies' persuits of independence and the global power struggle between capitalism and communism in 1900-present
8.1 - Context of the Cold War
8.2 - The Cold War
8.3 - Effects of the Cold War
8.4 - Spread of Communism
8.5 - Decolonization
8.6 - Newly Independent States
8.7 - Global Resistance
8.8 - End of the Cold War
Unit 9: Globalization
Investigate the causes and effects of the unprecedented connectivity of the modern world
9.1 - Advances in Technology
9.2 - Technological Advances and Limitations
9.3 - Environmental Impacts
9.4 - Global Economics
9.5 - Calls for Reform
9.6 - Globalized Culture
9.7 - Resistance to Globalization
9.8 - Globalized Institutions