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World History 1200

You might be surprised at how much history influences our everyday lives. Past events such as the Black Death, the Columbian Exchange, political revolutions, and an era of global conflict shape our present. How? You’ll find out as you move through the course and start to think like a historian.

Unit 1 • 4 Lessons

Narratives and Frames
Everything has a history. This course begins with the history of you and expands to the history of the entire world.

Unit 2 • 9 Lessons

The Global Tapestry
Welcome to the year 1200 CE, a time of sprawling trade routes and mighty empires. A diverse collection of societies linked huge world regions across a web of interconnections.

Unit 3 • 9 Lessons

Transoceanic Connections
After 1492, transoceanic voyages linked the hemispheres in sustained connection for the first time, setting the stage for an exchange that forever changed lives in the Old World and the New.

Unit 4 • 5 Lessons

Revolutions
Beginning in the eighteenth century, an age of revolutions shook the foundations of global power. Enter an era of new ideas as mighty empires fell and a new era of nations was born.

Unit 5 • 8 Lessons

Industrialization
The Industrial Revolution has been the most important transformation in the last 12,000 years. Within a few short decades of its beginnings in eighteenth-century Britain, it reshaped economic, political, and social structures around the world.

Unit 6 • 4 Lessons

Industrial Empires
Industrialization offered new weapons to empires. Thanks to innovations like steamships, trains, and machine guns, industrial empires spread their borders further than ever, opening new markets and resources to fuel their factories.

Unit 7 • 8 Lessons

Global Conflict
The transformations of the long nineteenth century set the stage for an era of unprecedented warfare, atrocity, and threat to our species’ survival.

Unit 8 • 7 Lessons

Cold War and Decolonization
As the Second World War ended, new global conflicts emerged. The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and decolonization movements reshaped the world order.

Unit 9 • 8 Lessons

Globalization
What does it mean to live in a global world? Explore the promises and problems of global connections, and how nationalism and identity continue to shape how people experience the world.