1200 to the present through networks of exchange, state building, revolution, and global conflict. It's built around the reasoning the DBQ and LEQ reward.
The Global Tapestry, 1200–1450
How states across Afro-Eurasia and the Americas organized power and belief.
Networks of Exchange
Silk Roads, the Indian Ocean, and the Mongol moment.
Land-Based Empires, 1450–1750
Gunpowder, legitimacy, and how empires held diverse populations together.
Transoceanic Interconnections
Maritime empires, the Columbian Exchange, and coerced labor.
Revolutions, 1750–1900
New ideas about government, and new ways of making things.
Consequences of Industrialization
Imperialism, migration, and the states that reformed to compete.
Global Conflict and Cold War
Two world wars, then a divided world and decolonization.
Cold War and Decolonization, 1900–present
The Cold War and the end of empires.
Globalization, 1900–present
Technology, economics, and culture in a connected world.