UNIT 1
State Building in the Global Tapestry
(1200 - 1450)
 
1.  State Building in Asia
2.  Dar al-Islam
3.  State Building in the Americas and Africa
​4.  The High Middle Ages: Europe

UNIT 2

Networks of Exchange (1200 - 1450)

1.  Silk, Sea & Sand: Trade Routes
2.  The Mongol Empire
3.  Cultural Consequences of Connectivity
4.  Environmental Consequences of Connectivity

UNIT 3

Land-Based Empires (1450 - 1750)

1.  Empires: Expansion
2.  Empires: Administation
3.  Empires: Belief Structures 

UNIT 4

Sea of Exploration (1450 - 1750)

1.  An Age of Exploration
2.  The Columbian Exchange
3.  Impacts of Maritime Interactions
4.  Economics, Resistance and Hierarchies

UNIT 5

Revolutions (1750 - 1900)

1.  The Enlightenment
2.  Nationalism and Revolution
3.  The Age of Napoleon
4.  The Industrial Revolution
5.  State-Sponsored Industry and Economic Change
6.  Industrial Reaction and Social Change

UNIT 6
Imperial Migration (1750 - 1900)

1.  Reasons for Imperialism
2.  Empire Building
3.  Native Resistance
4.  Global Economic Imperialism
5.  Causes and Effects of Migration

UNIT 7

Global Conflicts (1900 - present)

1.  Shifting Power after 1900
2.  The First World War
3.  The Interwar Years
4.  Appeasement and the Causes of War
5.  The Second World War
6.  Mass Atrocities

UNIT 8

Cold War and Decolonization (1900 - present)

1.  The Cold War
2.  Cold War Escalation
3.  Decolonization and New States
4.  Resistance and Closure on the Cold War

UNIT 9

Globalization (1900 - present)

1.  Advances and Limitation of Technology
2.  Environmental Concerns
3.  Global Economics
4.  Reform and Responses
5.  Globalized Culture and Cultural Resistance