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Units 1–9
The Global Tapestry
Explore how societies across the world governed, traded, and built cultural traditions before the age of oceanic empires.
UNIT 02 · c. 1200–1450Networks of Exchange
Follow the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and trans-Saharan routes to see how trade moved goods, beliefs, technologies, and diseases.
UNIT 03 · c. 1450–1750Land-Based Empires
Study how large empires expanded through military power and kept control through administration, religion, and art.
UNIT 04 · c. 1450–1750Transoceanic Interconnections
Trace ocean voyages, the Columbian Exchange, colonial labor systems, and the growth of maritime empires.
UNIT 05 · c. 1750–1900Revolutions
Connect new political ideas and revolutions to industrialization and the changing lives of workers and families.
UNIT 06 · c. 1750–1900Consequences of Industrialization
Examine the motives for imperial expansion, responses to colonial rule, global economic change, and migration.
UNIT 07 · c. 1900–presentGlobal Conflict
Investigate the causes, conduct, and human costs of the world wars and other upheavals of the early twentieth century.
UNIT 08 · c. 1900–presentCold War and Decolonization
Explore superpower rivalry, communist movements, independence struggles, and the challenges facing new states.
UNIT 09 · c. 1900–presentGlobalization
Consider how technology, trade, health, culture, and international organizations brought people closer together while creating new tensions.