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Unit 1 – The Global Tapestry (1200-1450)
1.1 East Asia from 1200-1450
1.2 Dar al-Islam from 1200-1450
1.3 South and Southeast Asia from 1200-1450
1.4 The Americas from 1200 to 1450
1.5 Africa from 1200 to 1450
1.6 Europe from 1200 to 1450
1.7 Comparisons in the Period from 1200-1450
Unit 2 – Networks of Exchange (1200-1450)
2.1 Silk Roads
2.2 The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World
2.3 Indian Ocean Trade Routes
2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
2.5 Cultural Effects of Trade
2.6 Environmental Effects of Trade
2.7 Comparison in Trade from 1200-1450
Unit 3 – Land-Based Empires (1450-1750)
3.1 Expansion of Land-Based Empires
3.2 Governments of Land-Based Empires
3.3 Belief Systems of Land-Based Empires
3.4 Comparison in Land-Based Empires
Unit 4 – Global Connections: 1450-1750
4.1 Technological Innovations from 1450 to 1750
4.2 Exploration
4.3 Columbian Exchange
4.4 Maritime Empires Established
4.5 Maritime Empires Maintained and Developed
4.6 Resistance to European Expansion
4.7 Class and Race from 1450-1750
4.8 Continuity and Change from 1450 to 1750
Unit 5 – Revolutions (1750-1900)
5.1 The Enlightenment
5.10 Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age
5.2 Nationalism and Revolutions from 1750-1900
5.3 Industrialization Begins
5.4 Industrialization Spreads in the Period from 1750 to 1900
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 Society and the Industrial Age
Unit 6 – Industrialization's Impact (1750-1900)
6.1 Rationales for Imperialism
6.2 Expansion of Imperialism
6.3 Indigenous Responses to Imperialism
6.4 Global Economic Development from 1750 to 1900
6.5 Economic Imperialism
6.6 Causes of Migration from 1750 to 1900
6.7 Effects of Migration from 1750 to 1900
6.8 Causation in the Imperial Age
Unit 7 – Global Conflicts (1900-Present)
7.1 Shifting Power After 1900
7.2 Causes of World War I
7.3 Conducting World War I
7.4 Economy in the Interwar Period
7.5 Unresolved Tensions After World War I
7.6 Causes of World War II
7.7 Conducting World War II
7.8 Mass Atrocities After 1900
7.9 Causation in Global Conflict
Unit 8 – Cold War & Decolonization (1900-Present)
8.1 Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization
8.2 The Cold War
8.3 Effects of the Cold War
8.4 Spread of Communism After 1900
8.5 Decolonization After 1900
8.6 Newly Independent States After 1900
8.7 Global Resistance in the 20th Century
8.8 End of the Cold War
8.9 Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization
Unit 9 – Globalization: 1900 to Today
9.1 Advances in Technology and Exchange after 1900
9.2 Technological Advances and Limitations after 1900
9.3 Technological Advances
9.4 Economics in the Global Age
9.5 Calls for Reform and Responses after 1900
9.6 Globalized Culture after 1900
9.7 Resistance to Globalization After 1900
9.8 Institutions Developing in a Globalized World
9.9 Continuity and Change in a Globalized World
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