Social studies Ages 14-18 ● Media ready

World history

From the earliest civilizations to the modern world, geography, religion, trade, and politics have bound peoples and nations together—and torn them apart. Take a journey through time and space and discover the fascinating history behind the complex world we inhabit today

15 units 153 lessons 249 videos 10 on CDN

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Unit 2 Origins of History

1 History Stories | 1.1 Free 3 video(s) ● 2 History of Many Shapes and Sizes | 1.2 Free 1 video(s) ● 3 History Frames | 1.3 Free 4 video(s) ● 4 History and Memory | 1.4 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) ● 16 The 20th century : Unit test 🔒 Pro

Unit 3 Early Humans (250,000 BP to 3000 BCE)

1 The Earliest Humans | 2.1 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 2 Migration and Art | 2.2 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 3 Foraging Societies | 2.3 🔒 Pro 5 The Agricultural Revolution | 2.4 🔒 Pro 6 The Biggest Mistake Humans Ever Made? | 2.5 🔒 Pro

Unit 4 Early Agrarian Societies (6000 BCE to 100 CE)

1 Cities, Societies, and Empires | 3.1 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 2 Foragers and Village Networks | 3.2 🔒 Pro 3 The First Cities, States, and Empires | 3.3 🔒 Pro 5 Ancient Trade Networks | 3.4 🔒 Pro 6 Early Agrarian Societies | 3.5 🔒 Pro 7 Ancient Mesopotamia | 3.6 🔒 Pro 9 Shang Dynasty China | 3.7 🔒 Pro 10 Nubia and Ancient Egypt | 3.8 🔒 Pro 11 Aksum and Nok Society | 3.9 🔒 Pro 13 Ancient Americas | 3.10 🔒 Pro 14 Indus River Valley | 3.11 🔒 Pro 15 Early Agrarian Societies in Context | 3.12 🔒 Pro

Unit 5 Empires and Belief Systems (600 BCE to 700 CE)

1 Empires and Belief Systems | 4.1 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 2 Portable Belief Systems | 4.2 🔒 Pro 3 Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism | 4.3 🔒 Pro 4 Hinduism and Buddhism | 4.4 🔒 Pro 6 Judaism and Christianity | 4.5 🔒 Pro 7 Islam | 4.6 🔒 Pro 8 Comparing Portable Belief Systems | 4.7 🔒 Pro 9 How Do Religions Grow and Change? | 4.8 🔒 Pro 11 Ancient Empires: Persians and Greeks | 4.9 🔒 Pro 12 Ancient Empires: Mauryan and Gupta | 4.10 🔒 Pro 13 Ancient Empires: Zhou and Qin | 4.11 🔒 Pro 15 Comparing Ancient Empires | 4.12 🔒 Pro 16 Ancient Empires: Rome and Han China | 4.13 🔒 Pro 17 The Rise and Fall of Empires | 4.14 🔒 Pro 19 Women in the Ancient World | 4.15 🔒 Pro

Unit 6 Regional Webs (200 to 1500 CE)

1 Collapse and Restructuring | 5.1 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 2 Why Do Empires Collapse? | 5.2 🔒 Pro 3 Assessing the Dark Ages | 5.3 🔒 Pro 5 Systems Restructure in Europe | 5.4 🔒 Pro 6 Systems Restructure in China | 5.5 🔒 Pro 7 The Islamic World | 5.6 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 9 The Silk Roads | 5.7 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 10 Expanding the Silk Roads | 5.8 🔒 Pro 3 video(s)

Unit 7 The First Global Age (1200 to 1750 CE)

1 The First Global Age | 6.1 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 2 The Mongol Empire | 6.2 🔒 Pro 3 The Black Death | 6.3 🔒 Pro 5 Cultural Exchange in Afro-Eurasia | 6.4 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 6 Communities in the Americas | 6.5 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 7 Trade Routes in the Americas | 6.6 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 9 Empires Expand | 6.7 🔒 Pro 10 Age of Exploration | 6.8 🔒 Pro 11 The Columbian Exchange | 6.9 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 13 The Transatlantic Slave Trade | 6.10 🔒 Pro 1 video(s)

Unit 8 The Long Nineteenth Century (1750 to 1914 CE)

1 The Long Nineteenth Century | 7.1 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 2 Enlightenment and Revolution | 7.2 🔒 Pro 3 Atlantic Revolutions | 7.3 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 5 Nationalism | 7.4 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 6 The Industrial Revolution | 7.5 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 7 Comparing Industrialization in Egypt and Japan | 7.6 🔒 Pro 9 The Working Class | 7.7 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 10 Reform Movements | 7.8 🔒 Pro 11 Industrial Imperialism | 7.9 🔒 Pro 13 Resisting Colonialism | 7.10 🔒 Pro 1 video(s)

Unit 9 Global Conflict (1914 to 1991 CE)

1 Century of Conflict | 8.1 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 2 Causes of the First World War | 8.2 🔒 Pro 3 The First Total War | 8.3 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 5 A World Remade | 8.4 🔒 Pro 6 Interwar Ideologies | 8.5 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 8 The Second World War | 8.6 🔒 Pro 9 The Holocaust | 8.7 🔒 Pro 11 The Cold War | 8.8 🔒 Pro 12 Decolonization | 8.9 🔒 Pro 1 video(s)

Unit 10 Globalization (1900 CE to the Present)

1 Our Interconnected World | 9.1 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 2 Is Globalization Good or Bad? | 9.2 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 3 The Global Economy | 9.3 🔒 Pro 5 The Great Acceleration | 9.4 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 6 Global Communities | 9.5 🔒 Pro 7 Global Conflicts | 9.6 🔒 Pro 9 Experiencing Globalization | 9.7 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 10 The Anthropocene? | 9.8 🔒 Pro 1 video(s)

Unit 11 Beginnings - 600 BCE

1 The origin of humans and early human societies 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 2 The Neolithic Revolution and the birth of agriculture 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 4 Ancient Mesopotamia 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 5 Ancient Egypt 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 7 Ancient art and artifacts 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 8 Ancient India 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 9 Shang China 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 11 Ancient Americas 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 12 Human innovation and the environment 🔒 Pro 3 video(s)

Unit 12 600 BCE - 600 CE Second-Wave Civilizations

1 Ancient Persia 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 2 Classical Greece 🔒 Pro 7 video(s) 3 The rise and fall of empires 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 4 Empire of Alexander the Great 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 5 Rise of Rome 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 6 From Roman Republic to Roman Empire 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 7 The Roman Empire 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 9 Ancient and Imperial China 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 10 Early Judaism 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 11 Early Christianity 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 13 Early Americas 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 14 Empires in India 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 15 Early Hinduism 🔒 Pro 6 video(s) 16 Early Buddhism 🔒 Pro 5 video(s) 18 Syncretism 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 19 Women and families 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 20 Transregional Trade: the Silk Road 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 22 Survey of second-wave civilizations 🔒 Pro 3 video(s)

Unit 13 600 - 1450 Regional and interregional interactions

1 Byzantine Empire 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 2 European Middle Ages: feudalism and serfdom 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 4 Origins of Islam 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 5 Spread of Islam 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 6 Sunni and Shia Islam 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 7 Golden Age of Islam 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 9 The Great Schism 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 10 The Crusades 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 12 The Mongols 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 13 Song China 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 14 Medieval Japan 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 16 Maya, Aztec, and Inca 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 17 Environment and trade 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 19 Human migration 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 20 Development of new trading cities 🔒 Pro 22 Cultural interactions along trade routes 🔒 Pro 23 Development of financial institutions 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 25 Disease and demography 🔒 Pro 26 Social institutions in the Islamic world 🔒 Pro

Unit 14 1450 - 1750 Renaissance and Reformation

1 Spanish and Portuguese Empires 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 2 Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 3 Mughal rule in India 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 4 Sikhism 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 5 The Protestant Reformation 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 6 The Russian Empire 🔒 Pro 1 video(s)

Unit 15 1750 -1900 Enlightenment and Revolution

1 American Revolution 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 2 French Revolution 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 3 Napoleon Bonaparte 🔒 Pro 7 video(s) 4 France's many revolutions and republics 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 5 Haitian Revolution 🔒 Pro 2 video(s) 6 Latin American independence 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 7 Imperialism 🔒 Pro 3 video(s)

Unit 16 The 20th century

1 Beginning of World War I 🔒 Pro 6 video(s) 2 Other fronts of World War I 🔒 Pro 5 video(s) 3 Western and Eastern fronts of World War I 🔒 Pro 6 video(s) 4 Blockades and American entry 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 6 World War I shapes the Middle East 🔒 Pro 3 video(s) 7 Aftermath of World War I 🔒 Pro 5 video(s) 9 Rise of Hitler and the Nazis 🔒 Pro 5 video(s) 10 Rise of Mussolini and Fascism 🔒 Pro 4 video(s) 12 Overview of Chinese history 1911-1949 🔒 Pro 1 video(s) 13 Overview of World War II 🔒 Pro 9 video(s) 14 The Cold War 🔒 Pro 7 video(s) 15 Human rights 🔒 Pro 3 video(s)