What tools do world historians use in the study of history? This unit begins the study of world history by examining ...

How are history and memory different? Topics in this unit range from the celebration of Columbus Day to the demolitio...

How did the many paths of human migration people the planet? From their origins on the African continent, humans have...

What do historians know about the earliest farmers and herders, and the evolution of cities? Newly emerging evidence ...

How did people begin to understand themselves in relation to the natural world and to the unseen realms beyond, and h...

How do diverse political structures and relationships distribute power and material resources? Through the rise of th...

How do religions interact, adopt new ideas, and adapt to diverse cultures? As the missionaries, pilgrims, and convert...

How do societies assign value to land, labor, and material goods? A comparison of manorial economies in Japan and med...

How were land-based trade routes conduits of both commerce and culture? The Eurasian Silk Roads, the trans-Saharan Go...

How were water routes used as conduits of expansion and trade? The traders of the Indian Ocean, the early Mississippi...

What makes an 'empire'? Through the Mongol empire, the Mali empire, and the Inka empire, this unit examines the const...

What are traditions and how are they transmitted? Islamic Spain, Korea, and West Africa provide examples of many diff...

What does the study of families and households tell us about our global past? In this episode examining West Asia, Eu...

What factors shape the ways in which the basic resources are exploited by a society? From Southeast Asia to Russia to...

What is globalization and when did it begin? Before the sixteenth century, the world's four main monetary substances ...

What role has food played in human societies? Studying the production and consumption of food allows historians to un...

How do ideas change the world? This unit traces the impact of European Enlightenment ideals in the American and Haiti...

How does historical scholarship change over time, and why do the perspectives of historians shift? This unit recaps t...

How was the story of the industrial revolution a global process? Industrialization was and is a global process, not j...

What lasting impacts did modern imperialism have on the world? The profound consequences of imperialism are examined ...

How did colonialism and eventual de-colonization mutually affect the colonizer and the colonized? From Zanzibar to In...

How 'global' were the World Wars? This unit examines Japanese imperialism, the Belgian Congo, and twentieth century p...

What is the impact of the individual in world history? This unit examines the role of individual and collective actio...

How have the forces of globalization shaped the modern world? This unit travels from the Soviet Union to Sri Lanka an...

What are the sounds and sights of an emerging global culture? From World Cup soccer to Coca-Cola, modern icons reflec...

How have global forces redefined both individual and group identity in the modern world? This unit examines the trans...