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Unit 1:The Global Tapestry

Developments in East Asia from 1200 to 1450 

Developments in Dar al-Islam from 1200 to 1450 

Developments in South and Southeast Asia from 1200 to 1450

State Building in the Americas 

State Building in Africa 

Developments in Europe from 1200 to 1450

Unit 1 Downloadable Google Slides

Unit 2: Networks of Exchange (1200 – 1450)

The Silk Roads

The Mongol Empire

Exchange in the Indian Ocean

The Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

The Effects of Cross-Cultural Interactions

Environmental Consequences of Connectivity

Unit 2 Downloadable Google Slides

Unit 3: Land-Based Empires (1450 – 1750)

Empires Expand

Empires: Administration

Empires: Belief Systems

Comparison in Land-Based Empires

The Manchu Qing Dynasty

The Mughal Empire

The Ottoman Empire

The Safavid Empire

Unit 3 Downloadable Google Slides

Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections (1450 – 1750)

Technological Innovations Between 1450 and 1750

Exploration: Causes and Events from 1450 to 1750

Columbian Exchange

Maritime Empires Established

Maritime Empires Maintained and Developed

Internal and External Challenges to State Power

Changing Social Hierarchies

Continuity and Change

Unit 4 Downloadable Google Slides

Unit 5: Revolutions (1750 – 1900)

The Enlightenment

Nationalism and Revolutions

The Industrial Revolution Begins

The Industrial Revolution Spreads

Technology and the Industrial Age

Industrialization: Government's Role

Economic Developments and Innovations

Reactions to the Industrial Economy

Society and the Industrial Age

Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age

Unit 5 Downloadable Google Slides

Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization (1750 – 1900)

Rationales for Imperialism 

State Expansion

Indigenous Responses to State Expansion 

Global Economic Development 

Economic Imperialism 

Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World 

Effects of Migration 

Causation in an Imperial Age

Unit 6 Downloadable Google Slides

Unit 7: Global Conflict (1900 – Present)

Shifting Power after 1900 

Causes of World War I

Conducting World War I

Economy in the Interwar Period 

Unresolved Tensions After World War I

Causes of World War II 

Conducting World War II 

Mass Atrocities After 1900 

Causation in Global Conflict  

Unit 7 Downloadable Google Slides

Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization (1900 – Present)

Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization 

The Cold War

Effects of the Cold War

Spread of Communism after 1900

Decolonization after 1900 

Newly Independent States 

Global Resistance to Established Power Structures after 1900 

End of the Cold War 

Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization  

Unit 8 Downloadable Google Slides

Unit 9: Globalization (1900 – Present)

Advances in Technology and Exchange after 1900 

Technological Advances and Limitations after 1900: Disease 

Technological Advances: Debates about the Environment after 1900  

Economics in the Global Age 

Calls for Reform and Responses after 1900 

Globalized Culture after 1900 

Resistance to Globalization after 1900 

Institutions Developing in a Globalized World 

Continuity and Change in a Globalized World

Unit 9 Downloadable Google Slides