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The Global Tapestry, 1200 to 1450

A region-by-region survey of how states held power and how belief systems shaped daily life between about 1200 and 1450: Song China and its cultural reach into Korea, Japan, and Vietnam; the Turkic-led successor states of the Abbasid world and the intellectual life of Dar al-Islam; the Hindu and Buddhist states of South and Southeast Asia; the Mexica, Inca, Maya, and North American societies; Great Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and the Hausa kingdoms; and a fragmented, agricultural Europe. Topics: Song China and East Asia, Dar al-Islam, South and Southeast Asia, States in the Americas, States in Africa, Europe, 1200 to 1450, Comparing State Formation, 1200 to 1450.

Networks of Exchange, 1200 to 1450

How goods, people, ideas, crops, and diseases moved across Afro-Eurasia between about 1200 and 1450, and what that movement did to the societies it touched. Topics: The Silk Roads, The Mongol Empire, The Indian Ocean Network, Trans-Saharan Trade and Mali, Consequences of Connection, Comparing the Networks.

Land-Based Empires, 1450 to 1750

How the great land empires of the early modern period, the Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, and Manchu Qing, along with Songhai and the European monarchies, expanded with gunpowder weapons, fought one another over territory and religion, and held their conquests together. Topics: Empires Expand, Administering Empires, Belief Systems in the Age of Empires, Comparing Land-Based Empires.

Transoceanic Interconnections, 1450 to 1750

How the oceans became highways between 1450 and 1750 and what that did to every connected society. Topics: Maritime Technology and Exploration, The Columbian Exchange, Maritime Empires Established, Silver, Mercantilism, and the Atlantic System, Belief, Resistance, and Social Hierarchy, Continuity and Change, 1450 to 1750.

Revolutions, 1750 to 1900

Two revolutions that ran together between 1750 and 1900. Topics: The Enlightenment, Nationalism, The Atlantic Revolutions, The Industrial Revolution, States and the Industrial Economy, Reactions to the Industrial Economy, Society in the Industrial Age, Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age.

Imperialism and Global Migration, 1750 to 1900

What industrialization did to the rest of the world between 1750 and 1900. Topics: Rationales and Expansion, Indigenous Responses to Expansion, The Imperial Global Economy, Migration in an Industrial World, Weighing the Effects of Imperialism.

Global Conflict, 1900 to 1945

How the world order dominated by Western empires in 1900 came apart in two world wars. Topics: Shifting Power After 1900, The First World War, The Interwar Years, The Second World War, Mass Atrocities After 1900, Weighing the Causes of Global Conflict.

Cold War and Decolonization, 1945 to 1991

Two processes that ran side by side after the Second World War. Topics: The Cold War, The Spread of Communism, Decolonization and New States, Responses to Power and Conflict, The End of the Cold War, Comparing the Cold War's Effects.

Globalization, 1900 to the Present

How science, technology, and markets tied the world together after 1900 and how people pushed back. Topics: Technology, Medicine, and the Environment, The Global Economy Since 1945, Rights, Reform, and Protest, Global Culture and Its Critics, International Institutions, Continuity and Change in a Globalized World.

Historical Thinking and Writing

The skills that run through every unit of the course and that the course rewards most: reading a source for its purpose, audience, point of view, and historical situation and comparing what two sources argue; placing a development in its wider context; explaining causes and effects, continuity and change, and similarities and differences across regions with real evidence; and building an argument, from a defensible thesis to well-chosen, well-explained evidence, in the forms the course uses, the short-answer response to a historian's claim, the document-based essay, and the long essay. Topics: Analyzing Sources, Historical Reasoning, Building an Argument, Writing Tasks.