World history
This course runs from the first farming villages to the present, keeping to the changes that reshaped how most people lived. It favours the long patterns over dates, and notes where the evidence is thin or contested.
What you'll learn
10 chapters, then the quiz
- 01Before writingMost of the human story.
- 02Cities and statesSurplus, writing, hierarchy.
- 03Classical empiresRome, Han, Persia, Maurya.
- 04The middle centuriesNot a dark age.
- 05The world connects1450 to 1750.
- 06Political revolutionsSovereignty changes hands.
- 07IndustrialisationThe break in the trend.
- 08The world wars1914 to 1945.
- 09The Cold War and decolonisation1945 to 1991.
- 10The recent pastSince 1991.
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