World History
The human story, start to present.
Early societies through globalization, across every inhabited continent.
Unit 1
Early societies
Agriculture and the first states
Unit 2Classical empires
Rome, Han China, and the Silk Road
Unit 3Post-classical world
Islam, Byzantium, and African kingdoms
Unit 4The Americas & Oceania
Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Polynesian settlement
Unit 5The early modern world
European expansion and the Columbian exchange
Unit 6Revolutions
Enlightenment, Atlantic revolutions, and industrialization
Unit 7The global imperial age
Colonialism and the scramble for empire
Unit 8The World Wars
Industrial war and its aftermath
Unit 9The contemporary world
Decolonization, the Cold War, and globalization