Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Global Industrialization

This unit embraces the development of popular culture, more widespread than ever, due to globalization.

Learn how map projections and chronological constructs are used in the study of world history and help us to understand and interpret the past. Part of a larger site on world history, this unit on maps offers complete reading,...

This unit examines globalization from its true origins rooted in China's desire for silver and in Spain's conquest of mines in America.

An inquiry-based, multimedia course aiding in the instruction of world history. Understand the impact of primary sources, time and space, human relationship, and many other aspects over the entire history of the world. Units are...

This unit probes into the role food plays in society in terms of culture, economy and global awareness since the primary globalization in the 1500s through videos, various readings, and activities.

Historical interpretation is subjective, and therefore views on particular movements, such as the western world's rise to power as covered in this unit, can be altered over time by historians.

Global exportation and importation increased when water routes opened up. This unit analyzes how this affected world trade as well as the spread of population, religion, and illness.

Are history and memory different? Peruse the various resources this unit provides for the way we view, know, and relate history to our family, our friends, and the world.

Through archaeological research, this unit consists of the history of agriculture leading to the urban development of early humans as they slowed their transitional foraging to settling into a specific area.

Turn from the typical studies of society's politics, economics, etc. to focus on the way the family unit fits into society in this unit.