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Season 1: The Big Picture (World History)
Season 2: Historical Context
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Season 1: The Big Picture (World History)
Episode 1: The Ancient Era, or “Ain’t No River Valley Wide Enough”
The Neolithic Revolution
What Is A Civilization?
Ancient River Valley Civilizations
Episode 2: The Classical Era, or “That Time Everyone Plagiarized Persia”
Anatomy of the Persian Empire
This is Sparta! | Classical Greece
Alexander the Great
All Roads Lead to Rome
Episode 3: The Classical Era in the East, or “They Built a Great Wall and Made the Huns Pay For It!”
Thank God for Sanskrit | Classical India
The (First) Rise of Classical China
Decline of Classical Empires
Episode 4: Medieval Europe, or “That Time Europe Lost Its Mind”
The “Barbarian” Apocalypse | Early Medieval Europe
Thanks Franks! | Charlemagne’s Empire
The Byzantine Empire
Europe Started From the Bottom Now It’s Here | Late Middle Ages in Europe
Episode 5: The Postclassical Era in the East, or “Yes We KHAN!”
The Rise of Islam
Cue Up Toto, We’re Talking About Africa!
Thanks China, for all of the useful things | The Four Great Inventions
Here Come The Mongols
Episode 6: Early Modern Era in the West, or “We Missed Two Whole Continents?!”
The Ninja Turtles | The Renaissance
Europe Sticks It To The Man! | Reformation & Enlightenment
1491 | The Aztecs
In 1492, Columbus got lost, bumped into land, and ruined it. | Conquest of the Americas
Episode 7: The Early Modern Era in the East, or “They Didn’t Get the Memo”
China Had Explorers, Too
The Sort-Of Gunpowder Empires
Africa Responds to the West | Slave Trade
New Technology? It’s good to be young. | Early Russia and Japan
Episode 8: The Modern Era in the West, or “You Say You Want A Revolution?”
Anatomy of a Revolution | The American Revolution
Red! The Color of Angry Men! | The French Revolution
The Latin American Revolutions
The Industrial Revolution
Episode 9: The Age of Imperialism, or “Allow me to ruin the Jungle Book for you”
Imperialism “from above”
The Pros and Cons of Imperialism
Resistance to Imperialism
Episode 10: The Modern Era in the East or, “Knock Knock. It’s the West.”
Opium is a Gateway Drug | Qing Dynasty
Russia and the Ottomans Try Their Best
Japan Wins! | The Meiji Restoration
Episode 11: World War I or, “The War to Cause All Wars”
The MAIN Causes of WWI
The Great War
The Russian Revolution
The Effects of WWI
Episode 12: World War Two, or “Who was supposed to be watching Germany?!”
The Depression
The Rise of Hitler
The War | WWII
The Holocaust
The Post-War World
Episode 13: The Cold War or, “I Must Break You, WOLVERINES!”
The Cold War
Chairman Mao | Communist China
The Fall of the Soviet Union
Episode 114: The Cold War in Latin America, or “This is why they hate us there!”
Episode 115 Decolonization, or “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out!”
Episode 116: 20th c. Middle East or, “Who knew religion was so important to people?!”
Episode 117: The World Today or, “Too Soon?”
Season 2: Historical Context
Episode 201: Russia, or “What the Helsinki?!”
Episode 202: History at the Movies or, “The Hungry Panther Games”
Episode 203: Sports and Protest or, “Martin, Malcolm, and Colin”
Episode 204: Immigration or, “Good fences make tense neighbors”
Episode 205: Indigenous Americans (pt. 1), or “Dang I wish I was an Inca”
Episode 206: Indigenous Americans (pt. 2) or “1491”
Episode 207: Voting or, “Sorry George”
Episode 208: Central American Migration or, “THE CARAVAN!”
Episode 209: Thanksgiving or, “The Squanto Treatment”
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Classroom Resources: World History (Season 1)
Episode 101: Classroom Resources (Ancient Era)
Episode 102: Classroom Resources (Classical West)
Episode 103: Classroom Resources (Classical East)
Episode 104: Classroom Resources (Medieval Europe)
Classroom Resources: Contemporary Issues (Season 2)
Episode 203: Classroom Resources (Sports and Protest)
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