World history through connections
Connect cities, trade, religion and empires through the movements of people and goods.
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Around 3000–1500 BCE; dates differ by city
Cities and water in the Indus civilization
Explore urban water systems and the limits of undeciphered writing.
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From the second century BCE through the medieval period
The Silk Roads were a network
See trade as interconnected networks rather than a single road.
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762–tenth century
Baghdad and an age of translation
Follow the movement of knowledge across languages and generations.
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Mainly thirteenth–fourteenth-century prosperity
Kilwa and the Indian Ocean
Place an African port within Indian Ocean trade.
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1324–sixteenth century
Mali and learning in Timbuktu
Connect gold, commerce and scholarly communities.
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1791–1804
The Haitian Revolution and independence
Understand how independence and the abolition of slavery were connected.
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April 1955
Bandung and decolonization
Examine the concerns of countries that had experienced colonial rule.
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