Bridging World History (2004)

A multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that examined global patterns through time, seeing history as an integrated whole. Topics were studied in a general chronological order, but each is observed through a thematic lens, showing how people and societies experience both integration and differences.

Bridging World History

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Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Maps, time, and world history

  • 1x2

    History and memory

  • 1x3

    Human migrations

  • 1x4

    Agricultural and urban revolutions

  • 1x5

    Early belief systems

  • 1x6

    Order and early societies

  • 1x7

    The spread of religions

  • 1x8

    Early economies

  • 1x9

    Connections across land

  • 1x10

    Connections across water

  • 1x11

    Early empires

  • 1x12

    Transmission of traditions

  • 1x13

    Family and household

  • 1x14

    Land and labor relationships

  • 1x15

    Early global commodities

  • 1x16

    Food, demographics, and culture

  • 1x17

    Ideas shape the world

  • 1x18

    Rethinking the rise of the west

  • 1x19

    Global industrialization

  • 1x20

    Imperial designs

  • 1x21

    Colonial identities

  • 1x22

    Global war and peace

  • 1x23

    People shape the world

  • 1x24

    Globalization and economics

  • 1x25

    Global popular culture

  • 1x26

    World history and identity

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