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Unit 2
Networks of Exchange from c. 1200 to c. 1450
Topic 2.1: The Silk Roads
Topic 2.2: The Mongol Empire and the Modern World
Topic 2.3: Exchange in the Indian Ocean
Topic 2.4: Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
Topic 2.5: Cultural Consequences of Connectivity
Topic 2.6: Environmental Consequences of Connectivity
Unit 2 Review
Unit 3
Land-Based Empires from c. 1450 to c. 1750
Topic 3.1: European, East Asian, and Gunpowder Empires Expand
Topic 3.2: Empires: Administrations
Topic 3.3: Empires: Belief Systems
Unit 3 Review
Unit 4
Transoceanic Interconnections from c. 1450 to c. 1750
Topic 4.1: Technological Innovations
Topic 4.2: Exploration: Causes and Events
Topic 4.3: Columbian Exchange
Topic 4.4: Maritime Empires Link Regions
Topic 4.5: Maritime Empires Develop
Topic 4.6: Internal and External Challenges to State Power
Topic 4.7: Changing Social Hierarchies
Unit 4 Review
Unit 5
Revolutions from c. 1750 to c. 1900
Topic 5.1: The Enlightenment
Topic 5.2: Nationalism and Revolutions
Topic 5.3: Industrial Revolution Begins
Topic 5.4: Industrialization Spreads
Topic 5.5: Technology in the Industrial Age
Topic 5.6: Industrialization: Government’s Role
Topic 5.7: Economic Developments and Innovations
Topic 5.8: Reactions to the Industrial Economy
Topic 5.9: Society and the Industrial Age
Topic 5.10: Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age
Unit 6
Consequences of Industrialization from c. 1750 to c. 1900
Topic 6.1: Rationales for Imperialism
Topic 6.2: State Expansion
Topic 6.3: Indigenous Responses to State Expansion
Topic 6.4: Global Economic Development
Topic 6.5: Economic Imperialism
Topic 6.6: Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World
Topic 6.7: Effects of Migration
Topic 6.8: Causation in the Imperial Age
Unit 7
Global Conflict After 1900
Topic 7.1: Shifting Power
Topic 7.2: Causes of World War I
Topic 7.3: Conducting World War I
Topic 7.4: Economy in the Interwar Period
Topic 7.5: Unresolved Tensions After World War I
Topic 7.6: Causes of World War II
Topic 7.7: Conducting World War II
Topic 7.8: Mass Atrocities
Unit 8
Cold War and Decolonization After 1900
Topic 8.1: Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization
Topic 8.2: The Cold War
Topic 8.3: Effects of the Cold War
Topic 8.4: Spread of Communism
Topic 8.5: Decolonization After 1900
Topic 8.6: Newly Independent States
Topic 8.7: Global Resistance to Established Power Structures
Topic 8.8: End of the Cold War
Unit 9
Globalization After 1900
Topic 9.1: Advances in Technology and Exchange
Topic 9.2: Technological Advancements and Limitations—Disease
Topic 9.3: Technology and the Environment
Topic 9.4: Economics in the Global Age
Topic 9.5: Calls for Reform and Responses
Topic 9.6: Globalized Culture
Topic 9.7: Resistance to Globalization
Topic 9.8: Institutions Developing in a Globalized World