Episode 210 – 1900-Present: Globalization
This final episode discusses how the world experiences radical technological changes, especially in the way we communicate and consume information, every few years with effects that are constantly bei...
10 Apr 20240s
Episode 209 – 1945-1991: The Cold War and Decolonization
This episode explains how by 1991, nations throughout Europe and Asia were rebuilt along very different lines of democratic capitalism or authoritarian communism. These ideologies created material adv...
21 Mars 20240s
Episode 208 – 1900-1945: Conflict and the Early 20th Century
In this episode you will learn how by 1945, European nation-states are left devastated after the First and Second World Wars, no longer able to maintain control over their far-flung empires, and relyi...
26 Feb 20240s
Episode 207 – 1750-1900: Imperialism
This episode will discuss how by 1900, China had been divided into Spheres of Influence after agreeing to several so-called “unequal treaties” with several European countries, the United States, and J...
21 Jan 20240s
Episode 206 – 1750-1900: Industrialization
This episode will help you understand that by 1900, some of the most dramatic transformations in human history have taken place that still largely shape our modern world. The environment no longer pla...
8 Dec 20230s
Episode 204 – 1450-1750: Cultural Expansion and Realignment
We’ll close out our study of this era by learning how an entirely new sect of Christianity, Protestantism, had emerged and was now competing with Roman Catholicism for influence in European state affa...
22 Aug 20230s
Episode 203 – 1450-1750: Economics of the Early Modern World
In this episode you’ll find out how by 1750, Europeans will effectively have control over the Indian Ocean, and the newly established Atlantic, and Pacific routes of exchange that had not existed when...
9 Aug 20230s
