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Unit 3
Land-Based Empires
c. 1450–c. 1750
Gunpowder empires, Ottoman devshirme, Mughal administration, Sunni–Shi'a rivalry, Jesuit missionaries, the Protestant Reformation, and political legitimacy across Afro-Eurasia.
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Unit 4
Maritime Empires
c. 1450–c. 1750
European exploration, the Columbian Exchange, Atlantic slave trade, trading post empires, syncretic religions, and reshaping of global social hierarchies.
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Unit 5
Revolutions
c. 1750–c. 1900
The Enlightenment, Atlantic Revolutions, Industrial Revolution, nationalism, reactions to capitalism, and the spread of industrialization globally.
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Unit 6
Industrialization & Imperialism
c. 1750–c. 1900
Rationales for imperialism, the Scramble for Africa, indigenous responses, economic imperialism, the Opium Wars, and global migration.
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Unit 7
Global Conflict After 1900
c. 1900–Present
WWI, interwar period, Great Depression, WWII, mass atrocities, propaganda and total war mobilization.
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Unit 8
Cold War & Decolonization
c. 1945–Present
Cold War rivalries, proxy wars, nuclear arms race, decolonization in Asia & Africa, newly independent states, and the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Unit 9
Globalization
c. 1900–Present
Technology, economy, culture, disease, multinational institutions, and reform — all woven together by the forces of an interconnected world.
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