World History: Turning Points of Human Civilisation
Turning points that changed human civilisation from the first cities to the digital Anthropocene, emphasizing concepts, dates, and global institutions.
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WORLD HISTORY · FACT
Neolithic Agricultural Transition and Sedentism
The transition from nomadic foraging to cereal cultivation generated agricultural surpluses, enabling permanent sedentary settlements and complex social stratification in the Fertile Crescent.
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13 lessons.
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- 01
The Urban Revolution and First Riverine States
The Neolithic Transition, Sedentism, and Irrigation · Bronze Age Law, Writing, and Urban Specialization
- 02
The Axial Age and Philosophical Transformations
Sinitic and Indic Thought: Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism · Mediterranean Rationalism, Persian Monotheism, and Democratic Institutions
- 03
Classical Imperial Integrations: Rome, Han, and Maurya
Bureaucratic Statehood, Road Networks, and Imperial Order · Trade Arteries: The Silk Road and Monsoon Maritime Networks
- 04
Imperial Transformations and World Religions
Universalist Faiths and State Transformation: Christianity and Mahayana Buddhism · The Islamic Caliphate, Urbanism, and Trans-Eurasian Scholarly Synthesis
- 05
Medieval Crossroads and Afro-Eurasian Exchange
Feudal Structures, Manorialism, and the Song Economic Revolution · Trans-Saharan Gold-Salt Networks, Swahili Coast, and Mesoamerican Urbanism
- 06
The Mongol World Empire and the Black Death
Nomadic Military Synergy, the Pax Mongolica, and Eurasian Connectivity · The Fourteenth-Century Demographic Catastrophe and Feudal Dissolution
- 07
The Printing Press and the Scientific Revolution
Movable Type, Vernacular Literacy, and the Information Shock · The Scientific Revolution, Empirical Observation, and Institutional Science
- 08
The Columbian Exchange and Global Commercial Integration
Biological Exchange, Demographic Collapse, and Global Caloric Shifts · Silver Flows, Plantation Slavery, and Mercantilist Joint-Stock Capitalism
- 09
The Age of Revolutions and Popular Sovereignty
Atlantic Revolutions, Rights of Man, and Constitutionalism · The Haitian Revolution, Universal Emancipation, and Latin American Independence
- 10
Industrialization, Fossil Energy, and the Great Divergence
Steam Power, Fossil Capital, and Factory Urbanization · The New Imperialism, the Scramble for Africa, and Global Asymmetries
- 11
Total War, Ideological Clashes, and Economic Crisis
The First World War, Imperial Collapse, and the Bolshevik Revolution · The Great Depression, Totalitarianism, and the Second World War
- 12
Decolonisation, the Cold War, and Global Realignment
Post-War Decolonisation, the Partition of India, and Non-Alignment · Cold War Bipolarity, Nuclear Brinkmanship, and the Collapse of the Soviet Bloc
- 13
The Digital Revolution, Globalisation, and the Anthropocene
The Information Age, Microprocessors, and Global Interconnection · Global Demographic Transitions, Energy Transitions, and the Anthropocene
- Cards
- 698
- Lessons
- 13
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Language
- English
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