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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Globalization I the Upside
John Green teaches you about globalization, a subject so epic, so, um, global, it requires two videos. In this video, John follows the surprisingly complex path of a t-shirt as it criss-crosses the world before coming to rest on your...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Disease!
Join host John Green to learn about disease and the effects that disease has had on human history. Disease has been with man since the beginning, and it has shaped the way humans operate in a lot of ways. John will teach you about the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Buddha and Ashoka
John Green relates a condensed history of India, post-Indus Valley Civilization. John explores Hinduism and the origins of Buddhism. He also gets into the reign of Ashoka, the Buddhist emperor who, in spite of Buddhism's structural...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Islam and Politics
Join host John Green to learn about Islam's interactions with politics throughout history and into the present age. Islam has always been tied to political movements; Mohammed was not only a religious leader, but also the leader of an...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Columbus, De Gama, and Zheng He! 15th Century Mariners
John Green teaches you about the beginning of the so-called Age of Discovery. You've probably heard of Christopher Columbus, who "discovered" America in 1492, but what about Vasco da Gama? How about Zheng He? Columbus gets a bad rap from...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Alexander the Great and the Situation... The Great
John Green introduces the life and accomplishments of Alexander the Great, his empire, his horse Bucephalus, the empires that came after him, and the idea of Greatness. Is greatness a question of accomplishment, of impact, or are people...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: The Amazing Life and Strange Death of Captain Cook
John Green teaches you about the life and death of one of history's great explorers, Captain James Cook of the British Navy. He charted large swaths of the Pacific ocean, laid claim to Australia and New Zealand, and died a bizarre death...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: The Railroad Journey and the Industrial Revolution
Join host John Green to learn about railroads, some of the ways they changed the world, and how they were a microcosm for the Industrial Revolution as a whole. Prior to the invention of steam powered railroads, nearly all forms of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: The Spanish Empire, Silver, and Runaway Inflation
John Green explores how Spain went from being a middling European power to one of the most powerful empires on Earth, thanks to their plunder of the New World in the 16th and 17th centuries. Learn how Spain managed to destroy the two...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions
John Green teaches you about China's Revolutions. While the rest of the world was off having a couple of World Wars, China was busily uprooting the dynastic system that had ruled there for millennia. Most revolutions have some degree of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism
John Green teaches you about Nationalism. Nationalism was everywhere in the 19th century, as people all over the world carved new nation-states out of old empires. Nationalist leaders changed the way people thought of themselves and the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Fall of the Roman Empire... In the 15th Century
John Green teaches you about the fall of the Roman Empire, which happened considerably later than you may have been told. While the Western Roman Empire fell to barbarians in 476 CE, the Byzantines in Constantinople continued the Eastern...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: The Rise of the West and Historical Methodology
Join host John Green to learn about the methods of writing history by looking at some of the ways that the rise of the West has been recorded. In the episode, we'll cover what the West is, the Rise of the West, and the different ways...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Democracy, Authoritarian Capitalism, and China
Join host John Green to learn about the reach of government, growing economies, and potentially the end of the world as we know it. For the last hundred years or so, a seemingly important ingredient for running an economically successful...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History
Join host John Green to learn about what westerners call the middle ages and the lives of the aristocracy - in Japan. The Heian period in Japan lasted from 794 CE to 1185 CE, and it was an interesting time in Japan. Rather than being...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Climate Change, Chaos, and the Little Ice Age
Join host John Green to learn about the Little Ice Age, a period of global cooling that occurred from the 13th to the 19th centuries. This cooling was likely caused by a number of factors, including unusual solar activity and volcanic...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: The Dark Ages... How Dark Were They, Really?
John Green teaches you about the so-called Dark Ages, which it turns out weren't as uniformly dark as you may have been led to believe. While Europe was indeed having some issues, many other parts of the world were thriving and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: The End of Civilization (In the Bronze Age)
Join host John Green to learn about the Bronze Age civilization (in what we today call the Middle East) and how the vast, interconnected civilization that encompassed Egypt, The Levant, and Mesopotamia came to an end. Was there such an...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: The Mughal Empire and Historical Reputation
Join host John Green to learn about the Mughal Empire, which ruled large swaths of the Indian Sub-Continent from 1526 to (technically) 1857. While John teaches you about this long-lived Muslim empire, he'll also look at the idea of...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company
Join host John Green to learn about the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, doing business as the VOC, also known as the Dutch East India Company. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch managed to dominate world trade, and they did so...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Coal, Steam, and the Industrial Revolution
John Green wraps up revolutions month with what is arguably the most revolutionary of modern revolutions, the Industrial Revolution. While very few leaders were beheaded in the course of this one, it changed the lives of more people more...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Christianity From Judaism to Constantine
John Green teaches you the history of Christianity, from the beginnings of Judaism and the development of monotheism, right up to Paul and how Christianity stormed the Roman Empire in just a few hundred years. Along the way, John will...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: War and Nation Building in Latin America
Join host John Green to learn about nation building and nationalism in Latin America. Sometimes, the nations of Latin America get compared to the nations of Europe and are found wanting. However, this comparison doesn't quite work as the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course World History: Tea, Taxes, and the American Revolution
John Green teaches you about the American Revolution and the American Revolutionary War, which it turns out were two different things. John goes over the issues and events that precipitated rebellion in Britain's American colonies, and...