World History Course Platform
Motivate student learning with digestible World History curriculum that engages content such as early Christianity and the fall of the Roman empire, the pre-Columbian Americas, ancient Africa, Australia, and European imperialism.
Encouraging Concept Attainment
16 Units that feature multimedia libraries, primary source collections, and test banks in varied assessment formats.
115 chapter readings each accompanied by an audio recording to assist students with varied skill levels.
150+ videos that illuminate each unit and reinforce important course themes and takeaways.
105 primary source problems that include a brief background, and the source in the form of texts, letters, images, videos, data charts, and more.
5 forms of assessment including written assessment, opinion and quiz polls, activity quizzes, as well as critical thinking and objectively-graded quizzes that accompany each learning activity.
8 writing workshops that introduce students to the writing process in the social sciences with topics such as comparative Chinese philosophies, the Buddhist persecution in Tang China, the decline of the Mayan civilization, and global income inequality.
Easy Grader that digitally grades written assignments and tracks student progress in the multi-faceted Globalyceum gradebook.
Embedded Resources and Activities that allow you to upload content from your desktop, create and employ discussion boards, build assessments from scratch, and select from our question banks.
Integrate Globalyceum with your LMS with single sign-on options.
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Brian Fagan
University of California, Santa Barbara
Manfred Steger
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Pamela Radcliff
University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Madden
St. Louis University
Conor Whately
University of Winnipeg
Alfred Andrea
University of Vermont
Ken Hammond
New Mexico State University
James Clark
American Institute of Iranian Studies
Jonathan Roth
San Jose State University
Katherine A.S. Sibley
St. Joseph’s University
Nicholas Tackett
University of California, Berkeley
Paula Findlen
Stanford University
J. P. Daughton
Stanford University
Don Wyatt
Middlebury College
Craig Patton
Alabama A&M
Julie Tatlock
Mt. Mary College
Allison Katsev
San Jose State University
Mathew Avitable
SUNY Oneonta
Josh Weiner
American River College
Table of contents
- Unit 1: Prehistory to Civilizations Before 1200 BCE
- Unit 2: Early East Asia, 1200 BCE to 200 CE
- Unit 3: The Classic West, 1200 BCE – 200 CE
- Unit 4: The Late Antique East, 200 CE – 1250 CE
- Unit 5: The Late Antique West, 200 CE – 1000 CE
- Unit 6: Beyond Eurasia. Beginnings to 1500 CE
- Unit 7: The Crossroads of the Middle East and South Asia, 700-1500
- Unit 8: The Medieval West, 1000-1500
- Unit 9: The East, 1250-1700
- Unit 10: The Early Modern West, 1500-1750
- Unit 11: The Middle East and South Asia, 1500-1900
- Unit 12: Europe and the World, 1750-1914
- Unit 13: East Asia, 1700-1919
- Unit 14: World Wars and Decolonization, 1900-1945
- Unit 15: The Bipolar World and Its Demise, 1945-present
- Unit 16: Globalization in the 20th and 21st Centuries