West Meets East Meets West

• Monotheistic Religions
• The Expansion of Islam
• The Golden Age of Islam
• The Byzantines
• Byzantine Empire Achievement and Expansion
• Collapse of an Empire

Medieval Europe and Japan

• Medieval Hierarchy
• Rulers and Robes
• The Crusades
• Medieval Arts and Literature
• Guilds and a Changing Economy
• Developing a National Identity
• East Asia
• Comparative History Eastern and Western

Great Empires

• West African Kingdoms
• Big Picture Africa
• Early Mesoamerican Civilizations
• Central and South American Legacies and Contributions
• Comparing and Contrasting Early American Civilization

The Birth of New Ideas

• Science and Rebirth
• Italian City-States
• Renaissance Humanities and Fine Arts
• The Reformation and Counter-Reformation
• Age of Discovery
• Worlds Collide
• Slavery

The Enlightenment and Revolutions

• European Geography
• Constitutional versus Absolute Monarchies
• The Scientific Revolution
• Modern Science
• The Age of Enlightenment
• It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

19th Century Changes

• Independence and Reform
• The Industrial Revolution
• Political and Economic Ideologies
• Imperialism
• Italian and German Unification
• Modern Reform and Independence

The World at War and the Fires Between

• Allies and Enemies World War I
• Modern Warfare and it’s Legacy
• Between the Fires
• The Spark and Fire
• Dropping the Atomic Bomb
• Genocide
• Impact of World War II

The Modern Era

• The Roots of the Cold War
• Modern China
• Proxy Wars
• The Iron Curtain Comes Down
• New Nationalism
• Globalization
• Invisible Warfare