This introductory session explores approaches to teaching world history that center inquiry, historical thinking, and multiple perspectives across time and place.
Investigate the origins of humanity through the evidence early people left behind, exploring how historians, archaeologists, and scientists reconstruct the earliest chapters of human history.
Explore the emergence of cities, societies, and empires across Africa, Asia, and the Americas while examining how religious, political, technological, and social developments shaped the ancient world.
Investigate the trade routes and networks of cultural exchange that connected Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, shaping societies through the movement of people, goods, ideas, and technologies.
Explore how expanding global connections between 1400 and 1800 transformed societies, economies, cultures, and systems of power across the world.