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The Best Episodes of Bridging World History

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A multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that examined global patterns through time, seeing history as an integrated whole. Topics were studied in a general chronological order, but each is observed through a

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    Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 1 - Maps, Time, and World History
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    #1 - Maps, Time, and World History

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    What tools do world historians use in the study of history? This unit begins the study of world history by examining its use of geographical and chronological frameworks: how they have shaped the understanding of world history and been used to chart the past.

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  2. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 2 - History and Memory
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    #2 - History and Memory

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    How are history and memory different? Topics in this unit range from the celebration of Columbus Day to the demolition of a Korean museum to the historical re-interpretation of Mayan civilization, exploring the ways historians, nations, families, and individuals capture, exploit, and know the past, and the dynamic nature of historical practice and knowledge.

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  3. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 3 - Human Migrations
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    #3 - Human Migrations

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    How did the many paths of human migration people the planet? From their origins on the African continent, humans have spread across the globe. This unit explores how and why early humans moved across Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas, based on recent studies in archaeology and linguistics.

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  4. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 4 - Agricultural and Urban Revolutions
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    #4 - Agricultural and Urban Revolutions

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    What do historians know about the earliest farmers and herders, and the evolution of cities? Newly emerging evidence about the 'cradles of civilization' is examined in light of the social, technological, and cultural complexity of recently discovered settlements and cities.

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  5. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 5 - Early Belief Systems
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    #5 - Early Belief Systems

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    How did people begin to understand themselves in relation to the natural world and to the unseen realms beyond, and how was religion a community experience? In this unit, animism and shamanism in Shinto are contrasted with philosophical and ethical systems in early Greece and China, and the beginnings of Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and Judaism.

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  6. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 6 - Order and Early Societies
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    #6 - Order and Early Societies

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    How do diverse political structures and relationships distribute power and material resources? Through the rise of the Chinese empire, Mayan regional kingdoms, and the complex society of Igbo Ukwu, this unit considers the origins of centralized states and alternative political and social orders.

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  7. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 7 - The Spread of Religions
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    #7 - The Spread of Religions

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    How do religions interact, adopt new ideas, and adapt to diverse cultures? As the missionaries, pilgrims, and converts of Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam moved around the world, the religions created change and were themselves changed.

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  8. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 8 - Early Economies
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    #8 - Early Economies

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    How do societies assign value to land, labor, and material goods? A comparison of manorial economies in Japan and medieval Europe is contrasted with the tribute economy of the Inka, and the experience of dramatic economic change is illustrated by the commercial revolution in China.

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  9. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 9 - Connections Across Land
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    #9 - Connections Across Land

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    How were land-based trade routes conduits of both commerce and culture? The Eurasian Silk Roads, the trans-Saharan Gold Roads, and the Meso-American Turquoise Road trace the transmission of commodities, religions, and diseases, as well as the movements of people.

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  10. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 10 - Connections Across Water
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    #10 - Connections Across Water

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    How were water routes used as conduits of expansion and trade? The traders of the Indian Ocean, the early Mississippians, and the Norsemen carried death and disease, skills and technologies, philosophies and religion down rivers and across oceans.

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  11. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 11 - Early Empires
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    #11 - Early Empires

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    What makes an 'empire'? Through the Mongol empire, the Mali empire, and the Inka empire, this unit examines the construction of empires, their administrative structures, legitimating ideologies, and the environmental and technological conditions that shaped them.

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  12. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 12 - Transmission of Traditions
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    #12 - Transmission of Traditions

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    What are traditions and how are they transmitted? Islamic Spain, Korea, and West Africa provide examples of many different modes of transmission, including oral, written, artistic, and architectural.

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  13. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 13 - Family and Household
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    #13 - Family and Household

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    What does the study of families and households tell us about our global past? In this episode examining West Asia, Europe, and China, families and households become the focus of historians, providing a window into the private experiences in world societies, and how they sometimes become a model for ordering the outside world.

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  14. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 14 - Land and Labor Relationships
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    #14 - Land and Labor Relationships

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    What factors shape the ways in which the basic resources are exploited by a society? From Southeast Asia to Russia to Africa and the Americas, the ratios between land availability and the usable labor force were the primary basis of pre-industrial economies, but politics, environment, and culture played a part as well.

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  15. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 15 - Early Global Commodities
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    #15 - Early Global Commodities

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    What is globalization and when did it begin? Before the sixteenth century, the world's four main monetary substances were silver, gold, copper, and shells. But it was China's demand for silver and Spain's newly discovered mines in the Americas that finally created an all-encompassing network of global trade.

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  16. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 16 - Food, Demographics, and Culture
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    #16 - Food, Demographics, and Culture

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    What role has food played in human societies? Studying the production and consumption of food allows historians to uncover hidden levels of meaning in social relationships, understand demographic shifts, and trace cultural exchange. This unit examines the earliest impact of globalization including changing cuisine, environmental impact, and the rise of forced labor as a global economic force.

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  17. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 17 - Ideas Shape the World
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    #17 - Ideas Shape the World

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    How do ideas change the world? This unit traces the impact of European Enlightenment ideals in the American and Haitian revolutions and in South America. It also examines the revitalization of Islam expressed in the Wahhabi movement as it spread from the Arabian peninsula to Africa and Asia.

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  18. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 18 - Rethinking the Rise of the West
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    #18 - Rethinking the Rise of the West

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    How does historical scholarship change over time, and why do the perspectives of historians shift? This unit recaps the economic and political events that led to the rise of the West, but examines and re-examines those events through differing opinions of its causes, reflecting changes in historical interpretation.

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  19. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 19 - Global Industrialization
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    #19 - Global Industrialization

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    How was the story of the industrial revolution a global process? Industrialization was and is a global process, not just a European or American story. This unit links Cuba, Uruguay, Europe, and Japan, examining the impact of industry on trade, environment, culture, technology, and lives around the world.

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  20. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 20 - Imperial Designs
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    #20 - Imperial Designs

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    What lasting impacts did modern imperialism have on the world? The profound consequences of imperialism are examined in the South African frontier and Brazil, where politics, culture, industrial capitalism, and the environment were shaped and re-shaped.

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  21. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 21 - Colonial Identities
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    #21 - Colonial Identities

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    How did colonialism and eventual de-colonization mutually affect the colonizer and the colonized? From Zanzibar to India, colonial and post-colonial identities are examined through clothing.

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  22. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 22 - Global War and Peace
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    #22 - Global War and Peace

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    How 'global' were the World Wars? This unit examines Japanese imperialism, the Belgian Congo, and twentieth century peace institutions to study how local, national, ethnic, and religious conflicts shaped these wars and their aftermaths.

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  23. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 23 - People Shape the World
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    #23 - People Shape the World

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    What is the impact of the individual in world history? This unit examines the role of individual and collective action in shaping the world through the lives of such diverse figures as Mao Zedong, the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo.

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  24. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 24 - Globalization and Economics
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    #24 - Globalization and Economics

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    How have the forces of globalization shaped the modern world? This unit travels from the Soviet Union to Sri Lanka and Chile to study the role of technology and the impact of economic and political changes wrought by globalization.

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  25. Bridging World History Season 1 Episode 25 - Global Popular Culture
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    #25 - Global Popular Culture

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    What are the sounds and sights of an emerging global culture? From World Cup soccer to Coca-Cola, modern icons reflect the intertwined cultural, political, and commercial dimensions of globalization. This unit listens to and looks at the music and images of global production and consumption – from reggae to the Olympics.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Maps, Time, and World History" is the best rated episode of "Bridging World History". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/2/2004. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "History and Memory".