What you'll learn
- ✦Explain the causes of the French Revolution and why it took ten years, using a cartoon and a timeline
- ✦Explain what a nation is and why nationalism united Italy and Germany but divided the Balkans
- ✦Explain how the movement of 1915-1934 grew, and why different groups joined for different reasons
- ✦Trace how food, trade and money linked the world from the silk routes to the Great Depression and 1944
- ✦Compare hand work and factory work, and explain what industry did to weavers, workers and buyers
- ✦Explain how print changed who could read and argue, in Europe and in India
- ✦Read a cartoon, letter, painting, law or label for who made it, for whom and what it leaves out
- ✦Build a cause-and-effect chain for one event and show why it was not one day or one person
Certification projects
Build 3 projects to earn your certificate
Hands-on work that proves you can apply what you learned — part of the certificate requirements.
Syllabus
Module 1 · 24m
The French Revolution Free
What you'll be able to do
- Explain who paid which tax in old France and why that felt unfair
- Put the main events of 1789-1794 in order
- Say who the 1789 Declaration left out
Module 2 · 24m
Nationalism in Europe Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Explain a nation as a shared idea, not just a border
- Compare how Italy and Germany united
- Explain why the Balkans became a flashpoint
Module 3 · 24m
Nationalism in India Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Explain how war hardship and satyagraha built the movement
- Order the events of 1920-1931 and say what each method asked of people
- Say what swaraj meant to different groups
Module 4 · 24m
The Making of a Global World Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Explain how foods show early world links
- Say who gained and lost in the 19th-century world economy
- Explain how the Great Depression reached India
Module 5 · 24m
The Age of Industrialisation Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Explain how cloth was made before factories
- Explain what machines did to weavers and mills
- Read a label or ad for who made it and what it wants you to feel
Module 6 · 24m
Print Culture Locked
What you'll be able to do
- Explain why a press made books cheaper
- Explain how print changed who read and argued
- Explain how the Vernacular Press Act tried to control writers