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Crash Course World History

Crash Course World History

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Host John Green teaches students about the history of the world. This 42 episode series is based on the 2012 AP World History curriculum.

Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Agricultural Revolution
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 1
10 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Indus Valley Civilization
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 2
9 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Mesopotamia
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 3
12 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Ancient Egypt
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 4
11 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Persians and Greeks
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 5
11 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: 2000 Years of Chinese History! The Mandate of Heaven and Confucius
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 7
12 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Alexander the Great and the Situation...the Great?
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 8
10 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Silk Road and Ancient Trade
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 9
10 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Roman Empire or Republic. Which Was It?
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 10
12 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Christianity From Judaism to Constantine
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 11
11 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Fall of the Roman Empire...In the 15th Century
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 12
12 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Islam, the Qu'ran, and the Five Pillars
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 13
12 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Dark Ages...How Dark Were They Really
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 14
12 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Crusades--Pilgrimage or Holy War?
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 15
10 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 16
9 minutes 56 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Wait For It...The Mongols!
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 17
11 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Int'l Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and the Indian Ocean Trade
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 18
9 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Venice and the Ottoman Empire
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 19
10 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Russia, the Kievan Rus, and the Mongols
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 20
10 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Columbus, de Gama, and Zheng He--15th Century Mariners
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 21
10 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Renaissance Was It a Thing?
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 22
10 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Columbian Exchange
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 23
11 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Atlantic Slave Trade
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 24
10 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Spanish Empire, Silver, and Runaway Inflation
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 25
10 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Seven Years' War
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 26
12 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The Amazing Life and Strange Death of Captain Cook
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 27
10 minutes
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Tea Taxes and the American Revolution
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 28
11 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: The French Revolution
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 29
11 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Haitian Revolutions
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 30
12 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Latin American Revolutions
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 31
13 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Capitalism and Socialism
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 33
13 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Samurai Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 34
11 minutes 18 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Imperialism
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 35
13 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Archdukes Cynicism and World War I
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 36
11 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 37
11 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: World War II
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 38
13 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 39
11 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 40
12 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Globalization--The Upside (Part 1)
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 41
11 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Still image from: Crash Course World History: Globalization--Good or Bad? (Part 2)
Crash Course World History
Season 0 / Ep 42
13 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12