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Learn history in context
Follow connected events across time, with the context that turns a sequence into a story.
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570 AD — 1235 AD
Islam’s founding in Mecca and its first conquests, then, centuries later, two meetings at its frontiers: the First Crusade in the Levant and the Mali Empire in West Africa.
4 events · about 30 min
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1271 AD — 1543 AD
How routes, texts, empires, and encounters made a wider world newly legible, and newly contested.
8 events · about 50 min
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1804 AD — 1914 AD
The century before 1914: nationalism, industry, empire, and a crisis that pulled a world into war.
6 events · about 40 min
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