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Explore the transformation of the modern world from 1500 to present. Understand global connections, revolutions, and contemporary challenges.
History Modules
7
Total Study Weeks
18 weeks
Active Students
10,000+
This module dissects the creation of the modern mind and the modern corporation. We analyze the first multinational joint-stock companies, the shift to radical empiricism and mathematical modeling in the Scientific Revolution, and the highly capitalized logistics of the Atlantic slave-sugar complex.
This module dissects the creation of the modern mind and the modern corporate state. We are moving away from the chaos of early exploration and into the era of brutal, calculated optimization. We analyze the invention of the Joint-Stock Company and Central Banking as the financial engines of global power. We track the Scientific Revolution not as a series of "discoveries", but as the invention of a new operating system for human thought—radical empiricism and the mechanical universe. Finally, we examine the Agricultural and Consumer revolutions that fueled the global empires, culminating in the first true world war.
This module dissects the twin engines that created the modern world: Fossil Fuels and Human Rights. We analyze the Industrial Revolution strictly as a thermodynamic event—the shift from organic solar energy to stored carbon. Simultaneously, we track the systemic collapse of the "Divine Right of Kings" across the Atlantic. We analyze the American Constitutional engineering, the structural bankruptcy of the French Bourbon state, the radical liberation of Haiti, and the systemic counter-revolution engineered at the Congress of Vienna.
This module dissects the exact technological and logistical mechanisms that created global European hegemony. We analyze the "Second Industrial Revolution" (steel, electricity, and chemistry) and how it severed communication speed from transportation speed via the telegraph. We map the corporate narco-capitalism of the Opium Wars, the lethal mathematics of the Scramble for Africa, the establishment of the global Gold Standard, and the brilliant, ruthless state-survival strategies of Meiji Japan.
This module explores the industrialization of warfare and its profound impact on society. We examine how technological advances in manufacturing and transportation transformed military conflicts into large-scale, industrialized slaughter.
This module explores the geopolitical tensions of the Cold War era and the transformative impact of the Green Revolution on global agriculture. We analyze the ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as the technological advancements that revolutionized food production and their implications for global development.
This module explores the concept of the Anthropocene, a proposed geological epoch defined by human impact on Earth's ecosystems. We examine how hyper-connectivity in the digital age has accelerated environmental change and reshaped global interactions.