WHP 1200 | Unit 3 Overview | World History Project

With Kim in Australia and Colby in the US, there are very few history course co-hosts more suited to introduce Unit 3: Transoceanic Connections. Come to think of it, there are probably very few history course co-hosts, period. Still, you’re in good—if distant—hands with these excellent history teachers as they point students toward some of the big questions we should be asking about the period from 1450 to 1750 CE. For starters, what was it like for the communities experiencing these major changes that resulted from the new connections between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas? Well, it was no bubonic plague, but it certainly had its moments.

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