Robert Strayer “Ways of the World” 2nd Edition and Crash Course Video Correlation
Compiled by Rachael Dadabo
Era #1 – Beginnings to 500 B.C.E.
Chapter 1 “First Peoples; First Farmers”
#1: The Agricultural Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=1
Chapter 2 - “First Civilizations”
#2 Indus Valley Civilization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ndRwqJYDM&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=2
#3 Mesopotamia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohXPx_XZ6Y&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=3
#4 Ancient Egypt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Wvw6BivVI&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=4
Era #2 – Second-Wave Civilizations in World History, 500 B.C.E. - 500 C.E.
Chapter 3 – State and Empire in Eurasia/North Africa
#5 “The Persians & Greeks”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-mkVSasZIM&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=5
#8 “Alexander the Great and The Situation...the Great?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LsrkWDCvxg&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=8
Chapter 4 – Culture and Religion in Eurasia/North Africa
#6 Buddha & Ashoka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nn5uqE3C9w&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=6
#7 2,000 Years of Chinese History: The Mandate of Heaven and Confucius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylWORyToTo4&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=7
#11 Christianity from Judaism to Constantine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG55ErfdaeY&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=11
Chapter 5 – Society and Inequality in Eurasia/North Africa
#10 “The Roman Empire...or Republic”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPf27gAup9U&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=10
Chapter 6 – Commonalities and Variations: Africa and the Americas
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Era #3 – An Age of Accelerating Connections, 500-1500 C.E.
Chapter 7 – Commerce and Culture
#9 “The Silk Road and Ancient Trade”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfe-eNq-Qyg&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=9
#18 Int'l Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and The Indian Ocean Trade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6XtBLDmPA0&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=18
Chapter 8 – China and the World: East Asian Connections
#14 The Dark Ages, How Dark Were They Really?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV7CanyzhZg&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=14
Chapter 9 – The Worlds of Islam: Afro-Eurasian Connections
#13 Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars All Without a Flamewar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpcbfxtdoI8&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=13
#16 Mansu Mansa and Islam in Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnU0v6hcUo&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=16
Chapter 10 – The Worlds of Christendom: Contraction, Expansion, and Division
#12 The Fall of the Roman Empire...in the 15th Century [Byzantium]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PszVWZNWVA&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=12
#15 The Crusades: Pilgrimage or Holy War?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0zudTQelzI&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=15
Chapter 11 – Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment
#17 Wait for it...The Mongols!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxPar0BcMo&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=17
#20 Russia, the Kievan Rus, and the Mongols
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etmRI2_9Q_A&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=20
Chapter 12 – The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century
#19 Venice and the Ottoman Empire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN-II_jBzzo&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=19
Era #4 – The Early Modern World, 1450-1750 C.E.
Chapter 13 – Political Transformations: Empires and Encounters
#21 Columbus, De Gama, and Zheng He! 15th Century Mariners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjEGncridoQ&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=21
#23 The Columbian Exchange
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPA5oNpfM4&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=23
Chapter 14 – Economic Transformations: Commerce and Consequence
#24 The Atlantic Slave Trade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=24
#25 The Spanish Empire, Silver, and Runaway Inflation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjhIzemLdos&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=25
#27 The Amazing Life and Strange Death of Captain James Cook (1770)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yXNrLTddME&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=27
Chapter 15 – Cultural Transformations: Religion and Science
#22 The Renaissance, Was It a Thing?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vufba_ZcoR0&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=22
Era #5 – The European Moment in World History, 1750-1914 C.E.
Chapter 16 – Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes
#26 7 Years War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qbzNHmfW0&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=26
#28 Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution: Crash Course World History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUiSBXQHCw&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=28
#29 The French Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTTvKwCylFY&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=29
#30 Haitian Revolutions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A_o-nU5s2U&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=30
#31 Latin American Revolutions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBw35Ze3bg8&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=31
Chapter 17 – Revolutions of Industrialization
#32 Coal, Steam and the Industrial Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhL5DCizj5c&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=32
#33 Capitalism and Socialism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3u4EFTwprM&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=33
Chapter 18 – Colonial Encounters in Asia and Africa
#35 Imperialism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alJaltUmrGo&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=35
Chapter 19 – Empires in Collision: Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia
#34 Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, and Nationalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nosq94oCl_M&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=34
Era #6 – The Most Recent Century, 1914-2012
Chapter 20 #36: Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XPZQ0LAlR4&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=36
#38: World War II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78COTwT7nE&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=38
Chapter 21 #37 Communists, Nationalists, and China's Revolutions: Crash Course World History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCEeC4f6ts&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
#39 USA vs USSR Fight! The Cold War: Crash Course World History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9HjvHZfCUI&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9
Chapter 22 #40 Decolonization and Nationalism Triumphant: Crash Course World History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_sGTspaF4Y&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=40
Chapter 23 –
#41 Globalization I - The Upside: Crash Course World History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SnR-e0S6Ic&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=41
#42 Globalization II: Good or Bad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_iwrt7D5OA&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=42