Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Did Change Accelerate?
This video describes three factors for the acceleration of change: interconnected world zones, increasing commerce and markets, and new sources of fossil fuel energy. These factors led to the modernization of society in some parts of the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How Was the Modern World Created?
This video looks at three forces of change that gather momentum and help create the modern world, transforming the biosphere. [11:22]
Tom Richey
Tom Richey: Romanticism
AP History video with Tom Richey on the ideas of Romanticism in which Tom Richey explains the movement as a critique of the industrial ideals of progress favoring the values of nature, childhood innocence, emotion, religion and love....
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Apwh Period 4 (1450 1750) Timeline Quiz Events
Video from Mrs. Osborns AP World History class on Period 4, Global Interactions, 1450-1750 C.E. Offers study material through timeline of events. [2:04]
Crash Course
Crash Course World History 229: Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company
Crash Course video hosted with humor by John Green offers viewers a lesson in 17th Century capitalist ideas and tendencies embraced by the Dutch Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) also known as the Dutch East India Company.
Timelines.tv
Timelines Tv: Smallpox Through Time 04: Child Pox: 1711
Video on how the Smallpox disease affected children and shares the heartbreaking story of one family in 18th-century England who lost several children to the deadly disease. [1:31]
Timelines.tv
Timelines Tv: Smallpox Through Time 10: Public Health, Public Protest: 1840 1890
Discusses the backlash against vaccinating babies for Smallpox and the subsequent intervention by the government making inoculation mandatory. [3:10]
Timelines.tv
Timelines Tv: Smallpox Through Time 09: Mad Cows & Ox Faced Boys: 1806
Video on the backlash and superstition surrounding vaccination against Smallpox in early 19th century England. [3:11]
Timelines.tv
Timelinles Tv: Smallpox Through Time 08: The Vaccine Triumphant: 1797 1812
Video teaching about the adoption of the Smallpox vaccine and the beginnings of eradication. [3:12]
Timelines.tv
Timelines Tv: Smallpox Through Time 07: Jenner's Breakthrough: 1796
Video detailing the 1796 breakthrough in Smallpox prevention when an English doctor makes a connection between Smallpox and Cowpox and then develops a vaccine for Smallpox. [3:00]
Timelines.tv
Timelines Tv: Smallpox Through Time 05: Experiment in Newgate: 1721
Teaches about an experiment in England's Newgate Prison which introduced a weakened version of the Smallpox virus to prisoners with good results, advancing our understanding of immunology. [4:25]
Timelines.tv
Timelines Tv: Smallpox Through Time 06: The Speckled Monster
Video revealing the impact that Smallpox had on human lives and families in 18th-century Britain from an example in Buford, England. [3:56]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Threshold 8: The Modern Revolution
The Modern Revolution began about 200 ago and created the world we live in today. This video explains the key ingredients needed for the Modern Revolution. [2:37]