How this course works
The chapters and lessons below are the fixed course structure. When you start, LearnLive teaches each lesson interactively and adapts examples, pacing, and questions to you.
Complete syllabus
Every chapter and lesson
- 01
Chapter 1 · 3 lessons
Foundations (to 600 BCE)
- 1.1
The Neolithic Revolution
8 min · Quick check
- 1.2
Mesopotamia & Egypt
9 min · Quick check
- 1.3
Early India & China
8 min · Quick check
- 1.1
- 02
Chapter 2 · 3 lessons
Classical Empires (600 BCE–600 CE)
- 2.1
Greece & the roots of Western thought
9 min · Quick check
- 2.2
Rome: republic to empire
9 min · Quick check
- 2.3
Han China, India & Persia
8 min · Quick check
- 2.1
- 03
Chapter 3 · 3 lessons
The Postclassical World (600–1450)
- 3.1
The rise & spread of Islam
9 min · Quick check
- 3.2
Medieval Europe & Byzantium
8 min · Quick check
- 3.3
Silk Roads & Indian Ocean trade
9 min · Quick check
- 3.1
- 04
Chapter 4 · 3 lessons
Connecting the Globe (1450–1750)
- 4.1
The Mongol legacy
8 min · Quick check
- 4.2
Exploration & the Columbian Exchange
9 min · Quick check
- 4.3
Early modern empires
8 min · Quick check
- 4.1
- 05
Chapter 5 · 3 lessons
Revolutions & Industry (1750–1914)
- 5.1
Atlantic revolutions
9 min · Quick check
- 5.2
The Industrial Revolution
9 min · Quick check
- 5.3
Imperialism
8 min · Quick check
- 5.1
- 06
Chapter 6 · 3 lessons
The Modern World (1914–present)
- 6.1
The world wars
9 min · Quick check
- 6.2
The Cold War & decolonization
9 min · Quick check
- 6.3
Globalization today
8 min · Quick check
- 6.1