Global History Week in Review: Recent Episodes
Brian Siu
Do you miss hearing about fascinating Global History content material? Check out the Global History Week in Review podcast to catch up on content information during remote learning!
In today's podcast, I give a brief introduction to the enduring issue themes of Global History, which will be used during both 9th and 10th grade!
The 2020-2021 school year officially begins TOMORROW, 9/16/2020. We will be fully remote for the rest of this week and in-person classes are slated to begin on Monday, 9/21/2020. In this podcast, I briefly discuss what to expect during our live sessions tomorrow.
In this podcast episode, I discuss bits and pieces of Louis XIV's daily life to give you some insight into how he lived as the absolute monarch of France!
In today's podcast, I introduce absolutism and the power of absolute monarchs in Europe!
In today's podcast episode, I provide an overview of the Atlantic Slave Trade, an event that marked another dark turn in history during the Age of Exploration.
In this episode, I discuss the conquering of the Aztec Empire by the infamous conquistador, Hernan Cortes. Instead of talking about the content material, I read the secondary source assigned for today on Google Classroom!
In this podcast I will discuss the main motivations for exploration including GOD, GOLD and GLORY!
This is the second podcast regarding the motives for exploration in which we discuss how the Ottoman Empire influenced the desire for new trade routes!
In fourteen hundred ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue! Check out this week's podcast for more information about the infamous Christopher Columbus and the Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal.
There's a lot to cover with imperialism, but this is a start! In this episode, I cover what imperialism is and the Scramble for Africa, the time period when many Western nations imperialized the African continent.
Episode 2 is finally up! This is a review of two of the main topics discussed in class during the week of 11/12/18, the rise of labor unions during the Industrial Revolution and the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
Hi everyone, this is a review of one of the most important topics discussed during the week of 11/5/18, communism and capitalism.