Crash Course Big History

Big History examines our past, explains our present, and imagines our future. It's a story about us. An idea that arose from a desire to go beyond specialized and self-contained fields of study to grasp history as a whole.

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Status	Returning Series
Original Name	Crash Course Big History
First Air Date	September 17, 2014
Last Air Date	July 12, 2017
Seasons	2
Episodes	16
Episode Runtime	15min
Language	English
Original Language	English
Production Countries	United States of America
Production Companies	Complexly
Networks	YouTube

S02E06

Why Early Globalization Matters

Globalization has been in process for centuries, and has had a huge effect on Big History, and on Collective Learning. This week, Emily is investigating early globalization through three things that moved around the world and shaped collective learning in the early decades of globalization: Printing, Potatoes, and Plagues.

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