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Unit: Era 4 - Regional Webs (200 to 1500 CE)

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4.0: Era 4 Overview: Collapse and Restructuring

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BEFORE YOU WATCH: Era 4 Overview
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WATCH: Era 4 Overview
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READ: Era 4 Overview - Collapse and Restructuring
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BEFORE YOU WATCH: Frames in Era 4
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WATCH: Frames in Era 4
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4.1: Systems Collapse

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READ: Empires Fall
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READ: The Fall of Rome
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READ: The Fall of the Han Dynasty
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READ: Cycles of Collapse in Mesoamerica
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BEFORE YOU WATCH: Collapse
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WATCH: Collapse
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4.2: Systems Restructure

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READ: The Caliphate
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READ: Networks and Exchange in the Islamic World
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BEFORE YOU WATCH: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa
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Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa
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READ: States and Empires of West Africa
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READ: Between the Han and the Tang: A Period of Disunion in China
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READ: The Spread of Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Bantu Migration
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READ: Christendom
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BEFORE YOU WATCH: Rebuilding the Silk Road
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WATCH: Rebuilding the Silk Road
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READ: The Silk Road
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Long-Distance Trade in the Americas
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Systems RestructureGet 3 of 4 questions to level up!

4.3: A Dark Age?

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READ: The “Dark Ages” Debate
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READ: Was There Ever a ‘Dark Age’?
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BEFORE YOU WATCH: Shoguns, Samurai and the Japanese Middle Ages
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Shoguns, samurai and the Japanese Middle Ages
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READ: China Under the Tang and Ming Dynasties
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BEFORE YOU WATCH: International Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and The Indian Ocean Trade
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International Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and The Indian Ocean Trade
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BEFORE YOU WATCH: Impact of the Crusades
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Impact of the crusades
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READ: Medieval Women in Western Europe, c.1000-1350 CE
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READ: Women in Song China
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Societies generally grow and expand. What can we learn when they collapse? How do we restructure after a plague or a political failure? Era 4 also shines light on the so-called “Dark Age”—which may need a new name.