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  • Chapter 3: The First Half of Egypt’s StoryWorld History 101

    Pharaohs, pyramids, mummies, and ma’at — how the unified kingdom of Egypt built a civilization designed to outlast time itself.

  • Chapter 6: The Pharaohs of Egypt’s New KingdomWorld History 101

    Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II — how Egypt’s second golden age experimented with female pharaohs, near-monotheism, and imperial overreach.

  • Chapter 17: Jesus Christ and His TimesWorld History 101

    Roman-occupied Judaea, the Jewish search for a messiah, Jesus’s crucifixion under Pontius Pilate, and the explosive early spread of Christianity through Paul of Tarsus.

  • Chapter 21: The Golden Age of the MayansWorld History 101

    How a network of Mesoamerican city-states became the longest-running advanced civilization in the Americas, leaving behind monumental stone architecture and a calendar so precise it sparked a modern doomsday myth.

  • Chapter 22: Islam and the New Middle EastWorld History 101

    How a small persecuted religious movement in seventh-century Arabia became, within 120 years of its founder’s death, an empire stretching from Spain to Afghanistan and reshaped half the world’s faith map.

  • Chapter 23: The Glory of the SassanidsWorld History 101

    The last great Persian empire before Islam — Zoroastrian, sophisticated, and so militarily formidable it captured a sitting Roman emperor on the battlefield, before falling to Arab armies in 651.

  • Chapter 24: The Unity of JapanWorld History 101

    How an island civilization with a unique cosmology absorbed Buddhism, Confucianism, and Chinese statecraft without losing its Shinto core — and produced the courtly culture of Nara and Heian Japan.

  • Chapter 27: The Great Schism of 1054World History 101

    The polite, paper-shuffling event that permanently split Christianity into Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox halves — and why a fight that looked minor at the time turned out to be one of the most durable institutional ruptures in history.

  • Chapter 36: The Rise of Protestant EuropeWorld History 101

    How Martin Luther’s 1517 challenge to Rome — amplified by the printing press — fractured Western Christianity, reshaped European politics, and ended a millennium of papal supremacy.

  • World History 101World History 101

    A rapid-fire survey of human civilization from the first anatomically modern humans to the present — 64 chapters, each devoted to one civilization, empire, movement, or turning point.

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