Bridging World History — Season 1, Episode 11: Early Empires

Episode synopsis

What makes an 'empire'? Through the Mongol empire, the Mali empire, and the Inka empire, this unit examines the construction of empires, their administrative structures, legitimating ideologies, and the environmental and technological conditions that shaped them.

About Bridging World History

A multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that examined global patterns through time, seeing history as an integrated whole. Topics were studied in a general chronological order, but each is observed through a thematic lens, showing how people and societies experience both integration and differences.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Maps, Time, and World History
• E2History and Memory
• E3Human Migrations
• E4Agricultural and Urban Revolutions
• E5Early Belief Systems
• E6Order and Early Societies
• E7The Spread of Religions
• E8Early Economies
• E9Connections Across Land
• E10Connections Across Water
• E12Transmission of Traditions
• E13Family and Household