Discipline

Geography

Lessons across the journey that lean on geography, in the order they appear in the story.

1. 4.4
   Plate tectonics and the Himalaya

   The engine of a living planet, told through the Indian plate and the rise of the Himalaya.

   Planned
2. 6.6
   Out of Africa, into India

   The peopling of the world, including the early routes into the subcontinent.

   Planned
3. 7.1
   Why farm?

   Climate, population and the Holocene: why farming began where and when it did.

   Draft
4. 7.2
   Domestication

   How wheat, rice, cattle and dogs were remade by people, and people by them.

   Planned
5. 7.3
   Villages to cities

   Surplus, hierarchy, writing and the first states.

   Draft
6. 7.5
   The price of farming

   Disease, inequality and shorter lives: what agriculture cost.

   Planned
7. 7.6
   Empires and exchange

   Agrarian empires, the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean world.

   Planned
8. 8.1
   The Columbian Exchange

   1492 and the joining of the world's biological and human systems.

   Planned
9. 8.2
   The Scientific Revolution

   A new way of knowing: evidence, instruments and doubt.

   Planned
10. 8.3
    Fossil fuels and the Industrial Revolution

    Coal, steam and the release of stored sunlight.

    Planned
11. 8.4
    The Great Acceleration

    Population, energy and information since 1950.

    Planned