AI Podcast covering Unit 6.

Unit 6 explores the global explosion that followed. As industrialized nations grew hungrier for raw materials and new markets, they turned their eyes toward Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. This unit is about imperialism: the process by which powerful states squeezed the rest of the world for resources, justified their dominance through pseudo-science, and met fierce, often desperate, resistance from those they sought to conquer.

Between 1750 and 1900, the "Great Divergence" became a global reality. You will examine how the quest for rubber, gold, cotton, and guano reshaped the world map, shifted global migration patterns, and created an interconnected world economy—one built on a foundation of profound inequality.