History Adventures, World of Characters: Empires & Interconnections, 1450-1750
Introducing Empires & Interconnections, the newest edition in the award-winning History Adventures digital book series, whose accolades include the 2019 Horizon Interactive Awards Gold Medal for Best Education App.
This fully interactive, animated digital learning product represents a fresh approach to history education, designed for todays digital generation. History Adventures: Empires & Interconnections (1450-1750) combines the latest in mobile entertainment with the power of narrative design, bringing the pages of history to life.
An Age of Exploration, Gunpowder, and International Trade
During this period of colossal change, from 1450-1750, the world got smaller. The age of exploration, gunpowder, and international trade took hold, like never before. Epic empires expanded, and followed trade routes--as European nations battled to control as much of the worlds wealth as possible. The dark side of this explosion of wealth and consolidated power and influence, meant enslavement and ruin for some, as Europeans unknowingly brought diseases that killed millions and meanwhile initiated the gruesome, inhumane Atlantic Slave Trade. Some nations remained autonomous and isolated, such as the Tokugawa of Japan--but this took huge effort to throw off this tide of increasing global interconnectedness.
Empires & Interconnections
For Empires & Interconnections, we have developed 6 new characters--each of whom confronts the core question: how to deal with this tidal sweep of rising empires, will they fold into this interconnectedness, or will they somehow resist?
History Adventures, World of Characters - a digital book series
Created by Spencer Striker, PhD
Digital Media Design Professor at Northwestern University in Qatar
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#history #mobile #education #innovation #worldhistory #peopleshistory #technology #animation #exploration #digitallearning #revolution #othersideofhistory #narrativedesign #deeptime #interactiondesign #chooseyourownadventure #tokugawa #shogun