Academic · High Elective
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How this course works
Reading-intensiveShort written responsesStory-centeredCase-study analysisPredictable unit rhythm“Civilizational Consultant” analysis capstoneAcademic
The Rise and Fall of Great Civilizations
What history teaches about leadership, culture, and the future.
Wisdom-through-history taught via civilizational case studies — why societies flourish, and why they decline — with students doing the comparative reasoning themselves.
What’s included
Everything a teacher needs, nothing they don’t.
Student Edition
The full reading, questions, and response pages — beautifully typeset for the student.
Teacher Edition
Facilitation, discussion, and coaching — walk in and teach with confidence.
Assessments
Graded on understanding, reasoning, and evidence — never on a student’s personal belief.
Units
- Before We Begin
- What Makes a Civilization?
- Greece: The Glory and the Fracture
- Rome: The Anatomy of Rise and Fall
- Byzantium & the Medieval World
- The Islamic Caliphates & the Ottomans
- The Mongols & the Steppe
- China & the Non-Western Civilizations
- Modern Empires
- Capstone: The Civilizational Consultant
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