How Borders and Countries Were Drawn: the History of Political Maps
How Borders and Countries Were Drawn: the History of Political Maps is a free, self-paced learning path in Political Science & Sociology, written at General Public / 9th Grade reading level. Across 15 structured stations, you will work through the core ideas step by step, each with a short quiz to check your understanding. By the end you will be able to define how political maps represent human social structures; explain how physical geography influenced ancient territorial boundaries; summarize the impact of the Peace of Westphalia on modern states.
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All aboard for a journey across the shifting lines of human history. We are tracing the ink that defined our modern world, so mind the gap between past empires and current states.
What you will learn
CORE CONCEPTS
Unpacks the ideas and principles that the subject is built on.
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