World History since 1200

What is in this deck

With this deck you learn eight centuries of world history the way historians order them: the Mongol century, the Columbian Exchange, industrialisation, decolonisation, and the methods used to judge all four.

Eight centuries in one deck, and the organising question is not what happened but why there and why then.

100 cards in four periods. From 1200 to 1450 the Mongols join Eurasia into one trading space and the plague travels along it. From 1450 the Columbian Exchange moves crops in both directions and disease in one, and silver from Potosi reaches China through Manila. From 1750 the Industrial Revolution begins in Britain for reasons no single factor explains. From 1900 two total wars, decolonisation and a Cold War fought everywhere but between its principals.

The last dozen cards are about method: what a primary source can and cannot prove, why periodisation encodes a judgment, and what an archive's silence says about who was never written down.

The categories decide what comes up: start with “1200–1450” alone and add the rest when you are ready.

What you learn

• The Mongol century and what the plague travelled on
• The Columbian Exchange, in both directions
• Why Britain industrialised first, without a single cause
• Decolonisation, and the borders drawn at Berlin
• Sources, periodisation and the archive's silences

The categories

6 categories sort the 100 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.

1. 1200–1450
2. 1450–1750
3. 1750–1900
4. 1900–present
5. Method
6. Themes

Learning with Qardbox

You see a card, you think, you turn it over and say whether you knew it. A round asks nothing more of you, and how the app works out the next date from that is on the page about FSRS-6.

What sits comes back less often, what wobbles comes back soon. You set a daily goal, and when nothing is due the app tells you exactly that instead of inventing work for you. How a round goes is shown on the learning page.

Everything stays on your device. No account, no sign-up, no ads. After the purchase the deck sits in your library like any other subject and can be studied, reordered and extended just like your own.

What it costs, and what it doesn’t

Qardbox itself costs nothing, and it stays that way. Every function is there from the start, with no subscription, no ads and no tiers; what that rests on is on the page about what it costs.

Your own cards stay unlimited, and decks from friends or from the family you read in without a limit, from a file as well. You do not need this deck in order to learn with Qardbox.

It is a shortcut: 100 checked cards for €1.29, once, with Family Sharing. The work you would otherwise do is already done. The App Store shows the price in your currency.