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Unit 4: Era 4—Regional Webs (200 to 1500 CE)

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Societies generally grow and expand. What can we learn when they collapse? How do we restructure after a plague or a political failure? Era 4 also shines light on the so-called “Dark Age”—which may need a new name.
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