Empires & Interconnections: Apple Books Interactive

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2020

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Empires & Interconnections: Apple Books Interactive (2020)

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

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Spencer Striker's next work in the History Adventures digital book series will be Empires and Interconnections, covering the dramatic period 1450-1750. This new product will include enhanced... Read allSpencer Striker's next work in the History Adventures digital book series will be Empires and Interconnections, covering the dramatic period 1450-1750. This new product will include enhanced interactive features, 3D designs, motion fx, and animation-as well as six fascinating new... Read allSpencer Striker's next work in the History Adventures digital book series will be Empires and Interconnections, covering the dramatic period 1450-1750. This new product will include enhanced interactive features, 3D designs, motion fx, and animation-as well as six fascinating new characters. A conquistador trekking through the treacherous jungles and mountains of 16th... Read all

Director
- Spencer Striker
Writer
- Olivia R. Peterson

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Director
- Spencer Striker
Writer
- Olivia R. Peterson

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins total

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History Adventures, World of Characters: Empires & Interconnections, 1450-1750

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History Adventures: Empires - introducing Ishi, Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan 1603

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History Adventures: Empires - introducing Ishi, Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan 1603

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The international development team for History Adventures: Empires & Interconnections of designers, animators, and writers represent 6 different continents.