World+History

Curriculum

[|World History]by Keith Hughes Video lectures which cover World History at the high school level.

Human History [|The 4th Era - Exploration of the new era in human history marked by invention on the Internet] For the purposes of this Scoop.it site, human history is divided into 4 eras. The first era ended with the invention of writing around 3000 BC. The second era ended with the invention of the printing press in 1440. The third era ended, and the fourth began, with the invention of the Internet (depending how one defines its operational beginning) somewhere between 1969 and 1982. We now exist early, but decidedly, in the fourth era.

[|The Archaeology Channel]The mission of the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) is to develop ways to make archaeology more effective both in gathering important information about past human lifeways and in delivering that information to the public and the profession. A fundamental postulate is that archaeology has important messages to deliver accurately and completely to people worldwide about our origins and development as a species and that among these messages are those about mistakes we have made in the past and must not make in the future.

[|Collapse: why do civilizations fall?] Explore the collapse of four ancient civilizations. You'll learn what happens when a society collapses and how archaeologists find and interpret evidence.

Africa [|NOVA's "This Old Pyramid”] Follow a team as they reconstruct how the pyramids of Egypt were built, wander through the chambers and passageways of the Great Pyramid, and learn about the pharaohs for whom these monumental tombs were built.

[|Odyssey online]explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th - 20th century sub-Saharan Africa. In Odyssey Online you'll find museum objects from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, and the Dallas Museum of Art in Texas. You can make your own discoveries through cool puzzles, games, and worksheets.

Asia

Europe [|Encyclopedia Titanica]the foremost repository of facts, opinion and media relating to RMS Titanic. Featuring Titanic survivor stories, comprehensive Titanic passenger list and biographies, detailed Titanic research articles, in depth discussions and rich media including Titanic pictures, archive recordings and the Titanic movie player.

[|Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands]This Morgan Library and Museum exhibition explores the evolution of courtly clothing from the "Fashion Revolution" around 1330 to the flowering of the Renaissance in France following the accession of King François I in 1515. During this period, the modern notion of changing fashion was reborn. Because few actual garments from the Middle Ages survive, we use the art of this era — illuminated manuscripts and early printed books — to reveal its evolving styles.

====[|The Jewish Sound Archive Database] and website were developed as a collaborative effort between Professor Lewis Glinert and Professor Hartov and several additional colleagues at Dartmouth. Currently, the collection has over 20,000 tracks available for online listening. ====

[|The Labyrinth] provides free, organized access to electronic resources in medieval studies through a World Wide Web server at Georgetown University. Easy-to-use menus and links provide connections to databases, services, texts, and images on other servers around the world.

[|Making History: 300 Years of Antiquaries in Britain] Originally collected at a time before the foundation of national collections, the antiquities, historic books, drawings, manuscripts and paintings of the Society of Antiquaries of London form a timeline for British history. On tour for the first time in celebration of the Society’s tercentenary, they include historic treasures of international importance, records of lost buildings and objects, and an extraordinary collection of English royal portraits from Edward IV to Henry VIII.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Titanic--100 Years]- Research Guides at Southeastern Oklahoma University

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|World War I] The British Library has made hundreds of thousands of newly digitised material relating to stories and events of World War One available online for free. 10,000 items from the British Library’s World War One collections are accessible via Europeana 1914-1918, along with documents, films, and family mementos relating to the war from partner institutions across Europe.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority]As the Jewish people’s living memorial to the Holocaust, Yad Vashem safeguards the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations. Established in 1953, as the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is today a dynamic and vital place of intergenerational and international encounter.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Middle East <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Digital Dead Sea Scrolls]The Israel Museum welcomes you to the Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project, allowing users to examine and explore these most ancient manuscripts from Second Temple times at a level of detail never before possible. Developed in partnership with Google, the new website gives users access to searchable, fast-loading, high-resolution images of the scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history. The Dead Sea Scrolls, which include the oldest known biblical manuscripts in existence, offer critical insight into Jewish society in the Land of Israel during the Second Temple Period, the time of the birth of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. Five complete scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the project at this stage and are now accessible online.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Persian Manuscripts] Asian and African Studies have uploaded more than 15,000 images of Persian manuscripts online.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">Central America <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Maya Adventure]presented by The Science Museum of Minnesota, a World-Wide Web site that highlights science activities and information related to ancient and modern Maya culture.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">South America