KEYWORD:

  FEATURES:

Finding World History

Unpacking Evidence

Analyzing Documents

Teaching Sources

  PRIMARY SOURCES

Archeology

Music

Paintings & Prints

Quantitative Evidence

Artifacts and Objects

Newspapers & Periodicals

Personal Accounts

Religious Texts

Film & Video

Official Documents

Photographs

Speeches

Literary Sources

Oral History

Political Documents

Travel Narratives

Maps

  REGIONS:

Atlantic Basin

East Asia

Middle East/North Africa

South Asia

Caribbean

Europe

North America

Southeast Asia

Central Asia

Indian Ocean

Pacific Basin

Sub-Saharan Africa

Latin America

Mediterranean World

Russia

  TIME PERIODS:

The Beginnings of Human Society

Early Civilizations & Pastoral Peoples, 4000-1000 BCE

Classical Traditions, Religions, and Empires, 1000 BCE-300 CE

Expanding Zones of Exchange & Encounter, 300-1000 CE

Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 1000-1500 CE

Emergence of the First Global Age, 1450-1770

An Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914

A Half-Century of Crisis & Achievement, 1900-1945

World Since 1945: Promises and Paradoxes

  TOPICS:

Archaeology

Ethnicities

Health/Disease

Nationalism

Revolutions

Architecture

Family Life

Imperial/Colonial

Politics

Science/Tech

Art/Object

Gender

Law

Popular Culture

Slavery

Economy

Geography

Migration/Diaspora

Population

Social Structure

Education

Global Contact

Military

Religion

Travel

Environment