World History
Interactive World History Timeline for Conflict
Here is a timeline that shows world history's major conflicts. Click on the time frame and then all of the individual wars will appear. For example we just finished the Byzantine and the Seljuk Turks. When you click on an item a smaller screen appears and you get more details. The timeline covers your entire world history course.
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Human Evolution Timeline
Here is a very nice human evolution timeline from the Smithsonian Institution. As you move over it, you can click on items to get more details. When teaching early man, or anything for that matter, context and relations to other items helps...
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Timeline Of World Religions
While we are at it, if you teach a world/comparative religions' course, you should add George Coe's newish blog to your PN. I just noticed the great timeline above (click on it to make it bigger) that I will be using with my world religion...
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Maps And Timeline Of World History
This is a great site that has a timeline of all the world epochs as well as maps of every era. ...
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Data Dump
The US Census Bureau just released a whole slew of new data. This link will take you to the New York Times lesson plans site, where you can find a lesson and an interactive map showing the distribution of different racial and ethnic groups. ...
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Can't Get To The Museum? Bring The Museum To Your Kids!
Many museums these days have excellent online presences. I particularly like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which has a great section on their site that's a timeline of art history. You can search by time period, region of...
World History