Overview of Longitude and Laitude
World History

Overview of Longitude and Laitude






- History Of American Samoa
History of American Samoa. This is a small but intersting look at the history of American Samoa. From the site: Migrants from Southeast Asia arrived in the Samoan islands more than 2,000 years ago and from there settled the rest of Polynesia further...

- Interactive National Geographic Maps
Tomorrow my students are looking at their connections to the world starting with the clothes on their backs.  To that end I have been trolling the Internet for something that is interactive to show them.  But in doing so I found this amazing...

- How Scientists Solved The Longitude Problem
Open Culture put these videos on their site showing how scientists in the 18th century finally solved the longitude problem. In 1714, Open Culture notes, the British government opened an office to study the problem and offered an award to the first person...

- World Geography E-textbook
When I first began teaching (21 years ago!), I taught a world geography course for several years (since exiled from VA and incorporated into world history) for which this book would have been perfect.  But for world history teachers the first chapter...

- Animated Historical Maps
This site has over 175 online animated maps. You have to have an account to access the vast majority but many are free. For example there are two great animated maps of ancient Greece. One is an overview of Greece from Mycenae and Greek colonization to...



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