World History
Cool clip from NPR showing how a planet reaches 7 billion people. Thanks to Emily Haug for tweeting the link.
Visualizing How a Population Reaches 7 Billion
- Discussion Draft Of Bailout Bill
Here is history in the making. The Wall Street Journal has the draft of the Bailout Bill. The text here is the agreed-upon draft of the House Resolution for the 2008 $700 billion economic bailout plan. The final version of this bill, if it passes, is...
- Mansa Musa: Richest Man Ever
That's a picture of Mansa Musa, the empeor of Mali in the 14th century. He is the richest man in the world, "after adjusting for inflation," according to this article in the Huffington Post. He was worth over 400 billion, making him richer than Bill...
- World's Most Typical Human
We just finished our India unit and now are into China so I showed the bottom video to our students. It is a great clip from National Geographic showing that the most typical person in the world is a Han Chinese man. There is more to it...
- The World's Muslims: Pew Center Survey
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life just released a survey on the beliefs and practices of the nearly 1.6 billion Muslims. The survey was conducted in 39 countries. The link here is to a series of graphs or infographics about the survey, which...
- 100 People: A World Portrait
I'm sure that you've seen clips and stats on what the world would look like if it were only 100 or just 10 people. This site is a global education toolbox on a quest to find 100 people that represent the 7 billion of us through photographs, stories,...