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[|Western Civilization] Since 1300 by Jackson Spielvogel - available in google books - it has a great review of freshmen world history (western civ anyway) - click on contents in the book in google books, then on the link to Western Civilization to 1300

[|Mayan codex - breaking the maths code] Good online lesson about Mayan maths and culture.

[|Key terms for world history]

[|MAPPING THE HISTORY OF E'Y IN 90 SECONDS]

[|Women in world history]

[|Indian Ocean history - some good info and resources here]

[|why do civilizations fail lesson]

[|innovation in history (includes from Stone to Silicon)]

[|march madness bracket exercise]

[|Met Museum exhibit - Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty]

[|Historiographic analysis of the met Yuan Dynasty exhibit] This blog is presents an analysis of the exhibit as "tame" and contrasts the current curatorial PoVof the exhibit with a 1968 analysis that is the opposite. Useful for introducing World History students to the art, the period, and to historiography.

=Images:=

Japanese Feudal pyramid

=Videos:=

Here is a slide show with audio discussing maps of Africa over time - showing how they were made, what people knew about Africa, a good review of African pre-colonial and early colonial history. With some photos. [|Slide show - African maps]

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