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AP World History Resources
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AP World History Resources
Teacher Resources
- World History Matters This website from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is a portal for world history websites and has a variety of exhibits, documents, and materials.
- World History for Us AllThis site has documents, curriculum, and materials for teaching World History.
- Archaeology This National Geographic site is a great place for teaching the Ancient World.
- Wilson Center Cold War Project This is a great place for documents and materials on the Cold War.
- History World This site makes world history accessible through interactive narratives and timelines.
- AP Worldipedia This free encyclopedia from an AP World History teacher covers the content for the course.
- Women in World HistoryThis site provides biographies, lessons, and essays on selected topics in women’s history.
- MillenniumThis CNN series describes the people, events, and achievements that have shaped the world from the 11thto the 20thCenturies.
- Asia for EducatorsThis initiative of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University contains resource for students and teachers.
- World History LessonsThese materials from the Stanford History Education Group can help build historical thinking skills.
- Library of CongressThis list contains links to primary and secondary source sites in World History.
Primary Source Sites
- Internet History Sourcebooks ProjectThis massive primary source archive from Fordham University contains an abundance of documents from the ancient to modern world. Preview the documents as many of them are FULL text.
- World History ArchivesThis site offers documents to support the class, divided by region.
- Eyewitness to Historythis site has primary sources describing major historical events through the eyes of people who were there, from the ancient world to modern times.
- The Map as HistoryThis site offers a variety of interactive timelines and maps to explain historical events.
- Archnet This online library on architecture and urbanism in Muslim Societies.
- World History Sources This website project from the Center for History and New Media has primary sources divided by time period and region.
- Documents in World HistoryThis massive PDF contains documents culled by the University of North Carolina.
- Avalon ProjectThis database from Yale University seeks to digitize all primary sources! Search by time period.
Videos
- Crash Course in World History This series (divided here into two parts) contains a series of short engaging videos explaining events throughout world history. They can also be found HEREwith transcripts for students who may need them.
- World HistoryA variety videos and secondary sources are available here from the Khan Academy.
- Charting Prehistoric Human Migration This video globally maps how humans migrated across the globe.
- The Five Major World Religions This video describes Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam.
- Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived-Jessica Smith This animated video describes the Mali Empire.
- The Silk Road: Connecting the ancient world through trade-Shannon Harris Castelo This animated video describes the growth, significance, and effects of this major trade route.
- What makes the Great Wall of China so extraordinary-Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen This animated video describes the rise and decay of this massive historical structure.
- The hidden meaning of yin and yang-Hohn Bellaimey This animated video explains the root of this famous symbol in Taoism/Daoism.
- The City of Walls: Constantinople-Lars Brownworth This talk describes the growth and design of Constantinople.
- The Middle Ages in 3 ½ Minutes This silent, animated video timelines the causes, life, and end of the Medieval Period.
- History vs. Christopher Columbus-Alex Gendler This animated video discusses the controversy of Columbus’ voyages and aftermath.
- History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte-Alex GendlerThis animated video explains Napoleon’s rise to and from power.
- How did Hitler Rise to Power? –Alex Gendler and Anthony HazardThis animated video explains the rise of the Nazi powers and Hitler’s path to dictatorship.
- History through the Eyes of the Potato-Leo Bear-MGuinnessThis animated video describes the influential history of potatoes.
- The Atlantic Slave Trade: What Too Few Textbooks told you-Anthony HazardThis video describes the historical, economic, and personal impacts of the Atlantic slave trade.
- Interactive world map Timeline This site allows students to see regional spatial relationships change over time.
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