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This site contains articles about the Egyptian pharaonic system as well as its influence on Egyptian culture.

This web site about Asian history contains timelines, brief narratives and excellent graphics. It also contains primary sources relating to each topic.

This website contains a series of streaming videos from the Public Broadcasting series “Bridging World History” and a searchable database of maps.

This short web essay explains the role of Central Asia in the “great game” between Britain and Russia as part of the jockeying for power during imperialism.

This short essay explains the Ming Dynasty’s voyages of exploration and their trade and diplomatic efforts in the Indian Ocean basin.

This website, put together by Dr. Eric Mayer of Victor Valley College, contains U.S. and world history lectures and resources from prehistory to the present.

This site provides an overview of the Byzantine Empire, including maps and a timeline.It also contains images of Byzantine art and architecture.

These pages, which are part of The Why Files web site from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains the key features of Neolithic societies and the transition to sedentary agriculture.

This article was first published in the Fall 2004 edition of the publication Education about Asia. It traces the historical roots of Hinduism through its Vedic tradition, as well as its interaction with Buddhism.

The History of Western Civilization is an online course through Boise State University that is taught by E.L. Skip Knox. This course offers in-depth readings on topics ranging from ancient Greece through the Scientific Revolution in the Early Modern Period.

HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps. Over 2,000 files are interconnected throughout the site. In addition to that, HyperHistory provides several hundred links to the world wide web. The growing site itself contains presently over 50 MB of images and text files.

This essay contains information about India’s historical role in trade and its interactions with other cultures up to the present day.

Also see:
India: A Geographic Sketch
India: A Historical Overview

This is a comprehensive online database for primary sources. It is subdivided by historical periods and by region.

These lectures by Lynn H. Nelson were produced for a freshman-level course at the University of Kansas. They cover the era from the High Roman Empire through the Age of Discovery.

This informative, interactive site web site from the British Museum focuses on the cultural traditions of Mesopotamian civilizations

This site contains links to samples from the anthology Reading About the World, Volumes I and II which contains primary source documents related to many topics in world history.

This article examines the motivations for the rise of the British colonial system.

This article from the EH.net encyclopedia (from the Economic History Association) explores the Dutch rise to economic prominence in the nation-state building era in Europe as well as the Dutch role in overseas trade.

Online study guide on the Enlightenment from SparkNotes.

This website includes a video gallery organized by such topics as "Great Speeches," "U.S. History," "World History" and "Historical Figures". It also includes articles on featured topics in history.

This article from the EH.net encyclopedia (from the Economic History Association) describes Max Weber’s famous Protestant Ethic, linking the economic rise of Protestant countries like England to religious values, as well as critiques of this theory.

Online study guide on the Scientific Revolution from SparkNotes.

This site contains information on a wide range of African historical topics from prehistory to the present, based on current historical research. Links to audio files of the original radio stories are also available.

This site contains learning modules covering much of the world’s history, as well as glossaries, atlases and primary document anthologies.

This site examines the origins and course of British involvement in World Wars I and II and major events in the Cold War, including the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. It also covers the Holocaust and the fall of the Soviet Union.