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AFRICA'S SLAVES: The Transatlantic and East African Slave Trades
Africa was the source of slaves for two vast slave-trading systems: one dominated by Europeans, the other by Muslims in the Middle East. Sources here help debate the differences.79778 ... more>>>
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AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: 1750–1900, The
- Political Revolutions
- Industrial Revolution
- The West in Control
- Global Response to the West
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ANCIENT GREECE: Mindsparks Bundle 
One History Unfolding unit, one Debating the Documents unit, and one Historian's Apprentice unit on ancient Greece. more>>>
| Reproducibles | HS270-WEB, HS941-WEB, HS716-WEB... |
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BEGINNING OF THE GLOBAL AGE: 1500–1750, The
- Accelerating Change & Interaction
- Renaissance & Reformation
- Eurasia & Its Empires
- Europe & the World
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BUDDHA'S TRAVELS: A Case of East Asian Cultural Diffusion
Buddhism arose in India. As it spread through Asia over 1000 years, it adapted to many different cultures. The sources in this booklet help show how it adapted and changed.19435 ... more>>>
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CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY AND APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA: The Way We Saw It
Relating Alan Paton's beloved masterwork to its time and place, this program consists of 12 dramatic black-and-white images (on transparencies) keyed to major themes in the novel and organized into four ... more>>>
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DEBATING THE DOCUMENTS: World History
Students think like historians as they analyze primary sources, write short essays for document-based questions, and take part in a culminating debate. Each reproducible unit contains groups of documents ... more>>>
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EUROPE'S TEACHERS, EUROPE'S LEARNERS
Other civilizations taught medieval Europe a great deal. As these sources show, however, Europe's eagerness to learn from these civilizations and develop what it learned in unique ways is also a key part ... more>>>
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EUROPEAN FEUDALISM AND THE CHINESE IMPERIAL ORDER
During the Middle Ages, China was a unified empire held in place by a scholarly bureaucratic elite.11644 Mindsparks more>>>
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FROM GOD-KINGS TO WORLD RELIGIONS
In the first millennium BC, monotheistic religions and philosophies arose around the world. All sought truths more universal than those of earlier deities linked to particular societies and rulers. more>>>
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FROM HUNTER-GATHERERS TO FARMERS AND HERDERS
The transition from hunter-gatherer societies to those based on agriculture is often labeled a "revolution." Sources illustrate that the change took place slowly, before and after early signs ... more>>>
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GREAT LITERATURE: The Way We Saw It in Illustration and Art
Carefully selected images relate the stories and themes of these five novels to the actual times, places, and social issues that define their historical contexts. For each novel, 12 eye-catching transparencies ... more>>>
| Reproducibles | HS240-WEB, HS221-WEB, HS222-WEB... |
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GREAT LITERATURE: The Way We Saw It in Illustration and Art
Carefully selected images relate the stories and themes of these six novels to the actual times, places, and social issues that define their historical contexts. For each novel, 12 eye-catching transparencies ... more>>>
| Reproducibles | HS230-WEB, HS221-WEB, HS168-WEB... |
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HISTORIAN'S APPRENTICE: World History, The
By Jonathan Burack. Students learn how to do what historians do as they weigh both primary and secondary sources and tackle key historical questions. Each unit first sets the historical context with a ... more>>>
| Reproducibles | HS765-WEB, HS771-WEB, HS772-WEB... |
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HOW DEMOCRATIC WERE THE ANCIENT GREEKS?
Many city-states of classical Greece developed traditions of direct or representative democracy. Yet from a modern point of view, these were flawed by the exclusion of women and the existence of slavery. more>>>
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IMPACT OF THE PRINTING PRESS IN CHINA AND EUROPE, The
The Chinese invented block printing and movable type before the Europeans. Each society mastered the technology, but printing's impact on each varied substantially. Sources will help focus discussion on ... more>>>
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INDIA: Mindsparks Bundle
One History Unfolding unit, one Debating the Documents unit, and one Historian's Apprentice unit on India. more>>>
| Reproducibles | HS290-WEB, HS847-WEB, HS731-WEB... |
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INDIAN OCEAN: A Trading Network in Transition, The
Muslim, Indian, Chinese, and other merchants established a complex trading network in the Indian Ocean centuries before the Portuguese and Dutch arrived and transformed it in fundamental ways.96294 ... more>>>
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INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN CHINA
Centuries before Europe's Industrial Revolution, the industrial creativity of China during the Tang and Song Dynasties made that nation the most technologically advanced on earth.71828 ... more>>>
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: Mindsparks Bundle, The
One History Unfolding unit, one Debating the Documents unit, and one Historian's Apprentice unit on the Industrial Revolution. more>>>
| Reproducibles | HS300-WEB, HS836-WEB, HS741-WEB... |
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ISLAM'S IMPACT
Islamic armies conquered a vast territory including the Persian Empire and much of the Christian Byzantine Empire. These sources help explore the nature of Islam's impact on these ancient cultures. more>>>
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ISLAM: Mindsparks Bundle
One History Unfolding unit, one Debating the Documents unit, and one Historian's Apprentice unit on Islam. more>>>
| Reproducibles | HS280-WEB, HS835-WEB, HS721-WEB... |
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LEVIATHAN: Central States in the Early Modern Era
The modern world's centralized nation-state system began to emerge in Europe and elsewhere after about 1500. These sources help illustrate why this happened and what it meant.20336 ... more>>>
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RIVERS AND CIVILIZATION: What's the Link?
The first civilizations all arose along major rivers. Sources show how this geography and the water-control technologies it fostered were integral to these societies.16134 Mindsp... more>>>
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SLAVES, PEASANTS, AND SCRIBES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
The earliest civilizations exhibited very clear social and economic inequalities. Why? Is social inequality inevitable? Or were these special factors in these first complex societies that brought it into ... more>>>
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TRADE AND THE PLAGUE: The Perils of Interaction
The Mongol conquests linked China, the Middle East, and Europe via central Asian trade routes. Along with goods, this enabled the Black Plague of the 14th century to spread. Sources focus on the way Europe ... more>>>
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TWENTIETH CENTURY, The
- Industry, Science & Technology
- Democracy & Totalitarianism
- World War & Western Dominance
- Independence & Interdependence
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TWO WORLDS COLLIDE: Europe's Encounter With the Americas
Europeans understood their encounter with the Americas in the 1500s in various ways based on their ideas about themselves and others. Sources offer contrasting views of what the encounter meant to them. more>>>
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U.S. HISTORY THROUGH CARTOONS
Boldly rimmed in red-white-blue, eight posters walk students through the nation's past via political cartoons from the famous "Join, or Die" of Benjamin Franklin to Fitzpatrick's view of the Cold War. ... more>>>
| Charts & Posters | HS110-WEB, HS111-WEB, HS112-WEB... |
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WHAT WAS REVOLUTIONARY ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION?
China, India, and the Islamic world, all made great scientific contributions prior to the early modern era. Yet Europe's achievements after the 13th century are seen as the revolutionary breakthrough to ... more>>>
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