World History Educational Resources

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Teaching World History is highly beneficial because it helps your high school students understand how past events have shaped the modern world in which they are soon to become an adult voter. By studying ancient civilizations, powerful empires, major revolutions, and global conflicts, your students discover how societies have changed over time. They also learn how ideas, inventions, religions, and cultural traditions have spread between regions and influenced different peoples. Our 100% free, classroom-tested and standards-aligned instructional materials are here to help!

Early Hominids - Paleolithic Era - Concept of Time - Hunter-Gatherers - Great Rift Valley

Farming - Agriculture - Domestication of Animals - First Cities

Assyrians - Babylonians - Lydians - Hebrews - River Valleys - Invention of Money

Old Kingdom - New Kingdom - Pyramids - Egyptian Gods and Goddesses - Pyramids

Buddhism - Christianity - Hinduism - Judaism - Islam - Shintoism - Shamanism

Harappa - Indus River Valley - Mohenjo-Daro

Ancient China - Ancient Japan - Tang Dynasty - Song Dynasty - Writing - Korea

Parthenon - Peloponnesian War - Sparta - Athens - Pythagoras - Archimedes - Solon

Latins - Seven Hills - Punic Wars - Julius Caesar - Augustus - Marc Antony - Engineering

Invasions of Rome - Goths - Burgundians - Attila - German Tribes

Law Code - Justinian - Eastern Orthodox Church - Eastern Roman Empire

Kievan Rus - Muscovy - Cyrillic Alphabet - Sts. Cyril and Methodius - Russian Orthodoxy

Dark Ages - Feudalism - Medieval Europe - Lords - Vassals - Peasants - Monasticism

Mohammed - Koran - Caliphate - Sunni - Shi'ite - Arabic Language - Sharia

Kingdom of Jerusalem - Knights Templar - Saladin - Charles Martel - Richard the Lion Heart

Samurai - Bushido - Emperor - Isolation - Tokugawa Period - Shogunate

Genghis Khan - Tartar Yoke - Mongolian Horde - Khanate - Fabled Samarkand

Portugal - Italian City-States - Trading Posts - Caravels

Gold - Salt - Native Religions - Culture - Arab Traders - Timbuktu

Bubonic Plague - Devastation - Population Decimated - Black Death - Peasant Revolts

Da Vinci - Michelangelo - Rebirth of Learning - Vernacular Writing - Printing Press

Martin Luther - Protestantism - Calvinism - Predestination - Henry VIII

Elizabeth I - Joan of Arc - Rise of Nation-States in Europe - Wars

Expansion - Decline - Constantinople - Ottoman Turks - Sultans - Islam

Culture - Growth - Contributions - Ancient China - Ming Dynasty - Porcelain

Vasco De Gama - Portugal - Spain - Reconquista - Ferdinand and Isabella

Aztec - Ancient Mexico - Inca - Maya - Central America - Caribbean

Christopher Columbus - Hernan Cortes - Francisco Pizarro - Conquest - Disease

Absolute Monachy - Louis XIV - Divine Right of Kings

Magna Carta - Glorious Revolution - Puritan Revolution

Galileo - Bacon - Descartes - Copernicus - Newton - Scientific Method

John Locke - Voltaire - Social Contract - Philosophes - Voltaire - Diderot - Rousseau

Marie Antoinette - Guillotine - National Assembly - Robespierre - Gouges - Danton

Napoléon Bonaparte - Legion of Honor - Spread of Revolutionary Ideals

Simon Bolivar - Mexico - South America - Bonapartism

Concert of Europe - Metternich - Congress of Vienna - Legitimacy

Paris Commune - Marx - Engels - Communist Manifesto - Anarchism

Benito Juarez - Populism - Cash Crops

Greek Independence - Italian Unification - Romantic Period - Classical Music

Factory System - Growth of Cities - Reforms - Birth of Unions - Karl Marx

British Empire - Berlin Conference - Scramble for Africa - Indochina - Opium Wars

1871-1914 - Beautiful Era - Pax Britannica - Impressionism - Wilhelminism

Modernization of Japan - Militarization - Japanese Empire

Trenches - Mustard Gas - Modern Warfare - Make the World Safe for Democracy

Vladimir Lenin - Joseph Stalin - Leon Trotsky - Communism - Collectivization

Depression - Benito Mussolini - Spanish Civil War - Francisco Franco - Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler - Holocaust - Manhattan Project - Pearl Harbor - Kamikaze - Churchill

Detente - Domino Theory - Korean War - Arms Race - Nuclear Armaments

Establishment - Structure - Goals - Purpose - Leadership - Security Council

Marshall Plan - Green Revolution - Third-World Lending - Global Shipping

Sun Yat-sen - Mao Zedong - Red Army - Cultural Revolution - Taiwan

Vietnam War - Independence in Africa - British Commonwealth

Apartheid - Rwandan Genocide - HIV/AIDS Epidemic - Ebola - Demographic Changes

Establishment of Israel - Oil - Arab-Israeli War - Ayatollah - Saddam Hussein

Soviet Union - Gorbachev - Yeltsin - Glasnost - Berlin Wall - Bosnia

European Union - Multinational Corporations - G8 (Group of Eight) - NATO

Juan Peron - Sandinistas - Noriega - Iran-Contra Affair - Drug Cartels

Global Migration - Climate Change - Greenhouse Effect - Carbon Emissions

Space Race - Internet - Bioengineering - Computer Security - Information Age - AI

World History encourages your high school students to think critically about important questions. They can examine the causes of wars, the growth and decline of civilizations, the effects of exploration, and the development of political systems. Comparing historical events helps your students recognize patterns, evaluate evidence, and understand that events often have several causes and consequences. These skills support success in other school subjects and prepare students to make thoughtful decisions. Studying World History also promotes cultural awareness and respect. Your students learn about the achievements, struggles, and traditions of people from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania. This knowledge helps them appreciate cultural differences and recognize the experiences that people share across societies. World History also makes current events easier to understand. Many modern issues, including international conflicts, migration, economic relationships, and debates about human rights, have roots in the past. Historical knowledge gives your students useful context for understanding these challenges. By teaching World History, high school educators (like you!) help their students become informed citizens who can question information, consider different viewpoints, and understand their place in an interconnected world.

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