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The forgotten army of the first world war: how Chinese labourers helped shape Europe - 4 views

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World History world war i WWI China

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Multiple compelling images of Chinese laborers

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China and the May 4th Movement | The Greater China Journal - 0 views

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World History China Modern China Communism Protest

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Why May 4th is significant (and it's not because of Star Wars day) - 0 views

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World History China Modern China Communism

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Article includes short video on May 4th Movement

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The Silk Road - 4 views

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World History Silk Roads Eurasia Trade silkroad

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Interactive map

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20th Century Korea Modules - World History Digital Education Foundation, Inc. - 1 views

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World History Global Studies lesson plans Historical Thinking Korea Cold War

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Three lessons on Korea after the Korean war. Each develops a historical thinking skill

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MarineTraffic: Global Ship Tracking Intelligence | AIS Marine Traffic - 0 views

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Global Studies World History globalization Shipping

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Live map of maritime commerce

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BBC NEWS | Special Reports | The Box - 1 views

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Global Studies World History globalization Shipping container

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Website for "The Box", a project in which the BBC tracked a shipping container for a year as it traveled around the world

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Shipmap.org | Visualisation of Global Cargo Ships | By Kiln and UCL - 0 views

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World History Global Studies Shipping

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Interactive map showing commercial shipping in 2012 around the world

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Enabling Globalization: The Container - National Geographic Education Blog - 0 views

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globalization World History container shipping

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Text images, and embedded video

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How Dutch Wax Fabrics Became a Mainstay of African Fashion - 1 views

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World History Colonialism Indonesia West Africa The Netherlands Global trade

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Yacob and Amo: Africa's precursors to Locke, Hume and Kant | Aeon Essays - 2 views

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World History The Enlightenment religion philosophy Africana

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Article on philosophy emphasizing freedom of religion from outside of Europe.

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Resources: Songs of the Canoes - 1 views

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World History Oceania Hawaii Music

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Hawaiian voyaging tradition

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Why women's peace activism in World War I matters now - 1 views

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peace world war i WWI Feminism

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Article on the Women's Peace with connections to current movements

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Codex Mendoza (1542) - The Public Domain Review - 2 views

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Aztecs World History Colonial Latin America

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High quality images from the Codex

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A global view on Long Late Antiquity, 300-800 AD | Johannes Preiser-Kapeller - Academia... - 2 views

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World History Eurasia Byzantize Empire Tang China Caliphate Abbasid

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Compares Frankish Kingdom with Abbasid Caliphate, Tang China, and the Byzantine Empire. Show's the Franks as the least developed state. Excellent opening anecdote about the failure of a Frankish canal.

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World History Maps by Thomas Lessman - 1 views

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maps geography World History Eurasia

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Lots of historical maps of Eurasia

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Saudi Aramco World : An Elephant for Charlemagne - 1 views

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World History Caliphate Franks middle east European History Europe

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Story of the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid giving an elephant to Charlemagne through diplomats sent from the Frankish Kingdom to the Abbasid capital in Baghdad

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University of Al-Karaouine - Fez, Morocco - Atlas Obscura - 0 views

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Islamic culture education North Africa university

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Oldest, continuously operating, degree-granting university in the world. Founded by a female scholar in North Africa

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Taytu Betel: The Woman Who Saved Ethiopia - Museum Hack - 0 views

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Ethiopia Battle of Adwa Imperialism Italy

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Recent article on Empress Taytu Betel, leader of Ethiopian army that defeated an Italy army, 1896. Taytu Betel's husband was Menelik II, and this article credits her with providing the critical leadership in the conflict with Italy.

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Modern Latin America - 3 views

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latin america Cold War Primary sources

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Many primary and secondary source texts

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