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  • All Empires: A database and online community dedicated to historical empires and cultures of the world.
  • EDUNet's Timemachine: Travel back to 10,000 years and see what's hot in world history after last ice age.
  • Five Epochs of Civilization: Book by William McGaughey about world history as emerging in five civilizations. Provides some brief descriptions and timelines, relating four of them to changes in communication technologies.
  • History of Humanity: Information on a seven-volume history of Scientific and Cultural Development published by UNESCO. Includes a sample chapter and full table of contents.
  • History of the World: Offers an essay giving an overview of world history. Created by history teacher Jeff Coons.
  • Ian's World of History: Database of essays and entries on different periods of history.
  • International Migration: Information on migrations throughout history, particularly those in Europe and the western world.
  • Lectures about Western Civilization till Thirty Year War: Good all round presentations by Professor Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College - understandable by laymen.
  • MacroHistory: Prehistory to the 21st Century: A narrative on trends, successes and failures across the ages in power conflicts, religion, philosophy, and political institutions. Also, monthly commentaries with a historical perspective.
  • Mr. Braman's World History Homepage: A collection of vocabulary words, reading syllabi, and short articles covering world civilizatiosn from ancient to modern times, aimed at secondary school students.
  • Odin's Castle of Dreams & Legends: An Archive of History and Historical Resources. All time periods from dawn of man to today.
  • TheHistoryNet: Archives: Collection of frequently updated articles, reviews, and photographs about historical events around the world.
  • Western Civilization: From Adam to Atom: Lecture notes from retired history professor, Dr. Raymond Jirran.
  • World History: "HyperHistory Online navigates through 3 000 years of World History with links to important persons of world historical importance; civilization timelines; events and facts; and historical maps."
  • World History circa 1200 A.D.: Selection of short articles about world figures and events in the early thirteenth century.
  • World History Course: Complete course with notes, questions, and links, useful for homeschooling or tutoring at regular and advanced levels. Over 2500 links for over 40 different social studies categories.


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    World History

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    World History is a field of historical study that emerged as a distinct academic field in the 1980s. It examines history from a global perspective.

    Overview

    Unlike most history writing of the 19th and most of the 20th centuries, which focused on narratives of individuals, and on national and ethnic perspectives, World History looks for common patterns that emerge across all cultures. World historians use a thematic approach, with two major focal points: integration (how processes of world history have drawn people of the world together) and difference (how patterns of world history reveal the diversity of the human experience).

    The study of world history is in some ways a product of the current period of accelerated globalization. This period is tending both to integrate various cultures and to highlight their differences.

    The advent of World History as a distinct field of study was heralded in the 1980s by the creation of the World History Association [2] and of graduate programs at a handful of universities. Over the past 20 years, scholarly publications, professional and academic organizations, and graduate programs in World History have proliferated. It has become an increasingly popular approach to teaching history in United States high schools and colleges. Many new textbooks are being published with a World History approach.

    Analogous works

    Many works are analogous to World History, in that they discuss "the history of the world" in a unified framework — For example, it was a genre popular in the 19th century with universal history, and with Christian historians going back to at least the 4th century. Other analogous works include:

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