ALA Middle Eastern world: Starting point - a cross-section of Web sites that offer information on the governments, religions, history, and socio-cultural forces of the modern Middle Eastern world. Necessarily, some historical information is included.

AllAfrica Global Media is a multi-media content service provider, systems technology developer and the largest electronic distributor of African news and information worldwide.

Ancient China: Welcome to the British Museum's web site on ancient China.

New Ancient Web is a primarily commercial website, however it does provide some good, free reference materials for students. The Ancient Web focuses on offering articles and images explaining the history and culture of ancient civilizations around the world.

Arctic Passage ...incredibly rich site, from Public Broadcasting's Nova series, is based on two Arctic explorations, one disastrous and the other successful, to find the fabled Northwest Passage. The site offers a description and a transcript of the Nova broadcast, a Teachers' Guide, and an amazing assortment of activities for students, offering them the chance to understand why one expedition failed (mysteriously disappearing) and the other succeeded. There's even a quiz on igloo building.

Asia Source, Resources on Asian Countries
Ask Asia - helps busy teachers introduce high-quality course content on Asia...provides curricular materials, services, and support for teachers and schools throughout the United States. use of the latest interactive media serves as a groundbreaking model for educators.

British Life and Culture ...an excellent source of information for customs and traditions, daily life, etiquette, government, food and drink, education, the Royal family, symbols, and just about anything else a student needs to know about the countries that make up Great Britain.

Caribseek ...Information and Resources on Caribbean Nations
Cold War: From Yalta to Malta (CNN) - explores the Cold War experience. Included are interactive maps, rare video footage, declassified documents, biographies, picture galleries, timelines, games and simulations, interactive activities, a search function, book excerpts, an educator’s guide, etc.

Collapse (Grades 9-12)...Explore the collapse of four ancient civilizations. Learn how archaeologists find and interpret evidence.
Conquerors of the WorldCross the plains of Europe and Asia with Hannibal, Charlemagne, and Suleiman the Magnificent....presentation, games and activities...scroll down page to find link

CountryReports.org was established in 1997 out of a love for international relations and culture. Entirely web-based, we offer more than 26,000 pages of content covering a wide-range of topics. Our statistical data and cultural information has proven to be valuable to students, parents, teachers, and researchers alike.

Cuban Missile Crisis...The presentation of the Cuban Missile Crisis, its preliminaries and evolution to eventual détente consists of: The display of photographic evidence (some 100 items) and an analysis of the Crisis
Cybrary of the Holocaust - shares art, discussion, photos, poems, and facts to preserve powerful memories, like A Survivor’s Prayer. Learn the facts through lesson plans, research and timelines, including our Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust.
Europe Before 1800 Learn about major European events from 476 to the year 1789 A.D.....presentation, games and activities...scroll down page to find link

Eternal Egypt ...Enjoy the sheer beauty of this site. Eternal Egypt will intrigue students by the interactivity offered on subjects such as artifacts, places, culture, and people of ancient Egypt. This site is like a well-done textbook come to life. Everything moves, everything connects and blends into an intriguing virtual trip across deserts and through pyramids. Allow lots of time to peruse this site.
EyeWitness - History through the eyes of those who lived it... Illuminating the past through personal narratives and other first-hand sources, EyeWitness is presented by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational programming

Ex-child soldier in Sudan is a powerful, three minute audio slideshow produced by the BBC. The slideshow chronicles the struggles of 13 year old Deng Chan to care for his family, attend school, and deal with anger after leaving the rebel army in South Sudan.
Food Timeline...Includes varied resources and examines food's impact on history and history's impact upon food...teacher resources, lesson plans, etc.
Gaius Julius Caesar - Request an Audience with Gaius Julius Caesar by way of an artificial intelligence program developed by Artificial-Life, Inc. Caesar may answer your questions and even display a website with more information

Global COIN - Home...The International Education K ­ 16 website is a collaborative effort at Pennsylvania Department of Education between the Bureaus of Teaching and Learning and Community and Student Services. This website emphasizes World Languages, World Cultures, and global issues. Global Coin will provide materials and resources to students, teachers, parents and professionals.

Guide to Australia is an encyclopaedic collection of essential information about Australia.

History and Politics Out Loud- Relive significant events of the past — or at least, the audio parts. A searchable archive of important recordings.

HistoryWorld...Funded by Britain's National Grid For Learning, HistoryWorld contains over 400 articles and thousands of historical events in its database. Timelines and "tours through time" organize material chronologically, while articles on historical themes are organized by region, contributor, and category. Users can play the online Whizz Quizz and compete with others on their historical knowledge. The site also links to the OCEAN searchable index of websites with historical content.

HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.

LACMA: The Legacy of Genghis Khan - Companion to the LA exhibit exploring the courtly and culture in Western Asia from 1256-1353.

Legend of Nessie ...Every country has its legends and folklore. Scotland's favorite is Nessie, the Loch Ness monster. Fact or fiction, it's so much fun to hear the stories. Monster or no monster, the Loch is breath-takingly beautiful.

Maps of War is a site that features short Flash animations detailing military history

Middle Ages (Grades 9-12)..Discover what it was like to live during the Middle Ages.

Middle Ages...7 beautifully-illustrated learning areas. Each page gives a brief overview, then offers a more detailed article from a link at the bottom. Here and there are mini-pictures leading to even more details. Medieval life at home, in towns, in the church, and much more.Tip: Don't ignore the link at bottom if you want more details than are offered on the first page of each learning area.

Model U.N. - Information about the U.N.
Mr. Dowling’s Electronic Passport - Browse the world in a Virtual Classroom

The Mongols in World History - Examines the Mongols' contributions and conquests.

Mughal India...The British Museum produces this interactive website on Mughal India. Totally Flash-driven, the site is set up to simulate a room filled with various items including a globe, file cabinet, books, and a calendar. When you roll over interactive items in the room, you can click and learn about paintings, coins, weapons, jewelery and models from The British Museum's collections.

National (British) Archives Learning Curve...Do your students need to know more about the Cold War, Great Britain during WWII or political reform in Britain during the 19th Century? The National Archives of the UK has created a site that contains resources and a proposed online library of teacher lessons and student work.

NationMaster aggregates world data on a staggeringly wide variety of subjects, letting you compare nations with one another based on many different criteria. For instance, America kicks the rest of the world's butt at soft-drink consumption.

Newsfilm Online...See the news of the twentieth century online

Odyssey Online...an interactive journey through ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Near East; the ancient Americas; and sub-Saharan Africa of the 19th and 20th centuries. On Odyssey, you can explore works of art from the collections of Emory University's Michael C. Carlos Museum and the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. These objects--made from stone, clay, wood, metal, and fiber--tell us fascinating stories about the people who made them, in distant lands and times!

TheOttomans.Org - Covers the history, military, and arts of the Ottoman Empire from the late 13th Century to 1923. Also in Turkish.

PBS: Napoleon - Brilliant general, political force, tyrant or revolutionary? Learn about his life and times.

Polynesian Cultural Center ...Experience the Islands
Portals to the World - Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world.
Race for the Super Bomb (PBS) - There are some quirky but fascinating features at this site, including a Panic Quiz and a Nuclear Blast Map. Visitors to the site can simulate the drop of 50s-era atomic bombs on American cities and get death and damage reports.

Renaissance (Grades 9-12)...Join us as we explore the Renaissance and discover the forces that drove this rebirth in Europe, and in Italy in particular.

Renaissance...5 beautifully-illustrated learning areas. Each page gives a brief overview, then offers a more detailed article from a link at the bottom. Here and there are mini-pictures leading to even more details. How the Renaissance affected exploration, trade, the arts, and much more.

Renaissance Secrets - Companion to the BBC TV series explores the life and times of Gutenberg, Venice, Renaissance medicine, and more, while the process of doing history.

Resurrecting Eden... 60 Minutes segment about the people that live in the marshes found along the Tigrisand Euphrates Rivers. The segment covered the history of the people that live there, how people live in the marshes, why Saddam Hussein built canals to drain the marshes, and the work of one man who is helping to refill the marshes. The video of the episode is linked here
Six Paths to China...six activities were created as models for ways to integrate the World Wide Web into classroom learning.

Smithsonian Channel ...Videos focusing on Ancient history including top[ics like: a video that describes the discovery of ancient Greek murals and learn what they tell us about the Greek tradition of the symposium and of Greek beliefs about the afterlife. [2 mins, 4 secs]
United Nations - United Nations Home Page
Windows on the World Field Trip - provides teachers and students with the framework to study other countries and cultures from a personal perspective while incorporating a variety of subject areas such as reading, writing, math, and social studies (including geography, history and economi
World Factbook - Information about countries from the C.I.A. World Factbook