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World History Commons

An open educational resource with peer-reviewed content for world and global history teachers, scholars, and students. This website provides more than 1,700 annotated primary sources, 100 teaching guides, 30 overviews of methods and approaches, and 250 website reviews. To learn more, consult this guide to using the site and our video guides for community college settings.

Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi
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Meroitic Script
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Zoomorphic Figure from Papua New Guinea
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Misión Santa Clara de Asís
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Making Peace with the Catholic Church, 1801–2
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Kant, The Contest of Faculties
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Reunion
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Short Teaching Unit: The Omani Empire and the Center of the Emerging Global Economy, 1500-1850
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Excerpt from Ledyard's Journal
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Cuauhtémoc prisionero
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Misión San José y San Miguel de Aguayo
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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
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Porcelain tankard, fifteenth century China
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Reason
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The World: Map of N. & S. America
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