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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.

List of Foreign Arrivals in the Port of Zanzibar from the 16th September 1832 to 26th May 1835
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Maya Deity-Face Jade Pendant, 7th-8th century
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Two Girls Carrying Children
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Bonaparte, First Consul, Putting Away His Sword after the General Peace
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Nuestra Señora de Purísima Concepción de Quarai
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Excerpt from Memoirs by Catharina Schrader
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Old Mission San Juan Bautista
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Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
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Apolitical Intellectuals/ Intelectuales Apolíticos
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Slave Auction
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Speech by U.S. Civil Rights Leader Robert Williams, 1966
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National World War II Museum
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Female Terracotta Figure
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A Grateful France Proclaims Napoleon the First Emperor of the Frence
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National Museum of Asian Art
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