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Post-Classical (500 CE - 1450 CE)

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Urban Dharma, Buddhism in America

Although many of the essays are intended to promote Buddhism and a Buddhist religious perspective, the site also includes English translations of important early South Asian documents.
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library

This is still quite easily the best single location of source materials in English for the Reformation period online.
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Internet African History Sourcebook

The site provides broad chronological and geographic coverage, with a particularly impressive list of sources for ancient Egypt and Greek and Roman Africa. It is a gateway to an abundance of information.
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Long Teaching Module: Women in the Islamic World, 600-1600

From its inception in the early 7th century up to the present day, women have played a vital role in shaping Islamic history.

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Long Teaching Module: Writers of the Heian Era

Japanese cultural history is rather unique because it includes writings by women from the Heian Era (794-1185 CE) among its earliest works of important literature.

Map of Florence detail showing the river passing through the city
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Florence Catasto of 1427

It provides a unique opportunity for students to explore the urban landscape and family life of Renaissance Florence in incredible detail, rare for a city in this period.
Painting of a man weighing coins on a scale and a woman sitting next to him.
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Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank

The Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank provides straightforward database access to five sets of data on European currency exchange and commodities prices from the 13th through the 18th centuries.
Virtual scene of a long walkway over a river leading to a palace.
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Virtual Angkor

The curated videos alone would be an engaging resource for teaching the history of Angkor, but the site goes further by providing three well designed teaching modules that make use of the sites' resources to explore scholarly themes.
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Teaching

Long Teaching Module: Bhakti Poets

This teaching module outlines the Bhakti Movement - a Hindu religious movement originating in the 6th century CE that was inspired by a number of prominent women poets.

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Florilegium Urbanum

Inspired by the medieval concept of a textual anthology illuminating specific topics, Florilegium Urbanum allows the user to explore more than 200 short sources and excerpts from longer texts dealing with medieval English towns.