Modern World History
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Prologue - The Rise Of Democratic Ideas

• Thinkquest: Ancient Greece
• Plato for the Young Inquirer
• Link to Ancient Rome
• Magna Carta: A Translation
• Explore the Renaissance
• John Locke
• James Madison [whitehouse.gov]

Modern World History
Unit 1 - Beginnings of the Modern World

Chapter 1 - European Renaissance & Reformation, 1300-1600

• Exploring Leonardo
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Exploring the Sistine Chapel
• Gutenberg Bible
• Machiavelli Online
• The Life of Martin Luther
• Queen Elizabeth I

Chapter 2 - The Muslim World Expands, 1300-1700

• The Ottoman Empire
• The Ottomans: Suleyman
• Istanbul / Constantinople
• Safavid Dinasty
• The Mughals: Akbar
• The Taj Mahal

Chapter 3 - Age of Exploration and Isolation, 1400-1800

• ShipBuilding - The Caravel
• Vasco da Gama--First Man to Sail to India
• Imperial China - The Ming Dynasty  
• Chinese Mariner Zheng He (Cheng Ho)
• History of the Samurai
• Kabuki Drama

Chapter 4 - The Atlantic World, 1492-1800

• Christopher Columbus
• Magellan - First Circumnavigator of the Globe
• Cortes and the Aztec Empire
• Bartoleme de las Casas
• Jamestown Rediscovery
• French and Indian War
• The Slave Trade
• The Middle Passage

Chapter 5 -  Absolute Monarchs in Europe, 1500-1800

• The Spanish Armada
• Rembrandt Mania
• Louis XIV - The Sun King
• Château de Versailles
• Museum of the Thirty Years' War
• Virtual Tour of St. Petersburg, Russia
• The British Monarchy

Chapter 6 - Enlightenment and Revolution, 1550-1789

• Galileo Project, The
• Isaac Newton
• John Locke
• The Enlightenment
• Voltaire's Page
• Emilie du Chatelet
• Classical Connections: Mozart
• Catherine the Great
• The American Revolution

Chapter 7 - The French Revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815

• French Revolution
• Symbols of the Republic: Bastille Day
• The Guillotine
• Charlotte Corday's Murder of Jean-Paul Marat
• Napoleon Bonaparte Internet Guide
• Napoleon Series
• Broadside: Battle of Trafalgar

Chapter 8 - Nationalist Revolutions Sweep the West, 1789-1900

• Africans in America - Toussaint L'Ouverture
• Mexico OnLine - Miguel Hidalgo
• Alexander II, Emperor of Russia 1855-1881
• The Unification of Italy
• Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882)
• The Unification of Germany
• Gothic Literature, 1764-1820
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Impressionist Artworks

Chapter 9 - The Industrial Revolution, 1700-1900

• The Agricultural Revolution
• The Industrial Revolution
• Kew Bridge Steam Museum
• Child Labour in the 19th Century
• Women and the Industrial Revolution
• Eli Whitney Museum
• Victorian and Railway Museum
• Adam Smith - Economist and Philosopher
• Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels
• Jane Addams

Chapter 10 - Age of Democracy & Progress, 1815-1914

• Victorian Web
• Queen Victoria: Images of Her World
• 75 Suffragists
• WSPU
• The Dreyfus Affair
• Maori Exhibit
• Interpreting the Irish Famine
• The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)
• American Civil War Homepage
• Lighting A Revolution: 19th Century
• Charles Darwin and Darwiniana

Chapter 11 - The Age of Imperialism, 1850-1914

• Imperialism
• David Livingstone Centre
• Maxim Machine Gun
• Anglo Zulu War Historical Society
• Anglo Boer War Museum
• Emperor Menelik II
• History of Nursing and the Crimean War
• The Suez Canal
• Sepoy Rebellion / Mutiny 1857
• Ram Mohun Roy [1772 - 1833]
• United States and Imperialism

Chapter 12 - Transformations Around the Globe, 1800-1914

• Britain, China, & the Opium War
• Chinese History
• Boxer Rebellion
• Meiji Era Gallery
• Russo-Japanese War
• PBS Online: Spanish-American War
• The Alamo
• Cinco de Mayo in Mexico
• Mexican Revolution Photos
• Discovery Channel: The Panama Canal

Chapter 13 - The Great War, 1914-1918

• The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
• Armenian Genocide
• World War I - Trenches on the Web
• Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
• First World War Encyclopedia
• An Unfortunate Region - WWI Battlefields
• First World War Memorials
• Women in World War One
• Versailles Treaty 1919

Chapter 14 - Revolution and Nationalism, 1900-1939

• Treasures of the Czars
• The Russian Revolution
• Lenin Internet Archive
• Stalin Biographical Chronicle
• Socialist Realist Art
• Sun Yat-Sen (Sun Yixian) 
• Mao Tse-Tung
• Mahatma Gandhi: The Complete Information
• The Man, The Mahatma
• TIME.com: Mohandas Gandhi

Chapter 15 - Years of Crisis, 1919-1939

• Einstein: Image and Impact
• TheWorld of Gertrude Stein
• Salvador Dali Museum
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• The Great Depression
• Mussolini and Italy
• Haile Sellassie and Mussolini
• Nanjing Massacre - (Graphic photos)
• Hitler's Rise to Power
• Adolf Hitler Profile
• The Spanish Civil War

Chapter 16 - World War II, 1939-1945

• The History Place - World War Two in Europe
• World War II on the Web
• The Institute on World War II
• Pearl Harbor - Remembered
• National D-Day Museum
• World War II Posters: Powers of Persuasion
• C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Holocaust Museum
• Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
• Simon Wiesenthal Center
• The Atom Bomb
• Atomic Bombs