Aztecs |
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Ancient Aztecs - Think Quest
http://library.thinkquest.org/27981/ |
Information
about the Aztec people.
Religion, gods, school, food, and laws. |
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Aztec Calendar
http://www.azteccalendar.com/ |
Explains how
the Aztec calendar works |
Explorers |
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Discoverers Web
http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/ |
Not an
impressive looking site (just text) BUT you can look up explorers by
name or by region. |
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Great links to Explorer Sites
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/alphaexp.html |
This page of
Discoverers links is from the Multnomah County Library in Portland
Oregon. |
Great Depression |
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American History 1930 - 1939
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/
decade30.html |
Produced by
Kingwood College Library, TX this page gives information and links to
events that occurred in America that were greatly effected by the
Great Depression. |
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Modern World History: The Wall
Street Crash
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/modern/
crash/crashhtm.htm |
This site
explains the Wall Street Crash of October 1929. Produced by the
BBC. |
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Surviving the Dust Bowl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/ |
A PBS
program that has personal stories and photographs of people who lived
through the Great Depression in the Dust Bowl. There is a map
and a timeline. |
Incas |
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Andes Expedition:
Searching for Inca Secrets
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/
97/andes/ |
National
Geographic presents the discovery of a teenage girl's mummy found in
Peru. |
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Civilization of the Incas
http://www.internet-at work.com/
hos_mcgrane/inca/eg_inca_menu1.html |
A school
project with information about the Inca people and their life |
Mayans |
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Lost king of the Mayas
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/maya/ |
NOVA online
presents a look at the Mayan World |
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Mystery of the Maya
http://www.civilization.ca/civil/maya/mminteng.html |
In-depth
details about Mayan math, religion, society, writing and Mayan life
today. |
Medieval |
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Secrets of the Lost Empires:
Medieval Siege
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet/ |
Life in
medieval castles. Learn how to operate a catapult. |
1940's |
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CNN - Cold War
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/ |
The Cable News
Network bring you information about the Cold War during the 1940's .
Learn about the culture, the technology, and |
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History Channel - History of the World
Timeline - 1940's
http://historychannel.com/cgi-bin/
frameit.cgi?p=http%3A//historychannel.com/
perl/timeline.pl%3Fyear%3D1940 |
A timeline
of events that occurred in the world during the 1940's. |
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Navaho Code Talkers
http://bingaman.senate.gov/code_talkers/ |
Learn about the Navajo
Code Talkers who worked during WWII translating English into Navajo
then back again. |
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The United Nations
www.un.org |
Formed in
1945, the United Nations addresses political and social issues of its
member nations. Learn about the
history of the UN or go to the
Cyberschoolbus for global teaching and learning projects.
En Espaρol |
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WWII Links on the Internet
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/ww2_links.html |
Prepared by
Steve Schoenherr, a Professor at the University of San Diego, this
site offers links to WWII sites. He also has a
timeline for WWII. |
