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Khan Academy: Why Were the Mongols So Effective?
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section discusses the reasons for the effectiveness of the Mongol Empire.
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Khan Academy: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section discusses the impact of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire.
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Khan Academy: Spread of Islamic Culture
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section discusses the spread of the Islamic culture after the death of Muhammad.
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Khan Academy: Contextualization of the Development of Islam
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section provides the contextualization of the development of Islam.
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Khan Academy: Beginnings of Islam: The Hijra to Medina and the Conversion of Mecca
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section discusses the the Hijra to Medina and the conversion of Mecca during the beginnings of Islam.
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Khan Academy: Beginnings of Islam: The Life of Muhammad
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section provides biographical information about the life of Muhammad.
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Khan Academy: Peasant Revolts
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section discusses the peasant revolts that occurred during the European Middle Ages' feudalism.
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Khan Academy: Feudal System During the Middle Ages
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section discusses the feudal system of the Middle Ages.
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Khan Academy: Overview of the Middle Ages
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section provides an overview of the Middle Ages.
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Khan Academy: Early Medieval Trade
The video lesson from Khan Academy provides practice questions for a high school world history course. This section discusses the process of trade during the early medieval years.
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Khan Academy: Inca Empire Overview
This video lesson from Khan Academy provides information about the Inca Empire. This information is intended for high students who are studying world history or the arts and humanities.
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Khan Academy: Aztec Empire
This video lesson from Khan Academy provides information about the Aztec Empire. This information is intended for high school world history students for for those who are studying arts and humanities.
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Khan Academy: Classical Japan During the Heian Period
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section provides an overview of classical Japan. Chinese influence merges with Japanese culture.
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Khan Academy: Knights Templar
The video lesson from Khan Academy provides information for a high school world history course. This lesson provides an overview of the Knights Templar and their role as international banking pioneers during the Crusades.
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Khan Academy: Sunni and Shia Islam Part 2
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section discusses the schism that occurred to create two types of Islam. This is the second segment of...
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Khan Academy: Sunni and Shia Islam Part 1
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section provides an introduction to the Sunni and Shia schism that formed in Islam after the death of...
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Khan Academy: Comparing Roman and Byzantine Empires
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section provides similarities and differences between the Roman Empire and the "Byzantine Empire" (which...
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Khan Academy: Justinian and the Byzantine Empire
The video lesson from Khan Academy is intended for students who are taking a high school or college level world history course. This section provides an overview of the Byzantine Empire under its greatest strength under Justinian I; the...
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Pbs Learning Media: Empowerment
This video from Women, War & Peace demonstrates the power of women and suggests that in today's world, especially with the evolution of communication, the presence of women at peace talks is necessary and inevitable. [7:44]
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Bbc Podcasts: Episode 1: Mummy of Hornedjitef 18 Jan 2010
This ornate Egyptian coffin holds secrets to the understanding of their priests' religion, Egyptian society and its connections to the rest of the world. At the age of eight, Neil MacGregor visited the British Museum for the first time...
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Bbc Podcasts: Episode 2: Olduvai Stone Chopping Tool 19 Jan 2010
A simple chipped stone from the Rift Valley in Tanzania marks the emergence of modern humans. Faced with the needs to cut meat from carcasses, early humans in Africa discovered how to shape stones into cutting tools. From that one...
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Bbc Podcasts: Episode 4: Swimming Reindeer 21 Jan 2010
Found in France and dating back 13,000 years, this is a carving of two swimming reindeer. The creator of this carving was one of the first humans to express their world through art. But why did they do it? Neil MacGregor, Director of the...
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Bbc Podcasts: Episode 5: Clovis Spear Point 22 Jan 2010
This sharp spearhead helps us understand how humans spread across the globe. By 11,000 BC humans had moved from north-east Asia into the uninhabited wilderness of north America. Within 2,000 years they had populated the whole continent....
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Bbc Podcasts: Episode 6: Bird Shaped Pestle 25 Jan 10
At the end of the Ice Age, one of the most important parts of human existence was finding enough food to survive. Taking a pestle from Papua New Guinea as an example, Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, asks why our ancestors...