The history of the world beyond the U.S. and Europe is richly documented in this extraordinarily wide-ranging CD-ROM. Your students will be drawn into history through 2400 compelling images, chosen from archives and collections throughout the world, with a carefully researched caption for each image.

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In addition to independent study, this CD-ROM is designed to allow students and teachers to easily create presentations to be shown on your computer screen, or on your classroom TV screen. Here are some of its features:

The Image Library. This CD-ROM contains an extensive library of 2400 images, each with its own carefully researched caption (description) which explains the image and places it in its historical context. The images, which often seek to explain a culture from that culture’s own point of view, have been chosen from 117 libraries, archives and other sources in 45 countries worldwide. They include historical figures, events, political cartoons, distant places, artifacts, ruins, 87 maps, and 320 works of art, all selected to be compatible with leading textbooks.

Overviews. The CD-ROM contains 12 Overviews, sound-and-image video introductions to the histories of Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and other world areas. Each Overview shows a sampling of the images from that Section.

Sound bytes. There are dozens of brief sound recordings which are embedded in the captions. You can, for example, hear Mohandas Gandhi explaining his spiritual views, or Nelson Mandela speaking against apartheid.

Quiz. If you wish, the CD-ROM will question you about what you have learned from the pictures and captions. You can ask for questions at the Basic, Intermediate or Advanced level. After you answer a question, you can go immediately to the caption which contains the answer, and review your response. The CD-ROM keeps a running score of your answers. Also, The Historipix Game allows you to test what you’ve read and what you’ve seen.

The Index helps you to locate not only individual images, but also groups of images with which you can prepare presentations on many subjects, such as Agriculture, or Transportation. In addition, the Find function will quickly search the entire CD-ROM for a particular word, person or event.

Related Items. This feature allows you to see a list of the categories into which a particular image falls. An image of Bolivian women at a market, for example, is related to Markets, Agriculture, Bolivia, and Women.

After you have selected images for a presentation, you can revise the captions, and put them in any desired order. You can then show the images and captions on your computer screen. If you wish, you can print the captions as a lecture script, in large type, for use with the videodisc. The script can include a barcode for each caption, which will call its videodisc image to the classroom screen. (More than 98% of the images on the CD-ROM are the same as those on the videodisc; the rest are of similar subjects. The images which are not identical are identified in the videodisc and CD-ROM captions.)

You can add your own pictures (or pictures from other sources), write captions for them, and sort them with the CD-ROM’s images in any way you wish. You can thus create your own unique collection of World History images and captions, for display on a computer screen.

Using this CD-ROM, your students can explore cultural, economic, social and political influences in different ages, and in different areas of the world. In doing so, they can develop critical skills of interpretation. Students can explore topics as diverse as the complexity and depth of ancient cultures in Asia and Africa, the spread of religions, and the interconnections between culture and commerce. With 2400 images and captions, there is ample room for a broad range of research and study projects dealing with many areas of the world.

This CD-ROM will be used many times during the year. Its remarkable images and carefully researched captions will help you and your students to achieve a deeper and more thorough understanding of the history of the non-European world.

• The History of Traditional Africa
• Africa and Europe to World War II
• Southern Africa to 1948
• Sub-Saharan Africa After 1945
• The Middle East to World War II
• Northern and Northeast Africa to 1945
• North Africa and the Middle East After 1945

• Introduction and Indian America
• Colonial Latin America, 1492-1806
• Independence, 1807-1825
• Independent Latin America, 1825-1870
• Latin America, 1870-1914
• Latin America After 1914

History of Korea (99 images)

History of China (441 images)

• Geography, Mythology, Archaeology and the Early Dynasties
• The Qin, Han and Post-Han Periods
• The Sui Through Ming Periods
• The Qing Period
• The Republican Period and the P.R.C.

• Pre-Colonial India
• India After 1500
• Histories of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Asiatic Russia
• Southeast Asian History
• History of Oceania (the Pacific Islands)

 
 

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