The people, places and events that comprise the histories of nations beyond the U.S. and Europe are documented in this vast visual library, available on videodisc for ease of use in the classroom without a computer.

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Included on the videodisc are 12 overviews, sound-and-image video introductions to the histories of Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and other world areas.

This videodisc and its guide book are designed as an interactive resource, a visual library from which you and your students can select images, captions and overviews for a wide range of instructional purposes.

As you display the images you’ve selected, you read their captions to the class, thus presenting an illustrated lecture. You are in complete control of the presentation; you select the images, and the order in which they will appear. You can change the captions to add your own ideas or emphasis. This is a simple process which does not require a computer. However, if you wish, you can use the CD-ROM to prepare a printed, large-type lecture script, with barcodes.

Your students, also, can use this videodisc to create their own presentations on different cultures, in different places and times. As students develop presentations, they can develop critical skills, and they teach one another.

The pictures and maps in the videodisc are compatible with standard textbooks. Instructions for use are included on the disc itself, as well as in the guide book.

The videodisc can help you to explain world developments with vivid reality. On your classroom TV screen, you can easily show historical personages, events, works of art, distant places, artifacts, documents, maps, and political cartoons, to add an extra measure of interest and excitement to your classes - using the power of pictures to draw your students into the study of World history.

• 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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