globalization

=History of Globalization Calendar=

Websites
Silk RoadA "public education project using the 'Silk Road' theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the common era (A.D.) to the Seventeenth Century--@http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/

An *awesome* visual timeline of the silkroad catergorized by different cultures developed out of the University of Washington in Seatle

Voyages: A Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database This site provides access to four databases (Voyages, Estimates, Images, and African Names) with "information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas. []

Slavery and the Making of America Companion site to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series "documenting the history of American **slavery** from its beginnings in the British colonies to its end in the Southern states and the years of post-Civil War Reconstruction." []

UN timeline from the UN itself, dates important to the organization from 1998 to the present []

Discoverer's Web A page created by a pHd student who's stated intent is to "gather all kinds of information found on the web about voyages of discovery and exploration." []

Databases
[|Gale's Student Resource]