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Motives & Means of European Imperialism: Terrrific Overview

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Professor Michael FitzGerald, who teaches at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, developed this awesome overview of the motives of imperialism and the technological advances that made it possible. He reviews scientific racism and European ethnocentrism.

Lesson Resources--Globalizing World History

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Here are two resources for excellent lesson plans for both Wolrd History and AP World History. Eric Beckman , an AP World History teacher in Minnesota, has a terrific blog with links to lessons that he has developed over the years, some of which he presented to world history conferences. I love his lesson on the Swahili Coast and plan to use his lesson on The Haitian Revolution next week. Beckman has more lesson plans on this website  called Uncovering World History. All his lessons include resources and links. For example, his lesson on the Haitian Revolution includes four primary sources for a reading jigsaw-- Letter by Tobias Lear to James Madison,  Letter by the French Minister of the Marine to the Fort de Joux Commandant (1802), Toussaint letter to Napol�on from Fort de Joux (1802),and Toussaint L�Ouverture in An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti. Another fantastic teacher with great resources is Bram Hubbell who has a blog called Paperless History. ...