Ms.+Embry+-+World+History+AP

The following resources are from databases and the free web and cover the period from 1450-1750. Resources are organized by territory. Remember to look throughout your resources for links out to other relevant source. //*Please note: Some databases require passwords when used from home. Please see your librarian for a list of passwords.//
 * THE EARLY MODERN WORLD**

DATABASES & REFERENCE [|ABC-CLIO]: World History: The Modern Era [|Encyclopedia Britannica] **G**
 * For General Searching Try:**

FREE WEB [|netTrekker.com] [|Library of Congress Country Studies] (Type in specific search terms and explore) [|Modern History Sourcebook]: Primary Sources: journals, diaries, articles, etc. (a favorite of Ms. Embry)

//AFRICA// [|The Kongo Empire] [|Map of the Kongo Empire] [|Afonso I]
 * TERRITORIES**

//ASIA// [|Ottoman Empire] [|Ottoman Empire Map] [|Ottoman Society and Government] **G** [|Suleiman the Magnificent]

//CHINA// [|The Ming Dynasty] [|The Ming Dynasty](ThinkQuest) [|Yongle] [|The Ming Dynasty] (ChinaCulture)

[|The Qing Dynasty] [|Kanqxi] [|Kanqxi Valedictory Edict (government document)] [|Qing Dynasty in Brief] [|Yin Yu Tang - A Chinese Home]

//ENGLAND// [|Elizabeth I] [|Life in Elizabethan England] [|Poverty in Elizabethan England] [|Crime and Punishment in Elizabethan England]

[|Charles I] [|English Civil War] [|Irish Rebellion of 1641]

//FRANCE// [|Louis XIV] [|Louis XIV Quote on Government] [|Absolutism in France]

//I////NDIA// [|The Mughal Empire] [|Mughal Empire Map] [|Akbar] [|Akbar Finds His Capital (Video)] (Click behind Mughal Empire Window)

//IRAN// [|The Safavid Movement] [|Safavid Empire] (BBC) [|Shah Ismail] [|Shah Ismail I] (U. Calgary)

//JAPAN// [|Tokugawa Shoganate] [|The Government of the Tokugawa Shogunate] (Columbia Univ.) [|Tokugawa Ieyasu]

//ROMAN EMPIRE// [|Charles V] [|Charles V] [|Schmalkaldic League]

//RUSSIA// [|Peter the Great] [|Table of Ranks and Nobility] [|Absolutism] [|Peter the Great and Russia] **G** [|The Emergence of Russia]

[|Catherine the Great] [|Russia] [|Pugachev Rebellion] [|Instruction of Catherine the Great] **G**

//SCOTLAND// [|The Stuart Dynasty] [|Charles Edward Stuart I] [|The Forty-Five Revolt] [|Battle of Culloden]

//SPAIN// [|Philip II] [|Spanish Armada] [|Background on the Spanish Armada]