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Keywords/ Topics of interest

Sciences: Astronomy, Alchemy, Cartography, Medicine, Navigation, Psychology, Theology

Scientists: Leonardo da Vinci, Paracelsus

Technologies: Caravel, Compass, Astrolabe, Portolan charts, “native” technologies, muscle-powered weapons, gunpowder weapons,

Forms of Wealth: Fur Trade, Spices, Sugar,

Places: Australia; North, Central and South America; North, West, East, and South Africa; India; China; Japan.

Concepts: Religious Wars, Imperialism, Millenialism, Torture, Human sacrifice, Cannibalism,

Diseases: Smallpox, Syphilis

Foods/Drugs: Chocolate, Cocaine, Sugar.

Encounters: African encounters, Muslim encounters, Trade relationships, European Wars, Cultural Exchange, Pirates.

Specialized References Online: World Wide Web

• Ohio State University Origins of Horticulture- http://hcs.osu.edu/hcs/TMI/HCS210/HortOrigins/AgeofDiscovery.html Information on the history of the spice trade
• University of Calgary- http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/index.html European Voyages of Exploration page
• Fordham University - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook03.html

Internet Modern History Sourcebook one of a series intended to make public domain and copy-permitted historical texts available, indexed by time period and region, includes primary source material

• James Ford Bell Library - http://bell.lib.umn.edu/ Maps and mapmakers including Portolan charts
• The Mariner’s Museum - http://www.mariner.org/exploration/index.php Exploration through the Ages page
• National Maritime Museum (UK) - http://www.nmm.ac.uk/index.php ‘Sea, ships, time and the stars’, online collections include astronomical and navigational instruments, charts and maps and ship models and pirates
• Center for Millenial Studies – Boston University http://www.bu.edu/mille/scholarship.html articles, position papers and abstracts; includes a page of links to other sites, religious and academic
• National Library of Medicine - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/paracelsus/paracelsus_1.html Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years - online version of 1993-4 exhibit
• The Galileo Project - http://galileo.rice.edu/index.html provides information about Galileo and science and scientists of his time
• Museums of the History of Science, Oxford and Florence - http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/epact/ Epact: Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe Catalog of scientific instruments, include explanatory articles
• National Library of Australia Digital Collections - http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/index.html Includes historical maps and manuscripts as well as oral histories and folklore
• European University Institute - http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/index.html Carrie Electronic Library includes e-books on history subjects and links to educational pages and primary source pages
• Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society Inc - http://www.melfisher.org/reefswrecks/intro.htm

Reefs Wrecks and Rascals or PIRATES!

Online resources for Primary Source material

University of Washington Libraries has two good resources

European History Sources -

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/tm/europe.html - has links to sites grouped by region

AND

Primary Sources on the Web –

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/ - Explains what primary sources are and lists several resources for finding them.

Both sites include a link to EuroDocs ( http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page ) which offers Western European Primary Historical Documents

Other resources include-

Multnomah County Library European History Page -http://www.multcolib.org/homework/eurohist.html – offers links to information organized by subject matter

Hanover Historical Texts Project –

http://history.hanover.edu/project.html - makes primary texts readily organized by region and time period.

Internet Public Library –

http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum30.30.00/ - lists descriptions of and links to sites on a wide variety of subjects within European history and other subjects

St. Ambrose University Best Information on the Net –

http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/History/hiswordoc.htm - links to historical and world documents

Academic Info History Digital Library -

http://www.academicinfo.net/histaalibrary.html - directory of Online Publications, Special Collections, Exhibits, Journals & Historical Documents