Explainitory self beings modification
Explanation:
Modern World History offers a comprehensive look at world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of subject entries, biographies, images, videos and slideshows, maps and graphs, primary sources, and timelines combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history. Focused Topic Centers pull forward interesting entries, search terms, documents, and maps handpicked by our editors to help users find a starting point for their research, as well as videos and slideshow overviews to offer a visual introduction to key eras and regions. All the Infobase history databases in a collection are fully cross-searchable.Comprehensive Coverage: With Modern World History, students can delve deep into their topics or examine different perspectives through event and topic entries, slideshows, primary sources, images, tablet/mobile-friendly videos, general and topic-specific timelines, biographies of key people, original maps and charts, and more.
Easy Access to Content: Featured content in Modern World History is handpicked by our editors to inform research and provide guided entryways into the database, plus convenient links to key areas are at the top of every page.
Editorially Curated Topic Centers: Modern World History features specially selected content on different eras and themes of history—including articles, shareable slideshows, videos, primary sources, and more—that provides a starting point for research. Topic Centers include:
Africa
Asia and Oceania
Europe
Middle East
The Americas
The First Global Age: 1450–1770
An Age of Revolutions: 1750–1914
A Half Century of Crisis: 1900–1945
Promises and Paradoxes: 1945–Present.
Suggested Research Topics: Each Topic Center in Modern World History includes handpicked selections showcasing the best resources for each topic—including in-depth overview essays—and providing guidance for research.
Primary Sources: Modern World History includes hundreds of primary sources, many with introductions that provide context and background—perfect for document-based learning and strengthening critical-thinking skills.
Videos, Images, Maps, and Slideshows: Modern World History’s videos, images, original maps, and original, SMART Board–friendly slideshows provide a fascinating visual look into topics, reinforcing visual learning, stimulating interest, and providing convenient overviews and discussion starter material.
Biographies: Under “Featured People,” Modern World History includes helpful lists of Enlightenment thinkers, women in world history, Renaissance painters, and dictators and tyrants. Each list includes dates of birth and death, a brief descriptor of the person’s achievements, and a link to relevant search results.
Themes in Modern History: Especially helpful for students in honors-level and AP-level world history courses, Modern World History’s Themes in Modern History section explores 26 major themes in modern world history century by century. Organized around such critical subjects as economy and trade, government organization, migration and immigration, religion, science and technology, social organization, and war, the essays trace the progress of modern history across the world, fostering critical conceptual thinking and allowing students to focus on a particular theme in one era and then examine that theme across the span of modern world history. Discussion questions for each theme encourage students to think critically.
Controversies in History: Editorially selected pro/con articles on many high-interest controversies in history can be found in Modern World History, enabling researchers to grasp the essence and importance of every conflict and the reasons people debated them.
Overview Essays: Modern World History includes substantial and thorough overview essays giving extensive background on relevant historical topics and eras.
Book Chapters: Chapters from authoritative print titles written by noted historians complement the thousands of encyclopedia entries, biographies, definitions, and other resources Modern World History provides. Book chapters allow for original thinking and are ideal for an in-depth study of a topic.
Authoritative Source List: Modern World History features a complete inventory, by type, of the extraordinary amount of expertly researched and written content in the database, including articles from a wealth of award-winning proprietary and distinguished print titles, primary sources, images, videos, timelines, and a list of contributors to the database—information researchers can trust.
