This book was written for young audiences in 1958 by British publisher Ladybird. There is a colorful illustration on every page. It has a great balance between being concise and yet covering a lot of important events of her 64-year reign.

This is an excerpt from a kid's book called "The Great and the Terrible" and it has short biographies of historical figures. This one is about Queen Elizabeth I of England who was affectionately called "Good Queen Bess."

**Please read note above about the fact that Renaissance art contains some nudity in paintings or sculpture.**

This video is about how Renaissance artists were trained in the studios of master artists.

This is an excerpt from a kid's book called "The Great and the Terrible" and it has short biographies of historical figures. This one is about Lorenzo Medici who was a very significant patron of the arts and civic leader, along with his family for generations, in Florence, Italy. He promoted the work of Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo, and others.

This is a video showcasing Leonardo's expertise specifically in engineering (instead of art).

***Please note, I scanned all the pages but am not sure they are in the right order. I haven't had a chance to check that yet. If you read this and it's out of order, please let me know. But there's a lot of good information in here and it gives a great idea of the story of Da Vinci's life.

Get an overview of history from the end of the Ice Age to the year 2000 in this 2 minute rap.

This is a very condensed overview of the 1400-1600 with 4 main events, and 16 secondary events, and a single, very simplified map

This is a very condensed overview of 1600-1800 with 4 main events, and 16 secondary events, and a single, very simplified map.

This is a slide deck that can be used for practice. It has a place circled in red, and the correct place name is shown on the bottom right. These are very essential and important places to know because they are referred to often.

This site--Seterra-- is free and you don't need to create an account (let me know if I'm wrong about this). This map automatically starts off in "Quiz" mode. To get the names displayed so you can learn them before playing, click on "Learn" on the lower right side of the map, and click on "Show all names" on the lower left side of the map.

After learning it, you can go to the lower right again and click on "Play." (The "Play" and "Learn" button is the same button--if you're already in "Learn" mode, the button says "Play" so you can switch to "Play" mode, and vice versa.

This map on website--Seterra-- is for learning the countries of Europe, and it has a nice feature of cute drawings. The downside of this one is that it includes all the tiny, obscure countries which can make it difficult if you're just looking to learn the basics. I'll create an easier one that focuses on the most important countries as far as studying history goes, but in the meanwhile, you can try this one.

These pages show the voyages of exploration with some fun illustrations and short notes.

This is a slide deck that can be used for practice. It has a place circled in red, and the correct place name is shown on the bottom right. These are very essential and important places to know because they are referred to often.

This site--Seterra-- is free and you don't need to create an account (let me know if I'm wrong about this). This map automatically starts off in "Quiz" mode. To get the names displayed so you can learn them before playing, click on "Learn" on the lower right side of the map, and click on "Show all names" on the lower left side of the map.

After learning it, you can go to the lower right again and click on "Play." (The "Play" and "Learn" button is the same button--if you're already in "Learn" mode, the button says "Play" so you can switch to "Play" mode, and vice versa.

This map on website--Seterra-- is for learning the countries of Europe, and it has a nice feature of cute drawings. The downside of this one is that it includes all the tiny, obscure countries which can make it difficult if you're just looking to learn the basics. I'll create an easier one that focuses on the most important countries as far as studying history goes, but in the meanwhile, you can try this one.

These pages show the voyages of exploration with some fun illustrations and short notes.

The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History is a great resource for kids. They have a companion website (the first Button below) that gives additional internet links to other websites for each of the topics in their encyclopedia. In order to use their internet-links site, you need to know the page numbers of the topics in the encyclopedia in order to ask for links related to that topic. The second button below is the index of page numbers to use when using the website.

These are a few pages from a fictional book, written by an art historian from the Getty Museum in L.A., which shows the real process of medieval illuminated manuscripts. Very beautiful.

This is an 8-minute animated video by Simple History.

Video about Zheng He