Students! How to Use this Website
It is up to you to spend the time and effort to learn. Using materials on this website can help you learn the history of Western Civilization. Although the materials are based on the textbook A Concise Survey of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities throughout History they can help any student of history.
Read the opening section of that text, "How to Use This Book."
This site has, as you can see in the navigation bars above and below, four main categories.
Study Guides provides a brief theme of the chapter; summaries of each section; key words (those in boldface in the text); the review questions used at the end of each section, as well as other interesting questions.
Reviewing the Study Guides can focus your attention on the most essential information.
Primary Sources offers links to pages on the internet including primary sources, pages with more information on the Primary Source Project and Sources on Families in the textbook, select primary sources online for every section of the book, and a list of significant longer works of literature and history.
Reading more primary sources can deepen and broaden your understanding of the past. They also the stuff that real historical knowledge are made of!
Extras collects a variety of materials. Some pages give graphics and illustrations from the text. There are links to pages that instruct how to study primary sources. And there are more questions to test your knowledge. Finally, a comprehensive survey of the Art of Western Civilization supplements what the book does not cover.
These various perspectives give more opportunities to review information.
Links provides the links to pages on the internet covering historical subjects which seem to be informative, accurate, and readable.
If you want information and pictures about the past, you can search on your own for more websites.
