World History Collective: Recent Episodes
World History Collective
A teacher and student-run podcast created to help students study for the AP World History course and exam. WHC offers advice from world history teachers and provides student-created episodes that focus on significant themes and interpretations of history that are needed to pass.
In our third and final part of our discussion of trade networks, we will discuss the impact of trade on the environment.
This is the second part of our discussion on trade networks and we focus on cultural impacts.
This part I of our discussion of trade networks that focuses on their economic effects.
Mr. Klainman discusses the beginnings of Judaism and its three phases. Understanding the development of Judaism will be a great resource for students who will also encounter later monotheistic religions that make linkages back to this period.
In this episode, we discuss the role of human sacrifice in the Mexica (Aztec) belief system. We very briefly go over (so brief, we had to fast forward some parts) two creation myths in order to gain an understanding of the purpose of human sacrifice.