Civilizations of the World

Civilizations of the World Subject Guide

Welcome! This guide contains resources to support your research and learning about civilizations from 600-1750.

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Before You Get Started

Find Books

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Click here to access the library catalogue.

Once you are in the Elgin Park catalogue, select 'Resource Lists' to view books on this topic.

Useful Databases

If you are accessing the SD36 online databases from home, see your teacher or teacher-librarian for the password. The following databases are recommended for this topic and can be accessed here:

Academic Search Premier: Contains full-text peer reviewed journal articles, magazines and other resources.

Gale Power Search: Access to multiple Gale Collections of journals and other reference materials.

Discovery Education Canada: Access to instructional videos, multimedia activities and articles.

Useful Websites

United to End Genocide: An American activist association that is dedicated to ending and preventing genocides by creating awareness and demanding political action to prevent and end genocides. Contains information on past genocides, including Armenia, Cambodia and Rwanda, and also looks at regions in the world that are currently under risk.

Asia: Champa

Genocide Archive of Rwanda: Website sponsored by the Aegis Trust, which is an organization dedicated to prevent genocide, and the Kigali Genocide Memorial, which is the final resting place of over 250,000 victims of the Rwandan genocide. Contains testimonies, articles, images, videos, and interactive maps.

Genocide in Rwanda (National Geographic): A three-part series that examines Rwanda after the genocide.

Asia: Mughals

Confront Genocide - Cambodia (US Holocaust Museum): This website provides an overview of events that led to and that unfolded during the Cambodian genocide.

Digital Archive of Cambodian Holocaust Survivors: Online exhibit of images and survivor accounts of peoples experiences under the Khmer Rouge regime.

Asia: Ottoman

The Americas: Aztec

The Americas: Inca

Nanjing Massacre Project (Yale University Library): Archival documents, videos and photographs by American missionaries who witnessed the Rape of Nanjing. Warning: graphic images