Middle School Premium Resources
This page lists the Premium resources in the Timemaps Atlas of World History designed for Middle School teachers and their students.
What’s in the World History Atlas?
The Atlas contains two sections:
- The Atlas of the World, with its regions and countries, and
- Units on Key Topics in World History.
Section 1: The World Atlas
This contains a huge series of map sequences, tracking world history as a whole, and also the histories of different parts of the world.
The main Atlas is organized in three different levels:
Level 1: World Maps
At this level a single sequence of twenty maps covers the history of the world. Together, these maps offer a panoramic overview of the history of the world as a whole.
World Maps: 3500 BCE (currently free) – 2500 BCE (currently free) – 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE – 500 BCE – 200 BCE – 30 BCE (currently free) – 200 CE – 500 CE – 750 CE – 979 CE – 1215 – 1453 (currently free) – 1648 – 1789 – 1837 – 1871 – 1914 (currently free) – 1960 – 2005
Level 2: Big Region Maps
Map sequences, following the same dates as the world maps, track the histories of the historic regions of the world.
Africa – East Asia – Europe – India and South Asia – Middle East – North America – Oceania – South America – South East Asia
Level 3: Country Maps
Map sequences at this level cover the individual countries of the world.
Like the two previous levels, the map sequences at this level all conform to the same set of dates. This means that the world can be explored at all three levels at twenty different points in time. At this level, however, the map sequences start at the point when a country emerges into the light of history.
Arabia – the countries of the Arabian peninsula, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, from 1000 BCE
Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay – from 1648
Australia – from 1648
Brazil – from 1453
Britain – from 30 BCE
Canada – from 1648
Central Europe – the countries of Central Europe, including Austria, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and The Czech Republic – from 979 CE
China – from 2500 BCE
Chile – from 1648
Central Africa – the countries of Central Africa, including Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawai, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe – from 750 CE
Egypt – from 3500 BCE
France – from 500 BCE
Germany, Austria and Switzerland – from 979 CE
Greece and Southeastern Europe – including the countries of Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia – from 1500 BCE
Iran – from 2500 BCE
Iraq – from 3500 BCE
Italy – from 500 BCE
India and South Asia – including the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka – from 3500 BCE
Japan – from 200 BCE
Korea – from 200 BCE
Low Countries – Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands – from 979 CE
Mexico and Central America – Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvadore, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama – from 3500 BCE
New Zealand – from 1789
North East Africa -the countries of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, – from 1500 BCE
Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia – from 1500 BCE
Eastern Europe – the countries of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus from 750 CE
Scandinavia – the countries of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden from 750 CE
Spain and Portugal – from 500 BCE
South East Asia – the countries of East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
Southern Africa – the countries of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, – from 1215.
Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan – from 2500 BCE
Turkey – from 2500 BCE
West Africa – Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guines Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauretania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo – from 500 CE
The United States – from 1648
Venezuela, Colombia and the Guianas – from 1453
Section 2: Key Topics in World History
Listed below are a range of map sequences which cover key curriculum topics in world history. To access these, you need to be a subscriber to our Premium service. Unfortunately, this is closed to new subscribers – click here to find out why.
The Origins and Spread of Farming
+ Teachers Notes
Early Civilizations (multi-resource unit: Map sequence, slide show and teachers notes)
First Civilizations Activities (multi-resource unit: Map sequence, slide show and teachers notes)
World Trade Routes at the time of the Early Civilizations, 3500 BCE to 500 BCE
Teachers Notes coming soon
The Ancient Middle East (multi-resource unit: Map sequence, slide show and teachers notes)
World Trade Routes at the time of the Classical Civilizations, 500 BCE to 500 CE
Teachers Notes coming soon
Ancient India (multi-resource unit: Map sequence, slide show and teachers notes)
Ancient China (multi-resource unit: Map sequence, slide show and teachers notes)
Greece and Persia (multi-resource unit: Map sequence, slide show and teachers notes)
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (multi-resource unit: Map sequence, slide show and teachers notes)
Roman Government (PowerPoint Presentation)
+Teachers Notes
World Trade Routes in the Medieval Era, 500 CE to 1453 CE
The Islamic Caliphate 622 CE to 1253 CE
Medieval India ((multi-resource unit: Map sequence, slide show and teachers notes)
Medieval China (multi-resource unit: Map sequence, slide show and teachers notes)
Europe in the Middle Ages (multi-resource unit: Map sequence, slide show and teachers notes)
Teacher Guidance:
There can be few better world history teaching resources than the Timemaps Atlas of World History.
The teaching ideas listed below offer more generalised guidance than this above, which are more topic-based.
Teaching Ancient World History
Students use the Timemap of World History to locate civilizations and empires in ancient world history. This activity is designed to give students a broad historical overview of the Ancient World.
This engaging activity casts students as tour guides in a time travel agency – but be aware, it’s rather more challenging than it looks at first sight.
This exercise challenges students to design a theme park based on ancient China – but it can be adapted to other civilizations as well.
This lists some questions to put to the First Emperor of China. This exercise is quite high level, and may need a bit of adapting for Middle School students.
Teaching Medieval World History
Students use the Timemap of World History to locate civilizations and empires in medieval world history. This activity is designed to give students a broad historical overview of the Medieval World.
Teaching Early Modern World History
Students examine what is happening in different regions of the world in early modern times – some being impacted by European expansion, others achieving peaks in their own cultural traditions.
Students examine what is happening in different regions of the world in modern times. They view the rise to global preeminence of the West, and what this entailed for the peoples of other parts of the world.
Acknowledgement
In undertaking this project we have had invaluable feedback from Mr. Jeremiah Hoskins M.Ed, and Mrs. Elizabeth Windmann M.Ed., of Fulton Middle School, part of Fulton Public Schools, Fulton, Missouri.
Between them, they have more than twenty years experience of teaching middle school world history, and we greatly appreciate their advice and support.