Instructor Resources
Norton Media Library
This newly expanded resource for multimedia lectures offers:
- PowerPoint Presentations for each chapter
- High-resolution maps and graphics files from the book
- Art from the textbook
- Questions for Classroom Response PowerPoints (Clicker Questions)
Instructor’s Manual
Steve Kreis, Wake Technical Community College
Each chapter in the Instructor's Manual includes lecture outlines, key lecture topics, suggested films, and suggestions for integrating media into the classroom and using media as homework assignments.
Test Bank
April Harper, State University of New York, Oneonta
This vastly expanded test bank includes 60% more questions, including true/false and essay questions. Available in ExamView® Assessment Suite and BlackBoard formats.
Ready-to-use Coursepacks
Coursepacks in a variety of formats, including the Blackboard Learning System, offer Study Plans that integrate review materials for each chapter, as well as ready-to-use test banks, maps, PowerPoint lecture presentations, and practice quizzes.
Study Guide
Paul Wilson
Margaret Minor
The Study Guide features chapter outlines, identifications, multiple choice questions, matching, true/false questions, chronologies, and short-answer and essay questions.
The Digital History Reader
The Digital History Reader engages students with primary texts, illustrating connections to broader historical trends. With over 400 readings, the Digital History Reader is balanced like the textbook, with documents from all major periods addressing a full spectrum of social, political, and cultural themes, and conveniently integrated with writing prompts, headnotes, and sample questions. The Reader is free with new copies of Western Civilizations, and is fully integrated with StudySpace.
Readings in the Digital History Reader include:
- The Career of Queen Hatshepsut (Hatasu)
- Strabo, A Description of Alexandria
- Plutarch, Spartacus and the Slave Revolt (c. 1st century C.E.)
- Accounts of Roman Persecution of the Christians
- Selections from the Qur'an
- Stephen, Count of Blois and Chartres, to His Wife, Adele, before Antioch, March 29, 1098
- The Magna Carta, 1215
- Formula for Conducting the Ordeal of Boiling Water, 12th or 13th century
- The Body of a Burnt Heretic Turns Into Toads, c. 13th century
- Magellan's Voyage Around the World, c. 1519-1522
- Madame de Sévigné, The Court of Louis XIV, 1671
- Galileo: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany (1615)
- Bismarck, The Ems Telegram
- Chinese Proclamation Ordering Foreigners to Deliver Up Their Opium (1839)
- Bloody Sunday (January 22, 1905)
- Letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1939)
- Testimony of Hiroshi Sawachika, Eyewitness Account of the Bombing of Hiroshima
- Sputnik, Discussion at the 339th Meeting of the National Security Council, Thursday, October 10, 1957