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Our mission is to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide.
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We help teachers, students and schools by providing them with reliable, easy-to-read and high quality educational history resources entirely for free.
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By creating an engaging and exciting encyclopedia, we have inspired millions to learn more about other cultures and our shared human past.
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History is the basis upon which we build our cultural and national identity. With historical understanding we become more open and tolerant towards other cultures.
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Each article requires around $50 in history books. We could produce so much more with your membership, completing World History Encyclopedia and even moving to other time periods. We could also achieve our vision of translating our articles into other key languages.
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What our members have helped produce
Greco-Roman90% Complete
We've written 330 articles about the birthplace of democracy, the world's greatest empire, and the cradle of Europe.
Mesoamerica 75% Complete
We've written around 60 articles about steaming jungles, pyramids, human sacrifice, and winged snakes.
Near East 65% Complete
Around 200 articles now cover the cradle of civilization, home of the first empires, and the world's oldest cities.
India 35% Complete
We've written around 35 articles on India's millennia-old heritage of architecture, mythology, and key historical figures.
China 10% Complete
We have just begun writing about one of the world's oldest civilizations and plan to focus on this next.
