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The British Museum has an excellent site about the Buddha . You can read the story of the Buddha based on the museum's stone reliefs. You can also explore The Great Stupa at Amaravati and play a game matching Buddhist symbols but you will need adobe shockwave to play.

Here's an excellent clip about Chinese foot binding that I found on EdPuzzle. It's just over two minutes.

Here's an interesting podcast about the Congress of Vienna from BBC Radio . How did the great powers come to Vienna?  How did they decide in it? What were the turning points.

Here are two terrific video reviews of Greece and Rome.  The Greece review runs 18 minutes and the Rome review runs just over 20 minutes.

Studying the Ming Dynasty?  Here's a nine minute clip from Engineering an Empire about the treasure fleet of Admiral Zheng He along with a longer documentary. Asia for Educators also has good resources for Zheng He . They have a section that outlines the Admiral's seven voyages. I copied that section and printed it out for students and gave them an outline map of Afro Eurasia and had students trace the routes. Finally here's an excellent colorful map from National Geographic showing the voyages.

Here is a terrific TedEd video that reviews the history of the Great Wall and explains what makes it so great. You can view the TedEd lesson here.