The invention discloses a historical teaching system and method, relates to the technical field of teaching, and solves the problems of lack of resources, single resource presentation mode, poor spatial intuitiveness, disconnection between teaching contents and scientific frontier and reality needs, and the like in existing historical teaching. The historical teaching system comprises a historicalgeographic information system, a comprehensive cloud computing platform, a teacher mobile terminal, a student mobile terminal, a podcast mobile terminal and a listener mobile terminal, wherein the historical geographic information system can log in the comprehensive cloud computing platform through an account and a password to perform data acquisition and analysis, charting and data update. According to the historical teaching system and method, students can call historical data which have multiple sources, are in different periods, have different presentation modes and can be spatially presented on site in real time through the system, the students can know time and occurrence positions of historical events more clearly, and the students can immersively perceive and learn history throughsurrounding natural environment information and historical relevant image data.