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Anc Hist - Mega

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Mega Sites – Ancient History

 

Ancient World  

http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/index.html

Large encyclopedic entries on the founding and importance of early world civilizations up to the fifth century.

 

Exploring Ancient World Cultures  

http://etana.org

Features essays about, and the primary texts of, many historically significant documents in many ancient civilizations (Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval Europe).

 

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook  

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook04.html

The Sourcebook is, in a word, superb. The goal of this site, created and maintained by Paul Halsall of Fordham University, is to lead the user to primary texts. Halsall achieves his goal with flying colors. He has organized his site into the following areas: Studying Ancient History, Human Origins, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Israel, Greece, Hellenistic World, Rome, Late Antiquity and Christian Origins. Each area is itself broken down into multiple subtopics (e.g. art, literature, philosophy, science and medicine). Clicking on a subtopic yields documents, most of them translations of original texts. These texts constitute the real riches of history. Students of history, both in school and out, will want to explore these riches at length.

 

Museum of Ancient Inventions  

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm

Information about and directions for constructing reproductions of some fifty devices, such as a loom, a decoding device, a compass, and a steam engine. 

 

Myths, Maps and Timelines - Ancient / Classical History   

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_maps_myth_time_index.htm?once=true&  

The very name of this site should be music to students' ears. Myths, maps and timelines are often the key to understanding history, and to successful completion of history assignments. Middle school and high school students exploring this site will find information to help them master important aspects of African, American, Asian and European ancient history.

 

Odyssey   

http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/MidElem_Home.html

This supersite focuses on five ancient world regions:  Africa, the Near East, Rome, Greece, and Egypt.  For each, information on people's daily lives, communication, rituals, and ceremonies is provided.  Odyssey also includes images of objects being shown in U.S. museums.  

 

 

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