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Unit I: Early Civilizations (Prehistory- 256 BC)  UNIT I :    BEGINNINGS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

Introduction Chapter:  FOUNDATIONS OF CIVILIZATION (Prehistory - 3000 BC)   

Chapter 1  - Toward Civilization (Prehistory- 3000 BC)

    Section 1: Geography and World History            (1) Understanding our Past

• National Geographic Map Machine            Maps of the World - Map Zone

• National Atlas.gov

• CIA - World Fact book        Aneki.com - Country information, Regional and World Rankings

• Best of History Web Sites

• The History Guide          

    Section 2:  Discovering Prehistory       BBC - History - Prehistory         (2) The Dawn of History                        

      The 160,000 Year Old Man        Cro-Magnon Man       CSI: Did Humans Kill Neanderthals?     Neanderthals and Humans Interbred

• Agricultural Revolution: Hunting and Gathering

• Agricultural Revolution: Social Consequences

    Section: Stone Age Peoples

• Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Peoples through pictures.

• World Atlas of Archaeology on the Web

• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

    Section 4: Emergence of Civilization            (3)  Beginnings of Civilization

• Government

• Great Buildings Online

• What is Civilization?  (Online Lecture)

• The Four Old-World River Valley Civilizations

• The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Chapter 2:  First Civilizations: Africa and Asia

ANCIENT EGYPT (7000 BC - 30 BC)        

Egypt: The Complete Guide

The British Museum's Website on Ancient Egypt

   Section 1: Early Egyptian Civilization                     (1) Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile

• Egyptian Timeline        Ancient Egypt in the Electronic Passport        Are the pyramids concrete?    Egypt Unveils 4300 year old tomb

• Hieroglyphs                Costumes of Ancient Egypt       

• Cleveland Museum of Art Rosetta Stone Exhibit

• Rosetta Stone: Ancient/Classical History                   

   Section 2: Government in Ancient Egypt

• Pyramids and Temples            Theban Mapping Project       

• Egypt: Government

• The Discovery of the Valley of the Mummies

• NOVA Online/Pyramids--The Inside Story

• Egypt Beyond the Pyramids  (The History Channel}

• Akhenaton: Ancient Revolutionary

• History of Egyptian Architecture

   Section 3: Ancient Egyptian Society                         (2) Egyptian Civilization

• Egyptian Antiquity Information

• The University of Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology

• Egyptian Search Engine & Web Directory.

Chapter 2: THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST     `            (Chapter 2) First Civilizations: Africa and Asia

   Section 1: Sumerian Civilization                              (3) City-States of Ancient Sumer         

• World History Cuneiform

• Mesopotamia        Mesopotamia in the Electronic Passport

• Cuneiform               

• Babylonia            A Collection of Contracts

   Section 2: A Blending of Cultures                            (4) Invaders, Traders and Empire Builders

• The Code of Hammurabi  

• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon     
  

   Section 3: Contributions of Smaller States

• Internet Sourcebook - Israel

• The Birth and Evolution of Judaism

• Jerusalem As Jesus Saw It

Chapter 3: ANCIENT INDIA AND CHINA (2500 BC -256 BC)            (3) Early Civilizations in India and China

   Section 1: The First Civilization in India                 (1) Cities of the Indus Valley

• The Ancient Indus Valley

   Section 2: The Aryans                                            (2) Kingdoms of the Ganges

• Ancient India - The British Museum                Mughal India (The British Museum)

   Section 3: Beginning of Chinese Civilization             (3) Early Civilizations in China

• China Cradle of Civilization: The Yellow River Valley            Ancient China - The British Museum

   Section 4: Expansion Under the Chou dynasty.

• Chou China, First Emperor

• Chinese Dynasties

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Unit II - RISE OF CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS

Empires of the Ancient World (1750 BC - AD 1570

Chapter 4: THE HERITAGE OF INDIA AND CHINA (600 BC - 550 AD)

   Section 1: Two Influential Religions

• Buddhism        Buddhism: A Journey through Asia

• Four Noble Truths

   Section 2: Great Empires in India

• Asoka's Rock Edicts

• Gupta Dynasty, Golden Age of India

   Section 3: Indian Society and Culture

• Low-caste Indians beg to be heard

   Section 4: The Shaping of Chinese Traditions        Chinese Cultural Studies: Web Sites

• China: A map project

• The Chou Dynasty

• The Classical Age of philosophy in the Chou period.

• Confucianism

• Concise Political History of China

   Section 5: Unification of China

• The Silk Road

• Guidelines on How to Write a Term Paper

Chapter 5: THE HERITAGE OF ANCIENT GREECE (2000 BC - 133 BC)

The Classics Pages

Internet Sourcebook - Ancient Greece

   Section 1: Early Civilizations in the Aegean

• Ancient Greece            Ancient Greece the Cradle of Western Civilization

• Homer

   Section 2: The Greek City-States  

• The Ancient City of Athens         Comparing Athens and Sparta

   Section 3: A Century of Wars

• History & its flaws seen in Thucydides

   Section 4: The Glory That Was Greece: Patterns of Greek Life and Thought

• The Ancient Olympics

• A History of Greek Architecture

• Ancient Greece: history, mythology, art, culture, agriculture

• Sophocles, Socrates and the Greek Polis

• Socrates    Plato    Aristotle   

• Virtual Sculpture Gallery - The Dying Gaul       Laocoon

   Section 5: Alexander and the Hellenistic Age:  The Spread of Greek Civilization

• Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age

• Internet Sourcebook - The Hellenistic World

Chapter 6: ANCIENT ROME: And the Rise Of Christianity --- REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE (509 BC - 180 AD)

Forum Romanum - an exploration of Rome's past through its culture, religion, language, etc.

   Section 1: The RomanWorld Takes ShapeThe Roman Republic

• Ancient Rome  (Beginnings, Coliseum, Forum, Walls, Baths, Theatre, Pantheon, Catacombs, Pompeii)

• Daily Life in Ancient Rome            Costumes in Ancient Rome        Costumes of Late Ancient Rome

• The Roman Republican Constitution

   Section 2: From Republic to Empire - The Expansion of Rome

• Augustus Caesar and the Pax Romanum

• Pax Romana: 27 BC to 180 AD

• Illustrated History of the Roman Empire

• Cleopatra: A Multimedia Guide to the Ancient World

Section 3: The Roman Achievement - THE ROMAN HERITAGE (509 BC - 476 AD)

 Greco-Roman Civilization    

• History of Roman Architecture        Pantheon: Great Buildings Online    Roman Colosseum:Great Buildings Online

• Interactive Dig - The Anglo American Project in Pompeii

• Discovery Channel:" Collosseum: A Gladiators Story

   Section 4: Rise of Christianity

• Rome's Decline and Christianity's Ascent

      Section 5: The Long Decline - Collapse of the Empire

• The Decline and Fall of Rome (Online Lecture)

SECOND SEMESTER

UNIT THREE - MIDDLE AGES IN WESTERN EUROPE

Medieval

Medieval Europe  /  The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies  /

Maps and Images (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)  /  NetSerf The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources  /

Web Links to the Middle Ages  /

Chapter 8: Foundations of Medieval Europe

    Section 1: The Germanic Kingdoms

• Early Germanic States            Who Were the Normans?

• House of Pepin Dynasty of Charlemagne

• Charlemagne           

    Section 2: Feudal Society

• Feudalism            Feudalism and the Feudal Relationship (online lecture)

• Life in a Medieval Castle

• Castles of Great Britain -  Castle Learning Center

• Nova Online - Life in a Medieval Castle

• The Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournaments Resource Library

    Section 3: Life on the Manor            Medieval Life

• The Medieval Manor: European Agrarian Society (online lecture)

    Section 4: The Medieval Church

• High Medieval Church Life

• History of the Medieval Church

• Monasticism

Chapter 9: The Height of Medieval Civilization

    Section 1:  Economic Patterns

• Medieval Towns and Trade Routes

    Section 2:  Medieval Culture

• Earth lore -Gothic Dreams

• History of Romanesque Architecture

• The Gothic Cathedral

• History of Gothic Architecture

• Medieval Literature

• Medieval Technology Pages

    Section 3: Expanding Horizons

• The Crusades

• Crusade Propaganda: The Abuse of Christianity's holy wars.

Chapter 10: Building National Monarchies

    Section 1: Growth of Royal Power in England and France

• The Invasion of England (1066)

• Medieval Kings of England

• The Norman Conquest of England

• Parliaments

• The Capetian Dynasty

    Section 2: The Struggle Between Popes and Emperors

    Section 3: Strong Monarchies in Spain and Scandinavia

• Christian Reconquest of Spain

    Section 4: Decline of Medieval Societ

• The Hundred Years War        The Hundred Years War (1336-1565)

UNIT FOUR - GOLDEN AGES OUTSIDE WESTERN EUROPE

Chapter 11: Byzantine and Islamic Civilizations

• The Byzantine Empire

• Byzantine Studies on the Internet

• Hagia Sophia

• The Byzantine Monuments

• A Chronology of Early Byzantine History

• Ivan the Terrible

• The Women of Islam                Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca Ends        Mecca: Behind Geographic TV's Rare Look Inside

• Alhambra - Granada, Spain - Great Buildings online

• Islamic Civilization (online lecture)

• The Ottoman Empire       The Ottomans.org  kaba@haji

Chapter 12: Africa and the Americas

Africa Studies Center - University of Pennsylvania

    Section 1: Africa: The Land and Early Peoples

•  African Studies    African Civilizations

• Artifacts in Africa Suggest An Earlier Modern Human

• Internet African History Sourcebook

• African Voices

    Section 2: Africa Empires and Trading States

• Wonders of the African World

    Section 3: Patterns of Daily Life in Africa

• National Museum of African Art

    Section 4: The First Americans

• Inca site found high in Andes

    Section 5: Early Civilizations in the Americas

• Mayan Life and Civilization            Americas, earliest writing is traced to pre-Mayan era

• History of Meso-American Architecture

• Latin America and the Conquistadores

• Old skulls offer theory on the first Americans

• A struggle against history

Chapter 13: India, China, and Japan

Section 1 India

• When the Moguls Ruled            Akbar the Great (1543-1605)

• Taj Mahal - Emperor Shah Jahan - Great Buildings Online

Section 2 & 3 China

• Chinese History to the Qing Dynasty

Section 4 Japan

UNIT FIVE - EUROPE IN TRANSITION

Chapter 14: The Renaissance and Reformation 

Renaissance - What inspired this age of balance and Order? (Annenberg/CPB Exhibits)	The Italian Renaissance (1420-1600  Web Museum, Paris	The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art	Renaissance Secrets	Renaissance Artists
Michelangelo Buonorotti	Exploring Leonardo Da Vinci	The Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci	Famous Paintings Exhibit (Web Museum, Paris)	The Uffizi Gallery - Room Index.
History of Renaissance Architecture	History of Baroque Architecture	The Vatican Museum	The Italian Renaissance	The Office Website of the British Royal Family
English Reformation  War of the Roses	The Six Wives of Henry VIII	The Counter Reformation	The Wars of Religion	Timeline of the Kings and Queens of England

Chapter 15: Exploration and Expansion

• The European Voyages of Exploration

Chapter 17 - The Age of Absolutism

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