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Social Studies Grade 9: Channel Surfing the Early Civilizations

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TheHistoryNet--Where History Lives on the Web
www.historynet.com

World History: Attitude and Events, from Early Humanity to Yesterday
http://www.fsmitha.com/

World History by History Link 101
www.historylink101.com
The cultures of Africa, China, Egypt, Greece, Mayan, Mesopotamia, Rome, Prehistory and Middle Ages are divided into categories of art, biographies, daily life, maps, pictures, research, and more.

Exploring Ancient World Cultures
http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm
Exploring Ancient World Cultures is an introductory, on-line, college-level 'textbook' of ancient world cultures including Ancient India, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome.  The site features an anthology, chronology, essays, maps, and an interactive quiz for each of the cultures. If you want to further explore ancient cultures, use Argos, a limited area search engine that taps into a database of peer-reviewed Web sites. 

Odyssey Online
http://carlos.emory.edu/
This site, produced by the Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University and The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, explores ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures by looking at the people, myths, daily life, death, burial, writing, and archaeology.  The site is written for middle school students and includes resources for students and teachers as well as related Web sites.

The Ancient World Web
http://www.julen.net/ancient/
This is a searchable site with a great deal of information on Rome and Greece.  There is a Daily Life Section that includes links to such sites as Daily Life in Rome, Hill's Plumbing Page with FAQs for plumbing information in several ancient towns and Johns of Rome.  Under the Inspired by Ancient World section are links to Ancient Sites and Ancient Adventure, a choose your own adventure site.  The Ancient World Web is also searchable and there are links to the next two sites from the Daily Life Section.

LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World
http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/home.html
This is a very large site which includes: the Roman Gazetteer, a annotated photo album of Roman towns and monuments,and tow dictionaries of Greek and Roman antiquities (roads, bridges, hair curlers, marriage, children, and more).

 The Roman Empire
http://www.roman-empire.net/
The  Illustrated History of the Roman Empire.

Ancient History Links
http://killeenroos.com/link/anchist.htm#Rome
This page contains a long list of links on Rome.

Egypt Page
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Egypt.html
This site, part of the University of Penn's African Studies web site, contains information on both ancient and the current history of Egypt.  There are links to a map of the country; the world fact book on Egypt; the Ancient Egyptian Page with resources on pyramids, temples, kings/queens, and hieroglyphics; the Ancient Egypt Site with links to resources on ancient Egyptians history, languages, and Pharaohs; and other resources for the History of Ancient Egypt.

Egypt: Secrets of an Ancient World  
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pyramids
The focus of this site is on the  pyramids created several millennia ago. Activities included here are: Explore the Pyramids, where one may scroll across the different pyramids, revealing their interior organization and a number of facts about their construction and so on; A brief timeline that gives some information about each of the different Egyptian dynasties; and A journal of a National Geographic reporter on her personal experiences traveling around the pyramids of Egypt.

The Greeks
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/
This site presented with Flash, by PBS, contains background information on Greek culture, politics, warfare, architecture, other places and culture, Cleisthenes, Themistocles, Pericles, Socrates, Aspasia and other people in Greek history.  There is also a timeline, an Acropolis Experience, the Making of the Greeks, Educational Resources and a site index.

Greek Image LinkBase (Part I)
http://www.1000dictionaries.com/greek_pictures_1.html
This site contains loads of images of ancient Greece.

Egypt: Geography 
www2.sptimes.com/egypt/egyptcredit.4.1.html

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