The rise and fall of great
empires (4000 BC—500 AD)
Human/Physical Geography,
Cultural and Intellectual Life, Movement of People and Goods, Technology, Power
General/
All Sub-headings:
ROME:
History of the
http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/index.html
"WHY
http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc1/lectures/14romefell.html
"THE FALL OF ROME" -- Resource webpage explains background and
internal and external forces which resulted in the fall of
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_dorrington1.htm
"LATE ANTIQUITY IN THE
"THE FALL OF ROME" -- Read several credible theories and decide
which theory seems most believable to you:
The Ancient World Web: Website "Daily Life" Topic Index
has numerous external links to internet resources for daily life information
throughout mankind's ancient history and among many civilizations and cultures,
e.g., Greece, Rome, India, Egypt, and China, etc.:
http://julen.net/ancient/Daily_Life/
The Ancient World Web - General
Resources: Website "General
Resources" Topic Index has numerous external links to general information
about mankind's ancient history among many diverse civilizations and cultures,
e.g., the Canaanite Phoenicians, ancient Ireland, Korea, Africa, Turkey, the
Near East, Byzantium, Andean cultures, etc.:
http://julen.net/ancient/General_Resources/
The Ancient World Web - "History": Website "History" Topic Index has numerous external links to information about mankind's ancient history among many diverse civilizations and cultures, e.g., ancient Ireland, Morocco, Egypt, Nubia, the Aztecs of Mexico (AD 1360-1520), China, etc.:
http://julen.net/ancient/History/
WWL-Virtual Library: History: Comprehensive internet network providing
links to vast web resources on world history, alphabetically by country or
region, by era or epoch (time period) from ancient times to the Twentieth
Century, and by historical topics (e.g., "Islam," "Slavery").
Central Catalogue located at the
http://www.ukans.edu/history/VL/
British Museum's
"Compass" on-line collection -- images and explanations of 5000
objects from early civilizations to today, click on "Search" and type
in terms, such as "Roman empire," "Egyptian kings, etc.:
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/
From the Norwegian National Library, The Schøyen Collection: "222 Manuscripts Spanning 5000 Years." (Excerpts are shown, with descriptive information) Click on "History", and sub-headings:
Sumerian History, Babylonian History, Assyrian History, Greek & Byzantine History, Roman History:
http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/
History For
Kids: Site geared to middle-schoolers, with information on Ancient Greece,
http://www.historyforkids.org/
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OI_Museum_Highlights.html
The National Geographic Society's website pages about Ancient Egypt, including the tomb of King Tutankhamen:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/egypt/
National Geographic News article
about Egyptian Pharoah Ramses
II (1270-1213 BC):
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/02/0221_abusimbel.html
Egyptian Papyrus Texts covering several centuries forward from the Second Century BC (during Roman Empire in Egypt) - Information and images of these texts, written in Demotic Egyptian, Greek and Latin, showing concerns of ordinary citizens appealing to government officials for help with various problems, tax collectors, and priests of the temple, as well as information concerning the "recycling" of some of these papyrus texts, which were used to encase mummies (click on Images of the "Tebtunis Papyri" to see actual texts; "Contents" and "History" for descriptions and information):
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/APIS/
Minoa (
Virtual
tour of Minos' Palace at
http://www.lfc.edu/academics/greece/KnosTour.html
Cultural and Intellectual Life, Power:
The Ancient World Web: Website's "Law and Philosophy" Topic Index has numerous external links to internet resources for law and philosophy information throughout mankind's ancient history and among many civilizations and cultures, e.g., Babylonian - Hammurabi's Code (complete), Greece, Rome, India, Egypt, China, Maya and Aztec law, etc.:
http://julen.net/ancient/Law_and_Philosophy/
Cultural and Intellectual Life
From the Norwegian National Library, The Schøyen Collection: 222 Manuscripts Spanning 5000 Years (Excerpts are shown, with descriptive information) (click on "Literature" and choose from Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Classical Greek, Roman, and continuing through 20th Century):
http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/
Project Gutenberg (PG): Comprehensive Manuscript Web Project makes
available for downloading through numerous web sites approximately 10,000
Significant Books published through the ages.
Following link is to PG site at
http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/cgi-bin/sdb/cat.cgi
The M.I.T. Internet Classics Archive: 441 Works of Classical Literature (mainly Greco-Roman writings) by 59 different authors, such as Homer, Virgil, Julius Caesar, Confucius, Omar Khayyam (English translations):
The
Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy: Information and external links
for Western philosophical topics and philosophers, covering the period from
pre-Socratic
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - from 129 authors in fields of Western philosophy and Twentieth Century and earlier American and English literature:
http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
University website on the history of mathematics (3000 BC - 999 AD), including early Chinese arithmetic and astronomy and biographical information about famous mathematicians such as Plato (geometry) and Aristotle (deductive logic):
http://nunic.nu.edu/~frosamon/history/math.html
Mathematical games and recreations, from Ancient Egypt to modern day, from the MacArchive Math Tutor of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland:
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Mathematical_games.html
Babylonian Empire (approx. 2000 BC- 1500 BC)
Babylonian numeral system, from the
MacArchive Math Tutor of the
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_numerals.html
Babylonian mathematics, from the MacArchive Math Tutor of the
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_mathematics.html
Ancient Egyptian Mathematics and Numerals, from the MacArchive Math Tutor of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland:
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/Egyptians.html
Indian civilization in
Mathematics - development of mathematical astronomy and earliest base ten number and decimal system, from the MacArchive Math Tutor of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland:
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Indian_mathematics.html
Ancient
Greek Developments in Astronomy, Mathematics and the Calendar, from the MacArchive Math Tutor of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland:
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Greek_astronomy.html
Ancient
Perseus
Classics Collection -
(Click on "Classics" then
"More about this Collection," then select "Greek and Roman
Materials" and scroll down through alphabetical list, including, for
example: Euripides: Medea,
Orestes and Homer: The Iliad and The Odyssey)
Arab/Muslim
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Arabic_mathematics.html
Collection of images from Persian books created in 11th to 17th Centuries, from the French National Library "Persian Splendours" Exhibition:
http://www.bnf.fr/web-bnf/expos/splendeurs/anglais/index.htm
Mayas (
http://www.michielb.nl/maya/astro.html
Christian Science Monitor - article
(March 14, 2001) about destruction of ancient Buddhist statues in
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/03/14/fp11s1-csm.shtml
Human/Physical
Geography, Technology, Power:
Cleopatra:
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/
Human/Physical
Geography, Movement of People and Goods, Technology, and Power
Scholarly Article: "The End of Roman Britain: Assessing the Anglo-Saxon Invasions of the Fifth Century" by William Bakken (1994) on university’s e-museum website:
http://emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/prehistory/vikings/asinv.html
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/
Human/Physical Geography, Power, and Movement of People and Goods:
Historical Maps of Asia, from
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/historical/history_asia.html
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August, 2003