Ancient Civilizations - Online Resources

Here is a small collection of resources and links useful for researching Ancient Civilizations. These were chosen with a research project in mind:

Links:

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/ancientcivilizations.htm

http://www.mrdowling.com/

Two sites with several “lessons” (articles) about different ancient civilizations designed for students.

http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history

Articles with accompanying videos for many of the commonly studied ancient civilizations from the “History channel” company. There are some games and other things also on the site that aren’t relevant, but the articles appear to be valuable.

http://history-world.org/mainmenu.htm

A collection of essays that cover nearly any ancient civilization, but the writing might be too dense for most intermediate grade students. It could still be useful for filling research gaps.

http://ancientweb.org/index.php/explore

Another collection of articles detailing ancient civilizations (navigate via sidebar), though some are marked by present day locations.

Ancient Rome - look under Italy

Aztecs - look under Mexico

Maya - look under both Mexico and Guatemala

Sumeria (Sumer), Babylon, Assyria - look under Iraq

http://www.ancient.eu/search/

An online encyclopedia with articles concerning many of the assigned ancient civilizations. There is some overlap with Wikipedia, but there are several original contributions as well.

http://www.ancient.eu/map/

An interactive ancient map on the same site that covers up to approximately 270 BCE. The pictures can’t be saved directly, but we could take a screen snapshot instead.

http://www.ancientscripts.com/ws_regions.html

Details of ancient writing systems organized by region.

http://classroom.synonym.com/sitemap-2.html

The “school subject” site map from synonym has many articles on the subject. The site’s search doesn’t seem to work very well, but using “ctrl + F” on this list works pretty well.

http://www.roman-empire.net/children/history.html

An exhaustive history of many aspects of the Roman Empire. This site only has information about Rome, however!