Ancient & Native Civilizations

Scope and Sequence · Links to Sites · Maps

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1. The Americas – Mayan, Inca, Aztec

   "Maya Inca Aztec is an educational website of Art, History, and Culture. It combines accurate historical research with the photography of Warren Michael Stokes, and the illustrations of Mexico's Diego Rivera. This website is not affiliated with any religious or political organization. We are only interested in the truth. It is our hope that Maya Inca Aztec will heighten cultural awareness, bridge racial disparity, and expose social injustices inflicted upon the indigenous cultures of the Americas."

   • Azteca – Omniglot's Nahuatl (nãhuatl/nawatlahtolli)
   • Maya – Omniglot's Mayan Script
   • Inca – Omniglot's Quechua (Runasimi / Qhichwa simi) *Not written before the Spanish conquered & colonized the Inca Empire.
2. Early Humans
   • Flints and Stones: Real Life in Prehistory
   • Sites of early fossils
   • Early Humans (site of Jay D'Ambrosio, an ancient civilizations teacher at Seneca Valley Middle School in Pennsylvania)
   • Early Man (student-oriented site)
   • "Lucy" in Ethiopia
   • Cave Paintings
     • The Cave of Lascaux (France)
     • The Cave of Chauvet-Pont d'Arc (France)
     • Prehistoric Rock Paintings of Bhimbetaka (India)
     • "Cave Painting" (Wikipedia)
3. Fertile Crescent – Map 1 (ancient) – Map 2 (shows modern political boundaries)
   • Basic information (Wikipedia)
   • More clear basic info (Text)
   • Mesopotamia (The British Museum)
   • Hammurabi’s Code
   • Omniglot’s Sumerian Cuneiform
4. Sub-Saharan Africa – Map
   • Ancient West Africa
   • Ghana Empire (not modern country) (Wikipedia) Map
   • History of Mali (Wikipedia)
   • Chiwara Info (Wikipedia)
   • Sundiata: the Lion King of Mali
   • Ashanti History (Wikipedia)
   • Mali Empire (Wikipedia) Map
   • Songhai (Wikipedia) Empire (Wikipedia) Map
   • Timbuktu
     • Timbuktu (Wikipedia)
     • Leo Africanus: a description of Timbuktu, 1526
     • "Trekking to Timbuktu" a 6th-8th grade Learning Project (extensive!)
5. Egypt – Map
   • "Life in Ancient Egypt" at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt (Pittsburgh)
   • "Ancient Egypt" at the British Museum
   • "Odyssey Egypt"
   • Mark Millmore’s Ancient Egypt
   • Omniglot’s Egyptian Writing Pages
6. India – Map
   • "Ancient India" at the British Museum
   • Kidipedia – History for Kids "Ancient India"
   • Kids’ Newsroom "Ancient India"
   • Daily Life Ancient India (Homework Help)
   • Horace Mann Middle School webpages on Ancient India
   • KidsKonnect "India"
   • Homeless Bird at author Gloria Whelan’s website (includes Tagore’s poem)
   • Omniglot's Sanskrit pages
   • Omniglot's Hindi pages – Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language with about 487 million speakers. It is one of the official languages of India and is the main language used in the northern states of Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar, and is spoken in much of north and central India alongside other languages such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Marathi or Bengali. In other parts of India, as well as in Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan, Hindi is understood.Hindi is closely related to Urdu, the main language of Pakistan, which is written with the Arabic script . . .
   • Omniglot's Bengali webpages – With about 193 million native and about 230 million total speakers,[2] Bengali is one of the most spoken languages (ranked sixth[3]) in the world. The National song and the National anthem of India, and the National anthem of Bangladesh were composed in Bengali.
7. China – Map
   • Ancient China for Kids
   • Ancient China at the British Museum
   • Ancient China (for kids... Mr. Donn’s)
   • Some excellent photos of China
8. Greece – Map
   • Ancient Greece at the British Museum