Ancient Civilizations

Ancient & Native Civilizations

Scope & Sequence // Links to Sites // Maps

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1. The Americas — Mayan, Inca, Aztec website "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 (nāhuatl/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, with many links (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" at 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 at Wikipedia
Sundiata, the Lion King of Mali
Ashanti history (Wikipedia)
Mali Empire (Wikipedia) Map
Songhai (Songhay) Empire (Wikipedia) Map
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
Kidipede—History for Kids "Ancient India"
Kids' Newsroom "Ancient India"
Daily Life Ancient India (Homework Help)
Horace Mann Middle Schol webpages on Ancient India
KidsKonnect "India"
Homeless Bird at author Gloria Whelan's website (includes Tagore's poem)
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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

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