Comics, Quizzes, and Stories - The Oatmeal. 10 Forgotten Ancient Civilizations. History The typical history textbook has a lot of ground to cover and only so many pages to devote to anything before Jesus. For most of us, that means ancient history is a three-dog show—Egypt, Rome, and Greece.
Which is why it’s easy to get the impression that, outside of those three, our map of the ancient world is mostly just blank space. But actually nothing could be further from the truth. Plenty of vibrant and fascinating cultures existed outside that narrow focus. 10Aksum The kingdom Aksum (or Axum) has been the subject of countless legends. The Ethiopian kingdom of reality, not myth, was an international trading power. Aksum adopted Christianity not long after the Roman Empire did and continued to thrive through the early Middle Ages. 9Kush Known in ancient Egyptian sources for its abundance of gold and other valuable natural resources, Kush was conquered and exploited by its northern neighbor for nearly half a millennium (circa 1500–1000 B.C.). 8Yam 7The Xiongnu Empire 5Yuezhi.
AISD: Social Studies - High School. Select: Web / Video Resources Network Provides Commercial-Free History Programs The History Channel Classroom is an hour long, commercial-free, copyright cleared programming block that airs Monday through Friday from 5-6 am CT. To view scheduled programming click here to visit the Classroom Calendar: To select from a list of Classroom Study Guides, click here. Over 2,000 files linked across a timeline database covering 3,000 years. You'll find excellent detailed maps as well and don't miss the interactive "30 Most Influential Persons" page. A.P. Go to, AP Central's AP World History Home Page AP Central introduces World History Teaching Units The College Board and AP Central are pleased to announce the publication of 13 teaching units for the AP World History course.
WoodYard Publications is pleased to announce the availability of AP World History: An Essential Coursebook by Ethel Wood. The AP Program offers teachers resources to help them begin teaching this AP World History course. Invitation to World Literature. Greek, by Euripides, first performed in 405 BCE The passionate loves and longings, hopes and fears of every culture live on forever in their stories.
Here is your invitation to literature from around the world and across time. Sumerian, 2600 BCE and older Turkish, by Orhan Pamuk, 2000 Greek, by Homer, ca. eighth century BCE Greek, by Euripides, first performed in 405 BCE Sanskrit, first century CE Japanese, by Murasaki Shikibu, ca. 1014 Chinese, by Wu Ch'êng-ên, ca. 1580 Quiché-Mayan, written in the Roman alphabet ca. 1550s French, by Voltaire, 1759 English, by Chinua Achebe, 1959 Spanish, by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967 English, by Arundhati Roy, 1998 Arabic, first collected ca. fourteenth century.
Mr Dunn's World History / Overview. Freeman-pedia - World History II- Main Page. In the state of Virginia, World History II is a sophomore class that covers the history of the world based on the Standards of Learning (SOL) from the year 1500 CE to the present. The course divides into around twenty major areas of study. Click on the links below to take you to the page devoted to that topic. Also, please click on the modified "Essential Knowledge" from the SOLs that shows the key information that any student must know before taking the World History II summative assessment at the end of the school year in May.
Click on the banner below to find out more about the 95 People you are expected to know on the Virginia SOL. Freeman-pedia - World History I. In the state of Virginia, World History I is a freshman class that covers the history of the world based on the Standards of Learning (SOL) up to the year 1500 CE. The course divides into around sixteen major areas of study. Click on the links below to take you to the page devoted to that topic. Click on the banner below to visit the page devoted to the people (real and imaginary) that are covered in World History I. Click on the banners below to go to the page devoted to that topic. Freeman-pedia - AP World History- Main Page. World History Teachers Blog. Atlas Curriculum Management :: Unit Calendar 2013-2014 :: Oakland Schools World History and Geography* (M) / Grade 11 (Oakland Scope High School)
Russian Civil War. World History For Kids. World Digital Library Home. The Ancient Egyptians Had Iron Because They Harvested Fallen Meteors. Under Turkish Mud, Well-Preserved Byzantine Chapel. Photo DEMRE, Turkey — In the fourth century A.D., a bishop named Nicholas transformed the city of Myra, on the Mediterranean coast of what is now Turkey, into a Christian capital. Nicholas was later canonized, becoming the St.
Nicholas of Christmas fame. Myra had a much unhappier fate. After some 800 years as an important pilgrimage site in the Byzantine Empire it vanished — buried under 18 feet of mud from the rampaging Myros River. All that remained was the Church of St. But now, 700 years later, Myra is reappearing. Archaeologists first detected the ancient city in 2009 using ground-penetrating radar that revealed anomalies whose shape and size suggested walls and buildings.
The chapel’s structural integrity suggests that Myra may be largely intact underground. Occupied since at least the fourth century B.C., Myra was one of the most powerful cities in Lycia, with a native culture that had roots in the Bronze Age. But Myra attracted invaders, too. “Each city was different,” Dr. World Digital Library Home. World History. A History of the World - Home. Ancient Egypt Online. Ancient History Maps Now Online. After much preparation and a lot of work (which is far from being finished), we are pleased to include an interactive map section on Ancient History Encyclopedia. You can now geographically explore the ancient world and gain a much deeper understanding of not only geography and location, but also interconnections between civilizations and empires.
The first map is a political map of ancient times that lets you set the date you want to view, and you will see the cities and state borders at that time (all searchable, of course). The terrain shows the original natural terrain in ancient times, not the modern landscape. It’s a custom-built map, and it’s not complete: At the moment you can only see borders until around 270 BCE, even though cities are already placed until a much later date. The second map is a Map of the Roman Empire (and the Classical World), created by the Pelagios Project.
We hope that you are going to enjoy viewing these new maps. SCORE History/Social Science: Browse Lessons by Grades. PowerPoints for World History: Patterns of Interaction. Teaching Materials. Modern World History/Patterns of Interaction/PDFs. Global Textbook. History. World History for Us All. World History Links.