Ancient
Civilizations for Kids 
Ancient
Civilizations for Kids
China -
Mesopotamia - Egypt -
Kush - Phoenicia -
Pompeii - Hebrews -
Greece - Rome -
India - Other
World History - China
http://web.archive.org/web/20040814144858/http://www.lksd.org/kongiganak/kongiganak/ContinuousEdCarnagie/Carnagie/WorldHistory/WldHistoryCh2/WldHistoryCh2China.htmDucksters - Ancient China - http://www.ducksters.com/history/china/ancient_china.php
History for Kids - https://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-china.html
Daily Life in Ancient China from Mr. Donn - http://china.mrdonn.org/index.html
Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - http://www.mrdowling.com/613chinesehistory.html Web Links on China and the Great Wall
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/greatwall/Walllinks.html
The World History of China - https://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-china.html
Kids Discover - https://online.kidsdiscover.com/unit/ancient-china
The Silk Road -https://historyforkids.org/the-silk-road/
China from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China
Hammurabi's Code - http://www.phillipmartin.info/hammurabi/homepage.htm
Odyssey Online - graphics, info, games from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/NEAREAST/homepg.htmlMesopotamia from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia
Ducksters Mesopotamia - http://www.ducksters.com/history/mesopotamia/ancient_mesopotamia.php
Ancient Sumer from Villanova College in Brisbane, AU
http://www.vnc.qld.edu.au/enviro/sumer/2001.htmMr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - Mesopotamia - http://www.mrdowling.com/603mesopotamia.html
Mesopotamia (Assyria, Babylonia, Sumer) from the British Museum
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/menu.htmlMesopotamia from Fordham - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook03.html
University of Chicago Mesopotamia - http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/mesopotamialife/index.php
The Sumerians - http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch01.htmAncient Mesopotamia - http://www.historylink101.com/ancient_mesopotamia.htm
Sumerians - http://www.crystalinks.com/sumer.html
Mesopotamian Art
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/m/mesopotamian.html
http://www.anciv.info/mesopotamia/mesopotamian-art-and-architecture.html
Babylonian Math
http://www.angelfire.com/il2/babylonianmath/
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/masters/egypt_babylon/babylon.pdf
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/sumerian.html
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/abacus/a/BabylonianMath.htm
Hanging Gardens of Babylon - http://www.unmuseum.org/hangg.htm
https://www.wonders-of-the-world.net/Seven/Gardens-of-Babylon.php
World History - Sumer - Akkadia - Assyria - Chaldea - Amorites
Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt - excellent graphics and text - http://www.discoveringegypt.com/
Ancient Egypt from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_EgyptOdyssey Online from Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University - graphics and info
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/EGYPT/homepg.htmlAncient Egypt from the British Museum in the UK
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.htmlDaily Life in Ancient Egypt from Mr. Donn's site - http://egypt.mrdonn.org/index.html
Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - Ancient Egypt
http://www.mrdowling.com/604egypt.htmlPenn Museum - https://www.penn.museum/sites/egypt/egyptintro.shtml
Ancient Egypt - videos and games - http://www.neok12.com/Ancient-Egypt.htm
History for Kids - ancient Egypt - https://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-egypt.html
https://historyforkids.org/ancient-egypt-2/Egyptian Mythology
http://www.touregypt.net/gods1.htm
http://www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/page/Egyptian+Mythology
https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/egcr09e.html
https://discoveringegypt.com/ancient-egyptian-gods-and-goddesses/
Egyptian Mummies -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/#mummification
More Mummies Information from Neferchichi.com - https://www.neferchichi.com/mummies
New York Times Daily Lesson Plan 'Mummy Dearest' - http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/1999/08/24/mummy-dearest/
Egyptian Mummies from the Smithsonian - http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/mummies.htm
Mummification Simulation - https://www.neferchichi.com/copy-of-activities-for-kids
Mummy-Maker Game (thanks to Nancy Keane) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/launch_gms_mummy_maker.shtmlPhotographs of Egyptian Art - http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/artoverview.htm
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/E/egyptian.htmlEgyptian Art Lessons - http://www.artyfactory.com/egyptian_art/egyptian_art_lessons.htm
Egypt: A Learning Module - http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/module-twenty-one-activity-two/
Egypt: Daily Life - https://www.worldhistory.org/article/933/daily-life-in-ancient-egypt/
https://www.historyforkids.net/egyptian-daily-life.html
https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/egcl01e.html
NOVA Online : The Pyramids
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/Ancient Egypt Webquests and Activities
http://southlands.vsb.bc.ca/egypt.htm
http://education.iupui.edu/webquests/egypt/aegypt.htm
King Tutankhamun - Was It Murder? Webquest
http://questgarden.com/00/85/9/051004163536/process.htm
The World History of Egypt - links
http://history.evansville.net/egypt.html
Egyptian Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/search-results#!/search?q=egyptian%20art&page=1&searchFacet=Exhibitions
Egyptian Art from the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC
https://asia.si.edu/collections-area/egyptian/
Egyptian Math pages - lots of activities and history, too
http://egypt.mrdonn.org/math.html
https://explorable.com/egyptian-mathematics
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/egyptian.html
http://www.eyelid.co.uk/numbers.htm
https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/egypt/egcs04e.html
Tracie Kubica-Hilder's Egyptian math
http://www.flushing.k12.mi.us/fjh/brust/egyptmath.html
Guardian's Ancient Egypt Kid Connection - activities, masks, games
http://www.guardians.net/egypt/kids/index.htmFun and Learning - https://www.neferchichi.com/fun-and-learning
Civilizations in Africa: Kush - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/kingdoms-kush/
https://www.ducksters.com/history/africa/kingdom_of_kush.php
Nubia - Its Glory and Its People -
https://oi.uchicago.edu/museum-exhibits/history-ancient-nubiaOLD
https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/egyptian-art/temple-of-dendur-50/nubia
http://touregypt.net/historicalessays/nubia.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubia
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/stsmith/research/nubia_history.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/nubia.html
http://africa.mrdonn.org/kush.htmlThe Meroitic Mystery from Saudi Aramco World
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/198304/the.meroitic.mystery-from.nubia.the.land.of.kush.a.language.lost.in.history.htmBlack Kingdoms of the Nile
http://www.pbs.org/wonders/Episodes/Epi1/1_wondr2.htmNubia - http://www.angelfire.com/oh/AncientKnowledge/NUBIA.html
The Story of Africa - Nubia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/3chapter4.shtml
Ancient Phoenicia - https://www.ageofempires.com/history/phoenician-culture/
http://phoenicia.org/history.html
https://kidskonnect.com/history/phoenicia/
http://www.10452lccc.com/hist.geo/ancientphoenicians.htm
http://www.ancient.eu/phoenicia/
http://phoenicia.org/
http://www.angelfire.com/empire2/unkemptgoose/Phonecian.html
Phoenicia from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Ancient_Civilizations/Phoenicians
Pompeii:
For Kids - http://rome.mrdonn.org/pompeii.html
http://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_rome/pompeii.php
https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/pompeiiPompeii from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PompeiiPompeii Forum Project
http://pompeii.virginia.edu/
Pompeii - The City That Time Has Not Forgotten
http://web.archive.org/web/20041012060955/http://www.umkc.edu/imc/pompeii.htm
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/829/
https://www.pompeionline.net/en/
BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/pompeii_portents_01.shtml
Hebrews - https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/who-were-the-hebrews
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebrews.html
WikiJunior - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Ancient_Civilizations/Hebrews
Ancient Hebrews - https://ancientcivilizationsworld.com/hebrew/
The Maccabees - https://www.chabad.org/holidays/chanukah/article_cdo/aid/3857239/jewish/The-Maccabees-The-Jewish-Freedom-Fighters.htm
The Ancient Hebrews (scroll to middle of page)
http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture4b.htmlThe Hebrews from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrews
World History - Ancient Greece - https://www.penn.museum/sites/greek_world/index.html
More Ancient Greece HistoryWikiJunior - https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Ancient_Civilizations/Greeks
Ancient Greece from Mr. Donn - http://greece.mrdonn.org/index.html
Greek gods - http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/index.html
For teachers - http://greece.mrdonn.org/lessonplans.html
Powerpoints - http://greece.mrdonn.org/powerpoints.htmlHistory for Kids - https://historyforkids.org/ancient-greece/
Odyssey Online - graphics, info, games from Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University
http://www.carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/welcome.htmlThe Greeks : Crucible of Civilization from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/empires/thegreeks/htmlver/
Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - Ancient Greece
http://www.mrdowling.com/701greece.html
Greek Gods and Goddesses - http://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/
World History Ancient Greece - links to numerous sites and topics
http://history.evansville.net/greece.htmlAncient Greece from Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece
The Ancient Greek World - http://www.penn.museum/sites/greek_world/
Ancient Greece - Mythology, Activities, and Lesson Plans from Susan Seagraves
http://www.oocities.org/sseagraves/greekunit.htm
Ancient and Modern Olympic Sports - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/Greek Art and Architecture
https://www.ducksters.com/history/art/ancient_greek_art.php
https://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-greek-art.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grarc/hd_grarc.htm
http://upge.wn.com/?t=ancientgreece/index11.txt
http://www.hellenic-art.com/statues/reliefs.htm
http://arthistory.about.com/od/arthistory101/a/greekover.htm
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5329b201e4b09fd47861cac1/t/5c7c28dcf4e1fc6a4a859a9d/1551640827578/March19Week1.pdf
Alexander the Great - maps, text, links - http://1stmuse.com/alex3/alex-synopsys.htmlThe Ancient Greeks - http://www.arwhead.com/Greeks/
Sparta - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/SPARTA.HTM
Athens - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/ATHENS.HTM
Greek Gods and Goddesses quiz -https://www.goodreads.com/quizzes/11347-the-gods-and-goddesses-of-greek-mythology
http://www.ducksters.com/history/ancient_greek_mythology_questions.php
Math Olympics - from Springfield, IL - a way to make a connection to the ancient Olympics
http://web1.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/iles/olympics/index.html
BBC The Romans - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/romans/
The Decline and Fall of Rome - http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture14b.htmlHistory for Kids - Ancient Rome - https://www.historyforkids.net/ancient-rome.html
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/history/fall.htmWorld History - Ancient Rome
http://web.archive.org/web/20040624035557/www.lksd.org/kongiganak/kongiganak/ContinuousEdCarnagie/Carnagie/WorldHistory/WldHistoryCh4/WldHistoryCh4AncientRomeMain.htmPenn Museum Ancient Rome - https://www.penn.museum/sites/worlds_intertwined/roman/main.shtml
Ancient Rome from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_RomeAncient Rome
http://www.historylink101.com/ancient_rome.htmOdyssey Online - games, info, graphics from Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University
http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/ROME/homepg.htmlThe Romans from the BBC in England - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhxmn39
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwmpfg8Ancient Rome from Mr. Donn - http://rome.mrdonn.org/
For teachers - http://rome.mrdonn.org/lessonplans/index.html
Powerpoints - http://rome.mrdonn.org/powerpoints.htmlAncient Rome from Social Studies for Kids
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/ancientrome.htmThe Colosseum of Ancient Rome
http://www.the-colosseum.net/idx-en.htm
Ancient Rome
http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/DarleneBishop/rome/Rome.htmlMr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - Ancient Rome
http://www.mrdowling.com/702rome.htmlThe World History of Rome - links
http://web.archive.org/web/20041115011006/http://history.evansville.net/rome.htmlJulius Caesar
http://www.roman-empire.net/republic/caesar-index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_caesar
http://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/julius_caesar.html
http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/caesar.html
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/juliuscaesar.htm
http://rome.mrdonn.org/caesar.html
Ancient Rome timeline - https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-rome/ancient-romeAll Roads Lead to Rome webquest - http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=9941
Ancient Rome webquest - http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=163613
A Day at the Colosseum webquest - http://www.createwebquest.com/webquest/gladiatorslife-colosseum
For fun - the Caesar Cipher - https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/caesar-cipher
https://brilliant.org/wiki/caesar-cipher/
World History - Indus Valley
Indus Valley from the BBC and the United Kingdom
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxn3r82
http://www.ancientindia.co.uk/indus/home_set.htmlDaily Life in Ancient India from Mr. Donn
http://india.mrdonn.org/index.html
For teachers - http://india.mrdonn.org/lessonplans.html
Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro - https://www.harappa.com/slideshows
Harappa Map - http://www.mapsofindia.com/history/indus-valley-civilization.htmlIndus Valley Civilization - http://www.crystalinks.com/induscivilization.html
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Ancient/Indus2.htmlThe World History of India
http://history.evansville.net/india.htmlAncient India from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_IndiaMr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - India
http://www.mrdowling.com/612india.htmlAncient India - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCINDIA/ANCINDIA.HTM
Ancient India - http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/india/index.shtml
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
http://www.unmuseum.org/wonders.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_seven_wonders_of_the_ancient_world
https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/seven-wonders-of-the-ancient-world
https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Seven_Wonders/
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/seven-wonders-ancient-world/
Ancient Civilizations and Their Number Systems - http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab34
https://ancientcivilizationsworld.com/number-systems/
https://libguides.berkeleycarroll.org/c.php?g=1205684&p=8817243
Activity - http://questgarden.com/181/85/1/150608131536/process.htmAncient Calendars and Clocks - http://www.nist.gov/pml/general/time/ancient.cfm
Ancient Civilizations standards - http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=6220
http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/state-standards/california/6EdSitement Lesson Plans
http://edsitement.neh.gov/tab_lesson.asp?subjectArea=3&subcategory=32Ancient Civilizations webquest -
http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/dmatousek/ancientwq/ancient_civilizations_wq.htm
Clip art 
and
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_clipart1.htm
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