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General 

• Exploring Ancient World Cultures
• Mysterious Places Explore sacred sites and ancient civilizations.
• Ancient World Web Over 1000 sites on world history.
• The Perseus Digital Library Extensive collection of resources for Greek and Roman history, the Renaissance, and American Midwest expansion.
• Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fall? Explore the collapse of four ancient civilizations.
• Real story of the Ancient Olympic Games Compares the ancient games to our modern Olympics
• Smith College Museum of Ancient Inventions Contains information on 46 inventions including photographs, origin, and uses.
• Historical Fiction From B.C. to the 1980's

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Early Civilizations

• Mesopotamia Click on topics in the outline.
• Ancient Sumer History 
• The Internet History Sourcebook: Persia
• The Ancient Egypt Site
• Cyber Mummy Medical imagery allows you to view and learn about a real, ancient mummy.
• Minoan Civilization
• Canaan and Ancient Israel An exhibit that explores the identities of the people in pre-historical times through the material remains that they have left behind. 
• Ancient Greeks
• The Historical World Behind the Trojan War
• Empires Past: China Focuses on the individual dynasties and rulers (Click on "Visit Site").
• Ancient China: The Shang
• Confucius
• An Invitation to the Indus Civilization Information on development and decline of this civilization and the cultures that emerged after its decline.
• Ancient India
• Civilizations: Incans, Mayans, Aztecas

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750 - 500 B.C.

• The Archaic Age
• Archaic Greece
• Cyrus the Great
• The Phoenicians and Carthage
• Who Were the Celts?
• The Scythians
• The Caste System in India

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500 B.C - 500 A.D.

• The Classical Age
• Reforms of Solon
• The Peloponnesian War
• The Punic Wars  
• The Persian Wars
• Alexander the Great
• World History: Rome Use the outline to view specific topics.
• Wars of the First Triumvirate  
• Empires Past: Rome Scroll down to click on topics such as government, society, arts, religion, technology, and The Fall of Rome (click on "Visit Site").
• The Law of the Twelve Tables 
• Ancient Roman Emperors
• Caesar: Dictatorship and Death
• History of Christianity
• Germania: Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals, Burgundians, Lombards, Franks
• The Barbarians A chronicle of the Europe invasions and the fall of Rome.  
• The Byzantine Empire
• Corpus Juris Civilis, Law: Divisions And Codes
• A Brief History of Buddhism
• The Rise and Fall of Han China
• The Huns Origins, Attila's Empire, After Attila
• Silk Road Guide
• Muslim Spain

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500 - 1200 A.D.

• Mohammed
• Five Dynasties and Ten States of China
• Charlemagne Crowned Emperor
• The Vikings Norse myths, runes, and voyages.
• The Germanic Tribes
• Ancient Russia
• The Great Schism of 1054
• 1066: The Effects of the Norman Conquest of England
• The Crusades
• Henry II
• Events of the 12th Century

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1200 - 1600 A.D.

• Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
• Magna Carta
• Decline of the Byzantine Empire
• The Ottoman Empire
• 100 Years War
• Joan of Arc
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Martin Luther 1483-1546
• Concordat of Worms To see the original text, click here: Primary Source
• The Black Death: Bubonic Plague
• The Fall of Constantinople
• Genghis Khan
• Voyage of Exploration: Discovering New Horizons
• Ferdinand and Isabella

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Britain

• British Heritage Famous rulers, counties, castles, and legends. Also check out the link to "Camelot Village" for more great sites.
• Castles of Britain Learn the history of individual castles on a virtual tour.
• British History Timelines, documents, King Arthur, monarchs, biographies (you DO NOT need to log on to this site--cancel out the pop-up window when it appears).
• Tower of London Virtual Tour Learn about the "bloody history".
• History of the Monarchy
• Tudor History Henry, Henry, Edward, Jane, Mary, and Elizabeth.
• Luminarium: 16th Century Renaissance English Literature Spotlights the life and works of the most famous authors from 1485-1603 (Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spencer, etc.).
• Romantic Links Comprehensive site on Romantic Period.

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Time Periods/People in European History

• History of the Medieval World
• Feudalism
• European Middle Ages Celts, Germans, Norse, and French.
• Middle Ages Learn about what it was really like to live in the Middle Ages.
• Plague A great source, part of the Decameron Web.
• The Renaissance
• Renaissance Personalities
• Renaissance History
• European Renaissance/Reformation A collection of links.
• Renaissance and Rebirth in Europe Italian Renaissance.
• Medici Family Concise history of the family.
• Niccolo Machiavelli Short biography.  
• The Elizabethan World
• Florence and Tuscany Daily life, music, architecture, art.
• Leonardo Da Vinci Paintings and commentary.
• Michelangelo Paintings and commentary.
• Vatican Exhibit This site is managed by the Library of Congress and contains archaeology, music, and science links.
• Decameron Web Explore the impact that Boccaccio's The Decameron has on our social and cultural values.
• The English Revolution
• Yahoo Directory: Philosophers Alphabetical index that leads to links on each philosopher, from Abelard to Zizek.
• The Galileo Project
• Enlightenment Timeline and links that include primary source documents.
• The European Enlightenment: Absolute Monarchy and Enlightened Absolutism
• Links on the French Revolution Choose a general overview or focus on individual topics.
• Empires: Napoleon
• The Battle of Waterloo
• The Battle of Waterloo Web Game (You must have Macromedia Shockwave) Play as either Napoleon or Wellington. Choose battle tactics and pick your weapons.
• Congress of Vienna

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