| Ancient
History Sourcebook
The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook is a companion to the Internet
Medieval Sourcebook and the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
The Medieval Sourcebook is both a classroom resource and the largest
collection of online medieval texts. The Ancient and Modern Sourcebooks
have a different role: since there are already ample online repositories
of texts for these periods, the goal here is to provide and organize
texts for use in classroom situations. Links to the larger online
collections are provided for those who want to explore further.
Cycle's
Digital Library
Ancient civilization, Archaeological sites, Mythology
Ancient
Chinese Technology
A common stereotype is that the Chinese traditionally lack scientific
and technological ability, although, somehow, they stumbled upon
paper making, printing, gunpowder, and the mariner's compass. Modern
Chinese, themselves, sometimes are surprised to realize that modern
agriculture, shipping, astronomical observatories, decimal mathematics,
paper money, umbrellas, wheelbarrows, multi-stage rockets, brandy
and whiskey, the game of chess, and much more, all came from China.
Sources
in Ancient History and Classical Studies
Visiting
Oda Nobunaga's Life
Japanese history specifically the Middle Ages - from 15th to 16th
century - the age of the civil wars when Feudal Lords fought year
round to extend their territories. Includes pics of related sights
in Kyoto.
Maps
and Codices of the Roman Empire |
Augustine
of Hippo
Augustine was born in Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras, Algeria)
in 354 and died almost seventy-six years later in Hippo Regius (modern
Annaba) on the Mediterranean coast sixty miles away. In the years
between he lived out a career that seems to moderns to bridge the
gap between ancient pagan Rome and the Christian middle ages. But
to Augustine, as to his contemporaries, that gap separated real
people and places they knew, not whole imaginary ages of past and
future. He lived as we do, in the present, full of uncertainty.
The
Christian Catacombs of Rome
Tour the underground home of early Christianity
The
Jerusalem Mosaic
Tour the ancient and modern city of Jerusalem
Islamic
World to 1600
University of Calgary covers the 7th to the 17th centuries,
including information about Islamic art.
The
Legio X Gemina Homepage
This is the homepage of the Gemina Project, a Dutch reenactment
society that portrays Roman soldiers and civilians as they would
have appeared in the last quarter of the first century AD when the
legio X Gemina was stationed at the castra of Nijmegen.
Classics
Unveiled
Greek Mythology, Roman History
Gladiator
Facts about real gladiators and a link to an article comparing the
popular movie, "Gladitor" to factual events. |
