Spartacus and the Roman Slave Revolt
Rome needed workers to maintain its wealth. The Romans [...]
The Punic Wars – Rome Becomes a World Power
Rome fought three wars with Carthage between 264 and 146BCE. The wars established Rome as a world power and left Carthage, once a powerful empire, in ruins.
Patricians and Plebeians
Sometime before the first surviving written historical account, Rome [...]
Ancient Rome — A New Power Rises
Italy is a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean [...]
Ancient Greece Teaching Resources
The Cradle of Western Civilization Assignment DOC | PDF [...]
Alexander the Great and Hellenism
Alexander the Great was a young general who amassed [...]
Plato
What we know about Socrates comes mostly from his student, Plato. [...]
Aristotle
Aristotle Aristotle was the greatest scientist of the ancient world. [...]
Socrates – An Introduction to Greek Philosophy
Wisdom can be defined as the knowledge of what [...]
The Peloponnesian War
The Greek victories over the Persians in the fifth century before the Common Era led [...]
Athens and Democracy
Athens is the capital and largest city in modern [...]
Ancient Sparta
Sparta was an ancient Greek polis that was surrounded [...]
Persia and the Battle of Marathon
Wars among the Greek poli were common in the [...]
The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
During the Greek Dark Age, poets called bards traveled to [...]
The Early Greeks – The Greek Dark Age
Most of our study of ancient Greece is focused on [...]
Ancient Greek Mythology
The beliefs of the ancient Greeks were full of [...]
The Ancient Greek Poli
Ancient Greece was not a unified nation, but a [...]
The Cradle of Western Civilization
The civilization of ancient Greece flowered more than 2500 [...]
Ancient Egypt Teaching Resources
The Gift of the Nile Assignment DOC | PDF [...]
After the Pharaohs
Egypt After the Pharaohs At the time the French soldiers [...]
The Rosetta Stone
The writing of the ancient Egyptians was a great [...]
Cleopatra – the last Egyptian Queen
The life of the last Queen of Egypt is a story [...]
Alexandria – History of the Egyptian City
In 332BCE, a Greek military leader named Alexander the [...]
Egyptian Mummies
The ancient Egyptians believed their pharaoh’s body had to [...]
The Pharaohs
The people of ancient Egypt believed their kings were [...]
The Egyptian Pyramids
The ancient Egyptian people believed the powerful sun and [...]
Isis, Osiris, and the Egyptian Afterlife
The people of ancient Egypt did not have scientific explanations for [...]
The Gift of the Nile
Like a giant snake, the Nile River slithers through [...]
Mesopotamia Teaching Resources
The Fertile Crescent Assignment DOC | PDF Powerpoint PPTX [...]
The Hebrews
The Hebrews were the ancestors of the modern Jewish people. Most [...]