SOCIAL STUDIES: ANCIENT HISTORY, MIDDLE AGES,

RENAISSANCE AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT

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ANCIENT HISTORY

GENERAL SITES

• Agricultural Revolution
• Agriculture Revolution
• Agriculture Revolution: Technology Necessary for Agriculture
• Amazing Ancient World
• Ancient Cultures
• Ancient Food Preparation
• Ancient History
• Ancient History – 4.5 billion – 1B.C. World History
• Ancient History Links
• Ancient Languages and Scripts
• Ancient Law
• Ancient Maps
• Ancient World Web
• Ancient Sources
• Aztec, Inca, and Maya Resources
• Aztec/Maya/Inca Lords of the Earth
• Ancient Aztec Civilization
• Ancient Olympics
• Ancient Religion
• Ancient Routes
• Ancient Scripts
• Ancient Scripts Timeline
• Ancient Trade Routes
• Ancient Warfare
• Ancient Warfare
• Anglo Saxons
• Anglo-Saxons
• Anglo-Saxon and Viking Britain – Web Links
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• Antiqua Medicina: From Holmer to Vesalius
• Antiquity Online: List of Text Maps
• Cenozoic Era – Life
• CNN.com – Ancient Skull Challenges Human Origins
• CNN.com – Roots of Human Fossil Tree Deepen
• Code of Hammurabi
• Could You Survive Today As A Hunter-Gatherer?
• Death on Display in the Ancient World
• Divisions of Precambrian Time
• Easter Island
• Empires in History
• Epic of Gilgamesh
• Evolution of Alphabets
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures
• Flints and Stones: Real Life in Prehistory
• From the Stone Age to the Metal Age
• General Ancient History and Archeology
• Geology and Geology Time
• Gilgamesh Summary
• Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition From The People's Republic Of China
• Hadean time: 4.5 to 3.8 billion years ago
• History of Argiculture
• History Guide – Lectures on Ancient and Medieval History
• History of Plumbing: Roman and English Legacy
• History of Writing
• Hominid Species Timeline
• Human Evolution
• Human Evolution
• Human Prehistory: An Exhibition
• Ice Ages
• Ice Mummies
• Institute of Human Origins: Lucy
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Ancient Law
• Introduction to the Archaean – 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago
• Introduction to the Cenozoic – 65 Million Years to the Present
• Introduction to the Mesozoic Era – 248 to 65 Million Years Ago
• Introduction To The Proterozoic Era – 2.5 Billion To 543 Million Years Ago
• Italian Iceman
• Kennewick Man
• Lectures on Ancient and Early Medieval History
• Livius: Articles on Ancient History
• Long Foreground – Human Prehistory
• Lucy in the Earth
• Lucy’s Story
• Maps of Ancient Trade Routes
• Matriarchy: History or Reality?
• Mesozoic Era – Life
• New Hominid From The Upper Miocene Of Chad, Central Africa
• New Perspectives On Agricultural Origins In The Ancient Near East
• North American Prehistory
• NOVA Online – Ice Mummies
• NOVA Online – Mummies of the World
• NOVA Online – The Ice Man’s Last Meal
• Observing Prehistoric Women
• Online Medieval & Classical Library
• Origins of Agriculture and Crop Domestication
• Overview of Human Origins
• Paleolithic Diet Page – What the Hunter/Gatherers Ate
• Paleozoic Era – 543 to 248 Million Years Ago
• Pleistocen – 1.8 Million To ~10,000 Years Ago
• Prehistoric Construction of Mothering
• Prehistoric Medicine
• Prehistory Exhibits
• Proterozoic Era – Life 
• Stone Age Reference Collection
• Story of Easter Island
• Tattooed Mummies of the Bronze Age
• Technology Necessary for Agriculture
• Timeline – Interactive Ages of the Earth
• Timeline: 60,000 to 4000 BCE
• Traditions of Magic in Ancient Antiquity
• UCMP Glossary
• Web Geological Time Machine
• World Map – World Regions, 20,000–8,000 B.C.

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ANCIENT ART, MUSIC, AND THEATER

• Ancient Egyptian Art
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Greek Theater
• Ancient Greek Theater
• Ancient Greek Theater
• Art and Architecture
• Art in Early Europe
• Art in Late Antiquity
• Art Links - Prehistoric Art
• Cave of Chavet-Pont-D’Arc
• Cave Paintings
• Description of a Theater of 5th Century B.C.
• Etruscan Art
• Evidence Of Harmony In Ancient Music
• Greek Art
• Ice Age Art
• Malaspina – Chronological Multidisciplinary Table – Antiquity
• Mesopotamian Art
• Music in Ancient Times
• Musical Instruments in Antiquity
• Neanderthal Flute
• Origins of Theater
• Origins of Theatre
• Petroglyph / Rock Art Sites in Southern Nevada
• Petroglyphs and Rock Art
• Prehistoric Art
• Rock Art & Petroglyphs
• Roman Art Images
• Roman Art
• Theater in Ancient Greece
• Theatre and Drama in Ancient Greece
• Timelines of Art History – AC/CE
• Timelines of Art History – BC/BCE

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ANCIENT EGYPT

• 1070-712 BC: The Third Intermediate Kingdom
• 1550-1070 BC: The New Kingdom
• 1640-1550 BC: The Second Intermediate Kingdom
• 2040-1640 BC: The Middle Kingdom
• 2650-2134 BC: The Old Kingdom
• 3100-2650 BC: Two Lands: Archaic Egypt
• 332 BC – 295 AD: Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
• 4 Sons of Hornus
• Akhet Egyptology
• Akkadians, Egyptians and the Hebrews
• Amazing Ancient World Of Western Civilization
• Ancient Egypt – General Sites
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Egypt From A to Z
• Ancient Egypt Site
• Ancient Egyptian Architecture
• Ancient Egyptian Art
• Ancient Egyptian Art
• Ancient Egyptian Culture Exhibit
• Ancient Egyptian Farming and Tools
• Ancient Egyptian Gods
• Ancient Egyptian Mummies and Mummification
• Ancient Egyptian People and History
• Ancient Egyptian Religious Texts – Book of the Dead
• Ancient Egyptian Webquest
• Ancient Gods and Goddesses
• Archaeology of Egypt
• Aspects of Life in Ancient Egypt
• Book of the Dead: An Introduction
• Burial Customs
• Cat Mummies
• Cleopatra VII
• Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
• Death in Ancient Egypt
• Early Agriculture and Herding
• Egypt Internet Resources
• Egypt
• Egypt Page
• Egypt, Prehistory, And the Other Ancients
• Egypt’s Golden Empire
• Egyptian Afterlife - Coffins - Mummy Masks
• Egyptian Architecture
• Egyptian Book of the Dead
• Egyptian Civilization
• Egyptian Coffin Art – Birds
• Egyptian Gods - Anubis
• Egyptian Gods – Four Sons of Hornus
• Egyptian Gods -- Osiris and Isis
• Egyptian Gods -- Thoth
• Egyptian Gods and Religion
• Egyptian Gods and Their Associates
• Egyptian Grave Provisions
• Egyptian Kings (Pharaohs), Governors and other Rulers
• Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
• Egyptian Mythology
• Egyptian Prehistory
• Egyptian Religion
• Egyptian Religion & Important Gods
• Egyptology on the World Wide Web
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures – Egypt
• Food
• Gallery of Ancient Egypt
• Glossary of Ancient Egyptian Terms and Names
• Goddesses and Gods of Ancient Egypt
• Gods and Goddesses
• Guardian’s Egypt
• History of Ancient Egypt
• History of Ancient Egyptian Medicine
• House of Ptolemy
• Houses of Caesar, Mark Antony, and Cleopatra
• Internet Ancient Sourcebook: Egypt
• King Tut
• Library of Alexandria
• Medication in Ancient Egypt
• Mummies of Ancient Egypt
• Mummified Body
• Mummy Masks
• Mysteries of Egypt
• Mysteries of Egypt & Ancient Egyptian Mythology
• Nile River and Its’ Affect on Ancient Egypt
• NOVA Online: Pyramids
• Online Resources Related to Egypt
• Papyrus of Ani; Egyptian Book of the Dead
• Pharaonic Egypt
• Reeder’s Egypt Page
• Sacred Pyramid Texts
• Servants for the Afterlife
• Ships of Antiquity: Ancient Ships Web
• Short History of Ancient Egypt
• Short History of Ancient Egypt
• Symbolism And Coincidences Of The Great Pyramid
• Pyramids: The Inside Story
• Terry’s Egyptian Pages
• Tombs and Temples
• Treasures of Tutankhamen
• Tutankhamen
• Virtual Egypt
• Wonders of Ancient Egypt
• Writing – Sacred Pyramid Texts

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ANCIENT GREECE

• Alexander the Great
• Alexander the Great
• Alexander the Great Chronology
• Alexander the Great Timeline
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Greece: Archaic Period 800-500 BC
• Ancient Greece – Architecture
• Ancient Greece – Culture and Society
• Ancient Greece – Geography
• Ancient Greece – History
• Ancient Greece – Mythology
• Ancient Greece – Olympics
• Ancient Greece – People
• Ancient Greece – Wars
• Ancient Greek Civilizations
• Ancient Greek Clothing
• Ancient Greek Everyday Life
• Ancient Greek Games
• Ancient Greek Jewelry
• Ancient Greek Language
• Ancient Greek Religion
• Ancient Greek Theater
• Ancient Greek World
• Ancient Greek World: Religion
• Ancient Olympic Games
• Art History Resources on the Web: Ancient Greece
• Daily Life
• Economy
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures – Greece
• First Palaces in the Aegean
• Greek Alphabet
• Greek Art
• Greek Civilization
• Greek Dark Ages
• Greek History
• Greek Mythology Fun Fact Quiz
• Greek Mythology Today
• Herakles and the Rulers of Greece
• History of Plumbing
• History of Warfare
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece
• Internet Resources: Ancient Greece
• Latin and Greek Word Elements
• Minoans, Myceneans, and the Greek Dark Ages
• Mycenean Religion
• Odyssey Online: Greece
• Origins of Greek Mythology
• Parthenon at Athens
• Parthenon
• Parthenon at Athens
• The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games
• Religion and Death
• Search for Alexander
• Women of Athens
• Women in Greek Myths
• Women’s Life

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ANCIENT ROME

• A Taste of The Ancient World: Greco-Roman Eating And Drinking, Farming And Starving
• An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
• An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and Their Families
• Ancient Roman Law
• Ancient Rome: Daily Life in the time of the Emperor Hadrian
• Ancient Rome Timeline
• Ancient World
• Ancient World Web: Rome
• Anthony and Cleopatra
• Art and Propaganda in Ancient Rome
• Baleane (Roman Baths)
• Christian Catacombs of Rome
• Conquest of Britain
• Famous People
• Forum Romanum
• Frequently Asked Questions About the Roman Empire
• Heraldry Links
• Historical Fencing Terms
• History Guide: Early Roman Civilization, 753-509BC
• History of Plumbing: Roman and English Legacy
• History of the Inquisition
• History of the Roman Empire
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome
• LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook – High Medieval Church Life
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook Maps and Images
• Julius Caesar
• Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournament Glossary of Terms
• Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournaments Resource Library
• Knights and Their Armor
• Latitude – The Art and Science of 15th Century Navigation
• Leatherworking in the Middle Ages
• Middle Ages: Anti-Jewish Myths
• Midwives and Maternity Care in the Roman World
• Medieval Sourcebook – The Roman Church
• Mighty Emperors of Powerful Rome
• Monuments of Rome
• Odin’s Castle of Dreams and Legends – An Archive of History and Historical Resources
• Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and their Families
• On Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
• Origins of Armory
• Origins of Rome
• PBS: The Roman Empire in the First Century
• Pompeii
• Pomeii Forum
• Popular Piety: Prayer, Devotion, and Cult
• Questions and Answers on Roman Law 
• Rise of the University
• Roman Amphitheatre
• Roman Army
• Roman Army
• Roman Baths
• Roman Baths
• Roman Calendar – Holidays
• Roman Clothes
• Roman cooking
• Roman Diet
• Roman Emperors
• Roman Empire: Augustus and the Pax Romana
• Roman Empire in the First Century
• Roman Empire List of Sites
• Roman Entertainment
• Roman Farms
• Roman History and Government
• Roman Law
• Roman Marriage Laws
• Roman Medicine
• Roman Politics
• Roman Religion
• Roman Slave Trade
• Roman Technology
• Roman Theater
• Roman Villa
• Roman Women
• Rome
• Rome – Republic to the Empire
• Rome's Decline and Christianity's Ascent, to 306 CE
• Steps of Knighthood
• The Roman’s Page
• Trade in Roman Times
• Vesuvius: The Day it Rained Fire
• Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins

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MIDDLE AGES

• A Day in the Life of a Peasant
• Alchemy Web Site
• American College of Heraldry
• Ancient Measures
• Middle Ages: Anti-Jewish Myths
• Anthology of Middle English Literature
• Armourers and Weaponsmiths
• Arms and Amour Glossary of Terms
• Arts of Combat and Chivalry
• Beyond the Pale: Jews in the Middle Ages
• Black Plague: 1348-1350
• Black Death and the Medieval Family
• Camelot Village: Life in the Middle Ages
• Castle and Siege Terminology
• Castle Terminology
• Catholic Encyclopedia – Monasticism
• Catholic Encyclopedia – Suppression of English Monasteries under Henry VIII
• Catholic Encyclopedia – The Monk
• Chains – Slavery in the Middle Ages
• Chaucerian Cookery
• Children and the Family in the Middle Ages
• Church and The Crusaders
• Clothing of the Middle Ages
• Code of Chivalry
• College of Arms
• Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages
• Crusade Links
• Crusader Period Food
• Crusades
• Crusades
• Crusades A Guide to Online Resources
• Crusades and the Rise of Islam
• Council of Trent
• Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
• Design a Coat of Arms
• Diagram of a Medieval Manor
• Devices of Torture and other Old Time Punishment
• Early Medieval Europe
• Ecclesiastical Terminology
• Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Entertainment in the Middle Ages
• Europe, the Church and Economic Growth to 1300
• Expulsions and the Black Death
• Farmer’s Life
• Feudal Life
• Feudal Society of the Middle Ages
• Feudal Terminology
• Feudal Titles
• Food in the Medieval Period
• Footwear of the Middle Ages
• Glossary of Castle Terms
• Glossary: People of the Middle Ages
• Gode Cookery
• Geoffrey Chaucer Page
• Hall of Church History: Medieval Churchmen
• Heraldic Atlas
• Heraldic Design
• Heraldica
• Heraldry by Countries
• Heraldry Links
• History of Bloodletting
• Inns and Taverns in Society
• Internet Book on the Medieval/Renaissance/Reformation World
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Study
• Life in the Middle Ages
• Life in a Medieval Castle
• Lives of Medieval Women
• Lord of the Manor
• Manorial Language
• Marriage in Medieval Times
• Medieval and Renaissance Dance
• Medieval and Renaissance Marriage: Theory and Customs
• Medieval And Renaissance Wedding Page
• Medieval Churchmen
• Medieval City
• Medieval Clip Art
• Medieval Clothing
• Medieval Cooking Glossary
• Medieval Drama Links
• Medieval English Towns
• Medieval English Towns
• Medieval Feasts
• Medieval Fiefdom
• Medieval Food
• Medieval Jobs
• Medieval Law and Justice
• Medieval Lepers
• Medieval Literary Resources
• Medieval Monks
• Medieval Name Archive – Names of Places, Things, and Animals
• Medieval Resources
• Medieval Science and Technology
• Medieval Sciences: Alchemy, Astronomy, Botany, Medicine
• Medieval Sourcebook – England
• Medieval Sourcebook – Saint’s Lives
• Medieval Sourcebook – Sex and Gender
• Medieval Sourcebook – The Crusades
• Medieval Sourcebook: A Christian/Moslem Debate Of The 12th Century
• Medieval Sourcebook: Ordeal Formulas
• Medieval Sourcebook: The Law of the Salian Franks
• Medieval Studies Theme Page
• Medieval Technology Pages
• Medieval Terminology and Glossary
• Medieval Weapons of Foot Soldiers
• Medieval Weapons
• Medieval Women
• Medieval World
• Middle Ages
• Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Middle Ages – Arts and Entertainment
• Middle Ages – Clothing
• Middle Ages – Feudal Life
• Middle Ages – Health and Medicine
• Middle Ages – Homes
• Middle Ages – Religion
• Middle Ages – Town Life
• Middle Ages, Chivalry & Knighthood
• Monks and Nuns of the Middle Ages
• New York Carver: Middle Ages
• Online Medieval and Classical Library
• On Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Peasant Life in the Middle Ages
• Plague
• Plagues and Epidemics
• Religion in the Middle Ages
• Tales of the Middle Ages
• Tales of the Middle Ages: Angels
• Tales of the Middle Ages: Cats
• Tales of the Middle Ages: Christmas
• Tales from the Middle Ages: Clergy
• Tales of the Middle Ages: Daily Life
• Tales of the Middle Ages: Food and Drink
• Tales of the Middle Ages: Gardens
• Tales of the Middle Ages: Inns and Taverns
• Tales of the Middle Ages: Miracles
• Tales of the Middle Ages: Religious Art
• Tales of the Middle Ages: Riddles
• The Crusader Period (1095-1291)
• Trade and Commerce in the Middle Ages
• Training for a Squire
• Vikings
• Voice of the Shuttle: Medieval
• What Was It Really Like to Live in the Middle Ages?
• Women of the Middle Ages
• Women in the Middle Ages

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RENAISSANCE

• 16th Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603)
• 17th Century English Literature (1603-1660)
• An Internet Book on the Medieval/Renaissance/Reformation World
• Architecture and the Public Square
• Backgrounds to the Italian Renaissance
• Catholic Reformation
• Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
• Development of Print Technology
• Discovery and Reformation
• Early Modern Italian Renaissance
• Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance
• European Reformation
• History of Printing
• Idea of the Renaissance
• Italian Renaissance Artists
• La Renaissance: Italy, Netherlands, Germany, and France
• Life of Women in Tudor England
• Martin Luther’s Life
• Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Northern Renaissance
• Protestant Reformation
• Reformation Europe
• Reformation Europe
• Reformation in Germany
• Reformation
• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
• Renaissance Personalities
• Renaissance: What Inspired This Age of Balance and Order
• Selected Works of Martin Luther
• Sistine Chapel Tour
• Sites on Shakespeare and the Renaissance
• Virtual Renaissance
• Voice of the Shuttle: Renaissance and the 17th Century

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ENLIGHTENMENT

• 18th Century Art
• 18th Century History
• Eighteenth Century Resources: Art
• Eighteenth Century Resources: History
• Eighteenth Century Resources: Literature
• Eighteenth Century Resources: Music
• Eighteenth Century Resources: Philosophy
• Eighteenth Century Resources: Religion and Theology
• Eighteenth Century Resources: Science and Technology
• Enlightenment
• European Enlightenment
• Galileo Project
• John Locke
• Kepler’s Laws
• Men That Made the Water Closet
• Science and Technology to 18th Century Resources: Science and Mathematics
• Sir Francis Bacon
• Writings of John Locke

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