Ancient, Prehistoric and Early
People of Europe
Note:
If you can't find what you want here - check the World
page!
You
might also try this Alexa search for Ancient+History+Europe
 The
countries and regions of Europe
- from the About.com guide on Geography
Information
about Europe
- from Infoplease.com encyclopedia
World
History Archives (Europe) - Pro bono web pages from
Hartford
Web Publishing. The World History Archives are collections of
documents for teaching and learning about world history from a working
class perspective. The presence of documents here does not imply an endorsement
of their content nor a warrant of their authenticity.
ALEXANDER
THE GREAT - 356–323 b.c., king of Macedonia 336–323: conqueror of Greek
city-states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India.
A project presented by John J. Popovic.
The
Catholic Encyclopedia - No one who is interested in human history,
past and present, can ignore the Catholic Church, either as an institution
which has been the central figure in the civilized world for nearly two
thousand years, decisively affecting its destinies, religious, literary,
scientific, social and political, or as an existing power whose influence
and activity extend to every part of the globe. The Catholic Encyclopedia
articles are indexed alphabetically. This is an oustanding resource
for people, places or things; such as Aristotle,
Galileo
Galilei, Roman
Catacombs, Chalice
also called The
Holy Grail and thousands of other interesting facts of history.
Many things can be found here that cannot be found elsewhere on the web.
Do you need information on Vasco
da Gama or most of the explorers and discoveries of the past? The
Catholic Encyclopedia is where you will find it.
ORB:
The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies - ORB is an academic
site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their
fellow instructors and serious students. |
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The
Labyrinth - Resources for Medieval Studies. - compiled by Deborah Everhart
and Martin Irvine. This site has a great link near the bottom that
leads to "Medieval Studies for K-12."
Also, there is The
New Labyrinth which runs on Web/database technology that allows you
to sort the information to meet your needs.
Britannia
- America's Gateway to the British Isles. We found this site to be
loaded with information. We especially recommend British
History and Professor Chris Witcombe's Earth
Mysteries. Also, take the Magical
History Tour. Britannia is a very informative and fun place to
visit.
English
& Scottish Timelines (also - Wales & Northern Ireland) - timelines
from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages (4000 to 750 BC) to Post WWII (1945
onwards). This is part of BBC
Online - History. BBC Online - History also has Ancient History,
Vikings History, World War Histories and many other things. Very
educational site. For exploring other educational and news information
from BBC Online visit the BBC
Online Homepage. Ancient Man suggests the following for easiest
navigation of all of the BBC websites: BBC
Online A-Z Index of websites.
Prehistoric
Man (stone age, cavemen, caveman) - A comparison of Neanderthal, (also
know as Neandertal), (Europe, the Middle East, Asia) with Cro-Magnon (southern
France and Spain).
NEANDERTAL-CRO-MAGNON
HYBRID? - from Archaeology Online News. Analysis of the skeletal remains
of a four-year-old child buried in a Portuguese rock-shelter 25,000 to
24,500 years ago has yielded startling evidence that early modern humans
and Neandertals may have interbred.
The
Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean - presented by Dartmouth College.
The Aegean civilization is a term for the Bronze Age cultures of pre-Hellenic
Greece. The
Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean is a study of that civilization
presented in twenty nine lessons.(from
infoplease.com
~ The complexity of those early civilizations was not suspected before
the excavations of archaeologists in the late 19th cent. The most remarkable
of the cultures was perhaps that of Crete, which was flourishing by the
beginning of the 3d millennium B.C.; this was the Minoan civilization.
On the mainland of Greece excavations have uncovered the remains of Mycenaean
civilization. The exploration of the ruins of Troy provided knowledge of
another culture, and ruins in the Cyclades have demonstrated remarkable
early development there. The exact relationships of these different centers
are not yet known, and there are many subjects of conjecture, such as the
role of the Achaeans and the causes of the decline of Crete before 1100
B.C)
Ancient
Greek (Hellenic) Sites on the World-Wide Web - A great collection of
links to Authors & Texts, Art & Images, Resources & Topics,
and Maps & Geography.
Perseus
Project - The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources
for the study of the ancient world and beyond. Most of the information
at this site is about ancient greece. Here you can also search the
great Perseus Encyclopedia.
D.
L. Ashliman - professor Ashliman's home page - Folklore and Mythology
Electronic Texts; Germanic Myths, Legends, and Sagas; Indo-European Folk
and Fairy Tales; and more. This is a very exciting place to visit.
Athenians
of Ancient Greece - this is a one page web site that gives a great
overview of the Athenians of Ancient Greece. The site also has a
few photographs.
(suggestion 1 - search Athenians+Ancient+Greece
in Alexa for an in depth study.) (suggestion 2
- search Athenian
at looksmart.com and you get Related Categories and Reviewed Web Sites
from LookSmart Editors.)
Malta
Homepage by Dr. Anton Bugeja MD - This site gives an outline
of Maltese prehistory and details some of the controversy that scholars
have about the presence of Paleolithic man in Malta. A very interesting
page at this site is the one about the types of Roman tombs in Malta.
Greek
& Roman Mythology - the principal Gods, Goddesses, heroes and allegorical
personifications.
LacusCurtius:
Into the Roman World - (currently about 850 pages) is in its own right
one of the main Roman resources on the web. It includes some major
Latin texts, several entire books on Roman subjects, hundreds of photographs,
dozens of maps and inscriptions, and more. The author of this site
also provides Roman
Sites: Gateway to over 2000 websites on ancient Rome. Note: The
author of these sites also provides the visitor with spectacular search
options. Ancient man did a test search for the word Etruscan,
and found 195 documents. It was extremeely fast!
The
Romans - Ancient, Medieval and Modern - This is a very large site with
a lot of information. Click on the PAX ROMANA map on the entry page
for some great maps of the Roman Empire from 27 BC - 1453 AD.
The maps were first published at ROME
AND ROMANIA, 27 BC-1453 AD and this location contains a lot of
written text. Both of these sites take a long time to load so get
a cup of coffee and wait.
The
"Best of" Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - by
Mark Zimmermann -
This site also contains the Gibbon-o-Matic!,
a very fun page! Each time you enter you get a random quote from
Gibbon's Decline and Fall ...
Welcome
to Ancient Greece! - From the GREAT TeacherNet. TeacherNet
is highly recommended by Ancient Man.
Welcome
to Ancient Rome! - From TeacherNet. What more needs to
be said?
Archaeology
in Ireland: Investigations of the Celtic High Cross in Clonmacnois
(County Offaly, Ireland). - by Mike Carson
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures: Greece - From the University of Evansville.
Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Plato's Euthyphro, Plato's Apology, Plato's Crito,
Plato and His Dialogues and Selections from Aristotle's Politics can all
be found here. Take the "fun" Greek Mythology quiz and have it graded.
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures: Rome - From the University of Evansville.
Much to gain from this site! Also take a quiz on Roman Emperors and
have it graded. Great site! These folks at the University of
Evansville have done a wonderful job for helping to educate many people
about the Ancient World.
Exploring
Ancient World Cultures: Medieval Europe - From the University of Evansville.
Read The Magna Carta, Medieval Proofs for the Existence of God and Selections
from Aquinas' Summa Theologica. Then take another of the great quizzes
(Important Dates in Medieval History) and have it graded.
Stonehenge
- presented by Discovery Channel Canada. This megalithic monument
was once the greatest standing stone circle in England. How was it
built? What is its mystery?
Bulgaria
a brief history outline - by Dimiter Markovski. The year 681
is accepted as Year One of Bulgaria's history. The new Bulgarian
state united Proto-Bulgarians, Slavs and the native population, which consisted
mainly of Thracians. Its borders in the centuries that followed varied
between the Black Sea, the Aegean and the Adriatic Sea. Included into its
border for a long time were the central and northeastern parts of the Balkan
Peninsula where traces of human life have been found from the end of the
early paleolithic period, dating 200,000 years. A centre of civilization,
considered to be the earliest in Europe and comparable to ancient Egypt
and Mesopotamia, has been found in this region and mainly in the plains
to the north and south of the Balkan Range during archaeological excavations.
It has been established that the people who lived in the farming communities
of the Early and New Stone Age were familiar with metal casting and .....
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Maecenas:
Images of Ancient Greece and Rome - 2100+ Photographs by Leo C. Curran.
The author of this site states, "You may do anything you like with these
images. The only exception: no commercial use."
Bessa
Park - Geology, History, Rock Art in and around Bessa Park, a 2nd century
B.C. roman gold mine.
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