Chapter 2: The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa:
Click to see the Links by Topic:
To Near East/Western Asia/Middle East
To Africa (Egypt, Kush, Axum)
To Minoa & Mycenae // To Phoenicia

Near East/Western Asia/Middle East
Resource for music: Music of the Ancient Near East

• Exploring Ancient World Cultures (EAWC) - Near East Chronology
• Architecture in Ancient Near East
• Oriental Institute Website Links
• Oriental Institute Museum - includes Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Anatolia, and Mesopotamia
• MidEast
• Cultural Timeline 3200 BC - Present
• History of Art - Royal Cemetery of Ur
• Cuneiform
• Dr. Vess's World Civilization Virtual Library
• Ancient Near Eastern Texts - Egypt and Mesopotamia
• The Origin and Development of Writing in Mesopotamia: An Economic Interpretation
• The Hymn to Ninkasi: 19th Century B.C.E. Recipe for Sumerian Beer
• Mesopotamia Civilization in the Tigrus-Euphrates Valleys - Professor's Outline
• ABZU Mesopotamia
• Mesopotamia Web Sites
• The Sumerians
• Hammurabi's Code of Laws
• Archaeological Parameters for the Beginnings of Beer
• The Emergence of Civilization in the Ancient Near East
• Notes on Sumeria
• Sumerian Text Archive
• Mesopotamia - Gilgamesh
• Mesopotamia Links
• Ur
• Ziggurats
• The Gilgamesh Epic of Sumeria
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Mesopotamia Holy City of Nippur
• Sargon II, 763-705 BCE, King of Assyria
• Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia, 605-562 BCE
• The Cradle of Civilization
• The Fertile Crescent & Eastern Aegean - Art History
• Akkadian Language
• Mesopotamia
• Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ
• Proverbs in Sumerian Cuneiform
• Sumeria
• Mesopotamian Materials
• Mesopotamian Art from the Louvre
• Excavation of Royal Cemetery of Ur
• Photographs of Mesopotamia
• Amorites
• The Kassites
• Ancient Mesopotamia - detailed timeline
• Chaldeans
• Iran Photo Album - includes Elamite artifacts
• Babylon - brief history
• Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empires - good notes
• Sumer, Babylon & Hittites - includes hard-to-find Hurrians, good notes
• Jersalem in the First Temple Period (1006-586 BCE)
• Scrolls from the Dead Sea
• Second Temple Period (536 BCE - 70 AD)
• Hittite/Hurrian Mythology
• Hittite Home Page
• Hatti - Homeland of the Hittites
• Focus on Turkey -Index of Anatolian Civilizations and Tourist Centers
• 9000 Years of Anatolian Women
• All About Turkey
• Discover Turkey
• History of Anatolia
• History of Anatolia
• Anatolian Civilization
• Hittite/Hurrian Mythology
• Persia.Net Online
• Cyrus the Great
• Persian Empire Chronology
• The Persian Empire
• The Persian Wars by Herodotus
• The Story of Iran
• Xerxes
• Iran Photo Album
• Quotations from Zoroaster
• Traditional Zoroastrianism: Tenets of the Religion
• Assyrian Information
• Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ
• Assyrian Info.com
• PellaHome (Jordan) Expedition
• Lebanon History
• A Brief History of Palestine
• Bakhtiari Archaeological Finds

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Chapter 3: Asia's First Civilizations: India and China
To India Links // To China Links

India Links

• EAWC Chronology - India
• Harappa - includes images
• A Walk Through Mohenjodaro
• Indiatime History Links: Ancient History
• Pakistan History

Other Links:

• Peoples & languages in Pre-Islamic Indus Valley
• Indus River Excavations
• India Timeline
• Indus River Valley Civilisation
• Harappa - includes images
• Ancient India
• Ancient India to 1000 AD - articles
• India: A Concise Guide
• The Aryan Problem
• Indus (or Harappan) Civilization
• Internet Links to India
• Kamat's Potpourri (India)
• Indiatime History Links
• India & Bangladesh Dance
• Peoples & Languages in Pre-Islamic Indus Valley
• India
• AccessAsia - India

China Links

• EAWC Chronology - China

Other Links:

• Peking Man
• How Chinese Cuisine Came About
• China Timeline
• Shang Dynasty - with images
• A Kingdom Lost for a Concubine's Smile - Zhou
• Pre-Confucian China
• Condensed China: Chinese History for Beginners
• China & Japan
• Asia
• Chinese History
• Chinese Culture: Texts

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Chapter 4: Nomadic Challenges and Civilized Responses

• The Patrin (Romani Gypsy culture)
• Gypsy Collection
• The Center for the Study of the Eurasian Nomads
• Click Here to See a Scythian Coin
• Scythians of the Middle Don River Basin
• Kazakhstan (Aryans, Scythians, etc.)
• Major Events Relevant to Central Asian History
• Central Asia
• The Turkish Language
• Tungus Search
• Intro. to the Sami People
• The Mongols - teaching aids
• Women of the Mongol Court
• Central Asia Archaeology Project
• The Barbarian Keep
• Germanic Heritage Page
• See also Aryans under India.

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Minoan & Mycenaen Civilization

• Prehistoric Archaelogy of the Aegean
• The Ancient Greek World Index
• Minos Pictures
• Mycenae Pictures
• Ariadne's Hellenic - Greek Civilization Page
• Mediterranean Chronology
• Prehistory - Sardinia
• City of Knossos
• Minoan Crete Links
• Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
• Iraklion Archaeological Museum (Minoan Crete - Bronze Age)

• Ancient Voices Speak Again in Carthage
• Phoenician Alphabet

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