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WEATHER
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SCIENCE

• Periodic Table

• Plants

• Biology of Plants
  
• Amusement Park Physics

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

• Timeline for all of history

• Ancient Civilizations For Kids

MESOPOTAMIA

• Messin' in Mesopotamia
  

   Mesopotamia

• British Museum -Topics on Babylonia, Assyria, Sumer

• Odyssey - click on “Near East Button”.  General information on daily life, foods, burial, mythology/religion, writing.  Covers  Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians

• Ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerians (check vocabulary list for links)

• Ancient History Sourcebook A Collection of Contracts from Mesopotamia, c. 2300 - 428 BCE

• Ancient Mesopotamia

• Archaeology of Ancient Assyria - Ancient Assyria

• EAWC The Ancient Near East

• Mesopotamia Glossary Cuneiform
  
• Mesopotamia in the Electronic Passport

        Sumerians

•  http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MESO/SUMER.HTM

   http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch01.htm

•  Sumerians

        Babylonians  

• http://www.bible-history.com/babylonia/BabyloniaNebuchadnezzar_II00000058.htm

     Hanging Gardens of Babylon

•  http://www.unmuseum.org/hangg.htm

Hebrews

• http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/HEBREWS/HEBREWS.HTM

  http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH00lf0

  http://jeru.huji.ac.il/eb31s.htm  (good details on food, clothing, people)

• http://jeru.huji.ac.il/eb32s.htm  (King Solomon)

        The Assyrian Gallery (A virtual tour)

• http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/QTVR96/QTVR96_Image_AS_Menu.html

  http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/middle_east/assyria.html

  http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/middle_east/nebuchadnezzar.html

  Electronic Passport to the Assyrians

• http://www.aina.org/aol/peter/brief.htm#Emergence

EGYPT

• Oriental Institute - Prepare a Mummy for Burial
• King Tut - Field Museum

• Great Buildings

  British Museum - Everything about Egypt

  You Wouldn't Want to be a Mummy - Pyramids

  British Museum - Pyramid

  Biographies of kings/queens and hieroglyphics

  Information about Egypt

        Gods of ancient Egypt

•  Gods of Egypt

   Anubis, Thoth, and Hathor

•  Gods of Egypt

INDIA

• Electronic Passport to India Go to Harappa, then to Indus News (90 slides)

• Jakata Tales

• A Hotlist on Ancient India

CHINA

• China

• China

        Chinese Inventions

• Chinese Inventions

  Papermaking, compass, fireworks, printing

  Martial arts

  Paper/paper money, explosives, toys & games, printing, compass

  Compass & crossbow

  Paper

  Chinese invention/technology

• Medicine, compass, silk, embroidery, gunpowder

  Seismograph

  Seismograph

• Porcelain

GREECE

• Great Buildings

        Myths

• Mythweb

  Fact Monster - Greek Myths

  Mythman

  Encyclopedia Mythica

  Greek Mythology

  ThinkQuest - Greek Myths

• Greek Myths

ROME

• Great Buildings

Website to Cite

Web Evaluation Click each link for a different website 1 - Mesopotamia 2 - Near East 3 - Tree Octopus