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Unesco: Greece: Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos

For Students 9th - 10th
Many civilizations have inhabited this small Aegean island, near Asia Minor, since the 3rd millennium B.C. The remains of Pythagoreion, an ancient fortified port with Greek and Roman monuments and a spectacular tunnel-aqueduct, as well...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Tintinna'bulum

For Students 9th - 10th
"Tintinna'bulum, a bell. Bells were of various forms among the Greeks and Romans, as among us. various specimens of them are given in the annexed cut." &mdash Smith; 1873
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Flavius Josephus

For Students 9th - 10th
Flavius Josephus was a strange amalgamation of Jew, Greek, and Roman, admittedly not what he should have been, either as a teacher of Mosiac law, as a patriot, or as a public man; and yet he performed successfully what he could not have...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Real Life Sunken Cities

For Students 9th - 10th
Peter Campbell explains how sunken cities are studied by scientists to help us understand the lives of our ancestors, the dynamic nature of our planet, and the impact of each on the other. [4:31]
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The Ecole Initiative: Stoicism

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Evansville provides an extensive look at Stoicism, its background, and the philosophers who influenced this philosophy. Very in-depth and informative, with great information.
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Ken Farshtey: Change From River Valleys to Classic Civilizations [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This slide presentation provides an in-depth look at the Indian, Chinese and Mediterranean world's development from river valleys into classic civilizations. Early river valleys and classic civilizations are described on a broad spectrum...
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Macedonian Heritage

For Students 9th - 10th
Macedonian Heritage offers an extensive look at the history, affairs, and culture of Macedonia. You can see timelines, documents, and look at maps of the area.
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Central Washington University: Costume History

For Students 9th - 10th
Focuses on the history of costumes and fashion from Egyptian times to the 1990s. Thumbnail links may no longer work as this is an older site. However, the 'Fads in Fashion Slides' page has many large images organized by time periods....
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Travel Document Systems

Tds: Morocco: History

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this concise history of Morocco which concentrates on its development after its independence from France. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sculpture and Coins

For Students 9th - 10th
The figure in the middle of the following illustration is from a most ancient specimen of Etruscan sculpture, and represents an augur with his lituus, or staff. The others are Roman denarii. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Puteal

For Students 9th - 10th
Puteal, properly means the enclosure surrounding the opening of a well, to protect persons from falling into it. It was either round or square, and seems usually to have been of the height of three or four feet from the ground. It was...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lectica

For Students 9th - 10th
Lectica was a kind of couch or litter, in which persons, in a lying position, were carried from one place to another. They were used for carrying the dead as well as the living. The Greek lectica consisted of a bed or mattress, and a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pileus

For Students 9th - 10th
Any piece of felt; more especially, a skull-cap of felt, a hat. These seems no reason to doubt that felting is a more ancient invention than weaving, not that both of these arts came into Europe from Asia. From the Greeks, who were...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Byzantine Court

For Students 9th - 10th
Constantine, the first Christian emperor, removed the capital of the world-empire from Rome to Byzantium, henceforth to be called Constantinople. Though the court, with all its splendor and power, was thus transferred to a city where...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Clavis

For Students 9th - 10th
A key. The key was used in very early times, and was probably introduced into Greece from Egypt; although Eustathius states, that in early times all fastenings were made by chains, and that keys were comparatively of a much later...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ocrea

For Students 9th - 10th
A greave, a leggin. A pair of greaves was one of the six articles of armour which formed the complete equipment of a Greek warrior, and likewise of a Roman soldier as fixed by Servius Tullius. They were made of various metals, with a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ocrea

For Students 9th - 10th
A greave, a leggin. A pair of greaves was one of the six articles of armour which formed the complete equipment of a Greek warrior, and likewise of a Roman soldier as fixed by Servius Tullius. They were made of various metals, with a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Periscelis

For Students 9th - 10th
An anklet or bangle, worn by the Orientals, the Greeks, and the Roman ladies also. It decorated the leg in the same manner as the bracelet adorns the wrist and the necklace the throat. The word, however, is sometimes used in the same...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arma

For Students 9th - 10th
Homer describes in various passages an entire suit of armour, and we observe that it consisted of the same portions which were used by the Greek soldiers ever after. Moreover, the order of putting them on is always the same. The...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Mithradates Vi Coin

For Students 9th - 10th
An illustration of Mithradates VI on the face of a coin. Mithradates VI was king of Pontus in northern Anatolia (now in Turkey) from about 119 to 63 BC. Mithradates was a king of Greek and Persian origin, claimed descent from Alexander...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sarcophagus of Scipio

For Students 9th - 10th
Sarcophagus, plural Sarcophagi, is a kind of stone used among the Greeks for making coffins, and so called because it was believed to have the property of consuming the flesh of dead bodies deposited in it within a few weeks. Hence a...
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Alien Travel Guide: All About Sculpture

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is a descriptive site that offers information on types, styles, media, artists, history, and periods in creation of sculpture.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Minerva

For Students 9th - 10th
The name of a Roman goddess, identified by the later Graecising Romans with the Greek Athene, whom she greatly resembled, though, like all old Latin divinities, there was nothing anthropomorphic in what was told concerning her. -...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Plan of Olympia, 776 445 Bc

For Students 9th - 10th
A plan of the ancient Greek sanctuary of Olympia, the site of the Olympic Games. Olympia is near the Peloponnese city of Elis. The plan shows the location of the stadium, gymnasium, temple, and other ancient features, including buildings...