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Enrichment Essays

    Ch01: What IS HISTORY?

    CH02: piecing TOGETHER THE STORY OR EARLY HOMINIDS

    CH03: NEOLITHIC SOCIETIES AROUND THE WORLD

 

 

 

CLASS NOTES

RESEARCH LINKS
Chapter 1: Investigating the Past

Chapter 2: Early Hominids

http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/index.htm (creationist viewpoint)

http://www.talkorigins.org/ (evolutionist viewpoint)

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/dimorph.htm

http://www.indiana.edu/~origins/teach/P380/P380hominid.html

http://www.palomar.edu/anthropology/

http://www.asu.edu/clas/iho/lucy.html

http://lucyexhibition.com/lucys-discovery.aspx

http://www.fieldmuseum.org/evolvingplanet/hominids.asp (evolution viewpoint)

http://www.eskeletons.org/  (you compare the bones!)

http://www.becominghuman.org/  (excellent documentary!)

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/vwsu/gened/learn-modules/top_longfor/timeline/afarensis/afarensis-a.html

http://www.historyworld.net

 
Chapter 3: From Hunters and Gatherers to Farmers

Chapter 4: The Rise of Sumerian City-States

Chapter 5: Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?

http://history-world.org/sumeria.htm

http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch01.htm

http://home.cfl.rr.com/crossland/AncientCivilizations/Middle_East_Civilizations/Sumerians/sumerians.html

http://knp.prs.heacademy.ac.uk/essentials/cuneiformscript/

http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/wsrp/educational_site/ancient_texts/Cuneiform.shtml

http://wsu.edu/~dee/WORLD.HTM

http://www.humanistictexts.org/

http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0055-assyrian-empire.php

http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/westasia/history/assyrians2.htm

http://www.sumerian.org/

http://www.shrewsbury-

Chapter 6: Exploring Four Empires in Mesopotamia

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa53

http://atheism.about.com/library/glossary/general/bldef_assyria.htm 

http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0055-assyrian-empire.php

http://www.42explore2.com/mesopot.htm 

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761564347

The following links are "okay" but may not have enough content for what you are doing.  You can take bits of it but these will not qualify as one of the two necessary "content" links for your bibliography.

http://hypermedia.educ.psu.edu/k-12/edpgs/su96/meso/mesopotamia.html

www.vnc.qld.edu.au/enviro/sumer/2001.htm

ma.gov/schools/Central/Curriculum/ELEMENTARY/SOCIALSTUDIES/Mesopotamia/ancient_mesopotamia.htm

The following links are NOT approved:

www.scribd.com/doc/6009206/CityStates-of-Ancient-Sumer

http://www.ancientscripts.com/about.html

http://www.en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Paleoanthropology/hominids_early_behavior

http://www.afrol.com/articles/22554

http://www.biology_online.org/10/14_early_hominids.htm

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/category:Early_hominids

http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/australopichecusafarensis.htm

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_were_scribes_important_people_in_sumer

http://www.crystalinks.com/sumersocialsystem.html

http://www.amazeingart.com/seven-wonders/assyria.html

http://www.allempires.com/article/index.php?q=about_ae

http://www.angelfire.com/nt/Gilgamesh/assyrian.html

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02007c.htm

http://www.betnahrain.org/Gallery/Ancient_Assyrian_Art/assyria_art_1.htm

http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/index.html