Topics for Western Civilization

Topics for Western Civilization
Photo credit: ClipArt.com Hannibal Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt	Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923. University of Texas at Austin. 4/15/07 Carthage and Rome in 218 BCE CARTHAGE is a suburb of present day Tunis in the country of Tunisia along the Africa coast.	Childhood and Education Characteristics	Photo credit; ClipArt.com Hannibal -General in the Carthaginian Army	Photo credit: ClipArt.com Hannibal crossing the Alps	Photo credit: About:Ancient/Classical History: Hannibal Hannibal's Route Death and Defeat Place in History

Cleopatra VII	Birth Childhood Characteristics	Last Pharaoh of Egypt Ptolemies	Julius Caesar Mark Antony	War with Octavius	Death Place in History Coin Images

Ancient Alphabets A History of Alphabets from Around the World	Phoenician	Aramaic	Greek	Latin	Ancient Scripts.com

Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Alexander the Great	The Empire of Alexander the Great Persian Empire under Darius III Photo credits: "The life and successes of Alexander the Great," Social Studies for Kids	Marble head of the youthful Alexander the Great from Yannitsa near Pella, ca. 300-270 B.C. Photo credit: Childhood & Education in Macedonia General in the Army with his father, Philip of Macedonia	Alexander the Great. Detail from the Alexander mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii, c. 80 B.C. National Archaeologic Museum, Naples, Italy. Photo credit: King of Macedonia at 20	Photo credit: Detail from Flemish manuscript of ca. 1448, the Liber Floridus de Lambert. Photo credit: Alexander and his horse Buchephalus Founded Alexandria in Egypt	Photo credit: Conqueror of the Known World Death at 33 Place in History

Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Archimedes Greatest Mathematician and Scientist of Ancient Times	Photo credit: Syracuse, Italy information - Search.com Syracuse, Sicily Birth Childhood Characteristics	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Education Euclid The Approximation of Pi Measurement of the Circle	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Mathematician Law of the Lever Buoyancy	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Engineer and Inventor Catapults and Pulleys	Death Place in History

Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome Greek and Roman Mythology	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Hera (Greek) Juno (Roman)	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Zeus (Greek) Jupiter (Roman)	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Athena (Greek) Diana (Roman)	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Hermes (Greek) Mercury (Roman)	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Apollo (Greek & Roman)

Famous Buildings of Ancient Greece	Acropolis of Athens Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt (Famous hill upon which ruins of ancient buildings still stand)	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Parthenon	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Athens Agora	Photo credit: Creative Commons Share-Alike Reconstructed Stoa D'Attale in Athens Greece A stoa is a covered walkway	Photo credit: Lastminuteliving.com Temple of Poseidon

Famous Buildings of Ancient Rome	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Roman Forum	Circus Maximus The Circus Maximus is a park in Rome today.	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Roman Coliseum	Arch of Constantine still stands.	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Roman Baths

Aesop and his Fables	His life? Birth, Place, Date Childhood, Education Characteristics Death, Place in History	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Ant and the Grasshopper	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Tortoise and the Hare	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Lion and the Mouse	Photo credits: Microsoft ClipArt Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Who built them? Why? Where?	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Great Pyramid at Giza Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Pharos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (top view) Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (front view)	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Statue of Zeus at Olympia Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Colossus of Rhodes	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Temple of Artemis at Euphesus Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Hanging Gardens of Babylon	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Still standing What happened to the others?

The Ancient Olympic Games	Purpose and beginnings	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Temple of Zeus at Olympia Olympia	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Marathon story Types of Games	Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Participants	End of Ancient Games Modern Games

Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Julius Caesar	Rome Family, Early Life Characteristics	Politician and Speaker	General Gaul Writer Egypt and Cleopatra	Dictator Rome Death on the Senate Steps	Place in History

Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Homer Why are these stories so important to Greek culture?	Birth, Place, Date, Early Life, Education, Death? What's the story on Homer?	Bard Teacher	Iliad Photo credit: Microsoft ClipArt Achilles Hector Paris Helen of Troy Trojan Horse	Odyssey Odysseus Cyclops Circe	Place in History
Mesopotamia Mesopotamian Timeline	Who Were the Hebrews? Hebrew History The Age of Patriarchs Egypt and the Wanderings The Monarchy The Exile After the Exile	Ancient Babylonia A History of Ancient Babylon Map of Ancient Babylonia	The Assyrians Brief History of Assyrians	Sumerian Cross Ancient Sumeria	The Chaldeans Chaldea (Einfoweb) Chaldea or Shinar (Iraq)