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The Greeks and their world

Compare a modern map of ancient Greece with the way Greeks saw their world.



Link 1

( http://www.utexas.edu/courses/mythologein/images/mythmap.jpg )

Images and myth

How did the images of the Trojan War help Greeks understand their "ancient" history?



Link 1

( http://www.temple.edu/classics/troyimages.html )

Olympics

How were the Olympics related to Greek culture and civilization?



Link 1

( http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/ )

Roman slave revolts

Compare primary and secondary sources on Roman slave revolts.



Link 1

( http://www.ucd.ie/classics/classicsinfo/96/Madden96.html )

Jesus as history

Use primary sources to evaluate a recently-created web site on Jesus of Nazareth. Based on the sources, does the web site have any biases?



Link 1

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook11.html )
Link 2

( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/ )

Ancient ambiguity

The Roman historian Tacitus created a speech of a barbarian leader to criticize Roman imperialism. What was that criticism? Sidonius Apollinaris compared a civilized barbarian with a barbarous Roman. How do the two come off?



Link 1

( http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-01r06.htm )
Link 2

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/sidonius2.html )

Student development

Imagine yourself a student at the medieval at University of Paris. Use some of these sources to describe what you studied and your life in and out of the classroom.



Link 1

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/uparis-theol.html )
Link 2

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/courcon1.html )
Link 3

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vitry1.html )
Link 4

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/UParis-stats1231.html )
Link 5

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/uparis-cond1241.html )
Link 6

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/medievalstudentsongs.html )
Link 7

( http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/universities.html )
Link 8

( http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11495a.htm )
Link 9

( http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/mediaeval_paris_1912.jpg )
Link 10

( http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/bohem/sorbonne.jpg )
Link 11

( http://www.philippe-auguste.com/uk/quotidien/enseignement.html )
Link 12

( http://mahan.wonkwang.ac.kr/link/med/university/buridan/buridan.html )

Monks and monasteries

What were medieval monasteries like? How did monks live?



Link 1

( http://www.officine.it/montecassino/storia_e/benedett.htm )
Link 2

( http://www.osb.org/rb/text/toc.html#toc )
Link 3

( http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/%7Edvess/ids/fa2/foun1.shtml )
Link 4

( http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/%7Edvess/ids/medieval/rie/rievaulx.shtml )
Link 5

( http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/%7Edvess/ids/medieval/lindis/lindisfarne.shtml )
Link 6

( http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/%7Edvess/ids/medieval/iona/iona.shtml )
Link 7

( http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/%7Edvess/ids/medieval/hastings/hastings.shtml )

Living in the medieval city

Take a virtual tour of medieval York.



Link 1

( http://www.york.gov.uk/walls/index.html )

Medieval minority

Use these primary sources on medieval Jewish life to understand what it was like to be a minority person in the Middle Ages.



Link 1

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1t.html )

Democracy versus Oligarchy in Ancient Greece

Compare and contrast the Athenian and Spartan constitutions



Link 1

( http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/athenian_const.html )
Link 2

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.html )
Link 3

( http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/aristotle-sparta.html )







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