Resources
- Agricultural Revolution: This video from Crash Course (World History) shows a quick and entertaining summary of the changes in farming that sparked the beginnings of civilizations.
- Ancient Mesopotamia: Another video from Crash Course summarizing the achievements of Ancient Mesopotamia.
- The British Museum Mesopotamia: This site offers a variety of information and comic strip like stories of the time period.
- Annenbeg Learner- Collapse: This interactive walks you through the fall of many great civilizations including Mesopotamia and the Mayas.
- TimeMaps- Mesopotamia: This site contains much information on Mesopotamia and includes a world atlas that is interactive and easy to use.
- Mesopotamia Documentary: A good documentary that shows scenes in the Middle East that show remnints of the ancient world.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh Audio book: This is the full audio book of the epic of Gilgamesh.
- The Assyrians: This site is a great place to find online textbooks for free. You can read about ancient civilizations and U.S. history as well as government.
- The Western Tradition: This is a fantastic video series that features Eugen Weber, a compeling speaker from the UCLA history department. There are episodes on Mesopotamia, the Bronze Age and early man.
- Education Portal: This is a great site that gives online video courses on a variety of subjects. The section on world history is particularly good. This site used to be free but now requires payment to view content.