Empires Class Unit
You're about to embark on a journey through time to develop an understanding for the basic elements of civilizaiton. The Fertile Crescent Empires occupied what is now Turkey, Syria, Iraq and the Persian Gulf. The first cities were born here. Some survived and some did not.
You will form a tribe, settle a Village and build a City-State. You will complete tasks, solve challenges, cope with fate, trade with other clans, and make daily strategic decisions. Your success will earn you coin and resources, allowing you to conquer and control many provinces. Can your civilization or clan survive and thrive? Battles will be waged and lives lost. Tasks completed to rise to a higher level of civilaztion. Can you create a powerful empire or will your civilization cease to exist?
Use the websites below to help you on your quest.
You will form a tribe, settle a Village and build a City-State. You will complete tasks, solve challenges, cope with fate, trade with other clans, and make daily strategic decisions. Your success will earn you coin and resources, allowing you to conquer and control many provinces. Can your civilization or clan survive and thrive? Battles will be waged and lives lost. Tasks completed to rise to a higher level of civilaztion. Can you create a powerful empire or will your civilization cease to exist?
Use the websites below to help you on your quest.
Related Web Sites From Empires
The British Museum
Ancient Civilizations: Mesopotamia
Informative web site covering places like Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria; subjects of geography, deities, time, writing, palaces, warfare, astronomers, trade, royal tombs, ziggurats; also contains teacher aids and student activities
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/staff/main.html
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ancient Near Eastern Art Collection
Images and descriptions of artifacts from Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Anatolia, etc.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=3
Library of Congress.
Recording the Experience (World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings)
Features an image of a cuneiform tablet including a description
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/worl-record.html
The Oriental Institute Museum-The University of Chicago.
The Oriental Institute Museum
history, art and archaeology of the ancient Near East
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/OI_Museum.html
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Write Like A Babylonian
Interactive page which "inscribes" monograms in cunieform
http://www.upenmuseum.com/cuneiform.cgi
University of California at Los Angeles and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Cunieform Digital Library Initiative
Cunieform images and some descriptions
http://cdli.ucla.edu/digitlib.html
Honors Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Images from World History: Median and Achæmenid Empire
Images and descriptions of Mesopotamian sites and artifacts (and other regions)
http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/noframes.html
The University of Haifa Library
The Ziggurats
Images and descriptions of temple ruins at Babylon, Uruk, and Ur
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/list_Ziggurat.html
Professor Richard P. Abels, Ph. D., History Department, United States Naval Academy
The Behistun Inscription
Images of the engraved cliffs and descriptions of the translation and translation history
http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Users/history/abels/hh205/Behistun.htm
NASA Earth Observatory
Overview of Mesopotamia
Color image and description of recent satellite view of mesopotamian region
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=5117
Killeen Independent School District; Killeen, TX
Fertile Crescent Civilizations
Ancient Mesopotamia overview/summary
http://www.killeenroos.com/1/mesodata.htm
Air War College, Maxwell Airforce Base, Alabama
12,000 Year Timeline
Link to B.C. timeline including mesopotamian events from 4000 B.C.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/time0001.htm
Gateways to Babylon
Glossary of Mesopotamian Terms
People, deities, idols, cities, and places described
http://gatewaystobabylon.com/religion/gloss1.htm
Providence College
Ancient Mesopotamia
Many links to Mesopotamian art, archaeology, mythology, religion, history, mathematics
http://www.providence.edu/dwc/mesopot.htm
The British Museum
Ancient Civilizations: Mesopotamia
Informative web site covering places like Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria; subjects of geography, deities, time, writing, palaces, warfare, astronomers, trade, royal tombs, ziggurats; also contains teacher aids and student activities
http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/staff/main.html
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ancient Near Eastern Art Collection
Images and descriptions of artifacts from Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Anatolia, etc.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=3
Library of Congress.
Recording the Experience (World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings)
Features an image of a cuneiform tablet including a description
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/world/worl-record.html
The Oriental Institute Museum-The University of Chicago.
The Oriental Institute Museum
history, art and archaeology of the ancient Near East
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/OI_Museum.html
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Write Like A Babylonian
Interactive page which "inscribes" monograms in cunieform
http://www.upenmuseum.com/cuneiform.cgi
University of California at Los Angeles and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Cunieform Digital Library Initiative
Cunieform images and some descriptions
http://cdli.ucla.edu/digitlib.html
Honors Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Images from World History: Median and Achæmenid Empire
Images and descriptions of Mesopotamian sites and artifacts (and other regions)
http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/noframes.html
The University of Haifa Library
The Ziggurats
Images and descriptions of temple ruins at Babylon, Uruk, and Ur
http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/list_Ziggurat.html
Professor Richard P. Abels, Ph. D., History Department, United States Naval Academy
The Behistun Inscription
Images of the engraved cliffs and descriptions of the translation and translation history
http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Users/history/abels/hh205/Behistun.htm
NASA Earth Observatory
Overview of Mesopotamia
Color image and description of recent satellite view of mesopotamian region
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=5117
Killeen Independent School District; Killeen, TX
Fertile Crescent Civilizations
Ancient Mesopotamia overview/summary
http://www.killeenroos.com/1/mesodata.htm
Air War College, Maxwell Airforce Base, Alabama
12,000 Year Timeline
Link to B.C. timeline including mesopotamian events from 4000 B.C.
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/time0001.htm
Gateways to Babylon
Glossary of Mesopotamian Terms
People, deities, idols, cities, and places described
http://gatewaystobabylon.com/religion/gloss1.htm
Providence College
Ancient Mesopotamia
Many links to Mesopotamian art, archaeology, mythology, religion, history, mathematics
http://www.providence.edu/dwc/mesopot.htm
