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Illustrated History of the Roman Empire
This website offers a comprehensive history of the Roman Empire and contains interactive maps of Roman Italy, the Roman Empire, and the City of Rome. Categories include: The Founding, The Kings, The Republic, Early Emperors, The Decline, The Collapse, Constantinople, Religion, Society, and The Army.

The Roman Empire in the 1st Century
Meet the Emperors of Rome, read the words of poets and philosophers, learn about life in the 1st Century AD, and then try your skills in their "Emperor of Rome" game! Features many classroom resources and a timeline.

The Rome Project
The Rome Project offers an annotated index of Internet resources covering aspects of ancient Roman history and culture. It has links to sites that feature primary sources photographs and reconstructions. There are also articles relating to specific aspects of Rome and a clickable map of the Roman Empire.

Forum Romanum
Forum Romanum is maintained by David Camden, a Ph.D. candidate in Classics at Harvard University, who has put together an award-winning site on Ancient Rome that includes a virtual tour, a dictionary of Mythology, a Picture Index, and much information on History, Life, Language, and Literature.

Perseus Project (Tufts U.)
A worthwhile digital library for Classical resources that offers a search function. It hasas FAQs, essays, a historical overview, and an extensive library of art objects and the like.

World Cultures to 1500: Ancient Rome
A terrific overview of Ancient and Medieval History can be found at this online course, based at Washington State University. It offers clear and informative lecture notes, maps, a photo gallery, timelines, links to relevant sites, and more. Click Contents.

Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport: Ancient Rome
Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport helps kids browse the world in his virtual classroom. He introduces you to many civilizations with clear explanations, engaging graphics for kids, and "cool links". His study guides, homework assignments, and exams are free and available for you to print or to edit.

Explore Byzantium
The Byzantine Empire bridged the gap between ancient and early modern europe. From its inception as the eastern half of the partitioned Roman Empire in the fourth century AD through to its final disappearance in the fifteenth century, Byzantium played the role of an economic, political, and cultural superpower. At "Explore Byzantium" you will find a historical overview, timelines, maps, articles, and bibliographic material - all dedicated to this fascinating civilization. The site also features an extensive photographic gallery, which details some of the surviving examples of Byzantine architecture and public art - from Italy through to the empire's heartland in modern Greece and Turkey.

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The Roman Empire: For Educators
This PBS site offers a wide range of classroom activites, lesson plans, video clips, and interactive features that showcase some of the most intriguing and historically significant people, places, and events from first century Rome. Some of the activities include "When in Rome...", "Getting to Know the Emperors of Rome", and "Religion in Politics and Daily Life". Grades 6 - 12.

Course Models: Stoicism and Civic Duty
Part of the California History-Social Science content standards and annotated course, which includes: background information, focus questions, pupil activities and handouts, an assessment, and references to books, articles, web sites, literature, audio-video programs, and a historic site. Grade 7.

Mr. Donn's Ancient History Page: Ancient Rome
Don Donn of the Corkran (Maryland) Middle School provides a complete unit with 17 daily lesson plans and a unit test for sixth graders. There are also links to multiple K-12 lesson plans and activities.

Slavery in Ancient Rome (WebQuest)
You are part of a group which has been appointed by the Senate of Rome to investigate the life of a slave. You will be responsible for investigating the following areas using resources available on the Internet and in print format: Sale of slaves, Punishment of slaves, Life of a city slave, and Life of a country slave.

Course Models: East Meets West - Rome
Part of the California History-Social Science content standards and annotated course, which includes: background information, focus questions, pupil activities and handouts, an assessment, and references to books, articles, web sites, literature, audio-video programs, and a historic site. Grade 6.

Rome's Rise to Power: Lesson Plan
In this DiscoverySchool.com lesson plan students will learn that the current American system of government at the national level both resembles and differs from the system of government in Rome from about 510 to 264 B.C and that Ancient Rome experienced several forms of government. Grades 6-8.

The World's History: Rome and the Barbarians
The online guide to Howard Spodek's The World's History features quizzes (multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, interactive review questions), primary sources, maps, a bulletin board, a Live Chat, web links, and faculty resources for each chapter/topic. Much of the history in this chapter is the story of how Rome, a single city-state on the Italian peninsula, came to dominate the Mediterranean world and adjacent territories followed by their effort to maintain control of their conquests.

Western Civilization: Our Sea
The online study companion to Margaret King's Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History has many features: chapter learning objectives, online quizzes, writing activities, essay questions, web links, built-in search engines, and faculty modules that include PowerPoint outlines, presentation graphics, and lecture hints and activities.

Western Civilization: Pax Romana
The online study companion to Margaret King's Western Civilization: A Social and Cultural History has many features: chapter learning objectives, online quizzes, writing activities, essay questions, web links, built-in search engines, and faculty modules that include PowerPoint outlines, presentation graphics, and lecture hints and activities.

Rome Virtual Tours
This site features a 3D virtual tour of the Roman Coliseum.

BBC History: Hadrian's Wall Gallery
Hadrian's Wall was a Roman frontier built in the years AD 122-30 by order of the Emperor Hadrian. It was 73 miles long and ran from Wallsend-on-Tyne in the east to Bowness on the Solway Firth in the west. Explore these BBC photographs.

BBC History: Roman Mosaics
The floors of Roman buildings were often richly decorated with mosaics, many capturing scenes of history and everyday life. Explore these mosaics through these BBC images.

Ideas for Projects - Ancient Rome
From historyforkids.org, is produced by Dr. Karen Carr who is an associate professor of History at Portland State University. Also provides suggestions for lesson plans, scavenger hunts, and hands-on crafts.

Brief Review in Global History and Geography: Document Based Essays and Practice Tests
PH@School's Brief Review in Global History and Geography Web site provides multiple-choice questions from actual Regents exams. You can also practice your test-taking skills on document-based essay questions (DBQs), with the option of e-mailing answers directly to your teacher for review.

LacusCurtius - Roman Atlas

Gladiator: The Real Story
Briefly explains the historical inaccuracies in the popular film

Crazy Caesars of Rome

Map of Roman Empire Expansion
Requires Shockwave plug-in

Map of Roman World

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