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Encyclopedia Brittanica - You need a library card to log in

Yahoo Kids Encyclopedia - Articles from Columbia Encyclopedia - No library card required

ABC - Clio Databases

Gale Reference Center - You need a library card to log in

Gale Biography - You need a library card to log in

Santa Barbara Public Library Catalog

National Geographic

Library of Congress

PBS

Rome

Roman-Empire.net - Kids' section of an amazing site

Warrior Challenge - What was it like to fight as a Roman, Knight, Viking, or Gladiator

The Romans - PBS

The Roman Emperor Game - PBS

Death in Rome Game - BBC

Gladiator - Dressed to Kill Game - BBC

Play "Fling the Teacher" with your knowledge of Ancient Rome

Rome Resources - The Dalton School

"The Gladiator" - Fact or fiction?

Ancient Rome - Emory University

Lost Roman Treasure - NOVA

Rome Reborn - Click "Gallery" to see computer reconstructions of Rome's glory

The Eruption of Vesuvius - Harcourt Publishers

A Time Traveller's Guide to the Roman Empire

Italyguides Rome - 360° Panoramas of Rome's Landmarks

Roman Baths - Secrets of Lost Empires

Make a Roman Mosaic

Headline History - Ancient Rome

Roman Portrait Sculpture

Rome - Tableau Resources

Aeneas (and Family!) - Bernini - The Trojan muscle man carries his dad, Anchises, on his back, while his son, Ascanio, carries the sacred hearth fire to their new home.

Capitoline She-Wolf - Romulus and Remus get an unorthodox upbringing when a wild animal comes to their rescue.

The Rape of Lucretia - Titian - Poor Lucretia learns the downside to being virtuous, while Sextus Tarquin goes about being a immoral monarch.

The Oath of the Horatii - David - These Roman dudes have had it with monarchs. They're swearing allegiance to the Roman Republic.

Spartacus - Leech - A comic take on the slave leader

The Assassination of Julius Caesar - Camuccini - Ouch!

The Sermon on the Mount - Bloch - OMG did he just say what I think he said?

The Last Day of Pompeii - Briullov - Is it getting hot in here?

The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer - Gerome - It's Christians vs. wild beasts in this dramatic painting.

The Sack of Rome - Not a pleasant experience. The medieval artist who painted this miniature seems somewhat unfamiliar with Roman architecture.

Islam

Islam, Empire of Faith - PBS

Muslim Life in America

Muhammad - PBS

Portraits of Ordinary Muslims - PBS

Women in Islam - PBS

Frontline - Iran, the struggle between democracy and faith

Islamic Art Instructional Materials

Islamic Art Games at the David Museum

Medieval Europe

Secrets of the Dead: The Bubonic Plague at PBS

The Middle Ages - Minnesota State University

Medieval Craft Guilds

Virtual Pilgrimage

Life in the Middle Ages - Annenberg Foundation

Medieval Life - Thinkquest

Life in a Medieval Castle

Knights and Armor

Research Topics from the Medieval Classroom

Section on Troubadours from an e-book scroll down to find the section on Troubadours

Medieval Love Songs (Troubadours) Interesting descriptions of important works

Medieval Music

The Knight's Code of Chivalry

Another Page of Chivalry

Daily Life of a Medieval Noblewoman

Interactive Gothic Cathedral

Medieval Siege Technology at PBS

Medieval Medicine

Medieval Japan

Medieval Japan from the Horace Mann School

Samurai Archives - Japanese History Page

Enter Edo Japan - PBS

Way of the Horse and Bow - Samurai Info

Samurai Arms and Armor

History of Japanese Armor

More on Japanese Armor!

Woodblock Printing

Japanese Writing and Calligraphy

Japanese Martial Arts from Horace Mann School

Feudal Society in Japan

Seppuku from a Google eBook

Bushido

Early Christianity

The First Christians - PBS

Women in Ancient Christianity - PBS

Roles of Women in Early Christianity - PBS

Early Christian Persecution - PBS

Medieval China

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo - Met Museum

Chinese Herbal Medicine at the American Cancer Society

Europe's Renaissance

The Renaissance, an Overview - (art, politics, religion, science) at PBS

Leonardo Da Vinci at BBC

Leonardo Da Vinci at the Museum of Science

Michelangelo's Drawings at the British Museum

Listen to Renaissance Music

Galileo at PBS

The Galileo Project

Johannes Kepler at NASA

Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance at PBS

Elizabethan England

Mary Tudor

The Six Wives of Henry VIII at PBS

In Search of Shakespeare - PBS

Sir Walter Raleigh's Search for El Dorado

Sir Walter Raleigh

Ben Jonson at PBS

Travellers and Explorers

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo

Marco Polo

Medieval Travellers - Interactive Resources

Zheng He and Ancient Chinese Explorers

Misc. Cool Stuff!

String Thing - Music Game

La Pate a Son - Truly Incredible Music Game

NGA Kids - Interactive Art Games

Building Big - Future engineers wil love the interactive labs and challenges!

The Story of Stuff

Scholastic - News and Interactive Activities