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title: Ancient History
description: This field studies the rise and fall of early civilizations across the globe, from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages. Learners will analyze the political structures, cultures, and legacies of ancient societies.
category: humanities
subcategory: history
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/ancient-history
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# Ancient History

This field studies the rise and fall of early civilizations across the globe, from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages. Learners will analyze the political structures, cultures, and legacies of ancient societies.

## Available Resources

1 Videos • 2 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Livius

Jona Lendering's reference site collects articles, photographs and translated source passages on Greece, Rome, Persia and the ancient Near East. Useful for checking a specific place, person, battle or inscription against the surviving evidence rather than a summary.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.livius.org/

**Tags:** ancient-history, roman-history, greek-history, primary-sources, reference

### 2. oi.uchicago.edu

Official site of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, offering insights into ancient Near Eastern archaeology and history, with details on ongoing research, excavations, exhibitions, digital collections, and scholarly publications.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://oi.uchicago.edu

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, history

### 3. worldhistory.org

World History Encyclopedia is a nonprofit educational site that provides accessible encyclopedia-style articles on world history, complemented by images, maps, and timelines from ancient civilizations to the modern era. It also offers classroom resources, quizzes, and educator guides for students and teachers.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://worldhistory.org

**Tags:** websites, humanities-social-sciences, history

## Videos

### 1. Eric Cline | 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed

**Author:** Eric H. Cline

Lecture by archaeologist Eric H. Cline on the collapse of Late Bronze Age societies in the Eastern Mediterranean around 1177 BC, examining the Sea Peoples, drought, earthquakes and broken trade networks, and arguing that interacting stresses brought down an interconnected world.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyry8mgXiTk

**Tags:** bronze-age-collapse, late-bronze-age, eastern-mediterranean, sea-peoples, archaeology

## Books

### 1. The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

**Author:** Ian Shaw (editor)

Sixteen Egyptologists cover the full sequence from predynastic Egypt to Roman rule, period by period, including serious treatment of the three intermediate periods and the archaeological evidence underpinning each reconstruction. The standard one-volume academic history.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0192804588?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** ancient-egypt, egyptology, ancient-history, archaeology, pharaonic-egypt

### 2. The Classical World

**Author:** Robin Lane Fox

An Oxford historian's narrative of Greece and Rome from Homer to the emperor Hadrian, built around primary sources and the ancient ideas of freedom, justice, and luxury. It gives readers the historical frame needed to place classical texts and authors in context.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0141021411?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** ancient-greece, ancient-rome, classical-antiquity, greek-history, roman-history

## Courses

### 1. Ancient Greece

Wesleyan University survey of Greek history from the Minoan and Mycenaean Bronze Age to the trial of Socrates in 399 BCE. Learners trace the rise of the polis, Sparta and Athens, Athenian democracy, the Persian Wars, and the Peloponnesian War.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/ancient-greeks

**Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, humanities

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