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Overheads for Classics courses

These are mostly used in Classics 110 Early World History


Topics

Click to jump to a section. Some overheads may be missing because I am re-doing or updating them. If nothing happens when you click, that's why.

Paleolithic Tools
The Flake
Dwellings
Mesopotamia
Writing
Egypt
Early Greece and the Aegean
The Assyrian Empire
The Persian Empire
The Indo-European Languages
The Indus River
The Mauryan and Gupta Empires
Early China
China - the Great Wall(s) and the Silk Road
Palestine
Greece
The Conquests of Alexander the Great
Rome



Oldowan chopping tools Oldowan chopping tools

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Oldowan chopping tools

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Oldowan chopping tools

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The Anatomy of a Flake

details of a flake

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details of a flake

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Acheulean and Solutrian tools

Palaeolithic tools

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Palaeolithic tools

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Idealized tool forms

Palaeolithic tools

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Dwellings

dwelling - stick frame with hide covering like along teepee

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dwelling - stick frame with hide covering like along teepee

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Map of Mesopotamia

map of Mesopotamia

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Writing

Cuneiform writing

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Samples of Hieroglyphics from Sir E. A. Wallis Budge's Egyptian Language

Hieroglyphics sample 1

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Hieroglyphics sample 2

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A sample of Linear B

Linear B sample and syllabary

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Where our alphabet came from

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Classical Hebrew

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Map of Egypt

map of Egypt

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The Kings of Egypt. Stolen from Christine Hobson's The World of the Pharaohs, Thames & Hudson, New York, 1990. An excellent book, incidentally.

List of the kings of Egypt 1

List of the kings of  Egypt 2

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Greece and the Aegean

early greece

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Athens, the Long Walls, and the Piraeus

Athens and the Piraeus

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The Assyrian Empire

assyrian empire

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The Persian Empire

persian empire

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The Indo-European Languages

indo-european languages

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The Indo-European Languages - Map - not as clear as it could be

indo-european languages map

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The Indus Valley

indus valley

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The Mauryan Empire

mauryan empire

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The Gupta Empire gupta empire

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China - The Shang Period china shang dynasty

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China - The Great Wall(s) the great walls of china

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China - The Han Empire and the Silk Road china the han empire and the silk road

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Palestine - The Twelve Tribes of Israel and The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah

ancient palestine

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Alexander's Conquests and the Hellenistic Kingdoms

alexander's empire and the hellenistic kingdoms

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Roman Italy

roman italy

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The Roman Empire

the roman empire

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Roman Republican Government

roman republcan government

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Roman Emperors (most) from Augustus to Constantine

list of roman emperors

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The Julio-Claudian Dynasty

julio-claudian dynasty




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