Chapter 4: Early Empires
Making a Multimedia Presentation
Use the Internet or printed sources to find illustrations of Mesopotamian or Persian objects found by archaeologists. Work with a small group to make a multimedia presentation.
- What objects were found?
- What activities do they represent?
Internet Resources
- The Royal Tombs at Ur
- Site from the McClung Museum at the University of Tennessee Knoxville shows many of the artifacts of ancient Mesopotamia found in the Royal Tombs of Ur.
- http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/specex/ur/ur.htm
- Medes and Persians
- Images and descriptions of various Persian artifacts, including sculpture and jewelry, shown on the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Images from World History site.
- http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ugk/
- Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Site from the Metropolitan Museum of Art has many pages of artifacts from its Near Eastern cultures collection.
- http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/viewHigh.asp?dep=3&viewmode=0&set=02
- Persepolis/Ancient Iran
- Site from the Detroit Institute of Arts contains photos and details of Persian artifacts.
- http://www.dia.org/collections/ancient/persepolis/persepolis.html
- Classzone: Creating a Multimedia Presentation
- Classzone's page on how to create a multimedia presentation.
- http://www.classzone.com/books/ms_wh_ancient/page_build.cfm?content=powerpoint_guide&state=none