HIST 151 & 152: HIST 151 & 152

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Use "primary documents" intitle:primary and your topic words in Google to locate primary sources.

Always check the 'About Us' to verify the reliability of websites:

• Ancient Egypt - British Museum
• Ancient Greece - British Museum
• Ancient Greek World
• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
• British Museum
• Documents in World History
• Eyewitness to History
• Food Timeline
• Getty Search Gateway
• Global Egyptian Museum
• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
• Library of Congress, World History & Cultures
• Mesopotamia
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• New York Public Library Digital Collections
• Perseus Digital Library

Evaluating Primary & Secondary Sources

Group 1

• "The Advice of an Akkadian Father to His Son, c. 2200 BCE." Ancient History Sourcebook. Ed. Paul Halsall. Fordham University, July 1998. Web. 16 Feb. 2015.
• Roaf, Michael. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Near East. New York: Facts on File, 1990. Print.

Group 2

• Mair, Victor H. "The Case of the Wayward Oracle Bone." Expedition 43.2 (2001): 41. Academic Search Premier. Web. 16 Feb. 2015. 
• Oracle Bone.1600-1046 B.C. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Web. 16 Feb. 2015.

Group 3

• The Epic of Gilgamesh. New York: Penguin, 1072. Print.
• Ed. Russ Kick. The Graphic Canon. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2012. Print.

Group 4

• Gladiator. Dir. Ridley Scott. Dreamworks, 2003. DVD.
• "The Greek House: Drinking Parties." The Ancient Greek World. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, n.d. Web. 16 Feb. 2015.

Group 5

• Islamic History (Chronology). Barkati, n.d. Web. 16 Feb. 2015.
• The Spinner. 14th-6th century B.C. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Musée du Louvre. Web. 16 Feb. 2015.

Group 6

• Kuniyoshi, Utagawa. Miyamoto Musashi. 1843 - 1847. Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu. Honolulu Museum of Art. Web. 16 Feb. 2015.
• Musashi, Miyamoto. "Book of the Five Rings." Bloomsbury Business Library - Management Library (2007): 10. Business Source Premier. Web. 16 Feb. 2015.

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