Ancient World Content
Section title: The Fertile Crescent
Menu items: Important Rivers
First cities
Language and Culture
Ancient Technology
Important Rivers: Label rivers.
No “more”
First cities: Label cities.
No “more”(Do we need tabs for each of the cities?)
Language and Culture: Label ethno-linguistic cultures.
“More” pop-ups under ethno-linguistic culture labels.
Explanatory box.
Theme for More captions: (To be used only for creative purposes only; not be placed any where on atlas.)
Indo-Europeans:
Caucasians:
Hamites:
Semites:
Ancient Technology: Label area
Explanatory box.
Section title: City-States
Menu items: Sumer
Ethnic migrations
First empire
Other cultures
Sumer: Label city-states.
Label Sumer
“More” pop-up.
Sumer:
Ethnic Migrations: Label Indo-European and Semitic migrations.
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Indo-European:
Semitic:
First Empire: Label Akkadian Empire
“More” pop-up.
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Akkadian Empire:
Other Cultures: (I think this should just be MidEast cultures.)
Label Cultures (Egypt, Canaan, Assyria)
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Egypt:
Canaan:
Assyria:
Section title: Local Empires
Menu items: Local Empires
Assyrian Empire
Babylonian Empire
First Alphabet
Local Empires: Label local Empires. (I think we should seriously consider leaving off empires that are not considered part of the Middle East. If we need to contextualize them when they do appear in the Middle East (for instance, the Greeks), we can do it then with a more pop-up.)
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Egypt
Israel:
Hittite:
Assyrian Empire: (How to label? Conflict with “Assyria”; box with reference to Assyria?)
More pop-up
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Assyrian Empire:
Babylonian Empire: (How to label? Conflict with “Babylonia”; box with reference to Babylonia?)
More pop-up
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Babylonian Empire:
First Alphabet(s): Label location with sample characters
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Phoenician Alphabet:
Akkadian Cunneiform:
Section title: Persian Achaemenid Empire
Menu items: Cyrus the Great
Fall of Babylon
Darius the Great
Alexander the Great
Cyrus the Great: Label land conquered by Cyrus the Great to help build the Persian Achaemenid Empire.
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Cyrus the Great:
Fall of Babylon: Label acquisition of Babylon
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Fall of Babylon:
Darius the Great: Label Land conquered by Darius the Great
Label building of the Persian Road achievement
More pop-up for each.
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Darius the Great:
The Royal Persian Road:
Alexander the Great: Label land conquered by Alexander the Great.
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Alexander the Great :