Mrs Donn's   Special Site

Daily Life In Ancient Civilizations

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 Ancient Egypt

 Ancient Greece

 Ancient Rome 

Ancient India

Ancient China

 

 

ANCIENT GREECE 

How would you have behaved if you had lived in ancient Sparta? (Lie, cheat, steal, because that is the Sparta way!) Or in ancient Athens? Or in Corinth, Argos, or Megara? Meet the Greeks! They were a riot! And choose your city-state!

 


ANCIENT CHINA

Learn about Taoism with Winnie-the-Pooh! Explore daily life in 4 different Chinese dynasties. Meet weird emperors like Hu the Tiger! Read things written in B.C. times! For those in a hurry, use the Cheat Sheet, for a very quick look at 11,000 years of ancient Chinese history!

 


ANCIENT ROME

If you had lived in ancient times, would you have chosen to become a Roman citizen? You might have! The ancient Romans invented more games than any other culture. Come join the Empire! Find out what the ancient Romans did all day, and read an original, delightfully zany story, Thomas, Greatest Lawyer in all...Rome!

 


ANCIENT INDIA

What did the ancient Indians wear? What did they eat? Did kids play with toys? Did they go to school? This site shares daily life in three major time periods; the mysterious Indus Valley Civilization, the Vedic & Epics Periods, and the Age of Empires.  

 


ANCIENT EGYPT

Do you know what the ancient Egyptians believed would cure a toothache? Find out here! Read Egyptian Tall Tales, and an original story about Ancient Egyptian Daily Life. Enter the "Tombs" where you can watch a short movie about mummies, learn to draw like an Egyptian, share Rosetta Stone's Pharaoh Adventure, and more!

 


OUR THANKS TO SOME VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE
whose knowledge and commitment to this project
made these daily life sites possible

Author/Historian, Sudheer Birodkar, for his help with ancient India daily life

Author/Historian Bill Thayer, for his help with ancient Roman daily life

Egyptologist Jacques Kinnaer, for "Ancient Egyptian Tall Tales"

Kathryn, a talented young writer, Ancient Egypt

Thomas, a talented young writer, Ancient Rome

Author, Deborah Azzopardi, for "Fashion in Ancient India"

And to Dr Adams, for his help and guidance with this project

 

 

  Lin & Don Donn (and Maxie the Magnificent, of course!)

This site created January, 1998
Last update: May 31, 2000