Last update: 9/23/21

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Below are resources in the old AP Curriculum. After revisions, the course is now known as AP World History: Modern & tested material begins in 1200 CE. However, MANY teachers still teach this time period as UNIT Zero because these resources help provide CONTEXT [AP Skill] for the first tested time period, 1200-1450 CE, and/or must be covered as part of some states' required curriculum.

Need to Know: Historical Developments for the Ancient Era to 600 BCE AND the Classical Era, 600 BCE-600 CE (formerly known as Key Concepts)

 

ANCIENT ERA to 600 BCE

 

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INTERACTIVE GAMES & ACTIVITIES FOR PERIOD ONE  
Soft Schools - Period One Quiz 
Khan Academy: Period 1 Quizzes
Civilizations and Religions Final Quiz
Could You Survive as a Hunter-Gatherer? 
  Early Humans - Games, Interactive Activities
  Mysteries of Çatalhöyük
   Write Like a Babylonian - your initials in Cuneiform - cuneiform calculator
  Ancient Egypt - Free Interactive "DBQ" Map Quiz
  Online Hieroglyphics Translator - Hieroglyphic Name Translator
   Clickable Mummy
  BBC - Mummy Maker
  BBC - Pyramid Challenge
   Ancient Egypt Quiz -- National Geographic
       Maps.com -- Asia Map Game
  India Quiz -- National Geographic 
  Crossword
   Asia - geography online games
  Quia - The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

 

CLASSICAL ERA, 600 BCE - 600 CE

 

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INTERACTIVE QUIZZES, GAMES & ACTIVITIES FOR THE CLASSICAL ERA, 600 BCE - 600 CE
General 
  World History Study Games and Practice Quizzes | Student Handouts
Khan Academy Period 2 Quizzes
  AP World History Quizzes: AP World History Practice Tests

  Persians 
Persian Empire Quizzes and Persian Empire Trivia -- Fun Trivia - The Assyrian, Chaldean, and Persian Empires, 1100-500 BCE - Map Quiz

Hebrews
  Ancient Israel Games - Ancient Palestine - The Dominion of Solomon - Online Map Quiz

Greeks
  Ancient Greece Games 
  The Glory That Was Ancient Greece - Interactive Multiple-Choice Test  -
  Ancient Greece and the Greek Colonies - Free Interactive Map Quiz - Ancient Greece in the Fifth Century BCE - Free Online Map Quiz - Greece in the Time of the Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BCE - Map Quiz
   Odyssey Game - Choose your character
  Greek-Gods.Info Mythology Quiz - Greek Mythology Fun Fact Quiz
   Ancient Greece - Penalty Shootout - Ancient Greek Medicine - Beat 'da Bomb game 
    The Empire of Alexander the Great and the Kingdoms of His Successors - Map Quiz

  Romans
Ancient Rome Games 
Mountains, Rivers, and Divisions of Ancient Italy - Geography Map Quiz
  Rome Quiz
  The Establishment of the Roman Republic - Hangman Game - Interactive Flash Cards - Multiple-Choice Practice Test 
    Battle of Actium, 31 BCE - Interactive Map Test - Ancient Rome
  Roman Dominions at the Death of Julius Caesar, 44 BCE - Map Quiz
  Imperial Rome - Free Interactive Map Quiz
   Multiple-Choice Practice Test 
  The Ancient Roman Empire - Online Hangman Game
    The Roman Empire in 376 CE and the Teutonic (Barbarian) Migrations of Europe - Map Quiz
  The Germanic Kingdoms and the Eastern Roman Empire in 526 CE - Map Quiz
   The Roman Empire: in the First Century. Special Features. Emperor of Rome Game 
   BBC - History - Ancient History in depth: Death in Rome - Gladiator: Dressed to Kill Game - CDX - Housesteads Fort
  Emperor of Rome Game - Quiz: Who Are You?
  Ancient Rome - Fling the Teacher - Interactive game
  Quia - Mt. Vesuvius and Pompeii im 79 AD
  List of films based on Greco-Roman mythology
 
  China
  Overview | Story of China | PBS - Great Games!
  Silk Road Map Quizzes

India
  Ancient Indian Empires Game - Play Fun Trivia Quiz
  Indian Baby Names and their meanings

Emergence of Organized Religions
  World Relgions Games
    World Religions and Religious Texts  Matching Quiz
   Religions and Philosophies Quiz 

GENERAL & JUST BECAUSE
  EyeWitness to History - history through the eyes of those who lived it
  Fling the Teacher - Interactive History games - More Interactive History Games
  Ancient History in the Movies - Medieval History in the Movies - Modern History in the Movies