Encourage further exploration by your students with these excerpts from literature. Individual or discussion activities follow each literature excerpt to further enrich students' learning. The excerpts may be read on the screen or printed out. Permission to photocopy these literature excerpts for classroom use is hereby granted to teachers using History Alive! The Ancient World.

1. The Hero of Sumer: King Gilgamesh of Uruk

2. The Satire of the Trades

3. The Ramayana

4. Tales from the Common People: The Ballad of Mulan

5. Greek Literature in Our Lives Today: Aesop's Fables

6. A World of Beauty: The Poetry of Sappho

7. Roman Contributions to Literature

Unit 1: Early Humans and the Rise of Civilization

Unit 2: Ancient Egypt and the Near East

Unit 3: Ancient India

Unit 4: Ancient China

Unit 5: Ancient Greece

Unit 5: Ancient Greece

Unit 6: Ancient Rome

Chapter 5: Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?

Chapter 9: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

Chapter 15: Learning About Hindu Beliefs

Chapter 23: The Han Dynasty

Chapter 31: The Legacy of Ancient Greece

Chapter 31: The Legacy of Ancient Greece

Chapter 37: The Legacy of Rome in the Modern World