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

1. What Is Justice? A View from the Code of Hammurabi

3. Through the Eyes of a Historian: Herodotus Writes About Kush

4. The Historical Migration of the Jews: Psalm 137

5. Travels in India

6. Lessons for Women

7. Cicero and the Roman Republic

Unit 1: Early Humans and the Rise of Civilization

Unit 2: Ancient Egypt and the Near East

Unit 2: Ancient Egypt and the Near East

Unit 2: Ancient Egypt and the Near East

Unit 3: Ancient India

Unit 4: Ancient China

Unit 6: Ancient Rome

Chapter 6: Exploring Four Empires of Mesopotamia

Chapter 9: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

Chapter 10: The Kingdom of Kush

Chapter 12: The Struggle to Preserve Judaism

Chapter 18: The Achievements of the Gupta Empire

Chapter 21: Three Chinese Philosophies

Chapter 34: From Republic to Empire