World History

Roman Emperors   (Added 01.21.2000)

Indus Valley: Contents   --  extensive treatment of this rich culture from ancient times, including a slide show, language, explorers and resources.  (Added 01.14.2000)

Olympics through History  -- Our world is now growing closer through sharing knowledge on the Internet, and the history here of the Olympics, from prehistory to our times, is an interesting example of knowledge available to all in cyberspace. On this Website, the games are discussed in terms of the particular centuries when they were held. In ancient Greece, people were gathered from afar. Perspective on the coming together at the games was given by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1896, as he wrote of the revival of the Olympics: “The 19th century saw the taste for physical exercises revive everywhere ... At the same time the great inventions, the railways and the telegraph have abridged distances and mankind has come to live a new existence; the peoples have intermingled, they have learned to know each other better and immediately they started to compare themselves. What one achieved the other immediately wished also to endeavour: universal exhibitions brought together to one locality of the globe the products of the most distant lands; literary or scientific congresses have brought together, into contact, the various intellectual forces. How then should the athletes not seek to meet, since rivalry is the basis of athletics, and in reality the very reason of its existence?"