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Trailblazer Research Guide
Western Civilization: Mesopotamia Through the Early Renaissance

Dewey Decimal Call Numbers
  • Many call number areas including the areas listed in the Reference Sources section below.
Reference Sources
General Information
  • Timetables of History  R 902.02 G888
  • Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Chronologically Arranged  R 902.02 L276
  • Chronology of World History  R 902.02 M525
  • Facts on File Dictionary of Archaeology  R 930.103 F414
  • Dictionary of the Ancient Near East  R 939.4 D554
  • Chronicle of the Pharoahs  R 932 C622
  • Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome  R 938 C582
  • Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire  R 937.06 B942
  • Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Post-Classical World  R 938.003 L351
  • Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium  R 949.503 O98
  • Dictionary of the Middle Ages  R 909.07 D554
  • Illustrated Encyclopedia of Medieval Civilization  R 909.103 G728
  • The Crusades R 909.07 C957m
  • Crusades: Primary Sources R 909.07 C957p
  • Encyclopedia of the Crusades R 909.07 A556
  • Crusades: Almanac R 909.07 C957a
  • Crusades: Biographies R 909.07 C957b


Biographical Information
  • See sources above.
  • Encyclopedia of World Biography  R 920.02 E56
Finding Books Using the Online Catalog
Subject headings
  • Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian
  • Sumerians
  • Babylonia
  • Civilzation, Ancient
  • Country Name--Civilization e.g. Iraq--Civilization, Egypt--Civilization, Italy--Civilization, Rome--Civilization
  • Country Name--History e.g. Greece--History, Rome--History
  • Country Name--Antiquities e.g. Iraq--Antiquities, Egypt--Antiquities
  • City Name (Country name)--History e.g. Athens (Greece)--History
  • City Name (Country name)--Civilization e.g. Florence (Italy)--Civilization
  • Middle East--Civilization
  • Middle East--History
  • Jews--History
  • Jerusalem--History
  • Middle Ages
  • Middle Ages--History
  • Renaissance

Keywords
  • civilization, history, antiquities, artifacts, people(s), society, culture, customs, religion
  • name of people groups e.g. jews, jewish, roman(s), egyptian(s)
  • names of individuals e.g. alexander the great, abraham, constantine
  • names of regions/city-states/countries/cities e.g. mesopotamia, sumeria, babylon, egypt, greece, rome, alexandria
  • names/descriptions of time periods/movements e.g. middle ages, medieval, renaissance, dark ages
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