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class="description">for 6th Grade Social Studies </h3></div> <div id="content"> <div class="post"><h2 class="storytitle" id="post-1"><a href="https://blogs.dalton.org/rome/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Welcome">Welcome</a></h2><div class="storycontent"><p align="left">This site is a collection of “Rome resources” for the <a href="http://www.dalton.org/">The Dalton School</a> community. Anyone interested in Classical Rome will find this site to be a valuable research tool.</p> <p align="left">As the site is very large, the resources are divided into several categories: (Click on the appropriate button below or on links at right to view desired resource list .)</p> <p align="center"><a title="Military" href="http://blogs.dalton.org/rome/military-resources/"><img decoding="async" src="http://blogs.dalton.org/rome/files/2008/01/army.jpg" alt="Military" /></a><a title="Literature" href="http://blogs.dalton.org/rome/literary-resources/"><img decoding="async" src="http://blogs.dalton.org/rome/files/2008/01/literature.jpg" alt="Literature" /></a><a title="Archaeology" href="http://blogs.dalton.org/rome/archaeological-resources/"><img decoding="async" src="http://blogs.dalton.org/rome/files/2008/01/archaeology.jpg" alt="Archaeology" /></a><a title="Political" href="http://blogs.dalton.org/rome/political-resources/"><img decoding="async" 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src="http://blogs.dalton.org/rome/files/2008/01/philosophy.jpg" alt="Philosophy" /></a><a title="Map" href="http://blogs.dalton.org/rome/map-resources/"><img decoding="async" src="http://blogs.dalton.org/rome/files/2008/01/map.jpg" alt="Map" /></a></p> </div><div class="meta">Published in: <strong>|</strong><strong>|</strong>on January 18th, 2008  <strong>|</strong><span>Comments Off<span class="screen-reader-text"> on Welcome</span></span></div><img src="https://blogs.dalton.org/rome/wp-content/themes/quentin/images/printer.gif" width="102" height="27" class="pmark" alt=" " /></div> </div><div id="menu"><ul><li id="pages-2" class="widget widget_pages"><h2 class="widgettitle">Pages</h2> <ul> <li class="page_item page-item-4"><a href="https://blogs.dalton.org/rome/archaeological-resources/">Archaeological Resources</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-8"><a href="https://blogs.dalton.org/rome/drama-resources/">Drama Resources</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-6"><a 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