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Revolt and Destruction of Judea (30 – 70 A. D.)

Judea was destroyed and it’s people were scattered due to revolt in the East. Herod the Great died in the

Jesus of Nazareth, Saviour God of a New Religion (30 A.D.)

Jesus of Nazareth, his life and death, for Romans alive about A.D. 30 was of no significance whatsoever. In the

Arminius, Liberator of Germany (9 A.D.)

By 9 B.C. it seemed that Augustus’ ambition to extend Roman territory to the Elbe had almost been achieved, but

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

Gods and Heroes 800 B.C. – 550 B.C.

From island to island and town to town, across the wide new world of the Greeks, the minstrel wandered, with

Kings, Tyrants and Democracy 1000 B. C. to 100 B. C.

During the Dark Ages, the large kingdoms of Homer’s Achaean heroes had disappeared. The Greek world was now dotted with

Athens: City of Wisdom and War 700 B. C. to 500 B. C.

Of all the city-states in Greece, Athens was the most fortunate. The city’s guardian was Athena, the goddess of war
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Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

Chinese – New Empire after Alexander (B. C. 323 – 221)

The Chinese grew a new empire in the east, after the death of Alexander the Great. The empire of Cyrus

Great Wall of China (221 B.C.)

The Great Wall of China is probably the world’s most stupendous monument to human ingenuity, human industry and purportedly is

Rome and Carthage Dispute the Mediterranean (B. C. 221 – 217)

The Great Wall of China did not always keep the invader out, but it did help to establish the geographical
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Mythology

Who were the Hellenes?

Theseus and the Minotaur

The Palace of Minos

Helen of Troy

The Wooden Horse

Was there a Trojan War?

The Migration

City-States and Colonies

The Delphic Oracle

The Olympic Games

Sparta

A Spartan grows Up

Athens

Solon

A Tyrant Who Was Not Tyrannical

Athenian Democracy

The Ionian Greeks

Marathon

The Rivals

The Second Persian Invasion

Thermopylae

“Wooden Walls” and Salamis

Aeschylus

Theseus Comes Home

The Confederacy of Delos

The Athenian Empire

Herodotus, The Father of History

The Parthenon

Thucydides

Why Did Athens Fight Sparta

The Peloponnesian War Begins

Athenian Death

Hippocrates and Disease

Pericles Dies

Cleon the Tanner

Peace

Socrates

Alcibiades

Sicily

Hecuba, Queen of Troy

Decelea, a Thorn in the Flesh

Oligarchy and Athens in Defeat

Socrates’ Death

Xenophon

Damocles’ Sword – The Fourth Century

Plato

Alexander of Macedon

Hellenistic Age – Alexandria and Byzantium

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