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The City of Caesar 80 B. C. – 44 B. C.

THE story of Rome in the years after Sulla’s death was the story of a partnership of power. It was

The City Divided 130 B. C. – 70 B. C.

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, a young statesman known for his dramatic speeches, stood before a panel of judges in a courtroom

City of Romulus B. C. 900 – 256

In the time when savage warriors roamed the plains and mountains of Italy, there stood on six low hills, just

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

The New Deal 1933

WHEN Franklin Delano Roosevelt was nominated in 1932, he was fifty years old. A fifth cousin of former President Theodore

A Changing Nation 1934 – 1936

IN THE spring of 1933, as the New Deal roared into action, business began to get better, but it dropped

The Election of 1936

As Roosevelt’s first term in office neared its end, many people in the United States — and in other countries

Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

Arian Heresy and the Council of Nicaea (312-432 A. D.))

The Arian threat occured in the fourth century, which opened with the triumph of Christianity in the Roman Empire, closed

Mission to Ireland (432 A.D.)

In the spring of 432, Laoghaire, ruler of a petty kingdom in northern Ireland, gathered his court near Tara to

Visigoths and Gaiseric (432 – 451 A.D.)

The Visigoths, led by Gaiseric, settle in North Africa and challenge Rome. Ireland before St. Patrick According to the most

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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