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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

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

Companions of the King 1500 B.C. – 1000 B.C.

Across the plains of Peloponnesus, flashed the swift chariots of knights and warrior-princes. They wore armour of gleaming bronze and

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

“We Shall Overcome” 1954-1965

On May 17, 1954, all was quiet and solemn, as it usually is, in the chambers of the United States

The Great Society 1964 – 1965

In the United States election campaign of 1964, President Johnson was the candidate of the Democratic party. His Republican opponent

Man Faces the Future 1957-1965

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union announced to an astonished world that its scientists had launched into orbit an

Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

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

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

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
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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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