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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

Greece and the World 323 B. C. – 250 B. C.

In the last years of the fourth century B. C., Greek citizens going about their business in the stoas or

The City of Aeneas 1000 B. C. – 500 B. C.

The minstrels who wandered from country to country in the ancient world told a legend of Aeneas, a Trojan prince.

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

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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