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The Power of Minos 2200 B.C. to 1400 B.C.

Far to the south of the Greek Peninsula lay the large island of Crete. It was the home of a

The Silent Peninsula 3000 B.C. to 1600 B.C.

About 3000 B. C., when the Pharaohs ruled Egypt and Babylon was the home of mighty kings, bands of sailors

The Land of the Great Wall 4000 B.C. to A.D. 220

For many generations, the ancestors of P’an Keng had considered themselves kings in northern China. Yet this family of kings,

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

The City Where Money Ruled A.D. 54 – A.D. 192

“IT is impossible to find peace and quiet in this city!” Seneca, in Nero’s Rome for a visit, was not

The End of the City A. D. 192 – A. D. 476

ON ROME’S first day, Romulus took a bronze plow and drew a magic circle around seven of the hills that

The First Palm Sunday A.D. 29

IT WAS the Sunday before Passover. The soft greens of spring and patches of wild flowers brightened the hills above

Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

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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