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Mesopotamia, Where Civilization Began 4000 B.C. – 1750 B.C.

Mesopotamia is where civilization began. By 4000 B. C., many different groups of people  were working out their lives in

The Coming of Man

About 400,000 years ago, a group of people were gathered at the mouth of a cave. They had a fire

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

Victorious Athens (480 B.C.)

A victorious Athens was thanks to Themistocles, whose farsighted proposal that the Athenians should fight the Persians at sea rather

Classical Greece – A Golden Age and New Dynasty Dawn (480 – 323 BC)

Classical Greece was a period during which the finest products of Greek civilization were achieved, has been defined as beginning

Alexander the Great Dies (323 B.C.)

Alexander the Great succeeded to the throne upon the assassination of Philip of Macedonia, in northern Greece. This succession, both
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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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