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Hugh Capet (982 – 1066 A. D.)

Hugh Capet was coronated in 987 and with that, began the French dominance of Europe. During the eleventh century, a

Norsemen and Vikings (982 A. D.)

Norsemen or Vikings – Danes, Norwegians and Swedes — were terrorizing the greater part of Europe, over a thousand years

Sung Dynasty, Golden Age of Artistic Achievement (955-982 A. D.)

The birth of Hungary The battle of the Lechfeld, which was so important to Western Europe, had an equally profound

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

The Ming Dynasty Restores the Old Order A.D. 1368-1644

THE MEN who took over from the Mongols came to be known as Hung-wu, or “Vast Military Power.” Hung-wu named

Japan, the “Source of the Sun” 3000 B.C.-A.D. 400

THE Japanese islands — four large ones and many smaller ones — rise out of the Pacific Ocean to the

Becoming a Nation 660 B. C.-A. D. 587

DRAWING ON nature for inspiration, the Japanese invented a number of gods and goddesses. They took it for granted that

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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