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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

Blood on the Snow 1855 – 1905

IT WAS a Sunday in January of 1905 and snow lay on the ground and rooftops of St. Petersburg, the

Workingmen of All Countries, Unite! 1848 – 1900

The ideas that attracted these Russians came mostly from a man named Karl Marx. Marx was born in Germany in

The 1905 Revolution

SOME DAY there would be no tsars, but there was little sign of that during the last years of the

Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

William of Normandy, the Conqueror (1066 A. D.)

William of Normandy, the conqueror, was also descended from English kings and was convinced that King Edward had promised him

Pope Leo IX (1066 – 1077)

Galilee Chapel in Durham Cathedral. Durham was the greatest of the Norman ecclesiastical border fortress in the north of England.

Henry IV, Humiliation at Canossa (1077 A. D.)

Henry IV stood barefoot in the snow, for three days in January, 1077, outside Canossa castle, waiting to see Pope

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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