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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

Dictatorship and Civil War 1926-1939

THE END OF World War I brought many changes of government in Europe, but in a number of countries the

The Meaning of Totalitarianism

So it happened that in many parts of the world people were living under a system of government that came

Panic in Wall Street 1929-1932

AS MILLIONS of Americans hurried to work on the morning of October 24, 1929, it seemed like the start of

Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

The Roman Republic is Reborn with Imperial Splendour (73 – 31 B.C.)

The happy judgment of the historian Polybius on the strength of the Roman constitution, because of its mixture of popular,

The Emperor Augustus (B.C. 31)

The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. initiated thirteen years of bloodshed, during which the people who had plotted

Octavian and the New Roman Empire (B.C. 31 – 9 A.D.)

Octavian delivers the state from that was plunged into depression. A few weeks after January 1 in the year 29 B.C. the

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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