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Aggressor Nations Fail to Achieve World Conquest

It was summer in 1939, vacation time for lots of people. No one knows how many Americans heard the voice of the

Dictators in Germany and Italy Challenge Democracies

Dictators came to power in many European countries during the twenty years following World War I. About 9:20 P.M. on February

Russia Becomes a Communist Dictatorship

When the United States entered World War 1, President Wilson had stated that America’s aim in taking up arms was

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

The City of Augustus 29 B. C. – A. D. 14

IN 29 B.C. the gates of war were closed. Rome was at peace. Senators and the people of the mob-men

The Emperor’s City A. D. 14 to A. D. 117

GREAT power had allowed Augustus to do great good for Rome and its provinces. The same power in the hands

The City of the World A. D. 117 – A. D. 138

ROME was no longer just a city — it was a world. In the reign of Hadrian, the blaring trumpets
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Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

Chinese – New Empire after Alexander (B. C. 323 – 221)

The Chinese grew a new empire in the east, after the death of Alexander the Great. The empire of Cyrus

Great Wall of China (221 B.C.)

The Great Wall of China is probably the world’s most stupendous monument to human ingenuity, human industry and purportedly is

Rome and Carthage Dispute the Mediterranean (B. C. 221 – 217)

The Great Wall of China did not always keep the invader out, but it did help to establish the geographical
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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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