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Lechfeld (955 A. D.)

Lechfeld, the battleground outside Augsburg on St. Lawrence’s day, 10 August 955 A. D., was highly significant for the whole

Cluny (950 – 955 A. D.)

Cluny, the Greatest Benedictine Abbey in Europe, was founded in 910. After the reign of the great Abd al-Rahman III,

Caliph of Cordova’s Library (950 A. D.)

Caliph of Cordova’s library, raised Cordova to its great eminence. It was Europe’s most glittering capital: a place where Moslems,

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

Charlemagne’s Empire Destroyed by Eastern Hordes (800-886 A. D.)

Charlemagne’s empire destroyed and dissolved in the ninth century, but the idea of “Europe” survived. By the late tenth century,

Alfred “The Great” builds England for the English (886 A. D.)

Alfred “The Great”, alone amongst the English kings, has been awarded this title. Earlier invaders of the British Isles had

Baghdad Founded (886 – 950 A. D.)

Baghdad founded and became the centre of Islamic learning and culture. England in the tenth century As a soldier, Alfred,

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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