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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,

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

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,

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

The Thaw in the Cold War 1953-1959

Stalin had left behind him a world of suspicion, distrust and fear. Suspicion, distrust and fear were as great in

A Time of Crisis 1960-1963

One of the sources of trouble was Cuba. In 1956 a small group of revolutionaries, led by a 29-year-old lawyer

A Time of Change 1948-1962

All times are, more or less, times of change, but the changes that took place in the 1950’s and 1960’s

Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

Zealots and the Destruction of Zion(70 A.D.)

Zealots, for sixty years or more, had formed the “resistance’’ against the Romans in Judaea and their ideas were shared

A. D.

A. D. is not meant to imply a time when fires were burning continually from 312 A.D. to 1204 A.D.

In This Sign Shalt Thou Conquer (312 A.D.)

Constantine’s victory at the Milvian Bridge, ensures the spread of Christianity, throughout the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire, at 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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