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The Growth of Egyptian and Mesopotamian Civilization

People satisfy their important needs in different ways. For example, most of you obtain water merely by turning on a

Man’s Long Road Up From Savagery

Perhaps you have asked yourself, “What would I have done?” as you have read an adventure yarn or the true

Man Faces the Future 1957-1965

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union announced to an astonished world that its scientists had launched into orbit an

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

The United Nations and the Nations Disunited 1943 -1949

So at last, in the Pacific as in Europe, the guns were silent; the nations that had brought so much

Independence for India 1920 – 1964

Even before the end of World War II, it was clear that Asia and Africa would soon be shaken by

China and Revolution 1912 – 1962

Like Gandhi and Nehru in India, one of China’s greatest leaders, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, learned from the West as well

Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

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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