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T’ang Empire (622 – 794 A.D.)

T’ang Empire – first of the great Chinese dynasties – unifies the nation. The siege of Byzantium During the seventh

Flight to Medina (622 A.D.)

The flight to Medina, was made by the prophet Mohammed, when he fled from his native Mecca, in hopes of

Justinian Corpus (520-622 A.D.)

Justinian Corpus, the Juris Civilis, is the ancestor of all European legal systems. The sixth century – in the West,

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte 1796-1802

In March of 1796, a new commander named Napoleon Bonaparte was placed in charge of the French army on the

Emperor of the French 1804 -1815

On December 2, 1804, in a ceremony of great pomp and splendour at the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris,

Men against Machines 1733 – 1812

FEAR HUNG over the Yorkshire countryside in northern England. It was the spring of 1812, a spring the people would

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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