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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 United States and Victory 1915-1918

FEW AMERICANS noticed the advertisement that appeared in the New York newspapers on May 1, 1915. Signed by the Imperial

The Victors Reconstruct Europe 1918 – 1919

IN THE closing weeks of the war, the Austro-Hungarian Empire came apart. Its subject peoples proclaimed their independence, through “national

After the Peace of Paris 1919 – 1920

DURING THE war, three great empires — the Russian, the Austro-Hungarian and the German –had vanished forever. Then, by the

Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

Arian Heresy and the Council of Nicaea (312-432 A. D.))

The Arian threat occured in the fourth century, which opened with the triumph of Christianity in the Roman Empire, closed

Mission to Ireland (432 A.D.)

In the spring of 432, Laoghaire, ruler of a petty kingdom in northern Ireland, gathered his court near Tara to

Visigoths and Gaiseric (432 – 451 A.D.)

The Visigoths, led by Gaiseric, settle in North Africa and challenge Rome. Ireland before St. Patrick According to the most

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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