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Jackson and the Common People 1812-1833

ALTHOUGH THE Federalists continued as a party for some years after their defeat in 1801, they would never again be

The American Experiment 1787 – 1801

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION created a republic of thirteen states, the first large republic in history. The nation was to be

Democracy and Nationalism 1815-1848

WHILE THE Industrial Revolution was transforming England and creating a new kind of society, the continent of Europe seemed to

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

Blood on the Snow 1855 – 1905

IT WAS a Sunday in January of 1905 and snow lay on the ground and rooftops of St. Petersburg, the

Workingmen of All Countries, Unite! 1848 – 1900

The ideas that attracted these Russians came mostly from a man named Karl Marx. Marx was born in Germany in

The 1905 Revolution

SOME DAY there would be no tsars, but there was little sign of that during the last years of the

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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