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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

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

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

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

The Ottomans, the Last Great Islamic Power A.D. 1299-1922

ACCORDING to their tradition, the Ottoman Turks once belonged to the same Central Asian tribe as the Seljuk Turks. Their

Islam the Civilizer A. D. 622-1406

IF Islam had never existed, the Christian countries of the world would probably be less advanced and certainly less varied,

India: A Thousand Years of History A. D. 1 – 710

UNTIL 1947, when the Moslem state of Pakistan was carved out of its western and eastern corners, the entire triangle

Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

Caliph of Cordova’s Library (950 A. D.)

Caliph of Cordova’s library, raised Cordova to its great eminence. It was Europe’s most glittering capital: a place where Moslems,

Cluny (950 – 955 A. D.)

Cluny, the Greatest Benedictine Abbey in Europe, was founded in 910. After the reign of the great Abd al-Rahman III,

Lechfeld (955 A. D.)

Lechfeld, the battleground outside Augsburg on St. Lawrence’s day, 10 August 955 A. D., was highly significant for the whole

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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