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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

A. D.

A. D. is not meant to imply a time when fires were burning continually from 312 A.D. to 1204 A.D.

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

Early Civilizations to Modern Age

War in Korea 1945-1953

Although the cold war was the most important fact in the politics of the post-war world, few persons could have

The United Nations and the End of Colonialism 1946 -1965

Even before the Korean War, the United Nations had proved that it could take effective action to control serious conflicts.

Death of a Dictator 1946 – 1953

AS THE SKY darkened over Moscow on the evening of March 5, 1953, thousands of people waited in line before

Distant Past and New Challenges

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Milestones of History

Victorious Athens (480 B.C.)

A victorious Athens was thanks to Themistocles, whose farsighted proposal that the Athenians should fight the Persians at sea rather

Classical Greece – A Golden Age and New Dynasty Dawn (480 – 323 BC)

Classical Greece was a period during which the finest products of Greek civilization were achieved, has been defined as beginning

Alexander the Great Dies (323 B.C.)

Alexander the Great succeeded to the throne upon the assassination of Philip of Macedonia, in northern Greece. This succession, both
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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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