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Constitutional Government in England Triumphs

Constitutional government in England triumphs under the Tudors and the Stuarts. The British Empire is established, United States is born

Reformation – Revolt and Division in the Church

Reformation, revolt and division in the church – conflicts over Christian Doctrine, the religious revolt in Germany, the Catholic reformation

Renaissance

Renaissance – the beginnings, political institutions, the arts, literature, education and advances in Science – most fascinating those periods of
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Early Civilizations to Modern Age

Greek Against Greek 430 B. C. – 404 B. C.

About 425 B. C., a lonely man, in a country that was not his own, sat down to write the

The Greek Way of Life 700 B. C. – 343 B. C.

In the first years of Spartan peace, Greece was filled with wandering soldiers. Their little cities needed them no more.

The Conquerors 343 B. C. – 323 B. C.

In 343 B. C., the philosopher Aristotle left the quiet of his study and journeyed to Macedonia, a country in
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Distant Past and New Challenges

Milestones of History

Notre-Dame, Palace of the Virgin (1194 A.D.)

Notre-Dame, Palace of the Virgin, with its clusters of columns, its soaring arches, its superb stone carvings and its matchless

Richard I, the Lion Heart (1194-1204 A. D.)

Richard I, the Lion Heart, fails to capture Jerusalem from the Saracens. The birth of the New Byzantium The first

Fall of Constantinople

Fall of Constantinople begins – the crusaders from the West had taken an oath to free the Holy Land from

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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