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 than land, paved the way…
World History Volume
5000 Years of History.
The Collapse of Crete (524 – 480 B.C.)
With the collapse of Crete, the Mediterranean focus moves to Greece. The destruction of Knossos in 1450 B.C. precipitated the end of a brilliant period…
Buddha, the Prophet of the East (524 B.C.)
The Buddha as he came to be known, was a young man, Gautama, who followed the usual pursuits of someone of his class. He hunted,…
Assyria, Steppelands of Central Asia Sees New People Emerge and New Empires Rise (1191 – 524 B.C.)
The vacuum left in Western Asia by the passage of the Sea Peoples was soon filled. New peoples infiltrated into the devastated areas and settled…
Ramses III Defeats the Sea People (1191 B.C.)
For several years the Sea Peoples from the north had been drawing closer and closer to Egypt. Syria and Libya fell to them and under…
Hittite Empire and Egypt Threatened by Northern Invaders (1280 – 1191 B.C.)
Although the Exodus of the “children of Israel” from Egypt is rightly to be regarded as one of the greatest milestones in human history, in…
Let My People Go! (Hebrews 1280 B.C.)
The Hebrews were a nomadic people, some of whom settled in Egypt. They had their own God — Yahweh or Jehovah — and in this…
Palestine to Egypt – People Gain a National Identity and Settle New Lands (1400 – 1280 B.C.)
Palestine was possessed by Egypt. In the year 1887 an Egyptian peasant, digging in the ruins of an ancient city on the banks of the…
The Aryan Invasion of India (c. B. C. 1400)
Aryan peoples from the North descended into India, radically affecting the native civilization, round about between 1750 to 1400 B.C. Some four thousand years ago…