The Ancient World (from the beginning of written records to c. 600 AD.)

The Cradles of Civilization

• Mesopotamia  Agriculture   Literacy   Sumerians    Hammurabi
• Egypt   Pyramid mystery?
• Fertile Crescent   Hittites    Phoenicians    Hebrews   Assyria    Persia
• Indus Valley   Harappan   Mohenjo-daro    Aryans    Rigveda
• Brahmanism    Buddhism    Siddhartha Gautama 563 - 483 BC    Ashoka
• China    Shang c. 1500 - 1050 BC    Zhou c. 1050 - 256 BC    Han 206 BC - 220 AD
• Confucius 551 - 479 BC    Daoism    Legalism

The Glory that was Greece

• Early "Greek" civilizations
  • Minoan   Mycenaean    The Polis   
• Classical Greece    Athens    Sparta     Peloponnesian Wars
• The Great Philosophers:   Socrates    Plato    Aristotle
• Alexander the Great    Seleucid    Ptolemaic    Antigonid
  [for a student submitted link page about Alexander - click here]
• Hellenistic Era   Culture    Commerce    Philosophy
  Epicurus 320 - 270 BC    Zeno 335 - 262 BC    Aristarchus of Samos 310 - 230 BC
• Euclid    Archimedes    Eratosthenes

The Grandeur that was Rome

• The Early Republic   Patricians and Plebians   The Carthaginian Wars     Hannibal     Scipio Africanus
• Late Republic Augustus and the Early Empire   Jesus Christ and the Early Christian Church 
• Later Empire   Marcus Aurelius   Constantine
• The Byzantine Empire