A. Beginnings.
- The Minoans.
- The Mycenaeans.
- Homer.
- Greek Deities.
- The Delphic Oracle.
- The Olympic Games.
- The Typical Polis.
- Sparta.
- The Assembly.
- The Ephors.
- The Council of Elders.
- Athens.
- Draco.
- Solon.
- Peisistratus.
- Cleisthenes.
- The Persian Wars.
- Marathon.
- Pericles.
- Thucydides.
- Aspasia.
- The Peloponnesian War.
- The Delian League.
A. Quest for Beauty and Meaning.
- Myron.
- Praxiteles.
- Aeschylus.
- Euripides.
- Sophocles.
- Aristophanes.
- The Sophists.
- Socrates.
- Plato.
- Aristotle.
- Herodotus.
- Pythagoras.
- Hippocrates.
- The Macedonians.
- Philip II.
- Alexander the Great.
- Hellenistic.
- Alexandria.
- Diogenes.
- Zeno.
- Aristarchus.
A. The Roman Republic.
- Indo-Europeans.
- The Etruscans.
- Romulus.
- Tarquins.
- The Roman Republic.
- The Twelve Tables.
- Legionaries.
- The First Punic War.
- The Second Punic War.
- Hannibal.
- The Carthaginians.
- The Third Punic War.
- Spartacus.
- The Gracchi.
- Marius.
- Julius Caesar.
- The Triumvirate.
- Augustus Caesar.
- The Pax Romana.
- The Julio-Claudian Emperors.
- The Good Emperors.
- The Circus Maximus.
- The Colosseum.
- The Pantheon.
- The Appian Way.
- Aqueducts.
- Ptolemy.
- Galen.
- Virgil.
- Livy.
- Tacitus.
- Judaism.
- Jesus of Nazareth.
- Paul.
- Christian Martyrs.
- Constantine.
- Theodosius.
- Augustine.
- The Christian Church.
- Emperor Commodus.
- Political Instability.
- Diocletian.
- The Edict of Prices.
- Theodosius I.
- Barbarians.
- The Visigoths.
- The Huns.
- The Vandals.
A. Early Africa.
- Oral Traditions.
- The Nubians.
- The Kush.
- Piankhi.
- Axum.
- Ezana.
- The Nok.
- The Bantu Migrations.
- The Ghana.
- The Almoravids.
- Mali.
- Mansa Musa.
- Timbuktu.
- The Songhai.
- Askia Muhammad.
- The Bantu.
- The Great Zimbabewe.
- The Changamire Empire.
V. India's Great Civilization.
A. Origins of Hindu India.
- The Aryans.
- The Rig-Veda.
- The Caste System.
- Bhagavad Gita.
- The Mahabharata.
- The Ramayana.
- Hinduism.
- The Upanishads.
- Jainism.
- Siddhartha Gautama.
- Four Noble Truths.
- The Eightfold Path.
- The Mauryan Empire.
- Asoka.
- The Gupta Empire.
- Chandragupta I.
- Chandragupta II.
- The Panchatantra.
- Shakuntala.
VI. China's Flourishing Civilization.
A. Three Great Dynasties.
- The Zhou.
- The Qin.
- Qin Shihuangdi.
- The Great Wall of China.
- The Han.
- Liu Bang.
- Wudi.
- The Silk Road.
- The Pax Sinica.
- Civil Service.
- Confucianism.
- Kongfuzi Confucius.
- The Analects.
- Legalism.
- Daoism.
- Laozi.
- Buddhism.
- The Five Classics.
- The Historical Record.
- Acupuncture.
A. The New Rome.
- The Byzantine Empire.
- Constantinople.
- Justinian.
- Theodora.
- The Corpus of Civil Law.
- Hagia Sophia.
- Leo III.
- Iconoclasts.
- Schism.
- The University of Constantinople.
- Monasteries.
- Cyril.
- The West Slavs.
- The South Slavs.
- The Eastern Slavs.
- Kiev.
- Vladimir.
- Yaroslav.
- The Mongols.
- Novgorod.
- Moscow.
- Ivan III.
- The Kremlin.
A. A New Faith.
- The Bedouin.
- Muhammad.
- Makkah.
- Muslims.
- Islam.
- The Hijrah.
- The Madinah Compact.
- The Quran.
- The Shari'ah.
- The Five Pillars of Islam.
- Abu Bakr.
- The Sunnis.
- The Shiites.
- The Umayyad Dynasty.
- The Abbasids.
- Bazaars.
- The House of Wisdom.
- The Canon of Medicine.
- Kalila and Dimna.
- The Rubaiyat.
A. Frankish Rulers.
- The Dark Ages.
- Clovis.
- Charles Martel.
- Pepin the Short.
- Charlemagne.
- The Frankish Empire.
- The Treaty of Verdun.
- The Vikings.
- Eddas.
- Feudalism.
- Chivalry.
- Manorialism.
- The Pope.
- Benedict.
- Gregory I.
- Innocent III.
- Heresy.
- The Albigensians.
- The Inquisition.
- Friars.
- The Jews.
- The Celts.
- Alfred the Great.
- The Norman Conquest.
- Battle of Hastings.
- William the Conqueror.
- Henry I.
- Henry II.
- The Magna Carta.
- Henry III.
- The Great Council.
- Hugh Capet.
- Louis VI.
- Philip Augustus.
- The Holy Roman Empire.
- King Otto I.
A. The Crusades.
- The High Middle Ages.
- The Crusades.
- The Seljuk Turks.
- Pope Urban II.
- The First Crusade.
- The Second Crusade.
- Pope Eugenius IV.
- The Third Crusade.
- Saladin.
- Richard I.
- The Fourth Crusade.
- Banking.
- Towns.
- The Bubonic Plague.
- Guilds.
- The Bourgeoisie.
- Communes.
- Universities.
- Scholasticism.
- Peter Abelard.
- Sic et Non.
- Thomas Aquinas.
- Summa Theologica.
- Beowulf.
- Troubadours.
- The Divine Comedy.
- The Canterbury Tales.
- Gothic.
- The Hundred Years' War.
- Joan of Arc.
- Louis XI.
- King Henry VII.
- Ferdinand and Isabella.
- The Spanish Inquisition.
- The Great Schism.
- John Wycliffe.
- The Lollards.
- Jan Hus.
- Hussites.
A. Central Asia.
- The Seljuk Turks.
- The Mongols.
- Genghis Khan.
- Timur Lenk.
- The Tang Dynasty.
- Empress Wu.
- Duo Fu.
- The Song Dynasty.
- Zhao Kuangyin.
- The Yuan Dynasty.
- Kublai Khan.
- Marco Polo.
- The Khmer.
- Suryavarman II.
- Angkor Wat.
- Shamanism.
- The Yi Dynasty.
- The Yamato Clan.
- The Taika Reforms.
- The Nara Period.
- The Heian Period.
- The Tale of Genji.
- Yoritomo Minamoto.
- Samurai.
- Bushido.
- The Tale of the Heike.
- Zen.
A. The Early Americans.
- The Kwakiutl.
- The Hohokam
- The Peublo.
- The Apache.
- The Navajo.
- Mound Builders.
- The Iroquois League.
- The Olmec.
- The Maya.
- Pok-a-tok.
- Teotihuacan.
- The Aztec Empire.
- Tenochtitlan.
- The Inca Empire.
- Cuzco.
- Pachacuti.