Highlights of Ancient History

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Readings in the histories of the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Classical Age and the Ancient Ages as a whole by some of the greatest writers.

Some Years listed below are approximate.

Year	Title	Author(s)
c 5900 BC	The Dawn Of Civilization	Gaston Maspero
3800 BC	Archeological Excavation of Crete	Dr. Edgar J. Banks
3800 BC	The Origin of Greek Alphabet Discovered	James Baikie\| \|David G. Hogarth
c 2500 BC	Pyramid Builders of Egypt	George Rawlinson\| \|Arthur Gilman
c 2000 BC	The Earliest Jews	Leopold von Ranke
1754 BC	Code of Hammurabi	Hammurabi
c 2200-275 BC	The Ancient City of Babylon	George Rawlinson
c 1600-1046 BC	First Imperial Dynasty of China	Wolfram Eberhard
1235 BC	Theseus Founds Athens	Plutarch
1200 BC	How the Indian Caste System Began	Gustave Le Bon\| \|William W. Hunter
1184 BC	Fall of Troy	George Grote
953 BC	Solomon Builds the Great Temple	Henry Hart Milman
753 BC	The Foundation of Rome	Barthold Georg Niebuhr
612 BC	Assyrian Empire Destroyed	Francois Lenormant\| \|Emile Chevallier
600 BC	Cyrus Begins the Persian Empire	George Grote
594 BC	Solon’s Early Greek Legislation	George Grote
585 BC	The Ancient Olympics	George Grote
551 BC	Confucius	Robert K. Douglas
510 BC	Romans Establish Republic	Henry G. Liddell
c 500 BC	The Foundation of Buddhism	Thomas W. Rhys-Davids
490 BC	The Battle of Marathon	Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy
480 BC	Battle of Thermopylae	Herodotus
450 BC	Decemvirate In Rome	Henry G. Liddell
444 BC	Pericles	Plutarch
430 BC	The Great Plague at Athens	George Grote
413 BC	Syracuse Defeats Athens	Sir Edward S. Creasy
400 BC	Crisis of Xenophon’s Quest for Home	Xenophon
399 BC	The Last Days of Socrates	Plato
388 BC	Brennus Burns Rome	Barthold Georg Niebuhr
331 BC	Alexander the Great Wins the Battle of Gaugamela	Sir Edward S. Creasy
322 BC	Alexander the Great Reduces Tyre	Oliver Goldsmith

Year	Title	Author(s)
280 BC	Pyrrhus Attacks Rome	Plutarch
264-149 BC	Rome Versus Carthage	Florus
207 BC	Battle of Metaurus	Sir Edward Creasy
202 BC	Scipio Africanus Crushes Hannibal At Zama And Subjugates Carthage	Livy
200 BC	Tartars Invade China 200 BC	Demetrius Charles Boulger
165-141 BC	Maccabaeus Liberates Judea	Josephus
133 BC	The Gracchi and Their Reform	Theodor Mommsen
52 BC	Caesar Conquers Gaul	Napoleon III
51 BC	Cleopatra, Caesar and Antony	John P. Mahaffy
44 BC	Julius Caesar Murdered	Barthold Georg Niebuhr\| \|Plutarch
40 BC	Death of Antony and Cleopatra	Henry George Liddell
9 AD	Arminius Drives Romans Out of Germany	Sir Edward Creasy

Year	Title	Author(s)
14 AD	Germanicus in Germany	Tacitus
c. 30 AD	The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ	Frederic William Farrar
33 AD	Christianity Appears	J. Ernest Renan, Isaac M. Wise, and \|John Cardinal Newman
60 AD	Romans Conquer Britain	Oliver Goldsmith
64 AD	Nero’s Rome Burns	Henryk Sienkiewic\| \|Tacitus
64-68 AD	Nero Persecutes the Christians	Frederic William Farrar
70 AD	Romans Crush Jewish Revolt; Destroy Great Temple	Josephus
79 AD	Volcano Buries Pompeii	Pliny\| \|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
100-200	Roman Empire’s Extent and Defense	Edward Gibbon
100-200	Roman Empire’s Society and Economy	Edward Gibbon
100-200	Roman Empire’s Government	Edward Gibbon
132 AD	The Jews’ Final Revolt Against Rome	Charles Merivale
155 AD	Early Christian Martyrs	Homersham Cox
177	Christians Persecuted in Gaul	François P. G. Guizot
180 AD	Commodus’ Bad Reign	Edward Gibbon
184 AD	Romance of the Three Kingdoms	Luo Guanzhong
240 AD	Reign of Persia’s King Sapor I	George Rawlinson
312 AD	Roman Emperor Constantine Converted	Johann L. Von Mosheim
325	Arianism and the First Nicene Council	Johann L. Von Mosheim\| \|Arthur P. Stanley
330 AD	Constantinople Founded	Edward Gibbon
360	Early Career of Julian the Apostate	Edward Gibbon
395	Final Division of Roman Empire	John B. Bury
410	The Visigoths Sack Rome	Edward Gibbon
441	Attila the Hun Invades the Eastern Roman Empire	Edward Gibbon
451	Attila the Hun Invades the Western Roman Empire	Sir Edward S. Creasy\| \|Edward Gibbon
452	Venice Founded	Thomas Hodgkin\| \|John Ruskin
	Early History of Printing	Henry George Bohn

Prehistory

Year	Title	Author(s)
4.6 BYA	The Moon Begins	Jack Le Moine
122 MYA	Dinosaur True Colors Revealed	Jack Le Moine
7,000 BC	The Green Sahara	Jack Le Moine

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