Prehistory

Billions of Years - a scientific theory

Hunters, Gatherers, Growers and Gods - to 4000 BCE

Origins of War - tribal raiding to empire

The Middle East and Africa to 1000 BCE

The Sumerians - religious continuity, writing, conquest,
a concept of sin and paradise

Africa including Egypt - to 1750 BCE

Sargon and the Vanishing Sumerians - Mesopotamia, sin
and the Amorites

Creation theory and a Great Flood - surviving Sumerian myths

Hammurabi's Babylon - conquest, dynasty and fall

Mideast Diffusions, Iron and Rubbish - Ethnic
blending, morality stories and disease  

The Hebrews to 1000 BCE - stories of Abraham, Moses and
King David

Asia, Oceania and Europe to 1000 BCE

The Indus Valley and Hindus - lost civilization,
invasion and the rise of Hinduism

The Early Origins of China - empire, religion and human
sacrifice

Europe before 1000 BCE - agriculture, the Mycenae Greeks,
Minoans and a dark age

The Americas, Southeast Asia, Oceania, to 1000 BCE -
and benefits prior to agriculture

A New Age of Literature and Conflict, to 480 BCE

Hindus, Jains and Buddhists - rivalries and a new
Hindu literature

Confucius, Taoists and Change - argument and war
on the North China Plain

Hebrews and Assyrians - from King Solomon and independence
to the Assyrian Empire

Zoroastrians and Judaism - a Jewish state within the
Persian Empire

The Greeks - Homer, class rule and the birth of philosophy

Hellenistic Civilization, to 200  BCE

Greeks, Democracy and Decline - City states and wars,
to the 300s BCE 

Ideas from Anaxagoras to Aristotle - new thinking

Alexander Changes the World - Alexander the Great conquers

Alexander's Empire Disintegrates - ethnic bigotry
and succession problems

Hellenistic Societies - trade, diffusions, prosperity
and misery

Jews, the Septuagint and Ecclesiastes - Hellenism
and tradition

Cynics, Epicureans, Stoics and Skeptics - rival views
into modernity

Rome, Jews and Christians 500 CE

The Rise of Rome - legend, law, compromise and victory,
to 221 BCE

Empire and Politics by Violence - Rome intervenes abroad
and alters itself at home, to 79 BCE

Judea and Civil War - the Maccabees, civil war, independence
and its loss.

From a Republic to Emperor Augustus - Julius Caesar,
civil war and despotism

Jews and Christians in Rome's Golden Age - the Essenes,
Jesus, and Christianity organizes

Family Rule from Tiberius to Nero - from the year 14
to 65

Rome, from Golden Age to Political
Chaos - from prosperity to decay under the Severans

Rome's Decline and Christianity's Ascent - disorder,
despotism and persecutions to the year 306

Rome's Christian Emperors - From Constantine to the siege
of Rome in 410

Augustine Influences Christianity - a new view of Rome

Remnants of the Roman Empire -  Rome disintegrates

Persia under the Sassanids, 162 to 500 CE

Ardashir and the Persians, to 241 - Persian culture
and the Sassanid Empire begins

Manichaeism, a Universalist Faith - the Zoroastrians
priesthood against religious innovation

The Sassanids to 500 CE - Shapur the Great, war, weakness,
communist revolution, and defeat

India, East Asia, Oceania and America, to 500 CE

India, 320 BCE to 120 CE - rise and fall of the Mauryan
Empire

The Gupta Empire and Hinduism - another empire and
dynasty rises and falls apart

The Japanese, Shinto and the Yamato - a new civilization

China to the Fall of the Han Dynasty -  war, ideas
and empire

China and Korea - Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, more
disintegration and rule by murder

Africa, Iron and Empire - aggressions, migrations,
iron and empire

The Americas, Southeast Asia and Oceania - migrations,
order, disorder and demise