Table of Contents
Foreword: A Note to Parents vii
Introduction: Your Time Has Come xi
Chapter 1 The Dawn of Civilization 1
Chapter 2 The Gift of the Nile 9
Chapter 3 Egypt in the Pyramid Age 19
Chapter 4 The Land Between Two Rivers 27
Chapter 5 Egyptian Empires 37
Chapter 6 Peoples of the Levant 47
Chapter 7 The God of Israel 57
Chapter 8 The Kingdom of David 69
Chapter 9 The Bearded Kings of the North 79
Chapter 10 The Splendor of Babylon 87
Chapter 11 The Rise of Persia 95
Chapter 12 Peoples of the Isles 105
Chapter 13 The Founding of Greece 115
Chapter 14 Greek Mythology 123
Chapter 15 The Cradle of Democracy 131
Chapter 16 The Persian Wars 141
Chapter 17 Lovers of Wisdom 151
Chapter 18 Greek Against Greek 159
Chapter 19 Alexander the Great 167
Chapter 20 The Hellenistic Age 177
Chapter 21 Greek Science 187
Chapter 22 The Etruscans 195
Chapter 23 The City of Seven Hills 205
Chapter 24 The Punic Wars 213
Chapter 25 Greece and Rome Collide 223
Chapter 26 Marius and Sulla 233
Chapter 27 The Rise and Fall of Julius Caesar 241
Chapter 28 The Coming of Christ 251
Chapter 29 Fishers of Men 261
Chapter 30 Life Under the Julio-Claudians 271
Chapter 31 Five "Good" Emperors 279
Chapter 32 Collapse 287
Chapter 33 The Growth of the Catholic Church 295
Chapter 34 The Empire Divided 303
Chapter 35 In This Sign, Conquer 311
Index 321
