Introduction: how do we know what happened?. What is history?. What is archaeology? -- Ch. 1. The earliest people: The first nomads. The first nomads become farmers -- Ch. 2. Egyptians lived on the Nile River: Two kingdoms become one. Gods of Ancient Egypt -- Ch. 3. The first writing: Hieroglyphs and Cuneiforms -- Ch. 4. The Old Kingdom of Egypot: Making mummies. Egyptian pyramids -- Ch. 5. The first Sumerian dictator: Sargon and the Akkadians -- Ch. 6. The Jewish people: God speaks to Abraham. Joseph goes to Egypt -- Ch. 7. Hammurabi and the Babylonians: Hammurabi's Code -- Ch. 8. The Assyrians: Shamshi-Adad, king of the whole world. The story of Gilgamesh -- Ch. 9. The first cities of India: The river-road. The mystery of Mohenjo-Daro -- Ch. 10. The Far East, Ancient China: Lei Zu and the silkworms. The pictograms of Ancient China. Farming in Ancient China -- Ch. 11. Ancient Africa: Ancient peoples of West Africa. Anasi and Turtle. Anansi and make-believe food -- Ch. 12. The Middle Kingdom of Egypt: Egypt invades Nubia. The Hyksos invade Egypt -- Ch. 13. The New Kingdom of Egypt: The general and the woman pharaoh. Amenhotep and King Tut -- Ch. 14. The Israelites leave Egypt: The baby Moses. The Exodus from Egypt -- Ch. 15. The Phoenicians: Phoenician traders. The founding of Carthage -- Ch. 16. The return of Assyria: Ashurbanipal's attack. The Library of Nineveh -- Ch. 17. Babylon takes over again!. Nebuchadbezzar's madness. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon -- Ch. 18. Life in early Crete: Bull-jumpers and sailors. King Minos and the Minotaur. The mysterious end of the Minoans -- Ch. 19. The early Greeks: The Mycenaeans. The Greek Dark Ages -- Ch. 20. Greece gets civilised again: Greece gets an alphabet. The stories of Homer. The first Olympic Games -- Ch. 21. The Medes and the Persians: a new empire. Cyrus the Great -- Ch. 22. Sparta and Athens: Life in Sparta. Life in Athens -- Ch. 23. The Greek Gods: The golden apple -- Ch. 24. The wars of the Greeks: Greece's war with Persia, The Greeks fight each other -- Ch. 25. Alexander the Great: Philip and his son. Alexander's invasions. The death of Alexander -- Ch. 26. The people of the Americas: The Nazca drawings. The heads of the Olmecs. Rabbit shoots the sun -- Ch. 27. The rise of Rome: Romulus and Remus. The power of Rome -- Ch. 28. The Roman Empire: The Roman Gods. The Roman builders. The Roman gladiators. The gladiator school -- Ch. 29. Rome's war with Carthage: The Punic Wars -- Ch. 30. The Aryans of India: Life on the Ganges River. The castes of Ancient India. Siddhartha -- Ch. 31. The Mauryan Empire of India: The empire united. The Jakata tales -- Ch. 32: China, writing and the Qin: Calligraphy in China. Warring states. The First Emperor and the Great Wall. The First Emperor's grave -- Ch. 33. Confucius: China's wise teacher -- Ch. 34. The rise of Julius Caesar: Caesar is kidnapped. The Consuls of Rome. Caesar and the Senate -- Ch. 35. Caesar the hero: Caesar fights the Celts. Caesar crosses the Rubicon. Caesar and Cleopatra. The death of Caesar -- Ch. 36. The first Roman prince: Augustus Caesar -- Ch. 37. The beginning of Christianity: The birth of Jesus. Jesus crucified and resurrected -- Ch. 38. The end of the ancient Jewish nation: The destruction of the Temple -- Ch. 39. Rome and the Christians: Nero, the evil emperor. Christians in the catacombs. The emperor is a Christian! -- Ch. 40. Rome beings to weaken. The British rebellion. Rome divided in two -- Ch. 41. The attacking barbarians: Attila the Hun. Stilicho, Roman and barbarian. The coming of the Visigoths -- Ch. 42. The end of Rome: The last Roman emperor. The gifts of Rome -- Appendix 1. A chronology of ancient times -- Appendix 2. The geography of ancient times -- Appendix 3. Pronouncing the names of ancient times -- Appendix 4. The Abraham story.
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