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Ross Arnold, Fall 2013

Footsteps of Faith

The Unlikely

Rise of Greece

Minoan Civilization, 1700-1450 BC

Mycenaean Civilization, 1450-1250 BC

• The Trojan War

• Olympic/Homer

• Aeschylus/Sophocles/Euripides/Aristophanes

• The Concept of the City State

• The Persian Wars

• The Peloponnesian Wars

• The Golden Age of Greece (Pericles, Acropolis &

and All)

• History/Medicine/Architecture/Democracy

• The Delian League & the Athenian Empire

• Socrates, Plato & Aristotle

• Macedonian Period & Alexander

• The Hellenistic Period

Conquests & Empire of Alexander the Great 334-323 BC

Hellenistic World

(Diadochi) after

Alexander–310 BC

Kingdom of

Seleucus

Kingdom of

Ptolemy

Kingdom of

Antigonus

Cassander Lysimachus

The Roman Empire at Its Height

Byzantine (Eastern) Empire Under Justinian

State of Christianity c.AD 565