The Ancient World

CONQUEST, MIGRATIONS, EMPIRE, SLAVERY, AUTHORITARIAN KINGS AND PRIESTHOODS,
PROSTRATIONS, CASTE, RICH AND POOR, SENSE AND NONSENSE

Before 1000 BCE

Billions of Years -- a scientific theory

Dinosaurs, Birds, and Survival

Genes, Ageing and Evolution

Biology, the Brain and History

Origins of War -- from tribal raiding to empire

Primal Religion and Civilizations

Conquest, Empire and Class

After 1000 BCE

India, Empire and Chaos

Empire and the Ancient Chinese

Chaos and War in the Middle East to the 400s BCE

Greeks, War and Hellenistic Civilization

The Roman Republic -- Rise and Demise

The Roman Empire Declines and Disintegrates

The Parthian and Sassanid Empires

Africa, Iron and Empire

The Ancient Japanese

The Americas, Southeast Asia and Oceania

Philosophy to 500 CE

Philosophy in India: Upanishad Writers; Buddhism

Philosophy in China: Confucious, Taoists and Others

The pre-Socratics

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

Cynics, Skeptics, Stoics and Epicureans

Rome and it's Greeks

Religion, 1000 BCE to 500 CE

Changing Hinduism, the Jains and Buddhists

China -- Sacrifices, New Taoism and Blendings

Confucianism and Buddhism to Korea

Myth and the Japanese

Religion and the Ancient Greeks

Ancient Persians and Zoroastrians

The Rise of Judaism

Hellenism and the Jews

The Gods of Early Rome

Manichaeism, a Universalist Faith

Judaism, Christianity and Rome