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

Science and Philosophy to 500 CE

Philosophy in India: Upanishad Writers; Buddhism -- spiritualists, materialists, Siddartha Gautama

Philosophy in China: Confucious, Taoists and Others -- Mozi, Laozi, Xunzi, Legalists, I-ching, Yin and Yang

The pre-Socratics -- Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras, Xenophanese, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, et cetera

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle -- gods of Homer, nature of idea, categories and science

Cynics, Skeptics, Stoics and Epicureans -- Antithenes, Diogenes, Pyrrho, Arcesilaus, Zeno of Citium, Epicurus

Rome and it's Greeks -- Cicero, Senaca, Plutarch, Lucian versus cynics, Marcus Aurelius, Galen, Plotinus

Religion, 1000 BCE to 500 CE

Changing Hinduism, the Jains and Buddhists

The Religious Impulse in China

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

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