Ancient History

This curriculum provides resources on ancient history for secondary students, homeschooling parents, and schoolteachers.

(Find ancient narratives for primary students here.)

Texts: The Bible

ANE literature

Herodotus Thucydides

Josephus Plutarch Livy Polybius Virgil

Eusebius

Primeval History

Protology

Scripture

Scientific Chronologies, Ice Age, Dinosaurs, Stone Age

The Flood

Ancient Empires

Egypt

Thutmosis III and IV, Amenhotep III and Akhenaten

Mesopotamia

Austen Henry Layard Sumer Gilgamesh Sargon of Akkad Ur, Abraham Hammurabi

Enuma Elish

Ur, Tigris River, Euphrates

Expanded Lessons:

Israel

David Solomon Kings and Chronicles

Assyrians

Shamshi-adad and Ishmi-dagon

Tiglath-pileser I to Sargon II Shalmaneser III, Jehu and the Black Obelisk Fall of Israel and Samaria, Shalmaneser V and Sargon II Sennacherib and Hezekiah Ashurbanipal and Nahum Esarhaddon 7Destruction of Nineveh

Babylon

Nabopolassar Nebuchadnezzar II, Daniel, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah and Jeremiah The Fall of Jerusalem in 586 Fall of Babylon to Cyrus

Persia

Cyrus Cambyses

Mediterranean powers

Minoans

Phoenicians

China

Core Lessons:

The Five Emperors

The Xia

Shang Dynasty

Greece

Core Lessons:

Homer, Troy, Schliemann

Solon Lycurgus Persian Wars Darius Xerxes

Alexander the Great

Rome

Founding

Core Lessons:

Aeneas, Dido, the founding of Carthage Romulus and Remus (the Sabine women, the Grachii) The Roman Monarchy (Numa, the Tarquins, the Senate) The Roman Republic (Brutus and Collatinus, Cincinnatus) The Punic Wars (Hamilcar Barca, Hannibal, Trasimene, Zama, Scipio Africanus and Scipio Aemilius) Polybius

Expanded Lessons:

Empire

Core Lessons:

Sulla and Marius The Triumvirate: Caesar, Crassus and Pompey Campaigns in Britain Julius Caesar, Campaigns in Gaul Augustus

Judaea

Core Lessons:

Josephus Jesus Christ Caligula, Claudius, Nero and the persecution of Christians. Vespasian and the destruction of Jerusalem

Expanded Lessons: