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Scientific Chronologies
Scientific Chronologies

The Flood


== Ancient Empires ==
== Ancient Empires ==

=== Egypt ===

Thutmosis III and IV, Amenhotep
III and Akhenaten


=== Mesopotamia ===
=== Mesopotamia ===


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


=== Phoenicians ===
Phoenicians

=== Israel ===

David
Solomon
Kings and Chronicles


=== Assyrians ===
=== 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 ===
=== Babylon ===

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



=== Persia ===
=== Persia ===


Cyrus
=== ===
Cambyses


== Greece ==
== Greece ==


Core Lessons:
Core Lessons:

Homer, Troy, Schliemann

Solon
Lycurgus
Persian Wars
Darius
Xerxes


Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
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Julius Caesar, Campaigns in Gaul
Julius Caesar, Campaigns in Gaul
Augustus
Augustus

=== Judaea ===

Core Lessons:

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

Revision as of 23:53, 27 October 2025

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

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

Phoenicians

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

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: