Contents

Contents : internet links; discovering the past; Early civilizations - the first farmers, the first towns; The Mesopotamian World - Babylon, Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Persia; Ancient Egypt; History - Tutankhamun, Rameses II; Royalty and Religion; Everyday Life; Ancient Egypt factfinder; Ancient Greece; Early Greece - Minoan, Mycenaeans, Troy, Trojan War, The Dark Ages; Archaic Greece - Sparta, Hoplites, Persian Wars; Classical Greece - Athens, Acropolis, Sparta, Peloponnesian Wars; Everyday Life - Greeks houses; Macedonia and the Hellenistic World - Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Roman conquest; Ancient Greece factfinder; Roman World - the town of Pompeii; Early Rome; the Roman Republic - conquest of Italy, mediterranean, the life of Caesar; the roman empire; everyday life; the end of empire - the rise of Christianity, Barbarians and Byzantines, legacy of Rome, lasting Latin; roman world factfinder; ancient world factfinder - Who’s who; time chart; glossary; index; acknowledgements;