Egypt, Greece and Rome

Civilizations of the ancient mediterranean Rediscovering the Ancient World; Egypt, the Gift of the Nile, 3200-1500 bC; Egypt as an Imperial Power, 1500-1000 bC; Daily life in New Kingdom Egypt; The Ancient Near East, 3500-500 bC; The Early Greeks, 2000-700 bC; The Greeks in a Wider World, 800-600 bC; Hoplies and tyrants: the emergence of the city state; Cultural change in the Archaic Age; The Persian Wars. Herodotus and Egypt; Everyday life in classical Greece; Religion and culture in the Greek World; Athens, democracy and empire; From Aeschylus to Aristotle; The struggle of power, 431-338 bC; Alexander of Macedon and the expansion of the greek world; The Hellenistic World. Celts and parthians; The Etruscans and Early Rome; Rome becomes a mediterranean power; From the Gracchi to Caesar, 133-55 bC. Voices from the Republic; The fall of the Roman Republic, 55-31 bC. Women in the Roman Republic; Augustus and the founding of Empire; Consolidating the Empire, ad 14-138; Administering and defending the Empire. The romans as builders; Social and economic life in the Empire; Transformations: the Roman Empire, 138-313; The foundations of Christianity; The Empire in the Fourth Century; The creation of a new Europe, 395-600; The emergence of the Byzantine Empire; Legacies