Until 500 BC, Rome was ruled by kings. When the last king was driven out, Rome became a republic. Led by the Senate, Rome gradually conquered all of Italy. In 49 BC, the Roman general Julius Caesar seized power. He was stabbed to death by senators, and a series of Read more…
The Macedonian King Philip II, who lived north of Greece, built up a strong army with which he began to conquer the Greek city states. By 338 BC, he controlled all of Greece. When he was murdered, his twenty-year-old son, Alexander became king. Alexander was a brilliant commander who created Read more…
In 490 BC, the Persians invaded Greece. The Greeks fought back and defeated them in a battle at a place called Marathon. A runner carried the good news approximately twenty-six miles to Athens, where he died of exhaustion. The modern marathon races are named after this event. In 480 BC, Read more…
You can read about the fall of Israel and Judah in the Bible just as you can read it in modern history books drawn from a variety of sources. We read the story of the Israelites in the Old Testament of the Bible. The Israelites were the people from whom Read more…
Around 2000 BC, the lands of Sumer and Akkad were invaded by tribes called Amorites. Around 1800 BC, Hammurabi became King of Babylon. He fought the other Amorite kings and conquered the whole of Sumer and Akkad, creating the first Babylonian Empire. He is famous for his Babylonian Law Code. Read more…
A number of things happened around the year 2000 BC. The empire of Sargon arose. Sargon came from Akkad (see map). He was a skilled soldier who built a huge army. He conquered the whole of Sumer and Akkad, possibly creating the world’s first empire. Abraham was born around Read more…
Noah was 500 years old when he had a son named Japheth (Genesis 5:32). Around this time, God instructed Noah to make an ark: “Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. This Read more…
We have much history written by various historians such as the Greek Herodotus, Thucydides from Athens, Eusebius of Caesarea, the Egyptian priest Manetho, Josephus of Jerusalem, and others. It is difficult, however, to put all the events they write about into a timeline. Historians struggle to count the years back Read more…
Sometimes animals bring out the best in us. We love them; they love us back. They do not seem capable of malice, anger, and bitterness which often afflict us. Look at the sweet face of this ferret, a pet of my grandsons. How can we rid ourselves of those negative Read more…
My latest book is now available at Amazon.com. We have much history written by various historians such as Herodotus, Thucydides, Eusebius, and others. It is difficult, however, to put all the events they write about into a timeline. Historians struggle to count the years back from known events to piece Read more…