Introduction

What is history? How do we know what’s happened?

• Revelation

• Records

• Archeology

Usborne Young Scientist Archaeology

Motel of the Mysteries, David Macaualay

Go to Old Testament outline

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

Kingfisher Book of the Ancient World

History Pockets: Ancient Civilizations

Ancient Science, Jim Wiese

History Through the Ages:
Creation through Christ Timeline Figures (abbr. TL)

Mesopotamia: Sumer/Akkadia

Kingfisher, p. 20-1

TL: Sumerian Civ Begins; Akkadian Civ;

Sumerian Cuneiform; Epic of Gilgamesh; Royal Standard of Ur

Mesopotamia: Babylon

Kingfisher, p. 22-3

TL: Hammurabi

Pockets, p. 19-31

Ancient Science, p. 19-29

Cuneiform Numbers

Hittite/Assyrian: Kingfisher, 24-5

TL: Assyrian Civ; Hittite Civ; Ashurbanipal;

Destruction of Ninevah; Powers of Mesopotamia

Also see Old Testament Student Manual p. 113-5

Chaldean Kingfisher 26-8

TL: Hanging Gardens; Nebuchadnezzer; Battle of Carchemish

Phoenician Kingfisher, 90-1

TL: Phoenician Civ

Persian Kingfisher, 94-7

TL: Cyrus, Darius; Xerxes

(can wait to do timeline figures until covered in Old Testament)

India/Indus Valley Kingfisher, 53-61

TL: India and Hinduism; Buddha; Emperor Asoka

China Kingfisher, 40-9

TL: Dynasties---Xiai, Shang, Confucius, Zhou,

Great Wall, Qin, Han

Other Resources:

Pockets, p. 70-81,

Ancient Science 84-101

Go to History Files