COMPLETE 72-LESSON ANCIENT HISTORY COURSE
ANCIENT HISTORY VIDEO LESSONS
Lesson 1 will open on August 15, 2025. Before then, enjoy sample lessons and free YouTube lessons.
| Lesson | Topic | Key Kingdoms | Regions/Geography |
| 1 | Why Study Ancient History? The Power of Kingdoms and Stories | Pre-Classical Realms: Eden, Sumer, Mythical Foundations | Continents, Oceans, Latitude, Longitude, Geographic Tools, maps and globes, hemispheres, equator awareness |
| 2 | Mapping the First Cities: Where Civilization Began | Ur, Uruk, Jericho, Early Walled Settlements, ziggurats, walled cities, first kings | Mesopotamia, Canaan, Nile Valley, Fertile Crescent, river valleys, cradle of civilization, flood cycles |
| 3 | Migration and Memory: How Peoples Moved and Cultures Spread | Nomadic Tribes, Ancestor Clans, Proto-Kingdom Migrations, clan symbols, animal herders, oral tradition | Ancient Migration Routes, Ancestral Connections, Global View, ancient trails, seasonal movement, ancestral memory |
| 4 | Desert Kingdoms of the Americas: Harsh Lands, Hidden Power | Ancestral Puebloans, Moche, Nazca, Desert Adaptation Kingdoms, adobe cities, cliff dwellings, ceremonial pottery | Southwest North America, Andes Mountains, Desert Basins, oasis life, survival skills, sun-scorched trade paths |
| 5 | Saharan and Arabian Desert Kingdoms: Survival and Sovereignty | Kingdoms of Kush, Arabian Tribes, Tuareg, Berber Peoples, clan symbols, animal herders, oral tradition, camel trade routes, incense trails, desert fortresses | Sahara Desert, Arabian Peninsula, Nile Corridor, river valleys, cradle of civilization, flood cycles, oasis life, survival skills, sun-scorched trade paths |
| 6 | History begins: writing | Sumer, Mesopotamia | business records |
| 7 | River domination | Sumer, Akkad, Sargon’s empire | Tigris/Euphrates |
| 8 | River domination | Daily life series Hammurabi’s Babylon | Tigris/Euphrates |
| 9 | Written law code | Hammurabi’s Babylon | Tigris/Euphrates |
| 10 | Mediterranean migrations | Tyre, Egypt, Minos, Mycenae, Carthage, Canaan | |
| 11 | Mediterranean trade (phoenicians) | Tyre, Egypt, Minos, Mycenae, Carthage, Canaan | |
| 12 | Canaan | Canaan, Egypt | |
| 13 | Covenant | Canaan, Egypt, Hebron, Sodom | |
| 14 | Exodus | ||
| 15 | 10 commandments | ||
| 16 | Saul’s kingdom | Canaan, Hebron, Gaza | |
| 17 | David’s kingdom | Mt. Moriah | |
| 18 | Solomon’s kingdom | Daily life series Add somewhere, Israel, Egypt, Sheeba, Ethiopia | |
| 19 | Kingdom of judah | Babylon, Assyria, Egypt | |
| 20 | Fall of judah | Babylon | Canaan, Tigris, Euphrates, Mesopotamia, river valleys, cradle of civilization, flood cycles |
| 21 | Pain Before Glory – Introduction to Greek History | Greece, Peloponesse | |
| 22 | Ancient Minoans on Crete | Minos, Knossos | Crete, Linear B |
| 23 | Myceneans | Mycenae, Athens, Sparta | Argolis, Attica, Laconia |
| 24 | Troy and trade/bronze age colapse | Troy, Mycenae, Athens, Ithaca | Anatolia |
| 25 | The Trojan War | Troy, Mycenae, Athens, Ithaca | |
| 26 | Shadow of war [developing classical ideal] | theater, religion, virtue | |
| 27 | Delphi and corinth | Corinth, Isthmus, Delphi, regions | Isthmus, trade, colony |
| 28 | Panhellenic games ; pan athenaic festivals | Megara, more colonies | |
| 29 | Ancient Sparta | ||
| 30 | Developing government | Athens | |
| 31 | The athenian ideals (core classical) | Daily life series | |
| 32 | Persian wars begin | Athens, Colonies | Marathon, Anatolia, |
| 33 | Persian wars end | Thermopylae, Platea, Salamis | Athens, Pireaus, Sparta |
| 34 | Athens golden age of pericles | ||
| 35 | Parthenon and architecture | ||
| 36 | The peloponnesian war | ||
| 37 | Socrates and plato | ||
| 38 | Plato and aristotle | ||
| 39 | Philip, attalus, aristotle, alexander | ||
| 40 | Young alexander | Philippi, Macedonia | landscape, sheep grazing |
| 41 | Alexander the great and spread of hellenism | ||
| 42 | Expansion of classical influence | Greece, Hellenistic, Carthage | Mediterranean |
| 43 | Virgil’s aeneid storytime | ||
| 44 | Latins, etruscans | Latium, Alba Longa, Rome | |
| 45 | Patricians, plebeians, government | Consul, Dictator | Cincinnatus |
| 46 | The punic wars | ||
| 47 | Conquering greece and adopting ideals | ||
| 48 | People’s struggles, marius, sulla | ||
| 49 | Pompey fights pirates (caesar) | ||
| 50 | Cicero, cato, pliny, tacitus | Roman leaders | |
| 51 | Expanding rome beyond gaul | Caesar, Pompey, Egypt, Marc Antony | |
| 52 | The first triumvirate 50’s bc | ||
| 53 | Crossing the rubicon | ||
| 54 | Caesar’s egypt | ||
| 55 | Caesar’s ambition | ||
| 56 | Caesar’s legacy (republic, civil war) | ||
| 57 | Hero worship in philippi | Philippi, Rome, | Troas, Macedonia, Aegean |
| 58 | Pax romana and virgil’s aeneid | ||
| 59 | Temple destruction in jerusalem | Judea, Rome | |
| 60 | Hadrian in athens ?? trajan? | ||
| 61 | Marcus aurelius the last good emperor | Rome, Germania | Germania |
| 62 | Roman chrisitanity under constantine | ||
| 63 | New testament stories | Judea, Rome | |
| 64 | Sermon on the mount | Judea, Rome | |
| 65 | Early church history | Judea, Ephesus, Rome | |
| 66 | Roman christianity before constantine | ||
| 67 | Constantinople | ||
| 68 | Decline of rome: weak emperors | ||
| 69 | Decline of rome: outer forces | ||
| 70 | Decline of rome: eocnomics | ||
| 71 | Fall of western rome and its impact | ||
| 72 | Why are you here? history reflection |
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