Full Curriculum (72 Lessons)
A complete journey from the first kingdoms to the fall of Rome.
Part 1: Beginnings (Lessons 1-31)
From the dawn of civilization to the first clash with Persia.
Why Study History?
The First Kingdoms
Ancient Migrations
Harsh Lands & Deserts
Ancient Economics
The Dawn of Writing
The First Empire: Akkad
Hammurabi's Code
Egypt: Gift of the Nile
Abraham & The Covenant
Joseph in Egypt
Egypt's New Kingdom
The Exodus & Law
Kings Saul & David
King Solomon's Temple
The Phoenician Traders
The Assyrian Empire
Babylon's Hanging Gardens
Fall of Judah & Rise of Persia
The Silk & Royal Roads
Agon: Greek Beginnings
The Minoans of Crete
The Mycenaeans
The Bronze Age Collapse
The Trojan War
The Classical Ideal
Delphi & Corinth
The Olympic Games
The Origins of Sparta
The Origins of Athens
The Battle of Marathon
Part 2: The Glory of Greece (Lessons 32-42)
From the heights of the Classical Age to the world of Alexander the Great.
Thermopylae: 300 Spartans
The Battle of Salamis
Plataea & The Delian League
The Age of Pericles
Peloponnesian War
Socrates & Philosophy
Plato & Aristotle
Philip II of Macedon
Alexander the Great
The Hellenistic World
Hellenistic Thought
Part 3: The Might of Rome (Lessons 43-72)
From the founding of the Republic to the fall of the Western Empire.
Rome's Mythic Origins
The Roman Republic
The Punic Wars
Hannibal vs. Scipio
The Gracchi Brothers
Marius & Sulla: Civil War
Spartacus & Crassus
Cicero & The Senate
Caesar, Pompey & Antony
The First Triumvirate
Crossing the Rubicon
Caesar in Egypt
The Ides of March
Caesar's Legacy
Hero Worship in Philippi
Pax Romana & Virgil
Fall of Jerusalem (70 AD)
Emperor Hadrian in Athens
Marcus Aurelius
Constantine & Christianity
New Testament Content
The Sermon on the Mount
Early Church History
Early Christian Persecution
Constantinople
Decline of Rome
American Government 1
American Government 2
American Government 3
The Fall & Legacy of Rome
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ANCIENT HISTORY VIDEO LESSONS
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| Lesson | Topic | Key Kingdoms | Regions/Geography | Links |
| 1 | Why Study Ancient History? The Power of Kingdoms and Stories | Pre-Classical Realms: Eden, Sumer, Mythical Foundations | https://classicalkingdoms.com/why-study-history-lesson-1/ | YouTube video → |
| 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 | YouTube video → |
| 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 | YouTube video → |
| 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 | YouTube video → |
| 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 | YouTube video → |
| 6 | History begins: writing | Sumer, Mesopotamia | business records | YouTube video → |
| 7 | River domination | Sumer, Akkad, Sargon’s empire | Tigris/Euphrates | YouTube: coming soon |
| 8 | River domination | Daily life series Hammurabi’s Babylon | Tigris/Euphrates | YouTube: coming soon |
| 9 | Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt | Pyramids, Upper and Lower Egypt | https://classicalkingdoms.com/9-old-and-middle-kingdom-egypt-lesson-page/ | YouTube: coming soon |
| 10 | Canaan and Covenant: Abraham the Patriarch | Canaan, Egypt | https://classicalkingdoms.com/9-old-and-middle-kingdom-egypt-lesson-page/ | YouTube: coming soon |
| 11 | Mediterranean trade (phoenicians) | Tyre, Egypt, Minos, Mycenae, Carthage, Canaan | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 12 | Canaan | Canaan, Egypt | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 13 | Covenant | Canaan, Egypt, Hebron, Sodom | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 14 | Exodus | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 15 | 10 commandments | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 16 | Saul’s kingdom | Canaan, Hebron, Gaza | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 17 | David’s kingdom | Mt. Moriah | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 18 | Solomon’s kingdom | Daily life series Add somewhere, Israel, Egypt, Sheeba, Ethiopia | https://classicalkingdoms.com/babylonian-exile-lesson-18/ | YouTube: coming soon |
| 19 | Babylonian Empire and Judah’s Exile | Babylon, Judah, Egypt | https://classicalkingdoms.com/babylonian-exile-lesson-18/ | YouTube: coming soon |
| 20 | Fall of judah | Babylon | Canaan, Tigris, Euphrates, Mesopotamia, river valleys, cradle of civilization, flood cycles | YouTube: coming soon |
| 21 | Pain Before Glory – Introduction to Greek History | Greece, Peloponesse | YouTube video → | Lesson Material → | |
| 22 | Ancient Minoans on Crete | Minos, Knossos | Crete, Linear B | YouTube video → | Lesson Material → |
| 23 | Myceneans | Mycenae, Athens, Sparta | Argolis, Attica, Laconia | YouTube video → |
| 24 | Troy and trade/bronze age colapse | Troy, Mycenae, Athens, Ithaca | Anatolia | YouTube video → |
| 25 | The Trojan War | Troy, Mycenae, Athens, Ithaca | YouTube video → | |
| 26 | Shadow of war [developing classical ideal] | theater, religion, virtue | YouTube video → | |
| 27 | Delphi and corinth | Corinth, Isthmus, Delphi, regions | Isthmus, trade, colony | YouTube video → |
| 28 | Panhellenic games ; pan athenaic festivals | Megara, more colonies | YouTube video → | |
| 29 | Ancient Sparta | YouTube video → | Lesson Material → | ||
| 30 | Developing government | Athens | YouTube video → | |
| 31 | The athenian ideals (core classical) | Daily life series | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 32 | Persian wars begin | Athens, Colonies | Marathon, Anatolia, | YouTube: coming soon |
| 33 | Persian wars end | Thermopylae, Platea, Salamis | Athens, Pireaus, Sparta | YouTube: coming soon |
| 34 | Athens golden age of pericles | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 35 | Parthenon and architecture | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 36 | The peloponnesian war | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 37 | Socrates and plato | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 38 | Plato and aristotle | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 39 | Philip, attalus, aristotle, alexander | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 40 | Young alexander | Philippi, Macedonia | landscape, sheep grazing | YouTube: coming soon |
| 41 | Alexander the great and spread of hellenism | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 42 | Expansion of classical influence | Greece, Hellenistic, Carthage | Mediterranean | YouTube: coming soon |
| 43 | Virgil’s aeneid storytime | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 44 | Latins, etruscans | Latium, Alba Longa, Rome | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 45 | Patricians, plebeians, government | Consul, Dictator | Cincinnatus | YouTube: coming soon |
| 46 | The punic wars | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 47 | Conquering greece and adopting ideals | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 48 | People’s struggles, marius, sulla | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 49 | Pompey fights pirates (caesar) | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 50 | Cicero, cato, pliny, tacitus | Roman leaders | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 51 | Expanding rome beyond gaul | Caesar, Pompey, Egypt, Marc Antony | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 52 | The first triumvirate 50’s bc | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 53 | Crossing the rubicon | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 54 | Caesar’s egypt | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 55 | Caesar’s ambition | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 56 | Caesar’s legacy (republic, civil war) | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 57 | Hero worship in philippi | Philippi, Rome, | Troas, Macedonia, Aegean | YouTube: coming soon |
| 58 | Pax romana and virgil’s aeneid | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 59 | Temple destruction in jerusalem | Judea, Rome | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 60 | Hadrian in athens ?? trajan? | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 61 | Marcus aurelius the last good emperor | Rome, Germania | Germania | YouTube: coming soon |
| 62 | Roman chrisitanity under constantine | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 63 | New testament stories | Judea, Rome | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 64 | Sermon on the mount | Judea, Rome | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 65 | Early church history | Judea, Ephesus, Rome | YouTube: coming soon | |
| 66 | Roman christianity before constantine | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 67 | Constantinople | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 68 | Decline of rome: weak emperors | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 69 | Decline of rome: outer forces | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 70 | Decline of rome: eocnomics | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 71 | Fall of western rome and its impact | YouTube: coming soon | ||
| 72 | Why are you here? history reflection | YouTube: coming soon |
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