Disc 1. How do we know what happened?. What is history; what is archaeology? -- Earliest people. The first nomads -- The first nomades become farmers -- Egyptians lived on the Nile River. Two kingdoms become one -- Gods of ancient Egypt -- The first writing. Hieroglyphs and cuneiform -- The Old kingdom of Egypt. Making mummies -- Egyptian pyramids -- First Sumerian dictator. Sargon and the Akkadians -- Jewish people. God speaks to Abraham -- Joseph goes to Egypt -- Hammurabi and Babylonians. Hammurabi's code -- Disc 2. Assyrians. Shamshi-Adad, king of the whole world -- The story of Gilgamesh -- First cities of India. The river road -- The mystery of Mohenjo-Dateo -- The Far East : ancient China. Lei Zu and the silkworm -- The pictograms of ancient China -- Farming in anient china -- Ancient Africa. Ancient peoples of West Africa -- Anansi and Turtle -- Anansi and the make-believe food -- The Middle kingdom of Egypt. Egypt invades Nubia -- The Hyksos invade Egypt -- The New kingdom of Egypt. General and teh woman Pharoah -- Disc 3. Amenhotep and King Tut -- The Israelites leave Egypt. Baby Moses -- Exodus from Egypt -- The Phoenicians. Phoenician traders -- The founding of Carthage -- The return of Assyria. Ashurbanipal's attack -- The library of Ninebvah -- Babylon takes over again. Nebuchadnezzar's madness -- Hanging gardens of Babylon -- Life in early Crete. Bull-jumpers and sailors -- King Minos and the minotaur -- Mysterious end of the Minoans -- The early Greeks. The Mycenaeans -- The Greek dark ages -- Greece gets civilized again. Greece gets an alphabet -- Disc 4. The stories of Homer -- The first Olympic games -- The Medes and the Persians. A new empire -- Cyrus the great -- Sparta and Athens. Life in Sparta -- Life in Athens -- Greek gods. The golden apple -- Wars of the Greeks. Greece's war with Persia -- The Greeks fight each other -- Alexander the Great. Philip and his son -- Alexander's invasions -- Death of Alexander -- People of the Americas . Nazca drawings -- Head of the Olmecs --
Disc 5. Rabbit shoots the Sun
Rise of Rome. Romulus and Remus
The Roman empire. Roman gods
Rome's war with Carthage. Punic Wars
Aryans of India. Life on the Ganges River
The castes of Ancient India
Mauryan empire of India. The empire united
Disc 6. China, writing and the Qin. Calligraphy in China - Warring states
First emperor and the Great Wall
The first Emperor's grave
Confucius. China's wise teacher
The rise of Julius Caesar. Caesar is kidnapped
Caesar the hero. Caesar fights the Celts
Caesar crosses the Rubicon
First Roman prince. Augustus Caesar
Beginning of Christianity. The birth of Jesus
Jesus crucified and resurrected
The end of the ancient Jewish nation. The destruction of teh temple
Disc 7. Rome and the Christians. Nero, the evil emperor
Christians in the catacombs
The emperor is a Christian!
Rome begins to weaken. British rebellion
Attacking barbarians. Attila the Hun
Stilicho, Roman and barbarian
The coming of the Visigoths
The end of Rome. The last Roman emperor
