Primary Sources: Ancient World

Civilization before civilization (2,000,000-3000 BCE) -- Mesopotamia and the Bronze Age (6000-1200 BCE) -- Egypt and the Bronze Age (5000-1200 BCE) -- Coastal civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean (2500-800 BCE) -- Iron Age empires : Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia (850-500 BCE) -- Greece in the Dark and archaic ages (1100-500 BCE) -- Sparta, Athens, and the classical age (500-387 BCE) -- Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic age (387-31 BCE) -- Civilization beyond the Near East, Greece, and Rome (2300-31 BCE) -- The rise of Rome and the Roman Republic (753-120 BCE) -- Crisis, recovery, and the creation of the Principate (150-21 BCE) -- The Roman peace (27 BCE-192 CE) -- Crisis, recovery, and the creation of the late Roman Empire (192-337) -- The Christian empire and the late Roman world (337-476) -- The end of antiquity (476-640).