Summary: Book I of the “Story of the World” series. Focuses on the civilizations surrounding the Mediterranean Sea from the time of Abraham to the birth of Christ. Brief histories of the Ancient Israelites, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Scythians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans are given, concluding with the conquest of the entire Mediterranean by Rome. Important myths and legends that preceded recorded history are also related. Ages 9-18 (Summary from the Baldwin Project)
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Total running time: 4 hours, 53 minutes
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# 01 – The Home of Abraham
# 02 – Into Africa
# 03 – An Old Trade-Route
# 04 – Joseph in Egypt
# 05 – The Story of the Nile Flood
# 06 – In A Strange Land
# 07 – The Children of Israel
# 08 – Back to the Fatherland
# 09 – The First Merchant Fleet
# 10 – Conquerors of the Sea
# 11 – Early Pioneers
# 12 – Hiram, King of Tyre
# 13 – King Solomon’s Fleet
# 14 – The Story of Carthage
# 15 – Out of the Shadowland
# 16 – The Story of the Argonauts
# 17 – The Seige of Troy
# 18 – The Adventures of Ulysses
# 19 – The Dawn Of History
# 20 – The Fall Of Tyre
# 21 – The Rise of Carthage
# 22 – Hanno’s Adventures
# 23 – Some More about Greece
# 24 – A Cloud in the East
# 25 – The Battle of Marathon
# 26 – King Ahasuerus
# 27 – How Leonidas Kept the Pass
# 28 – Victory for the Greeks
# 29 – Some Greek Colonies
# 30 – Across the Blue Waters
# 31 – The Beauty of Athens
# 32 – The Death of Socrates
# 33 – Retreat of the Ten Thousand
# 34 – The Story of Romulus and Remus
# 35 – How Horatius Kept the Bridge
# 36 – Coriolanus
# 37 – Alexander the Great
# 38 – King of Macedonia
# 39 – Conquest of the East
# 40 – The Conquest of India
# 41 – Alexander’s City
# 42 – Back to Rome Again
# 43 – A Great Conflict
# 44 – The Roman Fleet
# 45 – Hannibal’s Vow
# 46 – The Adventures of Hannibal
# 47 – The End of Carthage
# 48 – The Triumph of Rome
# 49 – Two Young Romans
# 50 – Julius Caesar
# 51 – The Flight of Pompey
# 52 – The Death of Caesar
# 53 – The Empire of Rome
# 54 – Pax Romana
