Discovering the Ancient World – Table of Contents

Unit 1
Orientation
Pre-History

Unit 2
Sumerians c. 4000- 1750 B.C.
Indus Valley c. 3000 -1500 B.C. (short form)

Unit 3
Ancient Egypt c. 4000-2686 B.C.

Old Kingdom c. 2686- 2155 B.C.

Unit 4
Middle Kingdom c. 2040-1786 B.C.
New Kingdom c. 1550 -1085 B.C.

Unit 5
Phoenicians c. 3000- 860 B.C.
Carthage 850- 146 B.C. (short form)

Unit 6
Minoan c. 3500- 1400 B.C

Unit 7
China
Shang c. 1500 -1027 B.C. (short form)
Chou c. 1027- 257 B.C. (short form)

Unit 8
Hittites c. 2000 -1150 B.C. (short form)
Aryan c. 2000- 600 B.C.

Unit 9
Old Babylon c. 2000- 1600 B.C.
Special Project –Mysteries of the Ancient World
Semester test

Unit 10
Mycenaean c. 1600 -1120 B.C.

Unit 11
Olmec c. 1200- 500 B.C. (short form)
Nubia c. 2000- 200 B.C. (short form)

Unit 12
Hebrews –Nomadic period –Exodus to 1025 B.C.

Unit 13
Hebrews –The Kingdom c. 1025 – 926 B.C.

Unit 14
Ancient Greece c. 1150- 500 B.C.
Dark Ages c. 1150 -750 (short form)
Archaic c. 650- 500 B.C. (short form)

Unit 15
Assyria c. 1500- 612 B.C.

Unit 16
Etruscan c. 800- 400 B.C.

Unit 17
Neo-Babylonian c. 612- 539 B.C.

Unit 18
Scythians 800 B.C. -A.D. 200 (short form)

Special Project –Wonders of the Ancient World