The Xenophile Historian

Contents

(and malcontents)

Chapter 1: Overview

• Introduction
• Is History Relevant?
• Theories of History
• A Few Words on Calendars and Dates
• What is Civilization?
• The Impact of the Barbarian
• Evolution of Governments
• The Apostasy
• God's Vessel of Redemption
• A Biblical Chronology
• A Proposed Chronology of the Old Testament Era

Chapter 2: Before 3000 B.C.

• God's Limiting Action Against Evil
• Our Middle Eastern Heritage
• The Tower of Confusion
• Characteristics of Babel
• The Descendants of Japheth
• The Descendants of Ham
• The Descendants of Shem
• A Disclaimer About Race
• The Fall and Rise of Civilization

Chapter 3: Early Civilization, A Short History Of The Middle East From 3000 To 1000 B.C.

• The Rise of the Sumerians
• A War-Ravaged Civilization
• The Age of Hammurabi
• The Gift of the Nile
• Most Ancient Egypt
• The Pyramid Age
• Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
• The Middle Kingdom
• The Second Intermediate Period
• Intermission
• The Rise of The New Kingdom
• Imperial Egypt
• The Amarna Revolution
• The Ramessid Age
• The Third Intermediate Period
• The Indo-Europeans
• The Hittites
• The Minoans
• The Mycenaeans
• The Phoenicians
• The Aramaeans
• The Philistines

Chapter 4: God's Vessel Of Revelation, Part I

• Abraham: The Friend of God
• Joseph
• Israel Becomes a Nation
• Kings and Prophets

Chapter 5: The Assyrian And Babylonian Empires

• Introduction to the Age of Empires
• How Assyria Got Started
• The Calah Period
• The New Assyrian Empire
• Assyria Triumphant
• Babylon Replaces Assyria
• The Final Years of Judah
• By the Rivers of Babylon

Chapter 6: The Persian Empire

• The First Shah of Iran
• Kanbujiya (Cambyses) II
• Darayavahush (Darius) I
• Khshayarsha (Xerxes) I
• From Xerxes to Alexander

Chapter 7: The Greek Empires

• Philip of Macedon
• Alexander the Great
• The Wars of the Diadochi (Successors)
• The Diffusion of Greek Culture
• The Ptolemies
• The Seleucid Kingdom
• The Kingdom of the Holy Warriors
• Rome Takes Over

Chapter 8: Ancient Rome

• The Etruscans
• The Founding of Rome
• The Roman Republic: the Early Years
• Rome Becomes the Capital of Italy
• Carthage
• The Punic Wars
• Growing Pains
• The First Triumvirate
• The Second Triumvirate
• The Pax Romana
• Civilization and Economics Under the Pax Romana
• Troubled Times Begin
• The Barbarians Learn New Tricks
• The Soldier Emperors
• Diocletian
• Constantine
• Constantinian Christianity
• Constantine's Successors Muddle Through
• The House of Valentinian
• The Beginning of the End of the Classical World
• Alaric the Visigoth and Gaiseric the Lame
• Attila the Hun
• The Final Collapse

Chapter 9: The Byzantine Or Eastern Roman Empire

• Justinian
• Heraclius
• Against Islam's First Wave
• Macedonian Revival
• The Declining Centuries

Chapter 10: Ten Major Empires Since Rome

• Introduction, Byzantium
• Russia
• Islam
• Germany
• Austria
• Spain and Portugal
• France
• Italy
• Great Britain
• The United States of America, Conclusion

Chapter 11: Classical Greece And The Origins Of Humanism

• What Made Classical Greece So Special?
• The Archaic Period
• Colonization
• Aristocracy, Oligarchy, and Tyranny
• Militant Sparta
• The Athenian Road to Democracy
• The Persian Wars
• Athenian Democracy
• Greek Medicine
• Hellenic Poetry and Drama
• Hellenic Architecture
• Hellenic Sculpture and Pottery
• Athenian Society
• Athenian Imperialism
• Athenian-Spartan Rivalry
• The Peloponnesian War
• Spartan and Theban Ascendancy
• Pre-Classical Greek Religion
• The Early Philosophers
• The Sophists and Socrates
• Plato and Aristotle
• Other Philosophical Developments in the Classical Era
• Greece Rediscovered
• The Rise of the West
• From Faith to Reason
• Feudalism
• England Leads the Way
• The Last Three Hundred Years
• The World as a Greek Colony, and the Apostasy

Chapter 12: God's Vessel Of Revelation, Part II

• The Reluctant Chosen
• The Jewish-Roman War
• Bar Kochba's Revolt
• The Ups and Downs of Christianity and Judaism
• Israel Among the Nations
• The Spread of Christianity

Chapter 13: The New Age Of National Israel

• Early Steps in the Regathering of Israel
• The Father of Modern Zionism
• Promises, Promises
• The Rebuilding of Zion
• The Slide Toward Catastrophe
• Israel's War of Independence
• An Exchange of Arabs for Jews
• The Six Day War
• Where Does Israel Go From Here?

Chapter 14: What's Next?

• What the Prophets Tell Us
• Becoming One World
• One Language?
• The Congress of Vienna
• The League of Nations
• The United Nations
• Safety In Numbers
• One Religion
• One Economy
• The Mark of the Beast
• Where Are We Today?
• Summary: The Ten Most Important Trends in World History

Appendix 1: Problems With Egyptian Chronology

• How the Trouble Started
• The Sothic Cycle
• Alternative Chronologies

Appendix 2: A List Of The Kings Who Ruled The Empires Described In Chapters 5-9

• Assyria
• Lydia
• Media
• Babylon
• Persia
• Macedonia
• The Seleucids
• The Ptolemies
• Rome
• Byzantium

Appendix 3: A List Of Major Events In The History Of Islam

Bibliography

List Of Pictures & Maps

My Biblical Chronology, From Adam to the Exile

© Copyright 2003 Charles Kimball