Barbarians Versus Civilization

Barbarians on Offense

Under Construction

[Video Introduction of Session]

Visigoths Sack Rome

Course Big Civilization

Session 2 Topics

Topic 1 Egypt and Mesopotamia
Topic 2 Early Greece
Topic 3 Rome’s Fall
Topic 4 China’s Wall
Topic 5 The Mongols

Other Sessions

YEAR BC	EVENTS
8000	Mesopotamia: Agriculture Begins
7000	Palestine: Jericho Grows Into Town
6000	Ice Age: Melting Stops
3600	Egypt: Earliest Settlers Arrive
3100	Egypt: First Pharaoh Unites the Land
2700	Egypt: Writing First Developed
2560	Giza: Great Pyramid Built
2100	Fertile Crescent: Abraham Lived
2070	China: First (Xia) Dynasty Begins
2000	Crete: Complex Cities Developed
1800	Babylon: Village Becomes City
1590	Egypt: Joseph Made Overseer
1400	Greece: Early Towns
1100	Greece: Dorians Invade
1100	Middle East: Bronze Age Collapse
800	Middle East: Civilization Revives
753	Rome: Official Date of Founding
509	Rome: Republic Begins
107	Rome: Era of Dictators Begin
27	Rome: Augustus Caesar Establishes Empire
YEAR AD	EVENTS

YEAR AD	EVENTS
378	Adrianole: Visigoths Defeat Romans
410	Rome: City Sacked
451	Chalons: Huns Turned Back
476	Ravenna: Last Roman Emperor Abdicates
900	Scandinavia: Vikings Attack
1206	Mongolia: Ghenghis Khan Unites Tribes
1271	China: Kublai Khan Conquers China

Conflicts seemed to be a normal condition in human life.
People living in a civilization became wealthier. This enabled them to have leisure time.
This created disparity with neighbors without civilization. In short “haves versus have nots”.
Barbarian invasions were caused in part by “haves not” wanting things and lands of “the haves”.

YEAR BC	TITLE	AUTHOR(s)
c 5900	The Dawn of Civilization	Gaston Maspero
3800	Archeological Excavation of Crete	Dr. Edgar J. Banks
3800	The Origin of Greek Alphabet Discovered	James Baikie\| \|David G. Hogarth
1200	How the Indian Caste System Began	Gustave Le Bon
YEAR BC	TITLE	AUTHOR(s)