World History

Aesop was an Ethiopian slave in the 600's B.C. Greece. He is counted as the author of self-titled Aesop's Fables- a collection of short stories each containing a simple moral message. http://www.conservapedia.com/Aesop%27s_Fables

Africa is the continental landmass to the southwest of Asia, with its only physical land connection being the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt... http://www.conservapedia.com/Africa

Alexander the Great was born in 356 BC to Philip II of Macedon. http://www.conservapedia.com/Alexander_the_Great

Greek is an Indo-European language, primarily spoken in Greece and Cyprus. http://www.conservapedia.com/Ancient_Greek

Ancient history can be defined as all that happened from the creation of the world until AD 600. http://www.conservapedia.com/Ancient_history

Aramaic was the language of Jesus. http://www.conservapedia.com/Aramaic

Archimedes (287 BC – 212 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher. http://www.conservapedia.com/Archimedes

Assyria was a very ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia. Today that would be in northern Iraq. http://www.conservapedia.com/Assyria

Athens is the capital of modern Greece and was a famous city state in its early history. http://www.conservapedia.com/Athens

Babylon was the main city of ancient Mesopotamia. Hammurabi was Babylonia's greatest ruler during roughly 1800-1750 BC. http://www.conservapedia.com/Babylon

The Celts were a people who lived in Europe at the time of the Roman Empire. http://www.conservapedia.com/Celt

Chaldean has both a historical and a modern meaning. http://www.conservapedia.com/Chaldean

Culture is the way of life of a people, or nation. http://www.conservapedia.com/Culture

Cuneiform is the earliest known form of writing. http://www.conservapedia.com/Cuneiform

Daniel was a prophet who lived during the time of Nebuchadnezzar and Darius's reign in Babylon. http://www.conservapedia.com/Daniel_%28prophet%29

King David was the second king of Israel from 1010-970 BC. http://www.conservapedia.com/David

Egypt is a country located in north-east Africa, and is the site of one of the oldest recorded civilizations on earth. http://www.conservapedia.com/Egypt

Euclid was a Greek mathematician who lived 325-365 B.C. in Hellenistic Alexandria. http://www.conservapedia.com/Euclid

The word fable comes from the Latin fabula, where it simply means "story." http://www.conservapedia.com/Fable

Hellenistic means anything relating to Greek history, culture, and art after the life of Alexander the Great. http://www.conservapedia.com/Hellenistic

Herodotus lived from 484 to 425 BC. He was a Greek historian who is regarded as the father of history. http://www.conservapedia.com/Herodotus

Hittite was an Indo-European language spoken in an area that is now part of modern Turkey. http://www.conservapedia.com/Hittite

Homer (8th century B.C.) was a Greek poet and the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. http://www.conservapedia.com/Homer

The Iliad is an epic poem widely believed to have been written by Homer, the legendary blind Greek poet, in the 8th century B.C. http://www.conservapedia.com/Iliad

An invention is a breakthrough in thought that is constructed or applied in physical reality that leads to a new creation that usually has practical application. http://www.conservapedia.com/Invention

The State of Israel is a nation located in the Middle East. http://www.conservapedia.com/Israel

Jerusalem is the official capital of the country of Israel, although it is not recognised as such diplomatically outside of Israel. http://www.conservapedia.com/Jerusalem

A language is a collection of symbols (called vocabulary) and rules for connecting these symbols (called grammar) that facilitates communication. http://www.conservapedia.com/Language

Mesopotamia (mes-uh-puh-TAY-mee-uh from the Greek, "land between the rivers") refers to that region, generally along and between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (in modern Iraq), where civilisation first appeared some time before 3000 B.C. http://www.conservapedia.com/Mesopotamia

Nebuchadnezzar I was the emperor of the Babylonian Empire from 1146 to 1123 BC. http://www.conservapedia.com/Nebuchadnezzar_I

Nineveh was the last capital of the Assyrian empire from 5000 until 612 BC when it was destroyed by the Babylonians. http://www.conservapedia.com/Nineveh

The Odyssey was an epic poem written by Homer, a Greek poet, in the 8th century B.C. http://www.conservapedia.com/Odyssey

The Olympics are an Ancient Greek sporting event that was held from 776 B.C. to A.D. 394 and resurrected as a world-wide modern competition in the late 19th century. http://www.conservapedia.com/Olympics

The Persian Empire, in antiquity, was the largest geographical empire in its time, at its height stretching from India (at the Ganges and Mula, respectively) all the way into southern Europe and down to Egypt, primarily under Cyrus the Great. http://www.conservapedia.com/Persian_Empire

Pharaoh is the term generally used today to refer to the Kings of Ancient Egypt, including the Hyksos and Ptolemaic rulers, but usually not the Persian rulers, though many of them did have a formal Egyptian royal titulary drawn up. http://www.conservapedia.com/Pharaoh

Plato was a great Greek philosopher who lived from 428 to 347 BC. http://www.conservapedia.com/Plato

Poetry is the most compressed form of literature. http://www.conservapedia.com/Poetry

"Religion" refers to a set of core beliefs upon which people base their lives. http://www.conservapedia.com/Religion

King Saul (r.1095BC-1055BC according to Ussher,[1] or r. 1050-1010 BC according to Thiele[2]) was the first king of the United Kingdom of Israel. http://www.conservapedia.com/Saul

Science is a methodology for discovering and classifying knowledge. http://www.conservapedia.com/Science

Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher, who lived between approximately 470 and 399 BC. http://www.conservapedia.com/Socrates

Solomon (c.1000 BC - c.930 BC) was the third King of Israel between c. 970 BC and c. 930 BC. http://www.conservapedia.com/Solomon

Sparta was a Greek city state known for its military strength. http://www.conservapedia.com/Sparta

Thucydides (455-395 B.C.) was the first scientific historian in ancient Greece. http://www.conservapedia.com/Thucydides

Trade in its simplest form is the exchange of goods and services between peoples. http://www.conservapedia.com/Trade

The Trojan Horse was a mythological device used during the Trojan War. http://www.conservapedia.com/Trojan_Horse