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Explore the Ancient History BC section at World History Volume, your complete guide to the world before the Common Era. This category covers the rise and fall of the earliest human societies, from prehistoric communities to the great empires of the ancient world. If you are a student, teacher, or history enthusiast searching for reliable articles on early civilizations BC, you will find clear timelines, detailed narratives, and original source-based accounts here.
Begin with the foundations of humanity, including Peking Man, Neanderthal Man, Homo Sapiens, the Mesolithic Age, and the Bronze Age. Learn how agriculture developed in China, how Eridu was founded near the Euphrates, and how settlements grew in the Indus River Valley. Discover how Egypt was united under Narmer, how the Pyramid of Khufu was built, and how powerful rulers like Sargon of Akkad, Hammurabi of Babylon, and Ramses II shaped the ancient Near East.
The collection also explains the history of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Sumer, the Hittite Empire, Shang Dynasty China, and early India. Follow the story of the Israelites, the Assyrian Empire, and the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great and Darius the Great.
For classical antiquity, dive into ancient Greece history, from the Minoan Age and Mycenaean Age to the Dark Ages, the Age of Colonisation, and the birth of Athenian democracy. Read about Sparta and Athens, the Persian Wars, the Peloponnesian War, Socrates, and the conquests of Alexander the Great. Continue into the rise of the Roman Republic, the Punic Wars, and the transformation of the Mediterranean world.
Every article in this Ancient History BC category is written in simple, readable language with dates, maps, and key events, making it ideal for school projects, exam preparation, and general knowledge. Start exploring today to understand how ancient cultures, wars, religions, and inventions created the foundation for the modern world.
The Chinese grew a new empire in the east, after the death of Alexander the Great. The empire of Cyrus and Xerxes was vast. The empire left by Alexander on his death was even larger and it did not outlast…
The Great Wall of China is probably the world’s most stupendous monument to human ingenuity, human industry and purportedly is the only one of man’s works that could be seen from the moon. Finding his country a patchwork of desperate…
The Great Wall of China did not always keep the invader out, but it did help to establish the geographical identity of the Chinese empire. The exact delineation of the boundaries of the empire gave its administration a positive geographical…
Hannibal alone, would have dared embark on such a venture. Two powers confronted each other to dispute mastery of the Mediterranean — Rome and Carthage. The Carthaginians were interested in colonial expansion as an extension of their trading interests, but…
Slaves could be imported to Italy when and where they were needed. The demand for labour was immediate and there was a much faster and more predictable solution to such a demand, than encouraging population growth or attracting the movement…
As Rome’s armies marched victorious across the known world and her fleets patrolled the Mediterranean, hundreds and thousands of slaves were shipped back to Italy as cheap and expendable labour for the vast estates of the rich. Many worked in…
The happy judgment of the historian Polybius on the strength of the Roman constitution, because of its mixture of popular, oligarchic and monarchical elements, might certainly appear as an optimistic theorization after the revolt of Spartacus. The Roman state had…
The assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. initiated thirteen years of bloodshed, during which the people who had plotted his death were hunted down and those who remained in positions of power disputed that power among themselves. Finally, the…
Octavian delivers the state from that was plunged into depression. A few weeks after January 1 in the year 29 B.C. the doors of the temple of Janus in Rome were closed. This traditional act symbolized that the Roman state was at…