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Chapter 1: The Origin of Kingship
11 000 bc,
Alulim,
Dumuzi
6
cards
Chapter 2: The Earliest Story
Akkadian,
Poem of atrahasis,
Enlil
4
cards
Chapter 3: The Rise of Aristocracy
2700 bc,
Aristocracy,
Etana
7
cards
Chapter 4: The Creation of Empire
3200 bc,
Dynasteia,
Herodotus
6
cards
Chapter 5: The Age of Iron
3102 bc,
Baluchistan,
Kali yuga
7
cards
Chapter 6: The Philosopher King
2850 bc,
Eight trigrams,
Fu xi
8
cards
Chapter 7: The First Written Records
3000 bc,
Cuneiform,
Determinant
9
cards
Chapter 8: The First War Chronicles
2800 bc,
Elamites,
Enmebaraggesi
8
cards
Chapter 9: The First Civil War
2890 bc,
Abydos,
Djer
8
cards
Chapter 10: The First Epic Hero
626 bc,
Ashurbanipal,
Enkidu
5
cards
Chapter 11: The First Victory over Death
Heb sed,
Imhotep,
Mastabas
8
cards
Chapter 12: The First Reformer
Amagi,
Lugulannemundu,
Sataran
6
cards
Chapter 13: The First Military Dictator
Agade,
Nineveh,
Rimush
4
cards
Chapter 14: The First Planned Cities
Citadel,
Harappa,
Mohenjo daro
4
cards
Chapter 15: The First Collapse of Empire
Khafre,
Menkaure,
Obelisk
6
cards
Chapter 16: The First Barbarian Invasions
Barbarian,
Manishtushu,
Naram sin the great
5
cards
Chapter 17: The First Monotheist
Hagar,
Ishmael,
Jericho
6
cards
Chapter 18: The First Environmental Disaster
Shu sin,
The martu amurru,
Ibbi sin
6
cards
Chapter 19: The Battle for Reunification
Achthoes akhtoy i,
Amenemhet i,
Itj taway
6
cards
Chapter 20: The Mesopotamian Mixing Bowl
1794 bc,
Assyria,
Gungunum
7
cards
Chapter 21: The Overthrow of the Xia
Jie,
Qi,
Shao kang
6
cards
Chapter 22: Hammurabi's Empire
Ishme dagan,
The kassites,
Kutir nahhunte
6
cards
Chapter 23: The Hyksos Seize Egypt
Apepi i,
Avaris,
Hyksos hikau khoswet
6
cards
Chapter 24: King Minos of Crete
Akrotiri,
Daedalus,
Fresco
10
cards
Chapter 25: The Harappan Disintegration
Jhukar culture,
Arya
2
cards
Chapter 26: The Rise of the Hittites
Anittas,
Ht hatti,
Hattusilis i
6
cards
Chapter 27: Ahmose Expels the Hyksos
Ahmose,
Kahmose,
Queen ahhotep
4
cards
Chapter 28: Usurpation and Revenge
Amenhotep i,
Hatshepsut,
Tuthmosis i
6
cards
Chapter 29: The Three-Way Contest
Hurrians,
Maryannu,
Mitanni
7
cards
Chapter 30: The Shifting Capitals of the Shang
P an keng,
Po,
T ai jia
4
cards
Chapter 31: The Mycenaeans of Greece
Aegeus,
Ariadne,
Linear a b
4
cards
Chapter 32: Struggle of the Gods
Akhen aten,
Akhet aten,
Amenhotep iii
6
cards
Chapter 33: Wars and Marriages
Ankhesenamun,
Assur uballit,
Ay
8
cards
Chapter 34: The Greatest Battle in Very Ancient Times
Adad nirari,
Battle of kadesh,
Hattusilis iii
8
cards
Chapter 35: The Battle for Troy
Achilles,
Agamemnon,
Helen
7
cards
Chapter 36: The First Historical King of China
I ching,
Ideogram,
Composite ideogram
7
cards
Chapter 37: The Rig Veda
Grama,
Mandala,
Rig veda
3
cards
Chapter 38: The Wheel Turns Again
Marduk,
Merneptah,
Tudhaliya
4
cards
Chapter 39: The End of the New Kingdom
Herihor,
Rameses iii,
Setnakhte
5
cards
Chapter 40: The Dark Age of Greece
Apollo sminthian,
Bubonic plague,
Dorians
4
cards
Chapter 41: The Dark Age of Mesopotamia
Erra,
Mushki,
Nebuchadnezzar
6
cards
Chapter 42: The Fall of the Shang
Chou,
Lord of the west,
Wen
5
cards
Chapter 43: The Mandate of Heaven
Ch eng,
Feng hao,
K ang
9
cards
Chapter 44: The Bharata War
Bhisma,
Doab,
Draupadi
9
cards
Chapter 45: The Son of David
Dagon,
David,
Delilah
13
cards
Chapter 46: From Western to Eastern Zhou
Hsiao,
Duke of mi,
P ing
7
cards
Chapter 47: The Assyrian Renaissance
Aram,
Black obelisk,
Caleh
8
cards
Chapter 48: New Peoples
Adad nirari iii,
Arcadia,
Barbaro phonoi
13
cards
Chapter 49: Trading Posts and Colonies (first half)
Alba longa,
Amphictyonys,
Amulius
7
cards
Chapter 49: Trading Posts and Colonies (second half)
Titus tatius
1
cards
Chapter 50: Old Enemies
Kar assur,
Nabonassar,
Merodach baladan
8
cards
Chapter 51: Kings of Assyria and Babylon
Dur sharrukin,
Hoshea,
Kush
10
cards
Chapter 52: Spectacular Defeat (first half)
Bel ibni,
Marduk apla iddina ii,
Sennacherib
3
cards
Chapter 52: Spectacular Defeat (second half)
Ashur nadin shumi,
King kahllushu,
Musezib marduk
4
cards
Chapter 53: The Decline of the King
Central states,
Chuang,
Hegemon
6
cards
Chapter 54: The Assyrians in Egypt
Bit dakkuri,
Cimmerians gimirrai,
Gyges
13
cards
Chapter 55: Medes and Persians (first half)
Bastions,
Deioces,
Ecbatana
5
cards
Chapter 55: Medes and Persians (second half)
Ashur etillu ilani,
Cuthah,
Cyarxes
5
cards
Chapter 56: Conquest and Tyranny
Acropolis,
Archon,
Chalcidice
12
cards
Chapter 57: The Beginnings and End of Empire
Assur uballit,
Dionysius of halicarnassus,
Estruscans
10
cards
Chapter 58: A Brief Empire (first half)
Carthage,
Hanging gardens,
Ishtar gate
6
cards
Chapter 58: A Brief Empire (second half)
Alyattes,
Apries,
Psammetichus ii
3
cards
Chapter 59: Cyrus the Great (first half)
Astyages,
Aryenis,
Cambyses
8
cards
Chapter 59: Cyrus the Great (second half)
Belshazzar
1
cards
Chapter 60: The Republic of Rome (first half)
Alalia,
Celt gaul,
Carthage
8
cards
Chapter 60: The Republic of Rome (second half)
Horatius,
Janiculum,
Lars porsena
4
cards
Chapter 61: Kingdoms and Reformers
Bimbisara,
Brahman,
Gana sangha
11
cards
Chapter 62: The Power of Duty and the Art of War
King ching,
Duke of chu king of chu,
Prince kai king ching ii
10
cards
Chapter 63: The Spreading Persian Empire (first half)
Amasis,
Bardiya,
Battus the prosperous
9
cards
Chapter 63: The Spreading Persian Empire (second half)
Ajatashatru
1
cards
Chapter 64: The Persian Wars (first half)
Aeschylus,
Amyntas i,
Argead
10
cards
Chapter 64: The Persian Wars (second half)
Battle of marathon,
Battle of thermopylae,
Hoplite
11
cards
Chapter 65: The Peloponnesian Wars (first half)
Delian league,
Inaros,
Long walls
8
cards
Chapter 65: The Peloponnesian Wars (second half)
Alcibiades,
Chiliarch,
Lysander
6
cards
Chapter 66: The First Sack of Rome
Citizens,
Decemvirs,
Helots
8
cards
Chapter 67: The Rise of the Ch’in (first half)
403 bc,
Duke hsiao,
Huiwen
4
cards
Chapter 67: The Rise of the Ch’in (second half)
343 bc,
Chuang tzu,
Mencius meng tzu
3
cards
Chapter 68: The Macedonian Conquerors
Achoris,
Alexander,
Artaxerxes ii
11
cards
Chapter 69: Rome Tightens Its Grasp
Agathocles,
Appian way,
Latin league
4
cards
Chapter 70: Alexander and the Wars of the Successors (first half)
Cleitus the black,
Drypetis,
Hephaestion
9
cards
Chapter 70: Alexander and the Wars of the Successors (second half)
Arthashastra,
Chandragupta,
Kautilya
5
cards
Chapter 71: The Mauryan Epiphany
Aparigraha,
Bindusara,
Devi
3
cards
Chapter 72: First Emperor, Second Dynasty
221 bc,
Cheng shi huang ti,
Han dynasty
8
cards
Chapter 73: The Wars of the Sons (first half)
Agathocles,
Antiochus i antiochus the savior,
Antiochus iii
12
cards
Chapter 73: The Wars of the Sons (second half)
Aetolian league,
First macedonian war,
Gadir
6
cards
Chapter 74: Roman Liberators and Seleucid Conquerors (first half)
Anitochus the great antiochus iii,
Artaxias i,
Brhadratha
6
cards
Chapter 74: Roman Liberators and Seleucid Conquerors (second half)
Antiochus epiphanes antiochus iv,
Coele syria,
Demetrius i of bactria
10
cards
Chapter 75: Between East and West
Chanyu,
Heliocles,
Hui ti
16
cards
Chapter 76: Breaking the System
Marcus cato,
Masinissa,
Mummius
8
cards
Chapter 77: The Problem of Prosperity
Lucius cinna,
Eupator dionysius,
Jugurtha
8
cards
Chapter 78: New Men
Brutus of britain,
Cassivelaunus,
Cicero
22
cards
Chapter 79: Empire
30 bc,
Herod,
Julia
10
cards
Chapter 80: Eclipse and Restoration
Cheng chun,
Chengdi,
Liu xiu guang wudi
9
cards
Chapter 81: The Problem of Succession
Agrippina,
Artabanus iii,
Boudiccea
18
cards
Chapter 82: The Edges of the Roman World
Domitian,
Hadrian,
Mount vesuvius
8
cards
Chapter 83: Children on the Throne
Andi,
Chang chueh,
Empress dowager dou
9
cards
Chapter 84: The Mistake of Inherited Power
Antonius pius,
Caracalla,
Commodus
18
cards
Chapter 85: The Savior of the Empire
Ardashir i,
Aurelian,
Constantine
20
cards
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