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History is like a tree—the ancient parts are roots, and as the story progresses the trunk rises and branches expand to encompass every person and event since Adam and Eve. Because history is unified, every element of the story is interconnected, even if that connection is distant. Furthermore, the current parts are all directly the product of the parts that have come before, and to understand the current situation you'll need to understand the past.

Understanding the ancient history roots at the bottom of the tree is essential for a proper perspective of everything that comes after. Some people take this too far and assume that ancient history is all that matters, but those who disregard it or understand it on no more than a cursory level are just as mistaken. Just as a building must have a strong foundation, so a study of history must begin in the right place.

The ancient world was different from ours, and the same. It was different in primarily physical ways: technology was less advanced, there were fewer people, and the general standard of living was far below what we enjoy (at least in the industrialized world). However, human nature never changes, and the same universal conflict that exists today—between God's children and His enemies—raged then.

It's interesting to what extent the dominant theories and philosophies of the modern world reflect those of the ancients. There is truly nothing new under the sun, and the Enlightenment rationalism, faith in human progress, belief in man's innate goodness, evolutionary idealism, and even postmodernism against which Christians fight all have their roots in the ideas of the Babylonians, Greeks, Egyptians, and every other early civilization.

That doesn't mean there isn't a clear trajectory from the ancient world to the present. Ideas all run a distinct course, and some reach prominence at different times; while the seeds of every successive philosophy were sown in the ancient world, it took time to grow them into what we recognize how as humanism, modernism, postmodernism, and the ever-illusory post-postmodernism.

The same is true of events. The history of any period is simply the chronicle of man's attempts to thwart God's will and Yahweh's use of even the most outrageous rebellion to achieve His own ends. In some ways, this is more obvious in ancient history, as the nation of Israel fought the surrounding nations, and too often embraced their paganism.

That story, of God's work among His people and in the world, and of man's continual rebellion, is also our story. The Church fights the same battles our Israelite forefathers did, though on a more ideological rather than physical scale. When we realize how much the story of the ancients is our own story, the significance of studying their world becomes much clearer, and the urgency of such study is made plain.

Review by C. Hollis Crossman
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Adventures of Ulysses
World Landmark #40
by Gerald Gottlieb, illustrated by Steele Savage
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
Aesop's Fables and Life of Aesop
by Aesop, Mons. De Meziriac, R. Dodsley
from Rand McNally
for 6th-12th grade
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
Americans Before Columbus
by Elizabeth Baity, illustrated by C.B. Falls
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1952 Newbery Honor Book
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$14.00 (1 in stock)
Ancient America
Great Ages of Man
by Jonathan Norton Leonard
from Time-Life Books
for 9th-Adult
in Great Ages of Man (Location: ADU-HISGAM)
Ancient Egypt: Life, Myth, and Art
by JoAnne Fletcher
First Edition from Duncan Baird
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in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$8.50 (1 in stock)
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Discoveries Series
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Augustus Caesar's World
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Authoress of the Odyssey
by Samuel Butler, introduction by David Grene
from University of Chicago
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
Beggar's King
by Howard C. Emmons
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$15.00 (1 in stock)
Ben-Gurion and the Birth of Israel
World Landmark #62
by Joan Comay, illustrated with photographs
from Random House
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Ben-Hur
by Lew Wallace
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Ben-Hur
by Lew Wallace
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Bronze Bow
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Caesar
by Irwin Isenberg
from American Heritage Publishing Co.
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Caesar's Gallic War
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Caesar's Gallic War
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Centurion
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from William Morrow & Company
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Classical Rome
by John D. Clare, ed.
from Harcourt Children's Books
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
Cleopatra of Egypt
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by Leonora Hornblow, illustrated by W. T. Mars
from Random House
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Colosseum
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Cortes and the Aztec Conquest
by Irwin R. Blacker
from American Heritage Publishing Co.
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Cradle of Civilization
by Samuel Noah Kramer
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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
by Edgar & Ingri D'Aulaire
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Greek Mythology for 4th-9th grade
in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
$29.99
Dateline: Troy
by Paul Fleischman
from Candlewick Press
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$7.50 (1 in stock)
Dear and Glorious Pysician
by Taylor Caldwell
from Doubleday & Company
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Eagle of the Ninth
by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade
$20.00
Eagle of the Ninth
by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
from Oxford University
Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade
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Eagles Have Flown
by Joanne Williamson, illustrated by George Fulton
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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ECL: The Heroes
Educator Classic Library #10
by Charles Kingsley, illustrated by Ron King
Complete and Unabridged Edition from Classic Press
Action/Adventure for 7th-10th grade
in Educator Classic Library (Location: VIN-ECL)
Egyptian Religion
by Sir Wallis Budge
from G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.
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Exploits of Xenophon
by Geoffrey Household
from Purple House Press
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$24.99
First 3000 Years
by Charles B. Falls
from Viking Press
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First Men in the World
World Landmark #1
by Anne Terry White, illustrated by Aldren A. Watson
from Random House
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Five Great Dialogues of Plato
by Plato
2nd edition from Walter J. Black, Inc.
Ancient Philosophy for 9th-Adult
in Walter J. Black Classics Club (Location: VIN-LITWJB)
Flood of Noah
by Bodie Hodge, Laura Welch
from Master Books
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in Worldview & Apologetics for Kids (Location: BIBWV-APK)
$15.99
Foreigner
by Gladys Malvern, illustrated by Corinne Malvern
from Longmans, Green & Co.
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Genesis: Finding Our Roots
by Ruth Beechick
from Arrow Press
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Gift of the Golden Cup
by Isabelle Lawrence, illustrated by Charles V. John
from Bobbs-Merril Co
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Gifts of the Jews
by Thomas Cahill
from Nan A. Talese
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
Glaucia the Greek Slave
Emma Leslie Church History Series
by Emma Leslie
from Salem Ridge Press
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Greek Myths: A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, illustrated by Walter Crane
from Barnes & Noble
Myths for 5th-10th grade
Greek Treasure
by Irving Stone
Book Club from Doubleday & Company
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Greek World
by Peter Levi
1st edition from Dutton Adult
for 8th-12th grade
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$9.00 (1 in stock)
Heather, Oak, and Olive
by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by Victor Ambrus
from E.P. Dutton & Co.
for 6th-10th grade
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Holy Land in the Time of Jesus
by Norman Kotker
from Horizon Books
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Illustrated Bulfinch's Mythology: Age of Fable
by Thomas Bulfinch
from Macmillan
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Inca and Spaniard
by Albert Marrin
from Atheneum
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Jesus of Nazareth
World Landmark #42
by Harry Emerson Fosdick, illustrated by Steele Savage
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
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Julius Caesar
by Manuel Komroff
from Julian Messner
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Lantern Bearers
by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by Charles Keeping
from Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade
1959 Carnegie Medal
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Letters from Egypt
by Florence Nightingale; selected and introduced by Anthony Sattin
from Grove Press, Inc.
for 8th-Adult
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
Life of Saint Paul
World Landmark #53
by Harry Emerson Fosdick, illustrated by Leonard Everett Fisher
from Random House
for 5th-9th grade
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Lives of Famous Romans
by Olivia Coolidge, illustrated by Milton Johnson
1992 Printing from Linnet Books
Roman History for 7th-12th grade
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Lost Continent of Atlantis
by James Wyckoff, Illustrated by Robert Sargent
from G.P. Putnam's Sons
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$50.00 (1 in stock)
Lost Queen of Egypt
by Lucile Morrison, illustrated by Franz Geritz
from Purple House Press
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$28.00
Marcus Aurelius and His Times
by Marcus Aurelius
from Walter J. Black, Inc.
Classic Literature for 9th-Adult
in Walter J. Black Classics Club (Location: VIN-LITWJB)
Mark of the Horse Lord
by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by Charles Keeping
from Oxford University
for 7th-9th grade
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Masada will Not Fall Again
by Sophie Greenspan, illustrated by Unada
from Jewish Publication Society
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Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
from Black Dog & Leventhal
Mythology for 7th-Adult
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$29.99
Navigating History: Egypt - Timeline
from Western Conservatory of the Arts & Sciences
for 6th-12th grade
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$8.00
Navigating the Worldviews of Egypt
1st edition from Western Conservatory of the Arts & Sciences
for 6th-12th grade
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$25.00
Out of the Mouth of the Lion
Emma Leslie Church History Series
by Emma Leslie
from Salem Ridge Press
for 5th-9th grade
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$12.50 (1 in stock)
Outcast
by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by Richard Kennedy
from Oxford University
Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Pages of History Volume 1
by Bruce Etter, Alexia Detweiler
2nd edition from Veritas Press
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in Veritas Press History (Location: HISCUR-VP)
$25.00 $15.00 (1 in stock)
Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt
World Landmark #59
by Elizabeth Payne, illustrated with photographs
from Random House
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Plutarch's Lives Volume I
by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden
from Modern Library
Biography for 9th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
$20.00 $15.00 (1 in stock)
Pyramid
by David Macaulay
First Edition from Houghton Mifflin
for 5th-10th grade
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$9.50 (2 in stock)
Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz, translated by Jeremiah Curtin, introduction by Harold Lamb, illustrated by Salvatore Fiume
from Heritage Press
Historical Fiction for 9th-Adult
in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19)
Romans, Reformers, Revolutionaries - Teacher Guide
by Diana Waring
2nd edition from Diana Waring Presents
History Curriculum for 7th-12th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
Runner in the Sun
Land of the Free Series
by D'Arcy McNickle, illustrated by Allan Houser
1st edition from John C. Winston
Historical fiction for 6th-10th grade
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Seven Wonders of the World
by Lowell Thomas
from Hanover House
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Silver Branch
by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by Charles Keeping
from Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade
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Silver Chalice
by Thomas B. Costain
from Doubleday & Company
for 8th-12th grade
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Silver Chalice
by Thomas B. Costain
from Doubleday & Company
for 8th-12th grade
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Silver Chalice
by Thomas B. Costain
from Doubleday & Company
for 8th-12th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Sowing Beside All Waters
Emma Leslie Church History Series
by Emma Leslie
from Salem Ridge Press
for 5th-9th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Stories From Livy
by Alfred J. Church
History for 6th-9th grade
in Classics Retold (Location: FIC-RET)
The Robe
by Lloyd C. Douglas, illustrated by Dean Cornwell
from Houghton Mifflin
for 8th-Adult
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$6.50 (1 in stock)
Treasures of Ancient Greece
by John S. Bowman
1995 edition from Crescent Books
for 8th-Adult
in Oversized History Books (Location: HISW-OVER)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Treasury of Classical Mythology
by A. R. H. Moncrieff
from Barnes & Noble
for 7th-Adult
in Oversized History Books (Location: HISW-OVER)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Triumph of the Hero
Time-Life Myth & Mankind
from Time-Life Books
for 7th-Adult
in Time-Life Myth & Mankind Series (Location: FIC-MYTH)
Unveiling the Kings of Israel
by David Down
from Master Books
for 7th-12th grade
in Israel (Location: HISW-ANIS)
$27.99
Unwrapping the Pharaohs
by John Ashton & David Down
from Master Books
for 9th-Adult
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$27.99 $16.00 (3 in stock)
Warrior Scarlet
by Rosemary Sutcliff, illustrated by Charles Keeping
from Henry Z. Walck, Inc.
Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Way to Eternity
from Time-Life Books
for 7th-Adult
in Time-Life Myth & Mankind Series (Location: FIC-MYTH)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
We Were There With Caesar's Legions
We Were There #27
by Robert N. Webb, illustrated by Fabian Zaccone
from Grosset & Dunlap
Historical Fiction for 5th-9th grade
in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
We Were There with Cortes and Montezuma
We Were There #25
by Benjamen Appel, illustrated by Reynold Pollack
from Grosset & Dunlap
Historical Fiction for 5th-9th grade
in We Were There Series (Location: VIN-HIS)
Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys OSI
Everyman's Library Children's Classics
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 5th-10th grade
Young People's Story of the Ancient World (No. 2)
by Virgil M. Hillyer & E. G. Huey
from Meredith Press
for 4th-10th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
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