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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.

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5,000-Year-Old Puzzle
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by John K. Anderson
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All Through the Ages
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World History Reference for All grades
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Ancient China: To the Great Wall...and Beyond
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$13.95
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by Diana Waring
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Ancient Egypt- Greenleaf Guide
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Ancient Egypt History Curriculum for 2nd-7th grade
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from Dover Publications
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by Jane Shuter
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$4.00 (2 in stock)
Ancient Egyptians and their Neighbors
by Marian Broida
from Chicago Review Press
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Ancient Greece
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Ancient Greece
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6th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
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$55.00
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by Lori Verstegen
6th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 3rd-6th grade
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$35.00
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by Lori Verstegen
6th edition from Institute for Excellence in Writing
for 3rd-6th grade
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$17.50 (1 in stock)
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from Edupress
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$2.00 (1 in stock)
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from Millbrook Press
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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Life Long Ago
by Leonard Weisgard (pictures and text)
from Coward McCann
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in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$48.00 (1 in stock)
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from William Morrow & Company
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Greek Mythology for 3rd-8th grade
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from Veritas Press
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$19.00
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$12.00 (1 in stock)
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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from Aladdin Paperbacks
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Greek Mythology for 3rd-8th grade
$4.00 (1 in stock)
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by Herge
from Little, Brown & Company
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$13.99
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from Classical Conversations
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$24.99
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from William Morrow & Company
Biography for 3rd-6th grade
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from HarperCollins
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$8.00 (1 in stock)
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
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$2.00 (2 in stock)
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$62.90
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
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from HarperCollins
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$7.99
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from Peter Bedrick Books
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2003 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book
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All in a Day's Work
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
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from Eerdmans
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in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
$21.00
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from DK Publishing
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
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First Edition from Figures in Motion
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$19.95 $14.00 (1 in stock)
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2nd edition from Memoria Press
for 3rd-8th grade
in Memoria Press Classical Studies (Location: HISCUR-MP)
$19.90
Famous Men of Greece - Teacher Guide
by Leigh Lowe & Tanya Charlton
2nd edition from Memoria Press
for 3rd-8th grade
in Memoria Press Classical Studies (Location: HISCUR-MP)
$19.90
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from Greenleaf Press
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$3.00 (1 in stock)
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3rd edition from Memoria Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Memoria Press Classical Studies (Location: HISCUR-MP)
$19.90
Famous Men of Rome - Teacher Guide
by Leigh & Cheryl Lowe
3rd edition from Memoria Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Memoria Press Classical Studies (Location: HISCUR-MP)
$19.90
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by Leigh & Cheryl Lowe
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for 3rd-6th grade
in Old Edition History & Geography (Location: OHIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
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Dover Coloring Books
by Tom Tierney
from Dover Publications
for 2nd-6th grade
in Costume & Fashion Coloring Books (Location: COL-FAS)
$4.99
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from Franklin Watts
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Favorite Greek Myths
by Mary Pope Osborne
from Scholastic Inc.
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
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Revised Edition from Franklin Watts
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in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
First Olympic Games
from Silver Burdett Press
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in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
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$8.00 (2 in stock)
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from Kids Can Press
for 1st-4th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
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from Tundra Books (NY)
for 1st-4th grade
$8.95 $6.00 (1 in stock)
Gilgamesh Trilogy
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Go On A Dig! - Kit
from Barnes & Noble
for 1st-6th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt
by Leonard Everett Fisher
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for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
Gods and Goddesses of Olympus
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from HarperCollins
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$7.99
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from Holiday House
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from Dover Publications
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$3.99
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from Aladdin Paperbacks
Greek Mythology for 3rd-8th grade
1922 Newbery Honor Book
$10.99 $6.00 (2 in stock)
Great Empires - CD-ROM
from Home School in the Woods
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in Hands-On History Activity-Paks (Location: HISRF-HOH)
$12.00
Great Pyramid
Wonders of the World
by Elizabeth Mann
Reprint from Mikaya Press
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in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$14.95
Great Wall of China
by Leonard Everett Fisher
from Aladdin Paperbacks
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in China (Location: HISMC-CHI)
$7.99 $5.00 (2 in stock)
Great Wonder
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from Soundprints
Picture Books for 2nd-5th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
Greece
by Jane Pofahl
from Instructional Fair
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
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Dover Coloring Books
by Tom Tierney
from Dover Publications
for 2nd-6th grade
in Costume & Fashion Coloring Books (Location: COL-FAS)
$4.99
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by John Green
from Dover Publications
for 2nd-4th grade
in Literary & Fantasy Coloring Books (Location: COL-LIT)
$5.99
Greek Life
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from Scholastic Inc.
for 3rd-7th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
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from Margaret K. McElderry Books
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