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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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Alexander the Great
by Robert Green
from Grolier Publishing
Biography for 4th-6th grade
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
Ancient Civilizations: China
Ancient Civilizations
by Valerie Bodden
Reprint from Creative Paperbooks
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$6.50 (1 in stock)
Ancient Egypt Activity Book
by Robyn Hamilton
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Ancient Egyptian Art
by Susie Hodge
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$4.50 (1 in stock)
Ancient Egyptians
People of the Ancient World
by Lila Perl
from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-7th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Ancient Greece
by Robert Nicholson
from Chelsea House Publishing
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in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Ancient Greece Activity File
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Ancient Greece!
by Avery Hart & Paul Mantell
from Williamson Publishing Company
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$8.00 (2 in stock)
Ancient Greek Art
Art in History
by Susie Hodge
from Heinemann Educational Books
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Ancient Greek Art
from Heinemann-Raintree
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in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Ancient Greek War and Weapons
by Haydn Middleton
from Heinemann Educational Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Ancient Maya
by Lila Perl
from Children's Press
for 4th-6th grade
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$5.00 (1 in stock)
Ancient Roman Art
by Susie Hodge
2nd edition from Heinemann Educational Books
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Ancient Rome
Then and There Series
by N. Sherwin-White
1975 Printing from Longman
for 3rd-6th grade
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$6.00 (1 in stock)
Ancient Science
by Jim Wiese
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for 4th-6th grade
in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Archaeology for Kids
by Richard Panchyk
illustrated edition from Chicago Review Press
for 4th-6th grade
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$7.50 (3 in stock)
Archimedes and the Door of Science
by Jeanne Bendick
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Biography for 5th-8th grade
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$14.95 $9.50 (1 in stock)
Aztecs
Journey Into Civilization
by Robert Nicholson and Claire Watts
from Chelsea House Publishing
for 4th-7th grade
in Ancient America (Location: HISW-ANAM)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Book of the Ancient Greeks - Student Guide
by Matthew Anderson
from Memoria Press
for 5th-8th grade
in Memoria Press Classical Studies (Location: HISCUR-MP)
$20.50 $12.00 (2 in stock)
Book of the Ancient Greeks - Teacher Guide
by Matthew Anderson
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$20.50 $12.00 (1 in stock)
Book of the Ancient Romans - Teacher Guide
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$20.50 $12.00 (1 in stock)
Book of the Ancient World - Teacher Guide
by Matthew Anderson
from Memoria Press
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$20.50 $12.00 (3 in stock)
Boy of the Pyramids
by Ruth Fosdick Jones
from The Good and the Beautiful
for 3rd-8th grade
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$4.00 (2 in stock)
Boys' and Girls' Herodotus
by John S. White
from American Home-School Publishing
Ancient History Reference for 4th-8th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$23.99 $15.00 (1 in stock)
Bury the Dead
by Christopher Sloan
from Scholastic Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Children's Homer
by Padraic Colum & Willy Pogany
from Aladdin Paperbacks
Greek Mythology for 3rd-8th grade
$10.99 $6.00 (6 in stock)
Children's Homer
by Padraic Colum
from Simon and Schuster
Greek Mythology for 3rd-8th grade
$4.50 (2 in stock)
Coloring Book of Rome
by Bellerophon Books, Nancy Conkle
from Bellerophon Books
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$3.00 (2 in stock)
Coloring Book of the Olympics
by E. Knill
Csm from Bellerophon Books
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in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$2.00 (2 in stock)
Coming of Civilization
by Trevor Cairns
from Cambridge University
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
by Edgar & Ingri D'Aulaire
from Yearling
Greek Mythology for 4th-8th grade
in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
$19.99 $14.00 (1 in stock)
Dateline: Troy
by Paul Fleischman
New Updated Edition from Candlewick Press
for 6th-9th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Detectives in Togas
by Henry Winterfeld
from Harcourt
Humorous Historical Fiction for 4th-6th grade
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Eagle of the Ninth
by Rosemary Sutcliff
Reprint from Square Fish Publishing
Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade
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$8.39 $6.00 (1 in stock)
Egyptian Life
by John Guy
from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-7th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Excavating the Past: Ancient Greece
by Christine Hatt
from Heinemann Educational Books
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$8.99 $6.00 (1 in stock)
Favorite Greek Myths
by Bob Blaisdell
from Dover Publications
for 4th-6th grade
$2.50 (2 in stock)
God King
Bethlehem Books Living History Library
by Joanne Williamson
from Bethlehem Books
Historical Fiction for 5th-8th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$14.95 $9.50 (1 in stock)
Goddesses, Heroes and Shamans
by David Bellingham
from Kingfisher
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in Ancient History (Location: HISW-ANC)
$7.50 (1 in stock)
Golden Fleece
by Padraic Colum & Willy Pogany
from Aladdin Paperbacks
Greek Mythology for 3rd-8th grade
1922 Newbery Honor Book
$10.99 $6.00 (3 in stock)
Greek Life
by John Guy
from Scholastic Inc.
for 3rd-7th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Greek News
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by Anton Powell & Philip Steele
from Candlewick Press
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in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$4.50 (3 in stock)
Greek News
The History News
by Anton Powell, Philip Steele
from Candlewick Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$7.99 $5.50 (1 in stock)
Greeks
by Roy Burrell
from Oxford University
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Guide to Egypt
by Michael March
from Highlights for Children
for 1st-6th grade
in Near & Middle East (Location: HISMC-NME)
$1.50 (2 in stock)
Hands-On Culture of Ancient Greece and Rome
by Kate OHalloran
for 4th-7th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy
by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd
from Candlewick Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
History of US Book 1
History of US Book 1
by Joy Hakim
3rd Revised Edition from Oxford University
American History Reference for 5th-9th grade
in Joy Hakim's A History of US (Location: HISA-HAKIM)
$15.95 $11.00 (3 in stock)
Hittite Warrior
Bethlehem Books Living History Library
by Joanne Williamson
from Bethlehem Books
Historical Fiction for 5th-8th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$14.95 $9.50 (1 in stock)
Hostage Lands
by Doug Bond
from P&R Publishing
Historical Fiction for 5th-9th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$12.99 $7.50 (2 in stock)
How Would You Survive As An Ancient Roman?
by Anita Ganeri, David Salariya
from Franklin Watts
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Into the Mummy's Tomb
by Nicholas Reeves
from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
by Shilpa Mehta-Jones
from Crabtree Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient Mesopotamia & Persia (Location: HISW-ANME)
$8.95 $6.00 (1 in stock)
Lost Wreck of the Isis
A Time Quest Book
by Robert D. Ballard
from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-6th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$2.50 (1 in stock)
Make it Work! Ancient Egypt
Make It Work!
by Andrew Haslam & Alexandra Parsons
from Two-Can Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$7.95 $4.00 (4 in stock)
Make it Work! Roman Empire
by Andrew Haslam
from Two-Can Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$8.95 $5.50 (4 in stock)
Make This Model Greek Temple
by Iain Ashman
for 3rd-6th grade
in Oversized History Books (Location: HISW-OVER)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Make this Roman Fort
by Iain Ashman
from Usborne
for 4th-6th grade
in Oversized History Books (Location: HISW-OVER)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Make This Roman Fort
by Ian Ashman
Revised from E.D.C. Publishing
for 4th-8th grade
in Oversized History Books (Location: HISW-OVER)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Modern Rhymes: Ancient Greece
by Susan Altman & Susan Lechner
from Scholastic Inc.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$5.00 (2 in stock)
Mummies
by Nathaniel Harris
First Edition from Franklin Watts
for 4th-7th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Mummies & Their Mysteries
by Charlotte Wilcox
from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-7th grade
in Ancient History (Location: HISW-ANC)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Mummies, Tombs, and Treasure
by Lila Perl
from Houghton Mifflin
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$8.95 $5.00 (2 in stock)
Mysteries of Ancient Egypt
by Nancy E. Krulik
from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-8th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Mystery of History Volume I (old)
by Linda Lacour Hobar
2nd edition from Bright Ideas Press
History Curriculum for 4th-8th grade
in Old Edition History & Geography (Location: OHIS)
$25.00 (2 in stock)
Mystery of History Volume I (really old)
by Linda Lacour Hobar
1st edition from Bright Ideas Press
History Curriculum for 4th-8th grade
in Old Edition History & Geography (Location: OHIS)
$15.00 (2 in stock)
Mystery of the Roman Ransom
by Henry Winterfeld
from Harcourt
Historical Fiction for 4th-6th grade
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$9.99 $4.50 (1 in stock)
North American Indian Burial Customs
by Dr. H. C. Yarrow
First Edition from Eagle's View Publishing
for 6th-Adult
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt
by Bill Manley
from Penguin Putnam
Atlas for 2nd-7th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$16.95 $11.00 (3 in stock)
Pompeii
by Peter Connolly
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Pompeii: City of Ashes
by Sarah Pitt Kaplan
from Children's Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Pyramid
by David Macaulay
from Houghton Mifflin
Ancient Egyptian Architecture for 4th-8th grade
in Oversized History Books (Location: HISW-OVER)
$12.99 $7.00 (2 in stock)
Roman Baths
by Barry Cunliffe
First Edition
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Roman Britain
by Jane Chisholm, Ruth Brocklehurst
from Usborne
for 4th-6th grade
in Great Britain / England (Location: HISMC-BRIT)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Roman News
from Walker Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Romans
by Anthony Marks & Graham Tingay
from Usborne
for 5th-12th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Romans
by Roy Burrell
from Oxford University
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$6.00 (2 in stock)
Rome: A Fold-Out History of the Ancient Civilization
by Leigh Grant
from Black Dog & Leventhal
for 4th-8th grade
in Oversized History Books (Location: HISW-OVER)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Ruth Heller's Designs for Coloring: Ancient Egypt
by Ruth Heller
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$4.00 (2 in stock)
Science in Ancient Rome
by Jacqueline Harris
from Children's Press
for 4th-8th grade
in History of Science & Mathematics (Location: SCI-HIS)
$4.50 (2 in stock)
Secret of the Scribe
by Jennifer Johnson Garrity
from Brimwood Press
for 5th-8th grade
in Tools for Young Historians (Location: BIBWV-TYH)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Secrets of Vesuvius
by Sara C. Bisel
from Hyperion/Madison Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$3.50 (3 in stock)
See You Later, Gladiator
by Jon Scieszka
from Viking Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Senefer
by Beatrice Lumpkin, Linda Nickens
from Africa World Press, Inc.
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Silver Branch
by Rosemary Sutcliff
from Square Fish Publishing
Historical Fiction for 6th-9th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$11.99 $6.00 (1 in stock)
Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China
by Robert L. Thorpe
First Edition from Son of Heaven Press
for 6th-12th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Story of Ancient China
by Suzanne Strauss Art
3rd edition from Pemblewick Press
for 6th-9th grade
in China (Location: HISMC-CHI)
$17.00 (1 in stock)
Story of the World Volume 1 (old)
by Susan Wise Bauer
from Well-Trained Mind Press
for 2nd-6th grade
Cathy Duffy's 100 Top Picks
in Old Edition History & Geography (Location: OHIS)
$4.00 (2 in stock)
Story Starters on Ancient Rome
for 3rd-7th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$2.50 (1 in stock)
Tales Mummies Tell
by Patricia Lauber
from Scholastic Inc.
for 5th-8th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$2.50 (1 in stock)
Tales of the Trojan War
by Kamini Khanduri
from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-7th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$2.50 (1 in stock)
Time Traveler Book of Rome and Romans
by Patricia Vanags, Philippa Wingate & Heather Amery
1st edition from Usborne
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Rome (Location: HISW-ANRO)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Trojan War
by Olivia Coolidge, illustrated by Edouard Sandoz
from Houghton Mifflin
Mythology for 4th-6th grade
$9.99 $5.00 (2 in stock)
Trojan War
by Olivia Coolidge, illustrated by Edouard Sandoz
from Houghton Mifflin
Mythology for 4th-6th grade
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Troy: A Revised Edition
by Mustafa Askin
from Unknown Publisher
for 4th-8th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
True Book: Ancient Greece
by Sandra Newman
from Scholastic Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$4.50 (2 in stock)
True Book: Ancient Maya
by Jackie Maloy
from Scholastic Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient America (Location: HISW-ANAM)
$4.50 (2 in stock)
Usborne Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
by Gill Harvey, Struan Reid
from Usborne
for 4th-6th grade
in Ancient Egypt (Location: HISW-ANEG)
$8.50 (1 in stock)
Usborne Illustrated Guide to Greek Myths and Legends
by Rodney Matthews
from Scholastic Inc.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Ancient Greece (Location: HISW-ANGR)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Usborne Young Scientist - Archaeology
by Barbara Cork
from Usborne
for 4th-6th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
$2.00 (2 in stock)
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