Contents: 1. Egypt and Babylonia to 1580 B. C.- II. The Egyptian and Hittite empires to C. 1000 B. C.- III. Assyrian empire.- IV. The Persian empire and the West.- V. Athens, 478- 401 B. C.- VI. Macedon. 401- 301 B. C.- VII. The Helenistic monarchies and the rise of Rome.- VIII. Rome and the Mediterranean, 218- 133 B. C.- IX. The Roman republic, 133- 44 B. C.- X. The Augustan empire 44 B. C. A. D. 70.- XI. The imperial peace, A. D. 70- 192.- XII. The imperial crisis and recovery, A. D. 193- 324