Ancient empires before Alexander

Part 1. Lecture 1. A meditation on empire

Lecture 2. Lands, seas, and sources

Lecture 3. Sargon and the dawn of empire

Lecture 4. The Third Dynasty of Ur

Lecture 5. The empire of Hammurabi

Lecture 6. Mitanni and the Kassites

Lecture 7. The rise of Hatti

Lecture 8. The government of Hatti

Lecture 9. Hatti at war

Lecture 10. The climax and collapse of Hatti

Lecture 11. The rise of the Egyptian empire

Lecture 12. The Imperial Army and administration.

Part 2. Lecture 13. The end of the Egyptian empire

Lecture 14. The Minoan Thalassocracy

Lecture 15. Mycenae and the dawn of Greece

Lecture 16. The collapse of the Mycenaean world

Lecture 17. The birth of Israel

Lecture 18. The empire of David and Solomon

Lecture 19. The dawn of Assyria

Lecture 20. The rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Lecture 21. The government of Assyria

Lecture 22. Assyria at war

Lecture 23. The climax and collapse of Assyria

Lecture 24. The Neo-Babylonian empire.

Part 3. Lecture 25. The rise of the Persian empire

Lecture 26. The outbreak of the Greek wars

Lecture 27. Xerxes and the invasion of Greece

Lecture 28. From Plataea to the Peace of Callias

Lecture 29. The Persian empire from 450 to 334

Lecture 30. The government and army of Persia

Lecture 31. Alexander and the fall of Persia

Lecture 32. The origins of Carthage and its empire

Lecture 33. Ruling and defending Carthage's empire

Lecture 34. The first war with Rome

Lecture 35. Hannibal and the fall of Carthage

Lecture 36. Ancient empires before Alexander, and after.