What the Ancients Did for Us

1. The Islamic World

The rise of Islam is one of the most important events in world history. In th...

2. The Chinese

China is the fastest growing economy on earth. One in four of every person on...

3. The Aztecs, Maya and Incas

These three peoples lived in a vast area of modern-day Central and South Amer...

4. The Romans

The city of Rome was founded on the banks of the Tiber in 753 BC and for a th...

6. The Mesopotamians

There has always been a great debate as to who kicked off civilisation: was i...

7. The Egyptians

Egypt became a unified country five thousand years ago and - until the arriva...

8. The Greeks

The ancient Greek civilisation flourished for about a thousand years, not as ...

9. The Britons

A lot of people still think that we were just woad-covered savages before the...