Countries in Ancient History

Phoenicia is now called Lebanon and includes part of Syria and Israel.

Rome was originally a settlement amid the hills that spread throughout Italy and then around the Mediterranean.

The four periods of Roman history are the period of kings, the Republic, the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire. These eras of Roman history are based on the type or place of central authority or government.

The people of the Steppe were mainly nomadic in the ancient period, so the locations changed. These are some of the main tribes that are featured in ancient history mostly because they came in contact with the people of Greece, Rome, and China.

For a long time, it was thought the earliest civilizations began in Sumer in Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq).

To the fourth millennium Egyptians and third millennium Sumerians, the Syrian coastland was the source of the soft woods, cedar, pine, and cypress. The Sumerians also went to Cilicia, in the northwest area of Greater Syria, in pursuit of gold and silver, and probably traded with the port city of Byblos, which was supplying Egypt with resin for mummification.