Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Ancient Greek Civilization 1
1 Introduction
2 Greek Bronze Age and Dark Age (2500 BC—700 BC)
3 The Greek Gods
4 Archaic Age (700 BC—480 BC)
5 Athens and the Persian Wars

Chapter 2 Ancient Greek Civilization 2
1 Classical Greece in the Fifth Century BC
2 Classical Greece in the Fourth Century BC
3 Classical Greek Philosophy
4 Athenian Drama
5 Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World
6 Review of Greek Civilizations

Chapter 3 Ancient Roman Civilization 1
1 The Roman Kingdom (753 BC—509 BC)
2 The Early Republic (509 BC—264 BC)
3 The Middle Republic (264 BC—146 BC)
4 The Late Republic 1 (146 BC—63 BC)
5 The Late Republic 2 (63 BC—27 BC)

Chapter 4 Ancient Roman Civilization 2
1 The Pax Romana 1 (27 BC—69 AD)
2 The Pax Romana 2 (69—180)
3 The Crisis of the Third Century and Constantine
4 Christianity Became the State Religion of the Roman Empire
5 The Fall of the Roman Empire, the Rise of Islam, and the Survival of the Byzantine Empire
6 Review of Roman Civilizations

Chapter 5 The Middle Ages
1 The Early Middle Ages (Fifth—Tenth Centuries)
2 The Carolingian Dynasty
3 The High Middle Ages (1000—1250)
4 The Late Middle Ages 1 (1250—1500)
5 The Late Middle Ages 2 (1250—1500)
6 Review of the Middle Ages

Chapter 6 West in the Sixteenth Century
1 The Italian Renaissance (Fourteenth—Sixteenth Centuries)
2 The Protestant Reformation
3 The Italian Wars and the Rise of Russia
4 The Age of Discovery
5 French War of Religion, Revolt of the Netherlands, and Russia’s Time of Troubles
6 Review of the Sixteenth Century

Chapter 7 West in the Seventeenth Century
1 The Thirty Years’ War (1618—1648)
2 The English Revolution
3 The Three Absolute Monarchs
4 The Dutch Golden Age
5 Science and Culture in the Seventeenth Century
6 Review of the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 8 West from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
1 The United Kingdom
2 The United States
3 The Age of Enlightenment
4 The French Revolution
5 West in the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries

Further Reading
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