A Concise History of Western Civilization: From Prehistoric to Early-Modern Times
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2014
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2014
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This publication provides an overview of the foundation of Western Civilization History in a straightforward manner, making it easy to adopt and adapt to your course. It gives readers the necessary detail and context without being overrun with extra information that is unrealistic to cover within the course of a semester.
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1 Human Prehistory
2 Early Mesopotamia
3 Ancient Egypt
4 The Bronze Age
5 The Ancient Near Eastern Empires
6 Hebrew History
7 Hebrew Religion
8 Greece During the Archaic Period
9 Greek Political Ideas and Practice
10 The History of Classical Greece
11 The Hellenistic Age
12 Rome’s Rise to Mediterranean Dominance
13 Rome During the Late Republic
14 The Roman Principate
15 Society and Economy of the Roman Empire
16 Christianity in the Roman Empire
17 The World of Late Antiquity
18 Western Europe During the Dark Age
19 The Byzantine Civilization
20 The Islamic World
21 The Age of Charlemagne
22 The Viking Age
23 Monasticism
24 The Medieval Papacy
25 The Rise of States
26 The Crusades
27 Social and Economic Change in the Later Middle Ages
28 Religious Turmoil and the Hundred-Years War
29 Medieval Universities and Vernacular Literature
30 The Italian Renaissance
31 The Protestant Reformation
32 Counter Reformation and Wars of Religion
33 European Discovery of the New World
34 The Beginnings of Modern Science