Civilization in the West

Volume I includes Chapters 1-16, Volume II includes Chapters 14-30, Volume A includes Chapters 1-11, Volume B includes Chapters 11-22, and Volume C includes Chapters 20-30.Introduction: The Idea of Western Civilization.1. The First Civilizations. Otzi's Last Meal: Life and Death in Prehistoric Europe. Before Civilization. The Gift of the Nile. Between Two Worlds. Nineveh and Babylon. A Closer Look: Discovering the Pharaohs.2. Early Greece, 2500-500 B.C.E. Hecuba and Achilles: The Birth of Greek Civilization. Greece in the Bronze Age to 700 B.C.E. Archaic Greece, 700-500 B.C.E. A Tale of Three Cities. The Coming of Persia and the End of the Archaic Age. A Closer Look: The Agony of Athletics.3. Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500-100 B.C.E. Alexander at Issus: The Spread of Greek Civilization. War and Politics in the Fifth Century B.C.E. Athenian Culture in the Hellenic Age. From City-States to Macedonian Empire, 404-323 B.C.E. The Hellenistic World. A Closer Look: Technology and Innovation.4. Early Rome and the Roman Republic, 800-146 B.C.E. Eternal Rome: From Village to Empire. The Western Mediterranean to 509 B.C.E. From City to Empire, 509-146 B.C.E. Republican Civilization. The Crisis of Roman Virtue. A Closer Look: Hannibal's Elephants.5. Imperial Rome, 146 B.C.E.-C.E. 192. The Altar of Augustan Peace: The Making of the Roman Empire. The Price of Empire. The End of the Republic. The Augustan Age and the Pax Romana. Geographical Tour: A Tour of the Empire. A Closer Look: A Day in the Pax Romana.6. The Transformation of The Classical World. A Bride's Trousseau: The Marriage of Christianity and the Classical Tradition. The Crisis of the Third Century. The Empire Restored. Imperial Christianity. A Parting of the Ways. A Closer Look: The Stainless Star of Wisdom's Discipline.7. The Classical Legacy in The East: Byzantium and Islam. From Temple to Mosque: The Continuity of Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Byzantines. The Rise of Islam. The Byzantine Apogee and Decline 1000-1453. A Closer Look: Harems and Gynaiconites.8. The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500-900. The Chapel at the Waters: The Western Empire Reborn. The Making of the Barbarian Kingdoms, 500-750. Living in the New Europe. The Carolingian Achievement. Geographical Tour: Europe in the Ninth Century. After the Carolingians: From Empire to Lordships. A Closer Look: The Jews in the Early Middle Ages.9. The High Middle Ages. The Royal Tombs at Fontevrault: A Queen and Her Kings. The Countryside. Medieval Towns. The Invention of the State. A Closer Look: Cathedrals of Light.10. The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1500. Webs of Stone and Blood: European Civilization at the End of the Middle Ages. Politics as a Family Affair. The Spirit of the Later Middle Ages. A Closer Look: A Room of One's Own.11. The Italian Renaissance. A Civic Procession: Community Building in Renaissance Venice. Renaissance Society. Renaissance Art. Renaissance Ideals. A Closer Look: The Fall of Constantinople.12. The European Empires. Ptolemy's World: The Age of Discovery. European Encounters. The Formation of States. The Dynastic Struggles. A Closer Look: Isabella of Castile.13. The Reform of Religion. Sola Scriptura: The Bible and the Reformation. The Intellectual Reformation. The Lutheran Reformation. The Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Reformation. A Closer Look: Utopia.14. Europe at War, 1555-1648. The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society. The Crises of the Western States. The Struggles in Eastern Europe. The Thirty Years' War 1618-48. A Closer Look: The Monstrous Regiment of Women.[read more]