Western Experience: Vol I

Chapter 1: The First Civilizations 1. The Earliest Humans 2. The First Civilizations in Mesopotamia 3. Egypt 4. The Early Indo-Europeans 5. Palestine 6. The Near Eastern Empires Chapter 2: The Forming of Greek Civilization 1. Crete and Early Greece 2. The Greek Renaissance (Ca. 800-600 B.C.) 3. The Polis 4. The Challenge of Persia 5. The Wars of the Fifth Century (479-404 B.C.) Chapter 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece 1. Classical Greek Culture (Ca. 500-323 B.C.) 2. The Rise of Macedonia 3. The Hellenistic Age Chapter 4: The Roman Republic 1. The Unification of Italy 2. The Age of Mediterranean Conquest 3. The Punic Wars 4. The Roman Revolution 5. The End of the Roman Republic 6. The Founding of the Roman Empire Chapter 5: The Empire and Christianity 1. The Empire at Its Height 2. Changes in Ancient Society 3. The Late Roman Empire 4. Christianity and Its Early Rivals Chapter 6: The Making of Western Europe 1. The New Community of Peoples 2. The New Political Structures 3. The New Economy, 500-900 4. The Expansion of the Church 5. Letters and Learning Chapter 7: The Empires of the Early Middle Ages (800-1000): Creation and Erosion 1. The Byzantine Empire 2. Islam 3. The Carolingian or Frankish Empire 4. The Vikings, Kiev, and England Chapter 8: Restoration of an Ordered Society 1. Economic and Social Canges 2. Governments of Europe 1000-1150 3. The Reform of the Western Church . The Crusades Chapter 9: The Flowering of Medieval Civilization 1. Cultural Developments 2. The States of Europe 3. The Church Chapter 10: The Urban Economy and the Consolidation of State 1. Cities, Trade, and Commerce 2. Monarchies and the Development of Representative Institutions 3. Government in the East 4. The Papacy and the Church 5. Learning and Literature (Part contents)