The Western Experience

First civilizations; foundations of Greek civilization; Classical and Hellenist Greece; the Roman Republic; the Empire and Christianity; the making of Western Europe ca. 500-1000; Early Medieval East ca. 300-1100; two centuries of creativity ca. 1000-1200; the summer of the Middle Ages ca. 1200-1350; the Crusades and Eastern Europe ca. 1100-1550; the West in transition; economy and institutions 1300-1500; the West in transition; society and culture 1300-1500; overseas expansion and new politics 1415-1560; reformations in religion 1500-1570; a century of war and revolt 1560-1660; culture and society in the age of the scientific revolution 1540-1660; the triumph of aristocrats and kings 1660-1715; absolution and empire 1715-1770s; the Age of Enlightenment 1715-1770s; revolutions of the 18th century; the Terror and Napoleon 1792-1814; politics of restoration and reform 1815-1850; industrialization and social change 1800-1860; national state and middle class 1840-1880; imperialism and the Great War 1879-1920; democracy and depression 1920-1933; totalitarianism triumphant and World War II 1924-1958; present.