A brief history of Western civilization. Volume I To 1715 the unfinished legacy

Synopsis

Each Chapter concludes with “Questions for Review,” “Discovering Western Civilization Online,” and “Suggestions for Further Reading.” Maps and Geographical Tours. Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures. Documents. Preface. Supplements. About the Authors. Introduction:The Idea of Western Civilization. 1. The First Civilizations. The Visual Record: Otzi''s Last Meal. Before Civilization. Mesopotamia: Between the Two Rivers. The Gift of the Nile. Between Two Worlds. Nineveh and Babylon. The Assyrian Empire. DOCUMENT: The Code of Hammurabi. 2. Early Greece, 2500-500 B.C.E. The Visual Record: Hecuba and Achilles. Greece Iin 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. DOCUMENT: Hector and Andromache. 3. Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500-100 B.C.E. The Visual Record: Alexander at Issus. 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. DOCUMENT: The Two Faces of Athenian Democracy. 4. Early Rome and The Roman Republic, 800-146 B.C.E. The Visual Record: Eternal Rome. The Western Mediterranean to 509 B.C.E. From City to Empire, 509-146 B.C.E. Republican Civilization. The Crisis of Roman Virtue. DOCUMENT: Polybius Describes the Sack of New Carthage. 5. Imperial Rome, 146 B.C.E.-192 C.E. The Visual Record: The Altar of Augustan Peace. The Price of Empire, 146-121 B.C.E. The End of the Republic. The Augustan Age and the Pax Romana. Religions from the East. GEORGRAPHICAL TOUR: A Tour of the Empire. DOCUMENT: The Reforms of Tiberius Gracchus. 6. The Transformation of the Classical World. The Visual Record: A Bride''s Trousseau. The Crisis of the Third Century. The Empire Restored. Imperial Christianity. A Parting of the Ways. DOCUMENT: Tacitus on the Germans. 7. The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam. The Visual Record: From Temple to Mosque. The Byzantine. The Rise of Islam. The Byzantine Apogee and Decline, 1000-1453. DOCUMENT: The Justinian Code. 8. The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500-900. The Visual Record: The Chapel at the Waters. 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. DOCUMENT: From Slave to Queen. 9. The High Middle Ages, 900-1300. The Visual Record: The Royal Tombs at Fontevrault. The Countryside. Medieval Towns. The Invention of the State. Document: Pope Urban II Summons: A Crusade. 10. The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1500. The Visual Record: Webs of Stone and Blood. Politics as a Family Affair. Life and Death in the Later Middle Ages. The Spirit of the Later Middle Ages. Document: Convivencia. 11. The Italian Renaissance. The Visual Record: A Civic Procession. Renaissance Society. Renaissance Art. Renaissance Ideals. The Politics of the Italian City-States. Document: On the Family. 12. The European Empires. The Visual Record: Ptolemy''s World. European Encounters. Geographical Tour: Europe in 1500. The Formation of States. The Dynastic Struggles. Document: The Halls of Montezuma. 13. The Reform of Religion. The Visual Record: Sola Scriptura. The Intellectual Reformation. The Lutheran Reformation. The Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Reformation. Documen