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.
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.
The West and the Wider World: Representing the Buddha: From Apollo to Christian Saint
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.
The Culture of Antonine Rome.
GEORGRAPHICAL TOUR: A Tour of the Empire.
DOCUMENT: The Reforms of Tiberius Gracchus.
6. The Transformation of the Classical World, 192-500.
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 Byzantines.
The Rise of Islam.
The Byzantine Apogee and Decline, 1000-1453.
DOCUMENT: The Qur'an.
The West and the Wider World: Industrial Espionage in the Sixth Century
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: From the Syrian Desert to the Welsh Marshes: A King and His Castles.
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: Astride the 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.
DOCUMENT: The Eternal Decree.
14. Europe at War, 1555-1648.
The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents.
The Crises of the Western States.
The Struggles in Eastern Europe.
The Thirty Years War, 1618-1648.
Document: War Is Hell.
15. The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650.
The Visual Record: Haymaking.
Economic Life.
Social Life.
Private and Community Life.
Document: The Devil's Due.
16. The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century.
The Visual Record: Fit for a King.
The Rise of the Royal State.
The Crises of the Royal State.
The Zenith of the Royal State.
Document: A Glimpse of a King.
