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Includes Chapters 1-16 | |
Includes Chapters 16-29 | |
Includes Chapters 1-11 | |
Includes Chapters 10-18 | |
Includes Chapters 18-29 | |
"What Is the West?" | |
The Shifting Borders of the West | |
Asking the Right Questions | |
The Beginnings of Civilizations, 10,000-2000 BCE | |
Humans, Nature, and the Role of Culture | |
Civilizations in the Middle East | |
New Mesopotamian Kingdoms: Babylonia and Asyria | |
The Emergence of Egyptian Civilizations | |
The Transformation of Europe | |
Conclusion: From Food Production to Civilizations | |
Justice in History: Gods and Kings in Mesopotamian Justice | |
The Human Body in History: The Mummy | |
The International Bronze Age and its Aftermath: Trade, Empire, and Diplomacy, 1600-550 BCE? | |
The Egyptian Empire | |
The Hittite, Assyrian, and Babylonian Empires | |
The Peoples of Mesopotamia | |
The Civilizations of the Mediterranean | |
The End of the International Bronze Age and its Aftermath | |
Heirs of the Bronze Age: Recovery in the Middle East, 1000-500 BCE | |
Conclusion: The International Bronze Age and the Emergence of the West | |
Justice in History: Egyptian Tomb Robbers on Trial | |
Building the Classical World: Hebrews, Persians, and Greeks, 1100-338 BCE? | |
Hebrew Civiliztion | |
Classical Persia: An Empire on Three Continents | |
Greece Rebuilds, 1100-479 BCE | |
The Classical Age of Greece, 479-338 BCE | |
Conclusions: Classical Foundations of the West | |
Justice in History: The Trial and Execution of Socrates the Questioner | |
The Human Body in History: The Classical Nude Male Figure | |
The Hellenistic Age, 334-31 BCE? | |
The Warlike Kingdom of Macedon | |
Hellenistic Society and Culture | |
Rome's Rise to Power | |
Beginnings of the Roman Revolution | |
Conclusion: Defining the West in the Hellenistic Age | |
Justice in History: A Corrupt Roman Governor Is Convicted of Extortion | |
The Human Body in History: Aphrodite of Melos: The Hellenistic Portrayal of the Perfect Female | |
Enclosing the West: The Early Roman Empire and Its Neighbors: 31 BCE-235 CE? | |
The Imperial Center | |
Life in the Roman Provinces: Assimilation and Resistance | |
Provincial Life: Assimilation and Resistance | |
The Frontier and Beyond | |
Society and Culture in an Imperial Age | |
Conclusion: Rome Shapes the West | |
Justice in History: The Trial of Jesus in Historical Perspective | |
Places of Encounter: The Colosseum | |
Late Antiquity: The Age of New Boundaries, 250-600 CE? | |
Crisis and Recovery in the Third Century | |
Christianizing the Empire | |
New Christian Communities and Identities | |
The Break-Up of the Roman Empire | |
Conclusion: A Transformed World | |
Justice in History: Two Martyrdoms: Culture and Religion on Trial | |
The Human Body in History: The Ascetic Alternative | |
Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West: The Foundations of Medieval Europe, 550-750? | |
Byzantium: The Survival of the Roman Empire | |
The New World of Islam | |
The Birth of Latin Christendom | |
Conclusion: Three Cultural Realms | |
Justice in History: "Judgment Belongs to God Alone": The Battle and Arbitration at Siffin | |
Empires and Borderlands: The Early Middle Ages, 750-1050? | |
The Carolingians | |
Invasions and Recovery in the Latin West | |
Byzantium and Eastern Europe | |
The Dynamism of Islam | |
Conclusion: An Emerging Unity in the Latin West | |
Justice in History: Revealing the Truth: Oaths and Ordeals | |
The West Asserts Itself: The High Middle Ages, 1050-1300? | |
The West in the East: The Crusades | |
The Consolidation of Roman Catholicism | |
Strengthening the Center of the West | |
Medieval Culture: The Search for Understanding | |
Conclusion: Asserting Western Culture | |
Justice in History: Inquiring into Heresy: The Inquisition of Montaillou | |
The Human Body in History: A Tale of Two Marys | |
The West in Crisis: The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1450? | |
A Time of Death | |
A Cold Wind from the East | |
Economic Depression and Social Turmoil | |
A Troubled Church and the Demand for Religious Comfort | |
An Age of Continuous Warfare | |
The Culture of Loss | |
Conclusion: Looking Inward | |
Justice in History: The Trial of Joan of Arc | |
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