Western Civilization Vol. A : To 1500

by Spielvogel, Jackson J.

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1/11/2005

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Best-selling text, WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million students learn about the present by exploring the past. Jack Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. Each chapter offers a substantial introduction and conclusion, providing students a context for these disparate themes. The clear narrative of a single gifted author makes it easy for students to follow the story of Western civilization. Spielvogel gives the book depth by including over 150 maps and excerpts of over 200 primary sources--including official documents, poems, and songs--that enliven the past while introducing students to source material that forms the basis of historical scholarship. Available in many split options: WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Comprehensive, 6th Edition (Chapters 1-29), ISBN: 0534646026; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume I, To 1715, 6th Edition (Chapters 1-16), ISBN:0534646034; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume II, Since 1500, 6th Edition (Chapters 13-29), ISBN:0534646042; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume A: To 1500, 6th Edition (Chapters 1-12), ISBN: 0534646050; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume B: 1300-1815, 6th Edition (Chapters 11-19), ISBN:0534646069; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Volume C: Since 1789, 6th Edition (Chapters 19-29), ISBN: 0534646077; WESTERN CIVILIZATION, Since 1300, 6th Edition (Chapters 11-29), ISBN:0534646085.

Documents

Maps

xvii

Chronologies

xix

Photo Credits

xxi

Preface

xxiii

Introduction to Students of Western Civilization

xxix

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

(30)

The First Humans

(3)

The Hunter-Gatherers of the Old Stone Age

(1)

The Neolithic Revolution (c. 10,000--4000 B.C.)

(2)

The Emergence of Civilization

(1)

Civilization in Mesopotamia

(10)

The City-States of Ancient Mesopotamia

(2)

Empires in Ancient Mesopotamia

(1)

The Code of Hammurabi

(2)

The Culture of Mesopotamia

(5)

Egyptian Civilization: ``The Gift of the Nile''

(11)

The Impact of Geography

(1)

The Old and Middle Kingdoms

(2)

Society and Economy in Ancient Egypt

(1)

The Culture of Egypt

(3)

Chaos and a New Order: The New Kingdom

(1)

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

(4)

On the Fringes of Civilization

(4)

The Impact of the Indo-Europeans

(2)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(2)

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

(20)

The Hebrews: ``The Children of Israel''

(6)

The United Kingdom

(1)

The Divided Kingdom

(2)

The Spiritual Dimensions of Israel

(2)

The Social Structure of the Hebrews

(2)

The Neighbors of the Israelites

(1)

The Assyrian Empire

(4)

Organization of the Empire

(1)

The Assyrian Military Machine

(1)

Assyrian Society and Culture

(1)

The Neo-Babylonian Empire

(1)

The Persian Empire

(8)

Cyrus the Great

(1)

Expanding the Empire

(1)

Governing the Empire

(1)

The Great King

(1)

Persian Religion

(1)

Conclusion

(2)

Notes

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(1)

The Civilization of the Greeks

(33)

Early Greece

(2)

Minoan Crete

(2)

The First Greek State: Mycenae

(1)

The Greeks in a Dark Age (c. 1100--c. 750 B.C.)

(2)

Homer and Homeric Greece

(1)

Homer's Enduring Importance

(1)

The World of the Greek City-States (c. 750--c. 500 B.C.)

(8)

The Polis

(2)

Colonization and the Growth of Trade

(1)

Tyranny in the Greek Polis

(1)

Sparta

(2)

Athens

(1)

Greek Culture in the Archaic Age

(2)

The High Point of Greek Civilization: Classical Greece

(7)

The Challenge of Persia

(3)

The Growth of an Athenian Empire

(2)

The Great Peloponnesian War (431--404 B.C.)

(1)

The Decline of the Greek States (404--338 B.C.)

(1)

Culture and Society of Classical Greece

(13)

The Writing of History

(1)

Greek Drama

(1)

The Arts: The Classical Ideal

(2)

The Greek Love of Wisdom

(2)

Greek Religion

(1)

Daily Life in Classical Athens

(3)

Conclusion

(1)

Notes

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(2)

The Hellenistic World

(22)

Macedonia and the Conquests of Alexander

(4)

Philip and the Conquest of Greece

(1)

Alexander the Great

(4)

The World of the Hellenistic Kingdoms

(4)

Hellenistic Monarchies

(2)

The Threats from the Celts

(1)

Political and Military Institutions

(1)

Hellenistic Cities

(1)

Economic Trends

(1)

Hellenistic Society

(3)

New Opportunities for Upper-Class Women

(1)

The Role of Slavery

(1)

The Transformation of Education

(1)

Culture in the Hellenistic World

(5)

New Directions in Literature

(1)

Hellenistic Art

(1)

A Golden Age of Science and Medicine

(1)

Philosophy: New Schools of Thought

(2)

Religion in the Hellenistic World

101

(5)

Mystery Religions

101

(1)

The Jews in the Hellenistic World

102

(2)

Conclusion

104

(1)

Notes

104

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

104

(2)

The Roman Republic

106

(31)

The Emergence of Rome

107

(3)

Geography of the Italian Peninsula

107

(1)

The Greeks

107

(1)

The Etruscans

107

(1)

Early Rome

108

(2)

The Roman Republic (c. 509--264 B.C.)

110

(5)

The Roman State

110

(2)

The Roman Conquest of Italy

112

(3)

The Roman Conquest of the Mediterranean (264--133 B.C.)

115

(3)

The Struggle with Carthage

115

(3)

The Eastern Mediterranean

118

(1)

The Nature of Roman Imperialism

118

(1)

Society and Culture in the Roman Republic

118

(7)

Roman Religion

118

(2)

Education: The Importance of Rhetoric

120

(1)

The Growth of Slavery

121

(1)

The Roman Family

122

(1)

The Evolution of Roman Law

123

(1)

The Development of Literature and Art

123

(2)

Values and Attitudes

125

(1)

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Republic (133--31 B.C.)

125

(12)

Background: Social, Economic, and Political Problems

125

(2)

The Reforms of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus

127

(1)

Marius and the New Roman Army

127

(1)

The Role of Sulla

128

(1)

The Death of the Republic

128

(4)

Literature in the Late Republic

132

(2)

Conclusion

134

(1)

Notes

134

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

134

(3)

The Roman Empire

137

(28)

The Age of Augustus (31 B.C.--A.D. 14)

138

(5)

The New Order

138

(1)

The Army

139

(1)

Roman Provinces and Frontiers

140

(1)

Augustan Society

141

(1)

A Golden Age of Latin Literature

141

(2)

The Early Empire (14--180)

143

(6)

The Julio-Claudians (14--68)

143

(1)

The Flavians (69--96)

144

(1)

The Five ``Good Emperors'' (96-180)

144

(1)

The Roman Empire at Its Height: Frontiers and Provinces

145

(2)

Prosperity in the Early Empire

147

(2)

Roman Culture and Society in the Early Empire

149

(8)

The Silver Age of Latin Literature

150

(1)

Art in the Early Empire

150

(1)

Imperial Rome

150

(2)

The Gladiatorial Shows

152

(2)

Disaster in Southern Italy

154

(1)

The Art of Medicine

154

(1)

Roman Law in the Early Empire

155

(1)

Slaves and Their Masters

156

(1)

The Upper-Class Roman Family

157

(1)

The Transformation of the Roman World: Crises in the Third Century

157

(1)

Political and Military Woes

157

(1)

Economic and Social Crises

158

(1)

The Transformation of the Roman World: The Rise of Christianity

158

(7)

The Religious World of the Roman Empire

159

(1)

The Jewish Background

159

(1)

The Origins of Christianity

159

(3)

The Growth of Christianity

162

(1)

Conclusion

163

(1)

Notes

163

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

164

(1)

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World

165

(33)

The Late Roman Empire

166

(6)

The Reforms of Diocletian and Constantine

166

(2)

The Empire's New Religion

168

(1)

The End of the Western Empire

169

(3)

The Germanic Kingdoms

172

(5)

The Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy

172

(1)

The Visigothic Kingdom of Spain

173

(1)

The Frankish Kingdom

174

(1)

Anglo-Saxon England

175

(1)

The Society of the Germanic Kingdoms

176

(1)

Development of the Christian Church

177

(9)

The Church Fathers

177

(2)

The Power of the Pope

179

(1)

Church and State

179

(1)

Pope Gregory the Great

180

(1)

The Monks and Their Missions

180

(5)

Christian Intellectual Life in the Germanic Kingdoms

185

(1)

The Byzantine Empire

186

(6)

The Reign of Justinian (527--565)

187

(4)

From Eastern Roman to Byzantine Empire

191

(1)

The Rise of Islam

192

(6)

Muhammed

192

(1)

The Teachings of Islam

193

(1)

The Spread of Islam

193

(2)

Conclusion

195

(1)

Notes

196

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

197

(1)

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750--1000

198

(29)

Europeans and the Environment

199

(1)

Farming

199

(1)

The Climate

199

(1)

The World of the Carolingians

199

(9)

Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire (768--814)

199

(4)

The Carolingian Intellectual Renewal

203

(1)

Life in the Carolingian World

204

(4)

Disintegration of the Carolingian Empire

208

(3)

Invasions of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

209

(2)

The Emerging World of Lords and Vassals

211

(7)

Vassalage

211

(2)

Fief-Holding

213

(1)

New Political Configurations in the Tenth Century

214

(1)

The Manorial System

215

(3)

The Zenith of Byzantine Civilization

218

(1)

The Macedonian Dynasty

218

(1)

The Slavic Peoples of Central and Eastern Europe

219

(3)

Western Slavs

220

(1)

Southern Slavs

221

(1)

Eastern Slavs

221

(1)

The Expansion of Islam

222

(5)

The Abbasid Dynasty

222

(1)

Islamic Civilization

223

(2)

Conclusion

225

(1)

Notes

225

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

225

(2)

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

227

(27)

Land and People in the High Middle Ages

228

(7)

The New Agriculture

228

(2)

The Life of the Peasantry

230

(1)

The Aristocracy of the High Middle Ages

231

(3)

Marriage Patterns of the Aristocracy

234

(1)

The New World of Trade and Cities

235

(7)

The Revival of Trade

235

(2)

The Growth of Cities

237

(4)

Industry in Medieval Cities

241

(1)

The Intellectual and Artistic World of the High Middle Ages

242

(12)

The Rise of Universities

242

(2)

A Revival of Classical Antiquity

244

(1)

The Development of Scholasticism

245

(1)

The Revival of Roman Law

246

(1)

Literature in the High Middle Ages

247

(1)

Romanesque Architecture: ``A White Mantle of Churches''

248

(1)

The Gothic Cathedral

249

(2)

Conclusion

251

(1)

Notes

251

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

252

(2)

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power

254

(29)

The Emergence and Growth of European Kingdoms (1000-1300)

255

(10)

England in the High Middle Ages

255

(2)

The Growth of the French Kingdom

257

(3)

Christian Reconquest: The Spanish Kingdoms

260

(1)

The Lands of the Holy Roman Empire: Germany and Italy

261

(2)

New Kingdoms in Northern and Eastern Europe

263

(1)

The Mongol Empire

264

(1)

The Development of Russia

264

(1)

The Recovery and Reform of the Catholic Church

265

(3)

The Problems of Decline

265

(1)

The Cluniac Reform Movement

266

(1)

Reform of the Papacy

266

(2)

Christianity and Medieval Civilization

268

(6)

Growth of the Papal Monarchy

268

(1)

New Religious Orders and Spiritual Ideals

268

(3)

Popular Religion in the High Middle Ages

271

(1)

Voices of Protest and Intolerance

272

(2)

The Crusades

274

(9)

Background to the Crusades

274

(2)

The Early Crusades

276

(2)

The Crusades of the Thirteenth Century

278

(1)

Effects of the Crusades

279

(1)

Conclusion

280

(2)

Notes

282

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

282

(1)

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

283

(30)

A Time of Troubles: Black Death and Social Crisis

284

(7)

Famine and Population

284

(1)

The Black Death

284

(4)

Economic Dislocation and Social Upheaval

288

(3)

War and Political Instability

291

(9)

Causes of the Hundred Years'War

291

(1)

Conduct and Course of the War

291

(5)

Political Instability

296

(1)

The Growth of England's Political Institutions

296

(1)

The Problems of the French Kings

297

(1)

The German Monarchy

297

(1)

The States of Italy

298

(2)

The Decline of the Church

300

(4)

Boniface VIII and the Conflict with the State

300

(1)

The Papacy at Avignon (1305--1377)

300

(1)

The Great Schism

301

(1)

New Thoughts on Church and State and the Rise of Conciliarism

302

(1)

Popular Religion in an Age of Adversity

302

(1)

Changes in Theology

303

(1)

The Cultural World of the Fourteenth Century

304

(3)

The Development of Vernacular Literature

304

(2)

Art and the Black Death

306

(1)

Society in an Age of Adversity

307

(6)

Changes in Urban Life

307

(1)

New Directions in Medicine

308

(1)

Inventions and New Patterns

309

(1)

Conclusion

310

(1)

Notes

311

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

312

(1)

Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance

313

(34)

Meaning and Characteristics of the Italian Renaissance

314

(1)

The Making of Renaissance Society

314

(6)

Economic Recovery

314

(2)

Social Changes in the Renaissance

316

(2)

The Family in Renaissance Italy

318

(2)

The Italian States in the Renaissance

320

(4)

The Five Major States

320

(1)

Independent City-States

320

(2)

Warfare in Italy

322

(1)

The Birth of Modern Diplomacy

323

(1)

Machiavelli and the New Statecraft

323

(1)

The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy

324

(6)

Italian Renaissance Humanism

324

(3)

Education in the Renaissance

327

(1)

Humanism and History

328

(1)

The Impact of Printing

329

(1)

The Artistic Renaissance

330

(7)

Art in the Early Renaissance

330

(2)

The Artistic High Renaissance

332

(3)

The Artist and Social Status

335

(1)

The Northern Artistic Renaissance

336

(1)

Music in the Renaissance

336

(1)

The European State in the Renaissance

337

(5)

The Growth of the French Monarchy

337

(1)

England: Civil War and a New Monarchy

338

(1)

The Unification of Spain

339

(1)

The Holy Roman Empire: The Success of the Habsburgs

339

(1)

The Struggle for Strong Monarchy in Eastern Europe

340

(1)

The Ottoman Turks and the End of the Byzantine Empire

341

(1)

The Church in the Renaissance

342

(5)

The Problems of Heresy and Reform

342

(1)

The Renaissance Papacy

342

(1)

Conclusion

343

(1)

Notes

344

(1)

Suggestions for Further Reading

345

(2)

Glossary

347

(8)

Pronunciation Guide

355

(8)

Index

363

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