Concise and engaging,A Brief History of Western Civilization, Fifth Edition,brings the study of Western Civilization alive with balanced coverage of a wide array of historical figures and events. Fully integrated coverage of socialas well as economic, religious, and cultural history within a traditional, political framework makes this text stand apart from others in the field. Accessible and well written, this balanced text explores everyday events and ordinary people as well as momentous affairs and powerful elites.

Maps and Geographical Tours
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures
Documents
Preface
Supplements
About the Authors
Introduction: The Idea of Western Civilization
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500-900
The Visual Record: The Chapel at the Waters
The Making of the Barbarian Kin
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