Western Civilization

Brief Contents

DOCUMENTS XIV

MAPS XVII

FEATURES XIX

PREFACE XX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XXVI

INTRODUCTION TO STUDENTS OF WESTERN

CIVILIZATION XXX

STUDYING FROM PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS XXXI

1 THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: THE FIRST

CIVILIZATIONS 1

2 THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: PEOPLES AND

EMPIRES 27

3 THE CIVILIZATION OF THE GREEKS 48

4 THE HELLENISTIC WORLD 73

5 THE ROMAN REPUBLIC 94

6 THE ROMAN EMPIRE 120

7 LATE ANTIQUITY AND THEEMERGENCEOFTHE

MEDIEVAL WORLD 146

8 EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION IN THE EARLY

MIDDLE AGES, 750–1000 173

9 THE RECOVERY AND GROWTH OF EUROPEAN

SOCIETY IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES 198

10 THERISEOFKINGDOMSANDTHEGROWTHOF

CHURCH POWER 221

11 THE LATER MIDDLE AGES: CRISIS AND

DISINTEGRATION IN THE FOURTEENTH

CENTURY 249

12 RECOVERY AND REBIRTH: THE AGE OF THE

RENAISSANCE 273

13 REFORMATION AND RELIGIOUS WARFARE IN

THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY 301

14 EUROPE AND THE WORLD: NEW ENCOUNTERS,

1500–1800 327

15 STATE BUILDING AND THE SEARCH FOR ORDER

IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 357

16 TOWARD A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH:

THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND THE

EMERGENCE OF MODERN SCIENCE 385

GLOSSARY 405

INDEX 413

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