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| Contents | |
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| Ancient River-Valley Civilizations | |
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| Prehistory and Mesopotamia | |
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| Egypt | |
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| Greece: Birthplace of Western Civilization | |
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| The Aegean Heritage | |
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| Early Greece: Preparation for the Good Life | |
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| Hellenic Athens: The Fulfillment of the Good Life | |
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| Greece: From Hellenic to Hellenistic World | |
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| The Greek Arts | |
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| Rome: The International Culture | |
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| A Thousand Years of Rome | |
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| Roman Art and Architecture: The Arts of Megalopolis | |
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| Judaism and Christianity | |
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| The Star and the Cross | |
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| The Beginnings of Christian Art | |
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| The Age of Faith | |
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| Building Medieval Walls | |
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| The Late Middle Ages: Expansion and Synthesis | |
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| The Medieval Synthesis in Art | |
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| Medieval Music: Sacred and Secular | |
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| The Renaissance, 1350-1600 | |
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| New Ideas and Discoveries Result from a New Way of Looking at the World | |
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| Renaissance Art: A New Golden Age | |
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| Renaissance Music: Court and Church | |
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| Shadow and Substance: Literary Insights into the Renaissance | |
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| The Early Modern World, 1600-1789 | |
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| Science, Reason, and Absolutism | |
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| Art: Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassic | |
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| Music: Baroque, Rococo, and Classical | |
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| the Middle Modern World, 1789-1914 | |
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| Revolution, Romanticism, Realism | |
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| Romanticism in Music | |
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| Nineteenth-Century Art: Conflict and Diversity | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| Things Fall Apart: The Center Cannot Hold | |
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| Ideas and Conflicts that Motivate the Twentieth Century | |
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| Art in the Twentieth Century: Shock Waves and Reactions | |
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| Music in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Twentieth-Century Literature | |
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| Into the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Crossing Borders: Historical Overview, 1990-2003 | |
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| Art in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Music in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Literature for the New Century | |
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| Appendices | |