| Prehistory to the Early Modern World | |
| The First Civilizations and the Classical Legacy | |
| Introduction: Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization | |
| The First Civilizations | |
| Egypt: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order | |
| Mesopotamia: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order | |
| India and China: Gods, Rulers, and the Social Order | |
| The Classical Legacy | |
| Greece: Humanism and the Speculative Leap | |
| The Classical Style | |
| Rome: The Rise to Empire | |
| China: The Rise to Empire | |
| Medieval Europe and the World Beyond | |
| The Shaping of the Middle Ages | |
| A Flowering of Faith: Christianity and Buddhism | |
| The Language of Faith: Symbolism and the Arts | |
| The Islamic World: Religion and Culture | |
| The Medieval West | |
| Patterns of Medieval Life | |
| Christianity and the Medieval Mind | |
| The Medieval Synthesis in the Arts | |
| The World Beyond the West | |
| Asian Civilizations: The Artistic Record | |
| The European Renaissance, the Reformation, and Global Encounter | |
| The Age of the Renaissance | |
| Adversity and Challenge: The Fourteenth-Century Transition | |
| Classical Humanism in the Age of the Renaissance | |
| Renaissance Artists: Disciples of Nature, Masters of Invention | |
| A Brave New World | |
| Africa, the Americas, and Cross-Cultural Encounter | |
| Protest and Reform: The Waning of the Old Order | |
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