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Preface | |
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Illustrations | |
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Maps | |
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The Ancient Middle East | |
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The Early Civilization of Mesopotamia and Egypt | |
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Why Mesopotamia? | |
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The Agricultural Revolution | |
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The State and Urban Revolution | |
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Early Mesopotamian History: The Sumerian Period (3100-2000 B.C.) | |
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The Egyptian Alternative: The Old and Middle Kingdoms | |
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An Age of Empires: The Middle East, 2000-1000 B.C. | |
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A Time of Turmoil: New Peoples East and West | |
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Mesopotamia in the Age of Hammurapi | |
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The Hittite Empire | |
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The Egyptian Empire | |
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Egypt in Decline | |
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The Middle East to the Persian Empire | |
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The New Peoples of the Middle East | |
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The Glory of Assyria and Babylon | |
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The Persians | |
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Religion and Culture in Israel | |
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The Greek World | |
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The Emergence of Greek Civilization | |
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Geography and History | |
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The Origins of Greek Culture | |
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The Minoan and Mycenaean Ages | |
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The Mycenaean Age | |
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The Dark Ages | |
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Out of the Darkness: The Archaic Age | |
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The Example of Two Cities: Sparta and Athens | |
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Polis Society | |
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Culture and Society in the Archaic Age | |
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The Wars of the Greeks | |
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Persians and Greeks | |
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The Military Situation after the Persian Wars | |
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The Great War between Athens and Sparta | |
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The Hegemony of Sparta and Thebes | |
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Classical Athens | |
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The Early Classical period (ca. 490-450 B.C.) | |
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The Classical Age, Part I (450-430 B.C.) | |
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The Later Classical Period (430-338 B.C.) | |
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Athenian Society | |
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Philip, Alexander, and the Hellenistic World | |
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Backward Macedonia Challenges Greece | |
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The Genius of Philip | |
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The Orator and the King: Demosthenes and Philip | |
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Alexander the Great | |
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Campaigns in Central Asia (330-323 B.C.) | |
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Alexander's Successors | |
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The State and Society in the Hellenistic World | |
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Hellenistic Society | |
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Culture and Religion in the Hellenistic World | |
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Greek High Culture Adapts to a New Environment | |
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Becoming Greek: Education in the New World | |
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The Hellenistic Age: Achievements and Limitations | |
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The Roman World | |
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Early Rome | |
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The Western Mediterranean and Early Italy | |
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The Latins and Early Rome | |
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The Republic | |
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The Social and Political Achievement of Early Rome: Consensus | |
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The Building of an Empire | |
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The Growth of Rome in Italy | |
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The Punic Wars | |
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Roman Territorial Expansion after the Hannibalic War | |
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Society and the State in the Roman Republic | |
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An Estimate of Roman Society | |
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The Transformation of the Roman Republic | |
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The Old Order Fades | |
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The Gracchan Revolution: Social and Political Context | |
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From the Gracchi to Augustus: The Roman Revolution | |
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The Fall of the Roman Republic | |
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The Roman World from Augustus to the Third-Century Crisis | |
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The Reforms of Augustus | |
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Rounding Out the Empire | |
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The Severan Emperors | |
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The Roman Peace | |
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Challenge and Response | |
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Society and the State in the Empire | |
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The Government, the Army, and Society | |
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The Empire from the Third-Century Crisis to Justinian | |
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The Third-Century Crisis | |
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Political Anarchy | |
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Diocletian and Constantine | |
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The Emperor and the Administration | |
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The Army, the Empire, and the Barbarians | |
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The Collapse of the Western Empire | |
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The Rise of the Byzantine Empire | |
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The Transformed Mediterranean | |
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History Moves Northward and Eastward | |
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The Transformation of the Classical Tradition | |
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The Empire and the Church Come to Terms | |
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The Christian Way of Life | |
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Civilizing the Barbarians | |
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Diverging Beliefs | |
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Islam and the Transformation of the Mediterranean | |
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Religious Legacies | |
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Epilogue | |