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| Origins, ca 400,000-1100 B.C. | |
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| Understanding Western History | |
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| From Caves to Towns | |
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| Images in Society: The Iceman | |
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| Mesopotamian Civilization | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 1.1 Spread of Cultures in the Ancient Near East | |
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| The Spread of Mesopotamian Culture | |
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| Egypt, the Land of the Pharaohs (3100-1200 B.C.) | |
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| Individuals in Society: Nefertiti, the "Perfect Woman" | |
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| The Hittites and the End of an Era (ca 1640-1100 B.C.) | |
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| Listening to the Past: A Quest for Immortality | |
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| Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East (ca. 1100-513 B.C.) | |
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| Disruption and Diffusion | |
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| Individuals in Society: Wen-Amon | |
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| The Children of Israel | |
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| Assyria, the Military Monarchy | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 2.2 The Assyrian and Persian Empires | |
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| The Empire of the Persian Kings | |
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| Listening to the Past: The Covenant Between Yahweh and the Hebrews | |
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| Classical Greece (ca 1650-338 B.C.) | |
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| Hellas: The Land | |
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| The Polis | |
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| The Archaic Age (800-500 B.C.) | |
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| The Classical Period (500-338 B.C.) | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 3.3 The Peloponnesian War | |
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| Individuals in Society: Aspasia | |
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| The Final Act (404-338 B.C.) | |
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| Listening to the Past: The Great Plague at Athens, 430 B.C. | |
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| The Hellenistic World (336-146 B.C.) | |
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| Alexander and the Great Crusade | |
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| Alexander's Legacy | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 4.2 The Hellenistic World | |
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| The Spread of Hellenism | |
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| The Economic Scope of the Hellenistic World | |
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| Hellenistic Intellectual Advances | |
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| Individuals in Society: Archimedes and the Practical Application of Science | |
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| Listening to the Past: Alexander and the Brotherhood of Man | |
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| The Rise of Rome, ca 750-44 B.C. | |
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| The Roman Republic | |
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| Roman Expansion | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 5.2 Roman Expansion During the Republic | |
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| Old Values and Greek Culture | |
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| The Late Republic (133-31 B.C.) | |
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| Individuals in Society: Quintus Sertorius | |
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| Listening to the Past: A Magic Charm | |
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| The Pax Romana (31 B.C.-A.D. 450) | |
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| Augustus's Settlement (31 B.C.-A.D. 14) | |
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| The Coming of Christianity | |
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| Augustus's Successors | |
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| Life in the "Golden Age" | |
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| Individuals in Society: Bithus, a Typical Roman Soldier | |
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| Images in Society: The Roman Villa at Chedworth | |
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| Rome in Disarray and Recovery (A.D. 177-450) | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 6.3 The Economic Aspect of the Pax Romana | |
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| Listening to the Past: Rome Extends Its Citizenship | |
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| Late Antiquity: 350-600 | |
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| The Byzantine Empire | |
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| Individuals in Society: Theodora of Constantinople | |
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| The Growth of the Christian Church | |
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| Christian Ideas and Practices | |
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| Christian Missionaries and Conversion | |
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| Migrating Peoples | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 7.3 The Barbarian Migrations | |
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| Barbarian Society | |
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| Listening to the Past: The Conversion of Clovis | |
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| Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 600-1000 | |
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| The Spread of Islam | |
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| The Frankish Kingdom | |
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| The Empire of Charlemagne | |
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| Individuals in Society: Ebo of Reims | |
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| Early Medieval Culture and Society | |
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| Invasions and Migrations | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 8.4 Invasions and Migrations of the Ninth Century | |
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| Listening to the Past: Feudal Homage and Fealty | |
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| State and Church in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300 | |
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| Political Revival | |
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| Finance | |
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| Law and Justice | |
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| The Papacy | |
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| The Crusades | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 9.4 The Routes of the Crusades | |
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| Individuals in Society: The Jews of Speyer: A Collective Biography | |
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| The Expansion of Christianity | |
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| Listening to the Past: An Arab View of the Crusades | |
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| The Changing Life of the People in the High Middle Ages | |
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| Village Life | |
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| Popular Religion | |
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| Nobles | |
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| Monasteries and Convents | |
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| Individuals in Society: Hildegard of Bingen | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 10.1 Cistercian Expansion | |
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| Listening to the Past: The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela | |
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| The Creativity and Challenges of Medieval Cities | |
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| Towns and Economic Revival | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 11.1 Population of European Urban Areas, ca Late Thirteenth Century | |
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| Individuals in Society: Francesco Datini | |
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| Medieval Universities | |
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| Vernacular Culture | |
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| Architecture and Art | |
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| Images in Society: From Romanesque to Gothic | |
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| Cities and the Church | |
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| Listening to the Past: Courtly Love | |
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| The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages, 1300-1450 | |
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| Prelude to Disaster | |
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| The Black Death | |
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| Mapping the Past: MapP 12.1 The Course of the Black Death in Fourteenth-Century Europe | |
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| The Hundred Years' War | |
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| Challenges to the Church | |
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| Individuals in Society: Jan Hus | |
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| Economic and Social Change | |
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| Listening to the Past: Christine de Pizan | |
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| European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350-1550 | |
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| Economic and Political Developments | |
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| Intellectual Change | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 13.2 The Growth of Printing in Europe | |
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| Art and the Artist | |
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| Individuals in Society: Leonardo da Vinci | |
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| Social Hierarchies | |
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| Politics and the State in the Renaissance (ca 1450-1521) | |
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| Listening to the Past: An Age of Gold | |
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| Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500-1600 | |
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| The Early Reformation | |
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| Images in Society: Art in the Reformation | |
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| The Reformation and German Politics | |
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| The Spread of the Protestant Reformation | |
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| The Catholic Reformation | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 14.2 Religious Divisions in Europe | |
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| Individuals in Society: Teresa of �vila | |
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| Religious Violence | |
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| Listening to the Past: Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty | |
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| European Exploration and Conquest, 1450-1650 | |
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| World Contacts Before Columbus | |
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| The European Voyages of Discovery | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 15.2 Overseas Exploration and Conquest, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries | |
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| Europe and the World After Columbus | |
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| Individuals in Society: Juan de Pareja | |
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| Changing Attitudes and Beliefs | |
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| Listening to the Past: Columbus Describes His First Voyage | |
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| Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe, ca 1589-1715 | |
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| Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding | |
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| Absolutism in France and Spain | |
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| Mapping the Past: Map 16.2 Europe in 1715 | |
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| The Culture of Absolutism | |
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| Constitutionalism | |
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| Individuals in Society: Glückel of Hameln | |