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| About Our Author | |
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| About Research & Education Association | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Passing the CLEP Western Civilization I Exam | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| The REA Study Center | |
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| An Overview of the Exam | |
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| All About the CLEP Program | |
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| Options for Military Personnel and Veterans | |
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| SSD Accommodations for Candidates with Disabilities | |
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| 6-Week Study Plan | |
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| Test-Taking Tips | |
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| The Day of the Exam | |
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| Online Diagnostic Test | |
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| The Ancient Near East | |
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| Western and Near Eastern Civilizations | |
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| The Fertile Crescent | |
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| Mesopotamia | |
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| Mesopotamian Culture | |
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| Egypt and the Nile | |
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| Egyptian Culture | |
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| The Spread of Civilization | |
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| The Hittites | |
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| The Sea Peoples | |
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| The Minoans | |
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| The Mycenaeans | |
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| The Phoenician | |
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| The Assyrians | |
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| The Neo-Babylonians (Chaldeans) | |
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| The Persians | |
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| The Hebrews | |
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| Ancient Greece | |
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| The Mycenaean Bronze Age (c. 2300-1100 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Dark Age (c. 1100-800 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Archaic Period (c. 800-500 B.C.E.) | |
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| Sparta | |
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| Athens | |
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| The Persian Wars | |
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| Periclean Athens | |
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| The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) | |
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| Greek Classical Culture | |
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| Religion | |
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| Literature | |
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| Art and Architecture | |
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| The Hellenistic Age | |
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| Hellenistic Culture | |
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| Ancient Rome | |
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| The Republic | |
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| The Empire | |
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| Literature | |
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| Art, Architecture, and Engineering | |
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| Religion | |
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| The Jews in the Roman Empire | |
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| Christianity | |
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| Reorganization of the Empire | |
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| The Germanic Invasions | |
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| The Late Empire | |
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| The Fall of Rome | |
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| The Middle Ages | |
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| The Byzantine Empire | |
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| Islam | |
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| Byzantium to 1000 B.C.E | |
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| The Germanic Kingdoms | |
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| The Medieval Church | |
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| Feudalism and Manorialism | |
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| Population Growth | |
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| Trade and Towns | |
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| Church and State | |
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| The Rise of Centralized Monarchies | |
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| The Holy Roman Empire | |
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| England | |
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| France | |
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| The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) | |
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| Spain | |
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| Eastern Europe | |
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| The Church in the Late Middle Ages | |
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| The Medieval Cultural Tradition | |
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| The Intellectual Tradition | |
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| The Vernacular Tradition | |
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| The Black Death | |
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| Architecture and Art | |
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| Renaissance and Reformation | |
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| The Italian Renaissance | |
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| Florence | |
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| Italian Politics | |
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| Art and Architecture | |
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| Literature | |
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| Economic Innovations | |
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| The Northern Renaissance | |
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| Christian Humanism | |
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| The Protestant Reformation | |
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| Diversification of Protestantism | |
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| The Catholic Reformation | |
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| The New Monarchies | |
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| Early Modern Europe | |
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| The Age of Exploration | |
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| The Commercial Revolution | |
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| Nation-States and Wars of Religion | |
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| France | |
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| Spain | |
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| England | |
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| Dutch Independence | |
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| The Thirty Years' War | |
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| A Revolution in World View | |
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| Modernity | |
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| Practice Test 1 (also available online at www.rea.com/studycenter) | |
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| Answer Key | |
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| Detailed Explanations of Answers | |
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| Practice Test 2 (also available online at www.rea.com/studycenter) | |
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| Answer Key | |
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| Detailed Explanations of Answers | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Answer Sheets | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |