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Reader’s Guide
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Unit 1: Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Fertile Crescent
Human History before the Domestication of Plants and Animals
East-West Axis and the Spread of Food Production
Domestication and Human Diseases
Unit 1 Review
Unit 2: Religion and Culture in the Earliest Civilizations in the Ancient Near East
Sumerian Culture
Temple Complexes, Religious Ritual, and the Order of Nature
City-states and Their Gods
Unit 2 Review
Unit 3: Earliest Civilizations of Africa
Carthage
Nubia
Egypt
Unit 3 Review
Unit 4: India
Indus Valley Civilization
The Maurya Empire
Vedas and Indian Religion
Unit 4 Review
Unit 5: China
The Influence of China on Japan and Korea
The Qin Empire
Mandate of Heaven and Dynastic Cycle
Unit 5 Review
Unit 6: Revolutions in Human Thought
Greek Philosophy
Confucius and Buddha
The Jewish Prophets
Unit 6 Review
Unit 7: Earliest Civilizations of the Americas
The Aztec
The Inca
The Olmec and Maya
Unit 7 Review
Unit 8: The Greeks
Hellenistic Age
Golden Age of Greece
Minoan and Mycenaean Greece
Unit 8 Review
Unit 9: The Romans
The Fall of Rome
The Roman Republic
The Roman Empire
Unit 9 Review
Unit 10: The Rise of Christianity
Christianity and the Roman Empire
The Structure of the Christian Church
Jesus
Unit 10 Review
Unit 11: European Peoples
Benedictine Monks and the Conversion of the European Peoples
The Vikings
Cultures of the People
Unit 11 Review
Unit 12: Ascendancy of the East
Expansion of Muslim Culture
The Rise of Islam
The Byzantine Empire
Unit 12 Review
Unit 13: The Formation of Western Christendom
Carolingian Renaissance
Corruption and Renewal in the Church
The Crusades
Unit 13 Review
Unit 14: The Medieval Age
Medieval Church and State
Europeans and Mongols
Reason and Faith in Thomas Aquinas
Unit 14 Review
Unit 15: The Renaissance
Renaissance Art and Science
Church Corruption
The Great Plague
Unit 15 Review
