Western Civilization I to 1500: A Milestone Documents E-text is a peer-reviewed textbook originally created for the Milestone Documents course service. The book contains 15 chapters arranged in roughly chronological order. Together, the chapters offer a comprehensive textbook covering the period from archaic and early classical Greece to the Renaissance. It is suitable for instructors and students from high school through lower undergraduate levels.

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Reader’s Guide
• Contributors
• Unit 1: Archaic and Early Classical Greece
• The Greek Polis
• Greek Civic Culture
• Archaic Greece
• Unit 1 Review
• Unit 2: Late Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Age
• Greek Philosophy
• The Hellenistic World
• Alexander the Great
• Unit 2 Review
• Unit 3: Roman Republic
• Imperialism and the Punic Wars
• Roman Culture
• Government of the Roman Republic
• Unit 3 Review
• Unit 4: Roman Empire
• Late Roman Empire
• From Republic to Empire
• Five Good Emperors
• Unit 4 Review
• Unit 5: The Rise of Christianity
• Jewish Origins of Jesus
• The Spread of Christianity and Persecutions
• Christianity and Roman Paganism
• Unit 5 Review
• Unit 6: The Fall of Rome and the European Peoples
• Barbarian Kingdoms
• Cultures of the Germanic Tribes
• Late Antiquity and the “Fall” of Rome
• Unit 6 Review
• Unit 7: Ascendancy of the East
• Islamic Spain
• The Rise of Islam
• The Byzantine Empire
• Unit 7 Review
• Unit 8: The Church and the Conversion of the European Peoples
• Christianity in Britain and Ireland
• Saint Boniface in France and Germany
• Saint Benedict and Western Monasticism
• Unit 8 Review
• Unit 9: Age of Charlemagne
• The Carolingian Renaissance
• Charlemagne
• Merovingian and Carolingian Dynasties
• Unit 9 Review
• Unit 10: Feudal Europe and the “Dark Age”
• Vikings
• Corruption in the Church
• Feudal Society
• Unit 10 Review
• Unit 11: Church Reform in the Eleventh Century and the Medieval Papacy
• Church and State
• The Investiture Controversy
• Cluniac Reform
• Unit 11 Review
• Unit 12: International Relations
• Exploration
• The Mongols
• Crusades
• Unit 12 Review
• Unit 13: Medieval Institutions
• Medieval Universities
• Dante and the Italian Communes
• Mendicant Orders
• Unit 13 Review
• Unit 14: The Waning of the Middle Ages
• Rise of National Monarchies
• Church Corruption and the Conciliar Movement
• Great Plague
• Unit 14 Review
• Unit 15: The Renaissance and the Transformation of the Western World
• Renaissance Men and Women
• Christian Humanism
• Medieval and Renaissance Art and Architecture
• Unit 15 Review