Cover
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
