Foundations of Western Civilization
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01 - "Western," "Civilization," and "Foundations"
02 - History Begins at Sumer
03 - Egypt - The Gift of the Nile
04 - The Hebrews - Small States and Big Ideas
05 - A Succession of Empires
06 - Wide-Ruling Agamemnon
07 - Dark Age and Archaic Greece
08 - The Greek Polis - Sparta
09 - The Greek Polis - Athens
10 - Civic Culture - Architecture and Drama
11 - The Birth of History
12 - From Greek Religion to Socratic Philosophy
13 - Plato and Aristotle
14 - The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander
15 - The Hellenistic World
16 - The Rise of Rome
17 - The Roman Republic - Government and Politics
18 - Roman Imperialism
19 - The Culture of the Roman Republic
20 - Rome - From Republic to Empire
21 - The Pax Romana
22 - Rome's Golden and Silver Ages
23 - Jesus and the New Testament
24 - The Emergence of a Christian Church
25 - Late Antiquity - Crisis and Response
26 - Barbarians and Emperors
27 - The Emergence of the Catholic Church
28 - Christian Culture in Late Antiquity
29 - Muhammad and Islam
30 - The Birth of Byzantium
31 - Barbarian Kingdoms in the West
32 - The World of Charlemagne
33 - The Carolingian Renaissance
34 - The Expansion of Europe
35 - The Chivalrous Society
36 - Medieval Political Traditions 1
37 - Medieval Political Traditions 2
38 - Scholastic Culture
39 - Vernacular Culture
40 - The Crisis of Renaissance Europe
41 - The Renaissance Problem
42 - Renaissance Portraits
43 - The Northern Renaissance
44 - The Protestant Reformation - Martin Luther
45 - The Protestant Reformation - John Calvin
46 - Catholic Reforms and "Confessionalization"
47 - Exploration and Empire
48 - What Challenges Remain