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Intro -- Prehistory of the West to 35,000 BCE -- The First Civilizations, 10,000-1250 BCE -- Growing Civilizations of the Near East, 1200-450 BCE -- The Greek Polis in War & -- Peace, 750-371 BCE -- The Greek World Expands, 359-142 BCE -- Greek Culture, Science & -- Philosophy, 725-140 BCE -- The Rise of Rome & -- the Republic, 753-31 BCE -- The Roman Empire, 27 BCE-476 CE -- Roman Culture, 240 BCE-121 CE -- East & -- West in the Early Middle Ages, 493-1000 -- Europe in the High Middle Ages, 1054-1400 -- The Culture of Christendom in Medieval Europe, 910-1351 -- The Emergence of Early Modern Europe, 1400-1497 -- The Culture of the Renaissance, 1304-1500.

Featuring the one author, one voice approach, this text is ideal for instructors who do not wish to neglect the importance of non-Western perspectives on the study of the past. The book is a brief, affordable presentation providing a coherent examination of the past from ancient times to the present. Religion, everyday life, and transforming moments are the three themes employed to help make the past interesting, intelligible, and relevant to contemporary society

All aspects of the life of an age are interrelated, even when the interrelations express themselves in cross purposes and intellectual dissolution. Whether or not they embody forms and ideas worthy to be dignified by the name of architecture, the buildings of any period are an expression of it. They reflect, in varying degrees, its economic and social development, the enactments of its legislative bodies, the acts of its administrative officials, the decisions of its law courts, the character and course of its wars. They also express, again in varying degrees, its methods of education, its religious life, its natural science, its thought and its art. They are, to some extent, the expression of past traditions and works of the mind which have retained a hold on the life of the period or have been revived by its thinkers and artists, as classical antiquity has been revived again and again in Western European history since the eleventh century.