First released: 2002
About
- 1.“western, ” “civilization, ” and “foundations”
- 2.History Begins at Sumer
- 3.Egypt — The Gift of the Nile
- 4.The Hebrews — Small States and Big Ideas
- 5.A Succession of Empires
- 6.Wide-Ruling Agamemnon
- 7.Dark Age and Archaic Greece
- 8.The Greek Polis — Sparta
- 9.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, I
- 37.Medieval Political Traditions, II
- 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?