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BOOK 1 THE ANCIENT WORLD AND THE CLASSICAL PAST: PREHISTORY TO 200 CE Chapter 1 From Forest to Farm: The Rise of Culture Chapter 2 Mesopotamia: Power and Social Order in the Fertile Crescent Chapter 3 The Stability of Ancient Egypt: Flood and Sun Chapter 4 China, India, and Africa: Early Civilizations Chapter 5 Bronze Age Culture in the Aegean World: The Great Traders Chapter 6 The Rise of Greek City-States: War and Victory Chapter 7 Golden Age Athens: The School of Hellas Chapter 8 Rome: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty BOOK II MEDIEVAL EUROPE AND THE SHAPING OF WORLD CULTURES: 200 CE TO 1400 Chapter 9 The Late Roman Empire, Judaism, and the Rise of Christianity: Power and Faith Chapter 10 Byzantium: Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire Chapter 11 The Rise and Spread of Islam: A New Religion Chapter 12 Fiefdom and Monastery: The Merging of Germanic and Roman Cultures Chapter 13 The Romanesque Tradition: Pilgrimage and Crusade Chapter 14 The Gothic Style: Faith and Knowledge in an Age of Inquiry Chapter 15 Siena and Florence in the Fourteenth Century: Toward a New Humanism Chapter 16 China, India Japan, Africa, and the Americas before 1400 BOOK III THE RENAISSANCE AND THE AGE OF ENCOUNTER: 1400 to 1600 Chapter 17 Florence and the Early Renaissance: Humanism in Italy Chapter 18 The High Renaissance in Rome: Papal Patronage Chapter 19 The Venetian Renaissance: Palace and Lagoon Chapter 20 The Renaissance in the North: Between Wealth and Want Chapter 21 The Reformation A New Church and the Arts *Chapter 22: The Early Counter-Reformation and Mannerism: Restraint and Invention * Chapter 23: West Africa, China, and Japan: The Age of Encounter: * Chapter 24: England in the Tudor Age: “This Other Eden”… (more)