World History Topic--Notes from the History Guide

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1.1 The First Humans

 

Topic 1: What is Civilization?

1.2 Emergence of Civilization

A Little History of the World

 

2.1 Ancient Egypt

 

 

2.2 The Fertile Crescent

 

Topic 2: Ancient Western Asia and the Civilization of Mesopotamia

2.3 Early India

 

 

2.4 Early China

 

 

3.1 Trading Peoples

 

Topic 3: Egyptian Civilization

3.2 The Hebrews

 

 

3.3 Empire Builders

 

 

4.1 Greek Beginnings

 

Topic 4: The Akkadians, Egyptians and the Hebrews

4.2 The Greek Polis

 

 

4.3 Rivals Sparta and Athens

 

 

4.4 War Golry and Decline

 

Topic 5: Homer and the Greek Renaissance, 900-600BC

5.1 The Greek Quest for Beauty and Meaning

 

 

5.2 The Greek Mind

 

 

5.3 Alexander's Empire

 

Topic 6: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy

6.1 The Roman Republic

 

 

6.2 Rome Expansion and Crisis

 

 

6.3 The Roman Empire

 

Topic 7: Classical Greece, 500-323BC

6.4 The Rise of Christianity

 

 

6.5 Roman Decline

 

 

9.1 The New Rome Byzantium

 

Topic 8: Greek Thought: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

9.2 Byzantine Civilization

 

 

9.3 The Eastern Slavs

 

 

10.1 The Rise of Islam

 

Topic 9: From Polis to Cosmopolis: Hellenization and Alexander the Great, 323-30BC

10.2 The Spread of Islam

 

 

10.3 Islamic Civilization

 

 

11.1 Frankish Rulers

 

Topic 10: Early Roman Civilization, 753-509BC

11.2 Medieval Life

 

 

11.3 the Medieval Church

 

 

11.4 The Rise of European Monarchy

 

Topic 11: Republican Rome, 509-31BC

12.1 The Crusades

 

 

12.2 Economic and Cultural Revival

 

 

12.3 Strengthening the Monarchy

 

Topic 12: Augustus Caesar and the Pax Romana

12.4 The Troubled Church

 

 

15.1 The Italian Renaissance

 

 

15.2 The Northern Renaissance

 

Topic 13: A Brief Social History of the Roman Empire

15.3 The Protestant Reformation

 

 

15.4 The Spread of Protestantism

 

 

15.5 The Catholic Reformation

 

Topic 14: The Decline and Fall of Rome

16.1 Expolration and Empire

 

 

16.2 Overseas Empires

 

 

16.3 Expanding Horizons

 

Topic 15: Christianity as a Cultural Revolution

17.1 Spain

 

 

17.2 England

 

 

17.3 France

 

Topic 16: The Church Fathers: Jerome and Augustine

17.4 The German States

 

 

17.5 Russia

 

 

 

 

Topic 17: Byzantine Civilization

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 18: Islamic Civilization

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 19: Early Medieval Monasticism

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 20: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 20: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 21: Feudalism and the Feudal Relationship

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 22: European Agrarian Society: Manorialism

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 23: Medieval Society: The Three Orders

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 24: The Medieval World View

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 25: The Holy Crusades

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 26: The 12th Century Renaissance

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 27: Heretics, Heresies and the Church

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 28: Aquinas and Dante

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 29: Satan Triumphant: The Black Death

 

 

 

 

 

Topic 30: In the Wake of the Black Death