Brief History of Western Civilization Vol. 1 : The Unfinished Legacy, (Chapters 1-16),9780321196767

Brief History of Western Civilization Vol. 1 : The Unfinished Legacy, (Chapters 1-16)

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Pub. Date: 2005-01-01
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Concise and engaging, A Brief History of Western Civilization, Fourth Edition, brings the study of Western Civilization alive with balanced coverage of a wide array of historical figures and events. Fully integrated coverage of social as well as economic, religious, and cultural history within a traditional, political framework makes this text stand apart from others in the field. Accessible and well written, this balanced text explores everyday events and ordinary people as well as momentous affairs and powerful elites.

Table of Contents

Maps and Geographical Tours
xiii
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures xv
Documents xvii
Preface xix
Supplements xxvi
About the Authors xxxi
Introduction The Idea of Western Civilization 2(2)
The First Civilizations
4(22)
The Visual Record: Otzi's Last Meal
4(2)
Before Civilization
6(2)
The Dominance of Culture
6(1)
Social Organization, Agriculture, and Religion
7(1)
Mesopotamia: Between the Two Rivers
8(6)
The Ramparts of Uruk
9(1)
Tools: Technology and Writing
10(1)
Gods and Mortals in Mesopotamia
11(1)
Sargon and Mesopotamian Expansion
11(1)
Hammurabi and the Old Babylonian Empire
12(2)
The Gift of the Nile
14(4)
Tending the Cattle of God
15(1)
Democratization of the Afterlife
16(1)
The Egyptian Empire
17(1)
Religious and Royal Consolidation Under Akhenaten
17(1)
Between Two Worlds
18(3)
The Hebrew Alternative
19(1)
A King Like All the Nations
19(1)
Exile
20(1)
Nineveh and Babylon
21
The Assyrian Empire
21(1)
The New Babylonian Empire
22(1)
Questions for Review
23(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
23(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
24
Document
The Code of Hammurabi
13(13)
Early Greece, 2500--500 B.C.E.
26(20)
The Visual Record: Hecuba and Achilles
26(2)
Greece in the Bronze Age to 700 B.C.E.
28(4)
Islands of Peace
28(2)
Mainland of War
30(1)
The Dark Age
30(2)
Archaic Greece, 700--500 B.C.E.
32(5)
Ethnos and Polis
33(1)
Technology of Writing and Warfare
34(1)
Colonists and Tyrants
34(1)
Gender and Power
35(1)
Gods and Mortals
36(1)
Myth and Reason
36(1)
Art and the Individual
37(1)
A Tale of Three Cities
37(5)
Wealthy Corinth
38(1)
Martial Sparta
39(2)
Democratic Athens
41(1)
The Coming of Persia and the End of the Archaic Age
42
Questions for Review
44(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
44(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
45
Document
Hector and Andromache
32(14)
Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500--100 B.C.E.
46(22)
The Visual Record: Alexander at Issus
46(2)
War and Politics in the Fifth Century B.C.E.
48(6)
The Persian Wars
48(1)
Thermopylae and Salamis
49(1)
The Athenian Empire
49(1)
Private and Public Life in Athens
50(1)
Pericles and Athens
51(1)
The Peloponnesian War
52(2)
Athenian Culture in the Hellenic Age
54(3)
The Examined Life
54(1)
Understanding the Past
55(1)
Athenian Drama
56(1)
The Human Image
56(1)
From City-States to Macedonian Empire, 404--323 B.C.E.
57(4)
Politics After the Peloponnesian War
57(1)
Philosophy and the Polis
58(1)
The Rise of Macedon
59(1)
The Empire of Alexander the Great
59(1)
Binding Together an Empire
60(1)
The Hellenistic World
61
Urban Life and Culture
61(1)
Women in Public Life
62(1)
Alexandria
63(1)
Hellenistic Literature
63(1)
Art and Architecture
63(1)
Hellenistic Philosophy
63(1)
Mathematics and Science
64(1)
Questions for Review
65(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
66(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
66
Document
The Two Faces of Athenian Democracy
53(15)
Early Rome and the Roman Republic, 800--146 B.C.E.
68(18)
The Visual Record: Eternal Rome
68(2)
The Western Mediterranean to 509 B.C.E.
70(3)
Carthage: The Merchants of Baal
70(1)
The Western Greeks
71(1)
Italy's First Civilization
72(1)
From City to Empire, 509--146 B.C.E.
73(7)
Latin Rome
73(1)
Etruscan Rome
74(1)
Rome and Italy
75(1)
Rome and the Mediterranean
76(4)
Republican Civilization
80(3)
Farmers and Soldiers
80(1)
The Roman Family
80(1)
Social Effects of Expansion
81(1)
Roman Religion
82(1)
Republican Letters
82(1)
The Crisis of Roman Virtue
83
Questions for Review
84(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
84(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
85
Document
Polybius Describes the Sack of New Carthage
79(7)
Imperial Rome, 146 B.C.E.--192 C.E.
86(24)
The Visual Record: The Altar of Augustan Peace
86(2)
The Price of Empire, 146--121 B.C.E.
88(3)
Winners and Losers
88(1)
Optimates and Populares
89(2)
The End of the Republic
91(4)
The Crisis of Government
91(3)
A Life Worth Leading
94(1)
The Augustan Age and the Pax Romana
95(5)
The Empire Renewed
95(3)
Augustus's Successors
98(2)
Religions from the East
100(2)
Jewish Resistance
100(1)
The Origins of Christianity
101(1)
Geographical Tour: A Tour of the Empire
102
The Western Provinces
103(1)
The Eastern Provinces
104(2)
The Culture of Antonine Rome
106(1)
Questions for Review
107(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
107(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
108
Document
The Reforms of Tiberius Gracchus
90(20)
The Transformation of the Classical World
110(18)
The Visual Record: A Bride's Trousseau
110(2)
The Crisis of the Third Century
112(4)
Enrich the Army and Scorn the Rest
112(1)
An Empire on the Defensive
113(1)
The Barbarian Menace
113(2)
Roman Influence in the Barbarian World
115(1)
The Empire Restored
116(2)
Diocletian, the God-Emperor
116(1)
Constantine, the Emperor of God
117(1)
The Triumph of Christianity
117(1)
Imperial Christianity
118(5)
Divinity, Humanity, and Salvation
119(2)
The Call of the Desert
121(1)
Monastic Communities
121(1)
Solitaries and Hermits
122(1)
A Parting of the Ways
123
The Barbarization of the West
123(1)
The New Barbarian Kingdoms
124(1)
The Hellenization of the East
124(2)
Questions for Review
126(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
126(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
127
Document
Tacitus on the Germans
114(14)
The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam
128(22)
The Visual Record: From Temple to Mosque
128(2)
The Byzantines
130(6)
Justinian and the Creation of the Byzantine State
130(2)
Emperors and Individuals
132(2)
Families and Villages
134(1)
A Foretaste of Heaven
134(1)
Iconoclasm
135(1)
The Rise of Islam
136(8)
Arabia Before the Prophet
136(1)
Muhammad, Prophet of God
137(1)
The Triumph of Islam
138(1)
The Spread of Islam
139(2)
Authority and Government in Islam
141(1)
Umayyad and 'Abbasid Caliphates
141(2)
Islamic Civilization
143(1)
The Byzantine Apogee and Decline, 1000--1453
144
The Disintegration of the Empire
144(1)
The Conquests of Constantinople and Baghdad
145(2)
Questions for Review
147(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
148(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
148
Document
The Justinian Code
132(18)
The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500--900
150(22)
The Visual Record: The Chapel at the Waters
150(2)
The Making of the Barbarian Kingdoms, 500--750
152(4)
Italy: From Ostrogoths to Lombards
152(2)
Visigothic Spain: Intolerance and Destruction
154(1)
The Anglo-Saxons: From Pagan Conquerors to Christian Missionaries
154(1)
The Franks: An Enduring Legacy
155(1)
Living in the New Europe
156(3)
Creating the European Peasantry
156(1)
Rural Households
156(1)
Creating the European Aristocracy
157(1)
Aristocratic Lifestyle
158(1)
Governing Europe
158(1)
The Carolingian Achievement
159(4)
Charlemagne and the Renewal of the West
160(1)
The Carolingian Renaissance
161(1)
Carolingian Government
162(1)
Carolingian Art
162(1)
Geographical Tour: Europe in the Ninth Century
163(4)
England
164(1)
Scandinavia
164(2)
The Slavic World
166(1)
Muslim Spain
167(1)
After the Carolingians: From Empire to Lordships
167
Disintegration of the Empire
168(1)
Emergence of France and Germany
168(1)
Cluny
169(1)
Questions for Review
169(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
170(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
170
Document
From Slave to Queen
157(15)
The High Middle Ages, 900--1300
172(22)
The Visual Record: The Royal Tombs at Fontevrault
172(2)
The Countryside
174(6)
The Peasantry: Serfs and Freemen
174(1)
The Aristocracy: Warriors and Heiresses
175(2)
The Church: Saints and Monks
177(2)
Crusaders: Soldiers of God
179(1)
The Idea of the Crusade
180(1)
Medieval Towns
180(6)
Italian Cities
180(2)
Northern Towns
182(1)
The Fairs of Champagne
182(1)
Scholasticism and Urban Intellectual Life
183(3)
The Invention of the State
186
The Universal States: Empire and Papacy
186(3)
The Nation-States: France and England
189(3)
Questions for Review
192(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
192(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
193
Document
Pope Urban II Summons a Crusade
179(15)
The Later Middle Ages, 1300--1500
194(22)
The Visual Record: Webs of Stone and Blood
194(2)
Politics as a Family Affair
196(6)
The Struggle for Central Europe
196(3)
A Hundred Years of War
199(3)
Life and Death in the Later Middle Ages
202(5)
Dancing with Death
203(1)
The Plague of Insurrection
204(1)
Living and Dying in Medieval Towns
205(2)
The Spirit of the Later Middle Ages
207(4)
The Crisis of the Papacy
207(1)
Discerning the Spirit of God
208(1)
Heresy and Revolt
209(1)
Religious Persecution in Spain
210(1)
William of Ockham and the Spirit of Truth
210(1)
Vernacular Literature and the Individual
211(2)
Questions for Review
213(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
214(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
214
Document
Convivencia
211(5)
The Italian Renaissance
216(20)
The Visual Record: A Civic Procession
216(2)
Renaissance Society
218(5)
Cities and Countryside
218(2)
Production and Consumption
220(1)
The Experience of Life
220(2)
The Quality of Life
222(1)
Renaissance Art
223(4)
An Architect, a Sculptor, and a Painter
224(1)
Renaissance Style
225(1)
Michelangelo
225(2)
Renaissance Ideals
227(2)
Humanists and the Liberal Arts
227(1)
Machiavelli and Politics
228(1)
The Politics of the Italian City-States
229
The Five Powers
229(1)
Venice: A Seaborne Empire
230(1)
Florence: Spinning Cloth into Gold
231(2)
The End of Italian Hegemony, 1450--1527
233(1)
Questions for Review
234(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
234(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
235
Document
On the Family
221(15)
The European Empires
236(24)
The Visual Record: Ptolemy's World
236(2)
European Encounters
238(6)
A Passage to India
238(1)
Mundus Novus
239(1)
The Spanish Conquests
240(2)
The Legacy of the Encounters
242(2)
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1500
244(4)
Boundaries of Eastern Europe
245(1)
Central Europe
245(2)
Western Europe
247(1)
The Formation of States
248(6)
Eastern Configurations
248(2)
The Western Powers
250(4)
The Dynastic Struggles
254
Power and Glory
254(1)
The Italian Wars
255(2)
Questions for Review
257(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
257(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
258
Document
The Halls of Montezuma
241(19)
The Reform of Religion
260(20)
The Visual Record: Sola Scriptura
260(2)
The Intellectual Reformation
262(2)
The Print Revolution
262(1)
Christian Humanism
262(1)
The Humanist Movement
263(1)
The Wit of Erasmus
264(1)
The Lutheran Reformation
264(5)
The Spark of Reform
265(1)
The Sale of Indulgences
265(1)
Martin Luther Challenges the Church
266(1)
Martin Luther's Faith
266(1)
From Luther to Lutheranism
267(1)
The Spread of Lutheranism
268(1)
The Protestant Reformation
269(4)
Geneva and Calvin
270(1)
The English Reformation
271(2)
The Reformation of the Radicals
273(1)
The Catholic Reformation
273
The Spiritual Revival
273(1)
Loyola's Pilgrimage
274(2)
The Counter-Reformation
276(1)
The Empire Strikes Back
277(1)
Questions for Review
278(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
278(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
279
Document
The Eternal Decree
270(10)
Europe At War, 1555--1648
280(18)
The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents
280(2)
The Crises of the Western States
282(5)
The French Wars of Religion
282(1)
One King, Two Faiths
283(2)
The World of Philip II
285(1)
The Revolt of the Netherlands
285(2)
The Struggles in Eastern Europe
287(3)
Kings and Diets in Poland
287(1)
Muscovy's Time of Troubles
288(1)
The Rise of Sweden
289(1)
The Thirty Years' War, 1618--1648
290(1)
Bohemia Revolts
290(2)
The War Widens
292(1)
The Long Quest for Peace
293(2)
Questions for Review
295(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
295(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
296
Document
War Is Hell
291(7)
The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500--1650
298(20)
The Visual Record: Haymaking
298(2)
Economic Life
300(5)
Rural Life
300(2)
Town Life
302(1)
Economic Change
303(2)
Social Life
305(5)
Social Constructs
305(1)
Social Structure
306(2)
Social Change
308(1)
Peasant Revolts
308(2)
Private and Community Life
310(4)
The Family
310(2)
Communities
312(1)
Popular Beliefs and the Persecution of Witches
313(2)
Questions for Review
315(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
316(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
316
Document
The Devil's Due
314(4)
The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century
318
The Visual Record: Fit for a King
318(2)
The Rise of the Royal State
320(4)
Divine Kings
320(1)
The Court and the Courtiers
321(2)
The Drive to Centralize Government
323(1)
The Taxing Demands of War
323(1)
The Crises of the Royal State
324(7)
The Need to Resist
325(1)
The Right to Resist
326(1)
The English Civil War
327(2)
The English Revolutions
329(2)
The Zenith of the Royal State
331
The Nature of Absolute Monarchy
331(1)
Absolutism in the East
332(1)
The Origins of French Absolutism
333(1)
Louis le Grand
334(2)
Questions for Review
336(1)
Discovering Western Civilization Online
336(1)
Suggestions for Further Reading
337
Document
A Glimpse of a King
322
Credits 1(1)
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