Brief Contents List of Diagrams, Figures, Maps, Primary Source Projects, Tables, and Timelines Acknowledgments How to Use This Book Chapter One: History's Story There's Method What Is Truth? Primary Source Project 1: Voltaire versus Macaulay Chapter Two: Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 BCThe Apes' CousinsBound to the SoilThe Price of CivilizationThe Rise and Fall of Practically All Middle Eastern EmpiresPrimary Source Project 2: Xenophon versus HerodorusChapter Three: The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 BC to AD 135Between and under EmpiresThe Tie That BindsPrimary Source Project 3: Prophecy of Micah versus Prophecy of JoelChapter Four: Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 BC to AD 146To the SeaThe Political AnimalMetamorphosisThe Cultural ConquestPrimary Source Project 4: The Melian DialogueChapter Five: Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 BC to AD 300World Conquest in Self-DefenseThe Price of PowerThe Absolutist SolutionThe Roads to KnowledgePrimary Source Project 5: Galgacus versus AgricolaChapter Six: The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 BC to AD 1253The Son of ManThe Cultural WarRoma Delenda EstStruggle for the Realm of SubmissionPrimary Source Project 6: Paul versus Pliny and TrajanChapter Seven: From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, AD 500 to 1000Goths in the GardenCharles in ChargeThe Cavalry to the RescuePrimary Source Project 7: Bad Bishops versus BenedictChapter Eight: The Medieval Mêlée: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500Return of the KingsDiscipline and DominationPlenty of Papal PowerThe Age of Faith and ReasonA New EstateNot the End of the WorldPrimary Source Project 8: Gregory VII versus Henry IVChapter Nine: Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648 The Purse of Princes Man as the Measure Heaven Knows Fatal Beliefs God, Greed, and Glory Primary Source Project 9: Witch Hunter versus Montaigne Epilogue: Why Western Civilization? Timelines Common Abbreviations Glossary Suggested Readings Index About the Author.