PART I: THE ANCIENT WORLD AND THE CLASSICAL PAST, PREHISTORY TO 200 CE 1. The Rise of Culture: From Forest to Farm 2. The Ancient Near East: Power and Social Order 3. The Stability of Ancient Egypt: Flood and Sun 4. The Aegean World and the Rise of Greece: Trade, War, and Victory 5. Golden Age Athens and the Hellenistic World: The School of Hellas 6. Rome: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty 7. Emerging Empires in the East: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty in China and India PART II: THE RISE OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD AND THE SHAPING OF ITS CULTURE, 200 CE-1400 8.

The Flowering of Christianity: Faith and the Power of Belief in the Early First Millennium 9. The Rise and Spread of Islam: A New Religion 10. Fiefdom and Monastery, Pilgrimage and Crusade: The Early Medieval World in Europe 11. Centers of Culture: Court and City in the Larger World 12. The Gothic Style: Faith and Knowledge in an Age of Inquiry 13. Siena and Florence in the Fourteenth Century: Toward a New Humanism PART III: THE RENAISSANCE AND THE AGE OF ENCOUNTER, 1400-1600 14. Florence and the Early Renaissance: Humanism in Italy 15. The High Renaissance in Rome and Venice: Papal Patronage and Civic Pride 16.

The Renaissance in the North: Between Wealth and Want 17. The Reformation: A New Church and the Arts 18. Encounter and Confrontation: The Impact of Increasing Global Interaction 19. England in the Tudor Age: "This Other Eden" 20. The Early Counter-Reformation and Mannerism: Restraint and Invention.