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Auteurs : FRANKFORTER A. Daniel, SPELLMAN William M.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PART ONE: DEPARTURE PREHISTORY TO 1000 BCE
Chapter 1: The Birth of Civilization
Larger Issue: How do environments shape human communities and human communities alter environments?
The Evolution of the Prehistoric Cultures
The Archaic States
The Origin of Civilization in Mesopotamia: Sumer
The Rise of Civilization in Egypt
Chapter 2: The Rise of Empires and the Beginning of the Iron Age
Larger Issue: Does civilization promote or intensify divisions among peoples?
The Transition States
Imperial Egypt: The New Kingdom
The Indo-Europeans and the Clash of Empires
The Bible and History
PART TWO: THE CLASSICAL ERA 2000 BCE to 30 CE
Chapter 3: Aegean Civilizations
Larger Issue: When does civilization in the West become 'Western' civilization?
Minoan Mentors
The Mycenaeans, Greece's First Civilization
The Aegean Dark Age
The Hellenic Era
The Rise of the Mainland Powers
The Persian Wars: Crucible of a Civilization
Chapter 4: The Hellenic Era
Larger Issue: What did the Greeks contribute to the development of modern civilization?
Persian Wars as Catalyst
The Peloponnesian War
Intellectual and Artistic Life in the Polis
Chapter 5: The Hellenistic Era and the Rise of Rome
Larger Issue: What circumstances are likely to undermine governments by the people?
The Hellenistic Era
The Origin of Rome
The Roman Republic
Rome's Civil War
Chapter 6: Rome's Empire and the Unification of the Western World
Larger Issue: Do people prefer order to liberty?
The Augustan Era
Order and Continuity: The Dynastic Option
Order and Continuity: The Elective Option
Life in an Imperial Environment
The Decline of Rome
PART THREE: THE DIVISION OF THE WEST 300 TO 1300
Chapter 7: The West's Medieval Civilizations
Larger Issue: Should freedom of religion be limited?
The Christian Element
The German Element
The Byzantine Empire of Constantinople
Islam
Chapter 8: The Emergence of Europe
Larger Issue: How did Europe build on its legacies from the ancient world?
The Merovingian Kingdom: Europe's Nucleus
The Franks' Neighbors
The Carolingian Era
Retrenchment and Reorganization
The Culture of Europe's Dark Age
Chapter 9: Europe Turns Outward
Larger Issue: Was conflict among the medieval civilizations inevitable?
Islam's Crest and Byzantium's Resurgence
The Reorganization of Feudal Europe
The Eleventh-Century Turning Point
Chapter 10: Europe's High Middle Ages
Larger Issue: Why are some...
Date de parution : 02-2009
Ouvrage de 464 p.
16.2x23.5 cm