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The Primary Source Edition of "Civilization in the West "blends social and political history into a fascinating narrative that brings history to life. With 20 primary source documents, this edition offers an examination of all aspects of world history plus a wealth of original documents that help make the material come alive. "Document Analysis" questions encourage readers to delve deeper into the documents and to explore how they relate to the events of the time. The extensive primary source document section, complete with accompanying with qu... MORE

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Documents	p. xvii
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures	p. xvii
Maps	p. xviii
Preface	p. xx
Introduction: The Idea of Western Civilization	p. 1
The First Civilizations	p. 3
The Visual Record: Otzi's Last Meal: Tradition and Innovation in Prehistoric Europe	p. 4
Before Civilization	p. 6
The Dominance of Culture	p. 7
Social Organization, Agriculture, and Religion	p. 8
Mesopotamia: Between the Two Rivers	p. 9
Map Discovery: The Ancient World	p. 10
The Ramparts of Uruk	p. 10
Tools: Technology and Writing	p. 12
Gods and Mortals in Mesopotamia	p. 13
Sargon and Mesopotamian Expansion	p. 14
Hammurabi and the Old Babylonian Empire	p. 15
The Gift of the Nile	p. 17
Tending the Cattle of God	p. 17
Democratization of the Afterlife	p. 19
The Egyptian Empire	p. 21
Map Discovery: The Egyptian Empire	p. 22
Religious and Royal Consolidation Under Akhenaten	p. 22
Between Two Worlds	p. 23
The Hebrew Alternative	p. 23
A King Like All the Nations	p. 27
Exile	p. 27
Nineveh and Babylon	p. 29
The Assyrian Empire	p. 30
The New Babylonian Empire	p. 31
Persian Expansion	p. 31
A Closer Look: Discovering the Pharaohs	p. 24
Documents
The Code of Hammurabi	p. 16
A Homesick Egyptian	p. 20
The Kingdom of Israel	p. 28
Early Greece, 2500-500 B.C.E.	p. 35
The Visual Record: Hecuba and Achilles: The Birth of Greek Civilization	p. 36
Greece in the Bronze Age to 800 B.C.E.	p. 38
Islands of Peace	p. 38
Map Discovery: Greece in the Bronze Age	p. 39
Mainland of War	p. 41
The Dark Age	p. 41
Archaic Greece, 800-500 B.C.E.	p. 45
Ethnos and Polis	p. 45
Map Discovery: Greek Cities and Colonies of the Archaic Age	p. 46
Technology of Writing and Warfare	p. 46
Colonists and Tyrants	p. 47
Gender and Power	p. 48
Gods and Mortals	p. 49
Myth and Reason	p. 52
Investigation and Speculation	p. 53
Art and the Individual	p. 53
A Tale of Three Cities	p. 55
Wealthy Corinth	p. 55
Martial Sparta	p. 56
Democratic Athens	p. 59
The Coming of Persia and the End of the Archaic Age	p. 61
Map Discovery: The Persian Empire, ca. 500 B.C.E.	p. 61
A Closer Look: The Agony of Athletics	p. 50
Documents
The Race of Iron	p. 43
Hector and Andromache	p. 44
Two Faces of Tyranny	p. 57
Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500-100 B.C.E.	p. 65
The Visual Record: Alexander at Issus: The Spread of Greek Civilization	p. 66
War and Politics in the Fifth Century B.C.E.	p. 68
The Persian Wars	p. 68
Thermopylae and Salamis	p. 69
The Athenian Empire	p. 71
Private and Public Life in Athens	p. 71
Pericles and Athens	p. 74
The Peloponnesian War	p. 75
Map Discovery: The Delian League and the Peloponnesian War	p. 76
Athenian Culture in the Hellenic Age	p. 77
The Examined Life	p. 77
Understanding the Past	p. 78
Athenian Drama	p. 79
Art and the Human Image	p. 81
From City-States to Macedonian Empire, 404-323 B.C.E.	p. 82
Politics After the Peloponnesian War	p. 82
Philosophy and the Polis	p. 84
The Rise of Macedon	p. 85
Map Discovery: The Empire of Alexander the Great	p. 87
The Empire of Alexander the Great	p. 87
The Hellenistic World	p. 89
Map Discovery: The Hellenistic Kingdoms	p. 89
Urban Life and Culture	p. 92
Women in Public Life	p. 92
Alexandria	p. 93
Hellenistic Literature	p. 93
Architecture and Art	p. 94
Hellenistic Philosophy	p. 95
Mathematics and Science	p. 98
Cultural Resistance	p. 98
A Closer Look: Technology and Innovation	p. 96
The West and the Wider World Representing the Buddha: From Apollo to Christian Saint	p. 90
Documents
The Two Faces of Athenian Democracy	p. 72
Socrates the Gadfly	p. 78
Greeks and Barbarians	p. 83
Alexander Calls a Halt	p. 86
Early Rome and the Roman Republic, 800-146 B.C.E.	p. 101
The Visual Record: Eternal Rome: From Village to Empire	p. 102
The Western Mediterranean to 509 B.C.E.	p. 104
Merchants of Baal	p. 104
The Western Greeks	p. 105
Map Discovery: Greek and Phoenician Colonies and Trade	p. 106
Italy's First Civilization	p. 107
From City to Empire, 509-146 B.C.E.	p. 109
Latin Rome	p. 109
Etruscan Rome	p. 110
Rome and Italy	p. 111
Rome and the Mediterranean	p. 114
Map Discovery: The Punic Wars	p. 119
Republican Civilization	p. 120
Farmers and Soliders	p. 120
The Roman Family	p. 121
Social Effects of Expansion	p. 121
Roman Religion	p. 122
Republican Letters	p. 124
The Crisis of Roman Virtue	p. 125
A Closer Look: Hannibal's Elephants	p. 116
Documents
The Twelve Tables	p. 113
Polybius Compares Rome and Carthage	p. 118
Cato's Slaves	p. 126
Imperial Rome, 146 B.C.E.-192 C.E.	p. 129
The Visual Record: The Altar of Augustan Peace: The Making of the Roman Empire	p. 130
The Price of Empire, 146-121 B.C.E.	p. 132
Winners and Losers	p. 132
Optimates and Populares	p. 133
The End of the Republic	p. 135
The Crisis of Government	p. 135
Map Discovery: The Career of Julius Caesar	p. 138
A Life Worth Leading	p. 139
The Augustan Age and the Pax Romana	p. 141
The Empire Renewed	p. 141
Augustus's Successors	p. 146
Map Discovery: The Roman Empire, 14 and 117 C.E.	p. 147
Religions from the East	p. 149
Jewish Resistance	p. 149
The Origins of Christianity	p. 150
Geographical Tour: A Tour of the Empire	p. 153
The Western Provinces	p. 154
The Eastern Provinces	p. 155
The Culture of Antonine Rome	p. 157
A Closer Look: A Day in the Pax Romana	p. 144
Documents
The Reforms of Tiberius Gracchus	p. 134
Cicero on Justice and Reason	p. 137
Peter Announces the Good News	p. 152
The Transformation of the Classical World	p. 161
The Visual Record: A Bride's Trousseau: The Synthesis of Christianity and the Classical Tradition	p. 162
The Crisis of the Third Century	p. 164
Enrich the Army and Scorn the Rest	p. 164
An Empire on the Defensive	p. 165
The Barbarian Menace	p. 166
Roman Influence in the Barbarian World	p. 167
The Empire Restored	p. 169
Diocletian, the God-Emperor	p. 169
Map Discovery: The Empire Under Diocletian	p. 170
Constantine, the Emperor of God	p. 171
The Triumph of Christianity	p. 172
Imperial Christianity	p. 173
Map Discovery: The Spread of Christianity	p. 174
Divinity, Humanity, and Salvation	p. 174
The Call of the Desert	p. 176
Monastic Communities	p. 177
Solitaries and Hermits	p. 178
A Parting of the Ways	p. 179
The Barbarization of the West	p. 179
The New Barbarian Kingdoms	p. 182
Map Discovery: Barbarian Migrations and Invasions	p. 183
The Hellenization of the East	p. 184
A Closer Look: The Stainless Star of Wisdom's Discipline	p. 180
Documents
Tacitus on the Germans	p. 167
Religious Toleration and Persecution	p. 173
Love in the Two Cities	p. 177
The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam	p. 187
The Visual Record: From Temple to Mosque: The Continuity of Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean	p. 188
The Byzantines	p. 190
Justinian and the Creation of the Byzantine State	p. 190
Emperors and Individuals	p. 192
Map Discovery: Byzantine Empire Under Justinian	p. 193
Families and Villages	p. 194
A Foretaste of Heaven	p. 195
Iconoclasm	p. 198
The Rise of Islam	p. 199
Arabia Before the Prophet	p. 200
Muhammad, Prophet of God	p. 201
The Triumph of Islam	p. 202
The Spread of Islam	p. 204
Map Discovery: The Spread of Islam	p. 205
Authority and Government in Islam	p. 206
Umayyad and 'Abbasid Caliphates	p. 207
Islamic Civilization	p. 208
The Byzantine Apogee and Decline, 1000-1453	p. 210
The Disintegration of the Empire	p. 212
The Conquests of Constantinople and Baghdad	p. 213
The West and the Wider World Industrial Espionage in the Sixth Century	p. 196
Documents
The Qur'an	p. 202
An Arab's View of Western Medicine	p. 211
A Turkish Guest in Constantinople	p. 214
The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500-900	p. 219
The Visual Record: The Chapel at the Waters: The Western Empire Reborn	p. 220
The Making of the Barbarian Kingdoms, 500-750	p. 222
Italy: From Ostrogoths to Lombards	p. 222
Map Discovery: The Barbarian Kingdoms, ca. 526	p. 223
Visigothic Spain: Intolerance and Destruction	p. 224
The Anglo-Saxons: From Pagan Conquerors to Christian Missionaries	p. 225
The Franks: An Enduring Legacy	p. 229
Living in the New Europe	p. 230
Creating the European Peasantry	p. 231
Rural Households	p. 231
Creating the European Aristocracy	p. 232
Aristocratic Lifestyle	p. 233
Governing Europe	p. 234
The Carolingian Achievement	p. 235
Charlemagne and the Renewal of the West	p. 236
The Carolingian Renaissance	p. 236
Map Discovery: Charlemagne's Empire, 814	p. 237
Carolingian Government	p. 238
Carolingian Art	p. 240
Geographical Tour: Europe in the Ninth Century	p. 241
England	p. 241
Scandinavia	p. 242
The Slavic World	p. 245
Muslim Spain	p. 245
After the Carolingians: From Empire to Lordships	p. 247
Map Discovery: The Division of Charlemagne's Empire	p. 247
Disintegration of the Empire	p. 247
Emergence of France and Germany	p. 248
Cluny	p. 248
A Closer Look: The Jews in the Early Middle Ages	p. 226
Documents
Two Missionaries	p. 228
From Slave to Queen	p. 230
Charlemagne and the Arts	p. 238
The High Middle Ages	p. 253
The Visual Record: From the Syrian Desert to the Welsh Marshes: A Kings and His Castles	p. 254
The Countryside	p. 256
The Peasantry: Serfs and Freemen	p. 256
The Aristocracy: Warriors and Heiresses	p. 258
The Church: Saints and Monks	p. 260
Crusaders: Soldiers of God	p. 266
Map Discovery: The Crusades	p. 268
Medieval Towns	p. 270
Italian Cities	p. 270
Map Discovery: Medieval Trade Networks	p. 272
Northern Towns	p. 273
The Fairs of Champagne	p. 275
Urban Intellectuals	p. 275
The Invention of the State	p. 279
The Universal States: Empire and Papacy	p. 280
The Nation-States: France and England	p. 283
Map Discovery: The Consolidation of France Under the Capetians	p. 284
A Closer Look: Cathedrals of Light	p. 262
Documents
Visions Like a Flame	p. 265
Pope Urban II Summons a Crusade	p. 267
Saint Francis of Assisi on Humility and Poverty	p. 278
The Great Charter	p. 287
The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1500	p. 291
The Visual Record: Webs of Stone and Blood: European Civilization at the End of the Middle Ages	p. 292
Politics as a Family Affair	p. 294
The Struggle for Central Europe	p. 294
Map Discovery: Central and Eastern Europe, ca. 1378	p. 295
A Hundred Years of War	p. 297
Life and Death in the Later Middle Ages	p. 301
Dancing with Death	p. 301
The Plague of Insurrection	p. 304
Map Discovery: Spread of the Black Death and Peasant Revolts	p. 304
Living and Dying in Medieval Towns	p. 306
The Spirit of the Later Middle Ages	p. 308
The Crisis of the Papacy	p. 308
Map Discovery: The Great Schism	p. 309
Discerning the Spirit of God	p. 310
Heresy and Revolt	p. 312
Religious Persecution in Spain	p. 313
William of Ockham and the Spirit of Truth	p. 314
Vernacular Literature and the Individual	p. 315
Documents
The Black Death in Florence	p. 303
A Woman Before the Inquisition	p. 311
Convivencia	p. 313
The Italian Renaissance	p. 321
The Visual Record: A Civic Procession: Community Building in Renaissance Venice	p. 322
Renaissance Society	p. 324
The Urban Environment	p. 324
Map Discovery: Largest Cities in Western Europe, ca. 1500	p. 325
Production and Consumption	p. 326
The Experience of Life	p. 327
The Quality of Life	p. 329
Renaissance Art	p. 330
An Architect, a Sculptor, and a Painter	p. 331
Renaissance Style	p. 333
Michelangelo	p. 334
Renaissance Ideals	p. 336
Humanists and the Liberal Arts	p. 337
Renaissance Science	p. 339
Machiavelli and Politics	p. 339
Map Discovery: Italy, 1494	p. 341
The Politics of the Italian City-States	p. 341
The Five Powers	p. 342
Venice: A Seaborne Empire	p. 342
Florence: Spinning Cloth into Gold	p. 343
The End of Italian Hegemony, 1450-1527	p. 345
A Closer Look: The Fall of Constantinople	p. 348
Documents
On the Family	p. 328
The Renaissance Man	p. 337
The Lion and the Fox	p. 340
The Siege of Constantinople	p. 347
The European Empires	p. 353
The Visual Record: Astride the World: The Age of Monarchies	p. 354
European Encounters	p. 356
Africa and a Passage to India	p. 356
Map Discovery: Portuguese Explorations	p. 357
Mundus Novus	p. 358
The Spanish Conquests	p. 359
Map Discovery: Claims of Spain and Portugal to Overseas Empires	p. 364
The Legacy of the Encounters	p. 364
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1500: The Age of the New Monarchies	p. 367
Boundaries of Eastern Europe	p. 367
Central Europe	p. 368
Western Europe	p. 369
The Formation of States	p. 370
Eastern Configurations	p. 371
The Western Powers	p. 373
Map Discovery: The Unification of France	p. 377
The Dynastic Struggles	p. 379
Power and Glory	p. 380
The Italian Wars	p. 380
A Closer Look: Isabella of Castile	p. 360
Documents
A Momentous Discovery	p. 359
The Halls of Montezuma	p. 363
Last Words	p. 374
The Kingdom of France	p. 376
The Reform of Religion	p. 387
The Visual Record: Sola Scriptura: The Bible and the Reformation	p. 388
The Intellectual Reformation	p. 390
The Print Revolution	p. 390
Map Discovery: The Spread of Printing	p. 391
Christian Humanism	p. 392
The Humanist Movement	p. 392
The Wit of Erasmus	p. 392
The Lutheran Reformation	p. 396
The Spark of Reform	p. 396
Martin Luther's Faith	p. 398
Lutheranism	p. 399
The Spread of Lutheranism	p. 401
Map Discovery: The Spread of Lutheranism	p. 402
The Protestant Reformation	p. 403
Geneva and Calvin	p. 403
The English Reformation	p. 405
The Reformation of the Radicals	p. 408
The Catholic Reformation	p. 409
The Spiritual Revival	p. 410
Loyola's Pilgrimage	p. 412
The Counter-Reformation	p. 413
Map Discovery: The Religious Divisions of Europe, ca. 1555	p. 415
The Empire Strikes Back	p. 416
A Closer Look: Utopia	p. 394
Documents
A Dutch Wit	p. 393
Luther on Marriage	p. 400
The Eternal Decree	p. 405
Heavenly Vision	p. 411
Europe at War, 1555-1648	p. 419
The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society	p. 420
The Crises of the Western States	p. 422
The French Wars of Religion	p. 422
Map Discovery: Religious Divisions in France During the Wars of Religion	p. 423
One King, Two Faiths	p. 426
The World of Philip II	p. 429
Map Discovery: Habsburg Lands at the Abdication of Charles V	p. 431
The Burgundian Inheritance	p. 431
The Revolt of the Netherlands	p. 432
The Struggles in Eastern Europe	p. 435
Kings and Diets in Poland	p. 435
Muscovy's Time of Troubles	p. 437
The Rise of Sweden	p. 437
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648	p. 439
Bohemia Revolts	p. 440
The War Widens	p. 442
Map Discovery: Population Loss in Germany During the Thirty Years' War	p. 444
The Long Quest for Peace	p. 444
A Closer Look: The Monstrous Regiment of Women	p. 424
Documents
Catholics and Huguenots	p. 428
Cannibals	p. 433
War Is Hell	p. 441
Fire and Sword	p. 443
The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650	p. 449
The Visual Record: Haymaking: Agriculture in a European Community	p. 450
Economic Life	p. 452
Rural Life	p. 452
Town Life	p. 455
Map Discovery: Grain Supply and Trade in Sixteenth-Century Europe	p. 457
Economic Change	p. 457
Map Discovery: Population Density in Europe, ca. 1600	p. 458
Social Life	p. 460
Social Constructs	p. 460
Social Structure	p. 462
Social Change	p. 464
Peasant Revolts	p. 466
Private and Community Life	p. 468
The Family	p. 468
Communities	p. 472
Popular Beliefs and the Persecution of Witches	p. 474
A Closer Look: Sex and the Married Man	p. 476
Documents
Living by One's Wits	p. 454
The Peasants' Revolt	p. 467
A Feminine Perspective	p. 470
The Devil's Due	p. 475
The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century	p. 483
The Visual Record: Fit for a King: The Grandeur of the European Monarchy	p. 484
The Rise of the Royal State	p. 486
Divine Kings	p. 486
The Court and the Courtiers	p. 488
The Drive to Centralize Government	p. 490
The Taxing Demands of War	p. 491
The Crises of the Royal State	p. 492
The Need to Resist	p. 493
The Right to Resist	p. 494
The English Civil War	p. 496
Map Discovery: English Civil War	p. 498
The English Revolutions	p. 499
The Zenith of the Royal State	p. 502
The Nature of Absolute Monarchy	p. 502
Absolutism in the East	p. 504
The Origins of French Absolutism	p. 506
Map Discovery: Expansion of Russia Under Peter the Great	p. 506
Louis le Grand	p. 507
Documents
A Glimpse of a King	p. 487
A Short, Sharp Shock	p. 497
The Nature of Man	p. 503
A Close Shave	p. 505
Glossary	p. G-1
Credits	p. C-1
Index	p. I-1
Primary Source Documents	p. D-1
How to Analyze Primary Source Documents	p. D-3
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