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Brief History of Western Civilization, A: The Unfinished Legacy, Volume I (to 1715)

by: Kishlansky, Mark; Geary, Patrick; O'Brien, Patricia

Brief History of Western Civilization, A: The Unfinished Legacy, Volume I (to 1715)

by: Kishlansky, Mark; Geary, Patrick; O'Brien, Patricia

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9780321449979
ISBN 10:
0321449975
Edition: 5th
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2007
Publisher: Longman

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Balanced in coverage and beautifully written, A Brief History of Western Civilization explores everyday occurrences and ordinary people as well as major events and powerful elites. Noted for its exceptional visual program of images and maps, the book is designed specifically to engage students actively in the study of the West.

Maps and Geographical Tours	p. xiii
Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures	p. xv
Documents	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Supplements	p. xxix
About the Authors	p. xxxi
Introduction: The Idea of Western Civilization	p. 2
The First Civilizations	p. 4
The Visual Record: Otzi's Last Meal	p. 4
Before Civilization	p. 6
The Dominance of Culture	p. 6
Social Organization, Agriculture, and Religion	p. 7
Mesopotamia: Between the Two Rivers	p. 8
The Ramparts of Uruk	p. 8
Map Discovery: The Ancient World	p. 9
Tools: Technology and Writing	p. 10
Gods and Mortals in Mesopotamia	p. 10
Sargon and Mesopotamian Expansion	p. 11
Hammurabi and the Old Babylonian Empire	p. 12
The Gift of the Nile	p. 14
Tending the Cattle of God	p. 15
Democratization of the Afterlife	p. 15
The Egyptian Empire	p. 16
Religious and Royal Consolidation Under Akhenaten	p. 17
Between Two Worlds	p. 18
The Hebrew Alternative	p. 18
A King Like All the Nations	p. 19
Exile	p. 20
Nineveh and Babylon	p. 20
The Assyrian Empire	p. 20
The New Babylonian Empire	p. 21
Document: The Code of Hammurabi	p. 13
Early Greece, 2500-500 B.C.E.	p. 24
The Visual Record: Hecuba and Achilles	p. 24
Greece in the Bronze Age to 700 B.C.E.	p. 26
Islands of Peace	p. 26
Map Discovery: Greece in the Bronze Age	p. 27
Mainland of War	p. 28
The Dark Age	p. 28
Archaic Greece, 700-500 B.C.E.	p. 30
Ethnos and Polis	p. 31
Map Discovery: Greek Cities and Colonies of the Archaic Age	p. 31
Technology of Writing and Warfare	p. 32
Colonists and Tyrants	p. 33
Gender and Power	p. 33
Gods and Mortals	p. 34
Myth and Reason	p. 34
Art and the Individual	p. 34
A Tale of Three Cities	p. 36
Wealthy Corinth	p. 36
Martial Sparta	p. 37
Democratic Athens	p. 38
The Coming of Persia and the End of the Archaic Age	p. 40
Map Discovery: The Persian Empire, ca. 500 B.C.E.	p. 40
Document: Hector and Andromache	p. 30
Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500-100 B.C.E.	p. 44
The Visual Record: Alexander at Issus	p. 44
War and Politics in the Fifth Century B.C.E.	p. 46
The Persian Wars	p. 46
Thermopylae and Salamis	p. 46
The Athenian Empire	p. 47
Private and Public Life in Athens	p. 48
Pericles and Athens	p. 49
Map Discovery: The Delian League and the Peloponnesian War	p. 50
The Peloponnesian War	p. 51
Athenian Culture in the Hellenic Age	p. 52
The Examined Life	p. 52
Understanding the Past	p. 53
Athenian Drama	p. 54
Art and the Human Image	p. 54
From City-States to Macedonian Empire, 404-323 B.C.E.	p. 55
Politics After the Peloponnesian War	p. 55
Philosophy and the Polis	p. 56
The Rise of Macedon	p. 56
The Empire of Alexander the Great	p. 57
Map Discovery: The Empire of Alexander the Great	p. 58
Binding Together an Empire	p. 58
The Hellenistic World	p. 59
Urban Life and Culture	p. 59
Map Discovery: The Hellenistic Kingdoms	p. 62
Women in Public Life	p. 62
Alexandria	p. 63
Hellenistic Literature	p. 63
Architecture and Art	p. 63
Hellenistic Philosophy	p. 64
Mathematics and Science	p. 64
Document: The Two Faces of Athenian Democracy	p. 51
The West and the Wider World: Representing the Buddha: From Apollo to Christian Saint	p. 60
Early Rome and the Roman Republic, 800-146 B.C.E.	p. 68
The Visual Record: Eternal Rome	p. 68
The Western Mediterranean to 509 B.C.E.	p. 70
Carthage: The Merchants of Baal	p. 70
The Western Greeks	p. 70
Map Discovery: Greek and Phoenician Colonies and Trade	p. 71
Italy's First Civilization	p. 72
From City to Empire, 509-146 B.C.E.	p. 73
Latin Rome	p. 73
Etruscan Rome	p. 74
Rome and Italy	p. 75
Rome and the Mediterranean	p. 76
Map Discovery: The Punic Wars	p. 77
Republican Civilization	p. 80
Farmers and Soldiers	p. 80
The Roman Family	p. 81
Social Effects of Expansion	p. 81
Roman Religion	p. 81
Republican Letters	p. 82
The Crisis of Roman Virtue	p. 83
Document: Polybius Describes the Sack of New Carthage	p. 78
Imperial Rome, 146 B.C.E.-192 C.E.	p. 86
The Visual Record: The Altar of Augustan Peace	p. 86
The Price of Empire, 146-121 B.C.E.	p. 88
Winners and Losers	p. 88
Optimates and Populares	p. 89
The End of the Republic	p. 91
The Crisis of Government	p. 91
Map Discovery: The Career of Julius Caesar	p. 93
A Life Worth Leading	p. 94
The Augustan Age and the Pax Romana	p. 95
The Empire Renewed	p. 95
Augustus's Successors	p. 97
Map Discovery: The Roman Empire, 14 and 117 C.E.	p. 98
Religions from the East	p. 100
Jewish Resistance	p. 100
The Origins of Christianity	p. 101
Geographical Tour: A Tour of the Empire	p. 102
The Western Provinces	p. 103
The Eastern Provinces	p. 104
The Culture of Antonine Rome	p. 106
Document: The Reforms of Tiberius Gracchus	p. 90
The Transformation of the Classical World, 192-500	p. 110
The Visual Record: A Bride's Trousseau	p. 110
The Crisis of the Third Century	p. 112
Enrich the Army and Scorn the Rest	p. 112
An Empire on the Defensive	p. 113
The Barbarian Menace	p. 113
Roman Influence in the Barbarian World	p. 115
The Empire Restored	p. 115
Diocletian, the God-Emperor	p. 116
Map Discovery: The Empire Under Diocletian	p. 116
Constantine, the Emperor of God	p. 117
The Triumph of Christianity	p. 117
Imperial Christianity	p. 118
Divinity, Humanity, and Salvation	p. 118
Map Discovery: The Spread of Christianity	p. 119
The Call of the Desert	p. 120
Monastic Communities	p. 121
Solitaries and Hermits	p. 121
A Parting of the Ways	p. 122
The Barbarization of the West	p. 122
The New Barbarian Kingdoms	p. 123
Map Discovery: Barbarian Migrations and Invasions	p. 124
The Hellenization of the East	p. 125
Document: Tacitus on the Germans	p. 114
The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam	p. 128
The Visual Record: From Temple to Mosque	p. 128
The Byzantines	p. 130
Justinian and the Creation of the Byzantine State	p. 130
Map Discovery: Byzantine Empire Under Justinian	p. 132
Emperors and Individuals	p. 132
Families and Villages	p. 133
A Foretaste of Heaven	p. 134
Iconoclasm	p. 135
The Rise of Islam	p. 138
Arabia Before the Prophet	p. 138
Muhammad, Prophet of God	p. 139
The Triumph of Islam	p. 140
The Spread of Islam	p. 141
Map Discovery: The Spread of Islam	p. 142
Authority and Government in Islam	p. 143
Umayyad and 'Abbasid Caliphates	p. 143
Islamic Civilization	p. 145
The Byzantine Apogee and Decline, 1000-1453	p. 146
The Disintegration of the Empire	p. 147
The Conquests of Constantinople and Baghdad	p. 147
The West and the Wider World: Industrial Espionage in the Sixth Century	p. 136
Document: The Qur'an	p. 139
The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500-900	p. 152
The Visual Record: The Chapel at the Waters	p. 152
The Making of the Barbarian Kingdoms, 500-750	p. 154
Italy: From Ostrogoths to Lombards	p. 154
Map Discovery: The Barbarian Kingdoms, ca. 526	p. 155
Visigothic Spain: Intolerance and Destruction	p. 156
The Anglo-Saxons: From Pagan Conquerors to Christian Missionaries	p. 156
The Franks: An Enduring Legacy	p. 157
Living in the New Europe	p. 158
Creating the European Peasantry	p. 158
Rural Households	p. 158
Creating the European Aristocracy	p. 159
Aristocratic Lifestyle	p. 159
Governing Europe	p. 161
The Carolingian Achievement	p. 161
Charlemagne and the Renewal of the West	p. 162
Map Discovery: Charlemagne's Empire, 814	p. 163
The Carolingian Renaissance	p. 163
Carolingian Government	p. 164
Carolingian Art	p. 164
Geographical Tour: Europe in the Ninth Century	p. 165
England	p. 166
Scandinavia	p. 166
The Slavic World	p. 168
Muslim Spain	p. 169
After the Carolingians: From Empire to Lordships	p. 169
Disintegration of the Empire	p. 170
Map Discovery: The Division of Charlemagne's Empire	p. 170
Emergence of France and Germany	p. 170
Cluny	p. 171
Document: From Slave to Queen	p. 160
The High Middle Ages, 900-1300	p. 174
The Visual Record: From the Syrian Desert to the Welsh Marshes	p. 174
The Countryside	p. 176
The Peasantry: Serfs and Freemen	p. 176
The Aristocracy: Warriors and Heiresses	p. 177
The Church: Saints and Monks	p. 179
Crusaders: Soldiers of God	p. 180
Map Discovery: The Crusades	p. 180
The Idea of the Crusade	p. 181
Medieval Towns	p. 181
Italian Cities	p. 182
Map Discovery: Medieval Trade Networks	p. 183
Northern Towns	p. 183
The Fairs of Champagne	p. 185
Scholasticism and Urban Intellectual Life	p. 185
The Invention of the State	p. 188
The Universal States: Empire and Papacy	p. 188
The Nation-States: France and England	p. 190
Document: Pope Urban II Summons a Crusade	p. 181
The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1500	p. 196
The Visual Record: Webs of Stone and Blood	p. 196
Politics as a Family Affair	p. 198
The Struggle for Central Europe	p. 198
Map Discovery: Central and Eastern Europe, ca. 1378	p. 199
A Hundred Years of War	p. 201
Life and Death in the Later Middle Ages	p. 204
Dancing with Death	p. 204
Map Discovery: Spread of the Black Death and Peasant Revolts	p. 205
The Plague of Insurrection	p. 206
Living and Dying in Medieval Towns	p. 207
The Spirit of the Later Middle Ages	p. 209
The Crisis of the Papacy	p. 209
Discerning the Spirit of God	p. 210
Heresy and Revolt	p. 211
Religious Persecution in Spain	p. 211
William of Ockham and the Spirit of Truth	p. 213
Vernacular Literature and the Individual	p. 213
Document: Convivencia	p. 212
The Italian Renaissance	p. 218
The Visual Record: A Civic Procession	p. 218
Renaissance Society	p. 220
Cities and Countryside	p. 220
Map Discovery: Largest Cities in Western Europe, ca. 1500	p. 221
Production and Consumption	p. 222
The Experience of Life	p. 222
The Quality of Life	p. 224
Renaissance Art	p. 225
An Architect, a Sculptor, and a Painter	p. 225
Renaissance Style	p. 226
Michelangelo	p. 227
Renaissance Ideals	p. 227
Humanists and the Liberal Arts	p. 228
Renaissance Science	p. 229
Machiavelli and Politics	p. 230
The Politics of the Italian City-States	p. 230
Map Discovery: Italy, 1494	p. 231
The Five Powers	p. 231
Venice: A Seaborne Empire	p. 232
Florence: Spinning Cloth into Gold	p. 233
The End of Italian Hegemony, 1450-1527	p. 235
Document: On the Family	p. 223
The European Empires	p. 238
The Visual Record: Astride the World	p. 238
European Encounters	p. 240
Africa and a Passage to India	p. 240
Map Discovery: Portuguese Explorations	p. 241
Mundus Novus	p. 241
The Spanish Conquests	p. 242
The Legacy of the Encounters	p. 244
Map Discovery: Claims of Spain and Portugal to Overseas Empires	p. 245
Geographical Tour: Europe in 1500	p. 246
Boundaries of Eastern Europe	p. 247
Central Europe	p. 248
Western Europe	p. 249
The Formation of States	p. 250
Eastern Configurations	p. 251
The Western Powers	p. 252
The Dynastic Struggles	p. 256
Power and Glory	p. 256
The Italian Wars	p. 256
Document: The Halls of Montezuma	p. 243
The Reform of Religion	p. 260
The Visual Record: Sola Scriptura	p. 260
The Intellectual Reformation	p. 262
The Print Revolution	p. 262
Christian Humanism	p. 263
The Humanist Movement	p. 263
The Wit of Erasmus	p. 264
The Lutheran Reformation	p. 264
The Spark of Reform	p. 264
The Sale of Indulgences	p. 265
Martin Luther Challenges the Church	p. 265
Martin Luther's Faith	p. 265
From Luther to Lutheranism	p. 266
The Spread of Lutheranism	p. 267
Map Discovery: The Spread of Lutheranism	p. 268
The Protestant Reformation	p. 269
Geneva and Calvin	p. 269
The English Reformation	p. 271
The Reformation of the Radicals	p. 272
The Catholic Reformation	p. 273
The Spiritual Revival	p. 273
Loyola's Pilgrimage	p. 273
The Counter-Reformation	p. 275
Map Discovery: The Religious Divisions of Europe, ca. 1555	p. 276
The Empire Reacts	p. 277
Document: The Eternal Decree	p. 269
Europe at War, 1555-1648	p. 280
The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents	p. 280
The Crises of the Western States	p. 282
The French Wars of Religion	p. 282
One King, Two Faiths	p. 283
The World of Philip II	p. 284
Map Discovery: Habsburg Lands at the Abdication of Charles V	p. 285
The Revolt of the Netherlands	p. 285
The Struggles in Eastern Europe	p. 287
Kings and Diets in Poland	p. 287
Muscovy's Time of Troubles	p. 288
The Rise of Sweden	p. 289
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648	p. 290
Bohemia Revolts	p. 290
The War Widens	p. 291
The Long Quest for Peace	p. 292
Document: War Is Hell	p. 291
The Experiences of Life in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1650	p. 298
The Visual Record: Haymaking	p. 298
Economic Life	p. 300
Rural Life	p. 301
Map Discovery: Grain Supply and Trade in Sixteenth-Century Europe	p. 301
Town Life	p. 302
Economic Change	p. 303
Map Discovery: Population Density in Europe, ca. 1600	p. 304
Social Life	p. 305
Social Constructs	p. 305
Social Structure	p. 306
Social Change	p. 307
Peasant Revolts	p. 308
Private and Community Life	p. 310
The Family	p. 310
Communities	p. 312
Popular Beliefs and the Persecution of Witches	p. 312
Document: The Devil's Due	p. 313
The Royal State in the Seventeenth Century	p. 318
The Visual Record: Fit for a King	p. 318
The Rise of the Royal State	p. 320
Divine Kings	p. 320
The Court and the Courtiers	p. 321
The Drive to Centralize Government	p. 322
The Taxing Demands of War	p. 323
The Crises of the Royal State	p. 324
The Need to Resist	p. 324
The Right to Resist	p. 325
The English Civil War	p. 327
Map Discovery: English Civil War	p. 328
The English Revolutions	p. 329
The Zenith of the Royal State	p. 330
The Nature of Absolute Monarchy	p. 331
Absolutism in the East	p. 331
Map Discovery: Expansion of Russia Under Peter the Great	p. 332
The Origins of French Absolutism	p. 332
Louis le Grand	p. 333
Document: A Glimpse of a King	p. 322
Glossary	p. G-1
Credits	p. C-1
Index	p. 1-1
Maps	p. M-1
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Brief History of Western Civilization, A: The Unfinished Legacy, Volume I (to 1715)

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