Cities, civilizations, and sources ; From out of the Mesopotamian mud ; Cultures of the ancient near East ; Ancient Egypt : the gift of the Nile ; Pharaohs, tombs, and gods ; The lost civilization of the Indus Valley -- The Vedic age of ancient India ; Mystery cultures of early Greece ; Homer and Indian poetry ; Athens and experiments in democracy ; Hoplite warfare and Sparta ; Civilization dawns in China : Shang and Zhou.
Confucius and the Greek philosophers ; Mystics, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians; Persians and Greeks ; Greek art and architecture ; Greek tragedy and the Sophists ; The Peloponnesian War and the trial of Socrates -- Philip of Macedon : architect of empire ; Alexander the Great goes East ; Unifiers of India : Chandragupta and Asoka ; Shi Huangdi : first emperor of China ; Earliest historians of Greece and China ; The Hellenistic world.
The Great empire of the Han Dynasty ; People of the Toga : Etruscans, early Rome ; The crucible : Punic Wars, Roman imperialism ; The death of the Roman republic ; Augustus : creator of the Roman empire ; Roman emperors : good, bad, and crazy -- Han and Roman empires compared : geography ; Han and Roman empires compared : government ; Han and Roman empires compared : problems ; Early Americas : resources and Olmecs ; Pots and pyramids : Moche and Teotihuacán ; Blood and corn : Mayan civilization.
Hunter-gatherers and Polynesians ; The art and architecture of power ; The comparative armies : Rome, China, Maya ; Later Roman empire : crisis and Christianity ; The decline and fall of the Roman empire? ; The Byzantine empire and the legacy of Rome -- China from chaos to order under the Tang ; The golden age of Tang culture ; The rise and flourishing of Islam ; Holy men and women : monasticism and saints ; Charlemagne : father of Europe ; Endings, beginnings, what does it all mean?
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