Pt. 1. lecture 1. "Western," "civilization," and "foundations" ; lecture 2. History begins at Sumer ; lecture 3. Egypt -- the gift of the Nile ; lecture 4. The Hebrews -- small states and big ideas ; lecture 5. A succession of empires ; lecture 6. Wide-ruling Agamemnon ; lecture 7. Dark Age and archaic Greece ; lecture 8. The Greek polis -- Sparta ; lecture 9. The Greek polis -- Athens ; lecture 10. Civic culture -- architecture and drama ; lecture 11. The birth of history ; lecture 12. From Greek religion to Socratic philosophy --
Pt. 2. lecture 13. Plato and Aristotle ; lecture 14. The failure of the polis and the rise of Alexander ; lecture 15. The Hellenistic world ; lecture 16. The rise of Rome ; lecture 17. The Roman Republic -- government and politics ; lecture 18. Roman imperialism ; lecture 19. The culture of the Roman Republic ; lecture 20. Rome -- from Republic to Empire ; lecture 21. The Pax Romana ; lecture 22. Rome's Golden and Silver Ages ; lecture 23. Jesus and the New Testament ; lecture 24. The Emergence of a Christian Church --
Pt. 3. lecture 25. Late Antiquity -- crisis and response ; lecture 26. Barbarians and emperors ; lecture 27. The Emergence of the Catholic Church ; lecture 28. Christian culture in Late Antiquity ; lecture 29. Muhammad and Islam ; lecture 30. The birth of Byzantium ; lecture 31. Barbarian Kingdoms in the west ; lecture 32. The world of Charlemagne ; lecture 33. The Carolingian Renaissance ; lecture 34. The expansion of Europe ; lecture 35. The chivalrous society ; lecture 36. Medieval political traditions, I --
Pt. 4. lecture 37. Medieval political traditions, II ; lecture 38. Scholastic culture ; lecture 39. Vernacular culture ; lecture 40. The crisis of Renaissance Europe ; lecture 41. The Renaissance problem ; lecture 42. Renaissance portraits ; lecture 43. The Northern Renaissance ; lecture 44. The Protestant Reformation -- Martin Luther ; lecture 45. The Protestant Reformation -- John Calvin ; lecture 46. Catholic reforms and "confessionalization" ; lecture 47. Exploration and empire ; lecture 48. What challenges remain?
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