Lecture Notes
FIRST NINE WEEKS
Chapter One: The Emergence of
Civilization
Chapter Two: The
First Civilizations
Chapter Three: Ancient Indian Civilizations
Chapter Four: Ancient Chinese
Civilizations
Chapter Five: Greek City-States
Chapter Six: Greece’s
Golden and Hellenistic Ages
Chapter Seven: The Roman World
SECOND NINE WEEKS
Chapter Ten: The Byzantine Empire and
Russia
Chapter Eleven: The Islamic World
Chapter Eighteen: Islamic Empires in Asia
Chapter Twelve: The Civilizations of East
Asia
Chapter Seventeen: Asia in Transition
THIRD NINE WEEKS
Chapter Thirteen: Rise of the Middle Ages
Chapter Fourteen: The High Middle Ages
Chapter Fifteen: The Renaissance and
Reformation
Chapter Sixteen: Exploration and
Expansion
Chapter Nineteen: Monarchs of Europe
Chapter Twenty: Enlightenment and
Revolution in England
Chapter Twenty-One: French Revolution
Chapter Twenty-Two: Industrial Revolution
Chapter Twenty-Three: Life in the
Industrial Age
FOURTH NINE WEEKS
Chapter Twenty-Five: Nationalism
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Age of
Imperialism
Chapter Twenty-Seven: WWI and the Russian
Revolution
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Great
Depression
Chapter Thirty-One: Europe and North
America in the Postwar Years
Chapter Thirty-Two: Asia Since 1945