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Western
Civilization II, HIS 102 Concepts and Terms for History 101 I:
Origins of Civilization
1. Origins of the Universe
Big Bang, Evolution, Solar System, Life
2. Origins of Mankind
Australopithecenes, Homo habilis, Homo erectus
Homo sapiens, Neanderthal man, Cro Magnon, Modern Man
Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze, Iron Ages
Food Gatherers, Scavengers, Hunters
The Agricultural Revolution
Preliterate and Literate Societies
3. Origins of Civilization II:
Ancient Civilization
1. Mesopotamia
Sumer, Akkad, Amorites, Babylon, Kassites, Hittites
2. Egypt
Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, Hyksos, New Kingdom
3. The Hebrews: Israel
and Judah
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob or Israel, Joseph, Moses
Judges, Kings, Saul, David, Solomon
Kingdom of Israel, Kingdom of Judah
Destruction of the First Temple by the Chaldaeans
Persian rule, Alexander, Hellenistic rule, Maccabaeans
Roman rule, Destruction of the Second Temple
4. Assyria through Persia III:
Greek Civilization
1. Overview
2. Minoans
3. Myceneans IV:
Classical Greek Civilization
1. Hellenic Civilization to
500 B.C.
2. Sparta
3. Athens
4. Athenian Democracy
5. The Persian Wars V:
The Golden Fifth Century
1. Delian League
2. Pericles
3. Peloponnesian Wars VI:
The Twilight of the City-States
1. Hegemony of Sparta
2. Hegemony of Thebes
3. The Second Athenian
Empire
4. The Macedonian Conquest VII:
Hellenic Culture
1. The Greek Ideal
2. Drama
3. Historians
4. Philosophy VIII:
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Kingdoms
1. Alexander the Great
2. Hellenistic Kingdoms
3. Hellenistic Culture IX:
The Roman Republic
1. Prehistoric Italy
2. Etruscan Rome
3. Royal Rome
4. Early Republic
5. Imperial Republic
a. Punic Wars
b. Conquest of the East
6. Late Republic X:
Principate
1. Augustus
2. Julio-Claudian Emperors
3. The Flavian Emperors
4. The Good Emperors
5. Roman Culture XI:
The Ending of the Classical Period
1. Third Century Decline
2. The Rise of Christianity
3. Diocletian
4. Constantine
5. The Autocracy
6. Germanic Invasions X:
Centuries of Transformation
1. The Fall of the Roman
Empire of the West
2. The Eastern Roman Empire
Becomes the Byzantine Empire
3. Ostrogoths, Visigoths,
Vandals, and Franks
4. Justinian
5. The Rise of Islam
6. Rise of the Papacy
7. Monasticism
8. The Frankish Kingdom
a. Merovingians
b. Carolingians
9. Ninth Century Invasions
of Europe
10. Feudalism and
Manorialism XI:
Feudal Monarchies
1. Holy Roman Empire
2. Norman England
3. Capetian France
4. Papal Monarchy
5. The Crusades XII:
The Culture of the High Middle Ages
1. Nobility and Clergy
2. The Rise of Town Culture
3. From Romanesque Basilicas
to Gothic Churches
4. The Rise of Universities
5. Scholasticism XIII:
The Late Middle Ages
1. Black Death
2. Hundred Years War
3. Avignon Papacy XIV:
Renaissance and Voyages of Discovery
1. The City State Culture of
Northern Italy
2. Renaissance Painting
3. Humanism
4. The Renaissance of
Science
5. Machiavelli's The Prince
6. Prince Henry the
Navigator of Portugal
7. Ferdinand and Isabella of
Spain
8. Voyages of Discovery
9. The Northern Renaissance
Across the Alps XV:
The Reformation
1. Preconditions for the
Reformation
2. Martin Luther and the
Lutherans
3. John Calvin and the
Calvinists
4. Anabaptists
5. Henry VIII and the
Anglican Church
6. The Catholic Counter
Reformation XVI:
The Wars of Religion
1. Charles V:
Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain,
2. Philip II of Spain
3. Revolt in the Netherlands
4. Tudors and Stuarts
5. Bourbons of France
6. Thirty Years War in the
Holy Roman Empire
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