The Western Experience 7e Chambers/Hanawalt/Rabb/Woloch/Grew
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For list of chapters click on arrow Chapter 1: The First Civilizations Chapter 2: The Forming of Greek Civilization Chapter 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece Chapter 4: The Roman Republic Chapter 5: The Empire and Christianity Chapter 6: The Making of Western Europe Chapter 7: The Empire of the Early Middle Ages Chapter 8: Restoration of an Ordered Society Chapter 9: The Flowering of Medieval Civilization Chapter 10: The Urban Economy and the Consolidation of States Chapter 11: Breakdown and Renewal in an Age of Plague Chapter 12: Tradition and Change in European Culture, 1300-1500 Chapter 13: Reformations in Religion Chapter 14: Economic Expansion and a New Politics Chapter 15: War and Crisis Chapter 16: Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution Chapter 17: The Emergence of the European State System Chapter 18: The Wealth of Nations Chapter 19: The Age of Enlightenment Chapter 20: The French Revolution Chapter 21: The Age of Napoleon Chapter 22: Foundations of the Nineteenth Century: Politics and Social Change Chapter 23: Learning to Live with Change Chapter 24: National States and National Cultures Chapter 25: European Power: Wealth, Knowledge and Imperialism Chapter 26: The Age of Progress Chapter 27: World War and Democracy Chapter 28: The Great Twentieth-Century Crisis Chapter 29: The Nightmare: World War II Chapter 30: The New Europe

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HIGHLIGHTS

1. Humans became food producers rather than food gatherers some 12,000 years ago with the development of agriculture, the essential step in the creation of complex civilizations.
2. As cities were established in the river valleys of Mesopotamia, the early Sumerian and Babylonian civilizations emerged.
3. Egyptians developed a prosperous, long-lasting, religious society along the Nile between about 3000 and 300 B.C.
4. After 1650 the Hittites established a powerful state in the Near East, but between 1250 and 1100, invaders utilizing iron weapons ended the Hittite domination and brought the Bronze Age to an end.
5. In Palestine, the Phoenicians created a sophisticated urban civilization, while the Israelites developed a short-lived kingdom but an enduring religious and cultural tradition.
6. The Assyrians-followed by the Chaldeans, the Medes, and the Persians-established powerful unifying empires in the Near East.

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