Birth of Western Civilization: Birth of Western civilization: Greece, Rome, and Europe to c.1000 CE

  • The Ancient Greeks — Unit 3: The Ancient Greeks
    • FC17 — Bronze Age Greece: the Minoans & Mycenaeans (c.2500-1100 BCE)
    • FC18 — The Dark Age of Greece & the Rise of the Polis (c.1100-750 BCE)
    • FC19 — The Rise of Greek Democracy (c.750-500 BCE)
    • FC20 — The Rise of Sparta to 500 BCE
    • FC21 — Early Athens to c.500 BCE
    • FC22 — Greek Philosophy from Thales to Aristotle (c.600-300 BCE)
    • FC23 — The Delian League and the Athenian Empire (478-431 BCE)
    • FC23A — The Persian Wars (480-478 BCE)
    • FC24 — The Decline & fall of the Greek Polis (431-336 BCE)
    • FC24A — The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE)
    • FC25 — Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic era (336 BCE-31 BCE)
  • Rome — Unit 4: Rome
    • FC26 — The Impact of Geography on Ancient Italy
    • FC27 — The Etruscans & their influence on Rome (c.800-500 BCE)
    • FC28 — The Roman conquest of Italy (c.500-265 BCE)
    • FC28A — Rome's Wars of Conquest in Italy (366-265 B.C.E.)
    • FC29 — The Roman conquest of the Mediterranean (264-133 BCE)
    • FC29A — Rome versus Carthage: The Punic wars (264-201 BCE)
    • FC29B — Further expansion of Roman Power (200-133 BCE)
    • FC30 — The problems of Empire
    • FC30A — The Flow of Power in the Roman Republic
    • FC31 — The Fall of the Roman Republic (133-31 BCE)
    • FC32 — The Augustan Principate (31 BCE-160 CE)
    • FC33 — The Pax Romana & spread of Roman civilization
    • FC34 — The near collapse of the Roman Empire (160-284 CE)
    • FC34A — The Consolidation of the Germanic Threat (c.100-300C.E.)
    • FC35 — Diocletian's reforms & the later Roman Empire (284-395)
    • FC36 — The collapse of the Western Roman Empire (395-c.500)
  • The Early Middle Ages — Unit 5: The Early Middle Ages
    • FC37 — The rise of the Christian Church to c.300 CE
    • FC38 — The impact of the Church's triumph (c.300-500)
    • FC39 — The Mediterranean's transition to the Middle Ages
    • FC40 — The rise of the Franks (c.500-841)
    • FC40A — Muslim Trade Links and the Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire
    • FC40B — The Stirrup and its Effects
    • FC41.1 — Economic Collapse After the Fall of Rome (c.500-700 CE)
    • FC41.2 — The Collapse of Political Order in Western Europe (c.800-1000 CE)
    • FC42 — The Vikings and their impact (c.800-1000 CE)
    • FC43 — Anglo-Saxon England (c.500-1066)
    • FC44 — The Byzantine Empire (c.500-1025)
    • FC45 — The decline and fall of the Byzantine Empire (1025-1453)
 
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