Foundations of Western Civ (TTC)

Course Lecture Titles 1. "Western," "Civilization," and "Foundations" 2. History Begins at Sumer 3. EgyptThe Gift of the Nile 4. The HebrewsSmall States and Big Ideas 5. A Succession of Empires 6. Wide-Ruling Agamemnon 7. Dark Age and Archaic Greece 8. The Greek PolisSparta 9. The Greek PolisAthens 10. Civic CultureArchitecture and Drama 11. The Birth of History 12. From Greek Religion to Socratic Philosophy 13. Plato and Aristotle 14. The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander 15. The Hellenistic World 16. The Rise of Rome 17. The Roman RepublicGovernment and Politics 18. Roman Imperialism 19. The Culture of the Roman Republic 20. RomeFrom Republic to Empire 21. The Pax Romana 22. Rome's Golden and Silver Ages 23. Jesus and the New Testament 24. The Emergence of a Christian Church 25. Late AntiquityCrisis and Response 26. Barbarians and Emperors 27. The Emergence of the Catholic Church 28. Christian Culture in Late Antiquity 29. Muhammad and Islam 30. The Birth of Byzantium 31. Barbarian Kingdoms in the West 32. The World of Charlemagne 33. The Carolingian Renaissance 34. The Expansion of Europe 35. The Chivalrous Society 36. Medieval Political Traditions, I 37. Medieval Political Traditions, II 38. Scholastic Culture 39. Vernacular Culture 40. The Crisis of Renaissance Europe 41. The Renaissance Problem 42. Renaissance Portraits 43. The Northern Renaissance 44. The Protestant ReformationMartin Luther 45. The Protestant ReformationJohn Calvin 46. Catholic Reforms and "Confessionalization" 47. Exploration and Empire 48. What Challenges Remain?