Western civilization

by Spielvogel, Jackson J.

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Full title :Western civilization / Jackson J. Spielvogel, the Pennsylvania State University.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015
Edition:Ninth edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cengage Learning
Place of Publication:Stamford, CT
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxxiv, 1018 pages : : illustrations, maps)

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oclc:on1245903364
LC Classification:CB245
Dewey Decimal:909.09821

Volume one, To 1715. Documents -- Maps -- Features -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1, The Ancient Near East : the first civilizations -- 2, The Ancient Near East : peoples and empires -- 3, The civilization of the Greeks -- 4, The Hellenistic world -- 5, The Roman Republic -- 6, The Roman Empire -- 7, Late Antiquity and the emergence of the Medieval World. The Late Roman Empire -- The Germanic kingdoms -- Development of the Christian church. The Church Fathers -- The power of the Pope -- Church and state -- Pope Gregory the Great -- The monks and their missions -- Christian intellectual life in the Germanic kingdoms -- The Byzantine Empire. The reign of Justinian (527-565) -- From Eastern Roman to Byzantine Empire -- The rise of Islam. Muhammad -- The teachings of Islam -- The spread of Islam -- 8, European civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000 -- 9, The recovery and growth of European society in the High Middle Ages -- 10, The rise of kingdoms and the growth of church power -- 11, The Later Middle Ages : crisis and disintegration in the fourteenth century -- 12, Recovery and rebirth : the age of the Renaissance -- 13, Reformation and religious warfare in the sixteenth …