UNIT 1: Forming the First Civilizations. From the Stone Age to Civilization: What Was the Price?
Ancient Southwest Asia: How Did People of the First Civilization Understand Life, Death, and the Gods?
Egypt: How Did the Pharaohs Rule?
Ancient India: How Did Aryan Conquerors Transform the Subcontinent?
India's Classical Age: What Were Buddhist Values?
Ancient China: What Shaped Its Outlook?
The Han Empire: Why Was It Crucial for China's History? UNIT 2: The Early European Experience. Ancient Greece: What Was the Ideal and the Reality of Democracy?
Early Rome: What Explains the Republic's Rise and Fall?
Imperial Rome and Early Christianity: How Can the Achievements of Augustus and Jesus Be Compared?
Byzantium: What Was the Basis of Its Civilization?
Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages: What Did Charlemagne Accomplish? UNIT 3: Asian Cultural Supremacy and European Recovery
Early Islam: How Did the Muslim Way of Life Emerge?
East Asia's Golden Age: Models of Civilized Life?
The Muslim World at Its Height: How Did Sufis, Jews, and Crusading Christians Interact?
The Mongols: How Did They Create an Empire?
Medieval Europe: What Explains Its Growth and Decline?
The Renaissance: Why Did Europeans Attempt to Recover the West's Classical Past? UNIT: 4 African and American Centers of Early Civilization. Early Africa Below the Sahara: How Did the First Kingdoms Emerge?
The Americas Before Columbus: What Civilizations Did European Intruders Find?
