The Western heritage

The birth of civilization --
The rise of Greek civilization --
Classical and Hellenistic Greece --
Rome: from Republic to Empire --
The Roman Empire --
Late antiquity and the early Middle Ages: creating a new European society and culture (476-1000) --
The high Middle Ages: the rise of European empires and states (1000-1300) --
Medieval society: hierarchies, towns, universities, and families (1000-1300) --
The late Middle Ages: social and political breakdown --
Renaissance and discovery --
The age of reformation --
The age of religious wars --
European state consolidation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries --
New directions in thought and culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries --
Society and economy under the old regime in the eighteenth century --
The transatlantic economy, trade wars and colonial rebellion. The age of enlightenment: eighteenth-century thought --
The French revolution --
The age of Napoleon and the triumph of romanticism --
The conservative order and the challenges of reform (1815-1832) --
Economic advance and social unrest (1830-1850) --
The age of nation-states --
The building of European supremacy: society and politics to World War I --
The birth of modern European thought --
The age of Western Imperialism --
Alliances, war, and a troubled peace --
The Interwar Years: the challenge of dictators and depression --
World War II --
The Cold War Era, decolonization, and the emergence of a New Europe --
The West at the dawn of the Twenty-First Century.