The foundations of Western civilization
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pt. 1. Lecture 1: "Western, " "Civilization, " and "Foundations" ; Lecture 2: History begins at Sumer ; Lecture 3: Egypt, the gift of the Nile ; Lecture 4: The Hebrews, small states and big ideas ; Lecture 5: A succession of empires ; Lecture 6: Wide-ruling Agamemnon ; Lecture 7: Dark Age and Archaic Greece ; Lecture 8: The Greek polis, Sparta ; Lecture 9: The Greek polis, Athens ; Lecture 10: Civic culture, architecture and drama ; Lecture 11: The birth of history ; Lecture 12: From Greek religion to Socratic philosophy

pt. 2. Lecture 13: Plato and Aristotle ; Lecture 14: The failure of the polis and the rise of Alexander ; Lecture 15: The Hellenistic world ; Lecture 16: The rise of Rome ; Lecture 17: The Roman Republic, government and politics ; Lecture 18: Roman imperialism ; Lecture 19: The culture of the Roman Republic ; Lecture 20: Rome, from Republic to Empire ; Lecture 21: The Pax Romana ; Lecture 22: Rome's Golden and Silver Ages ; Lecture 23: Jesus and the New Testament ; Lecture 24: The emergence of a Christian Church.

pt. 3. Lecture 25: Late Antiquity, crisis and response ; Lecture 26: Barbarians and emperors ; Lecture 27: The emergence of the Catholic Church ; Lecture 28: Christian culture in late antiquity ; Lecture 29: Muhammad and Islam ; Lecture 30: The birth of Byzantium ; Lecture 31: Barbarian kingdoms in the West ; Lecture 32: The world of Charlemagne ; Lecture 33: The Carolingian Renaissance ; Lecture 34: The expansion of Europe ; Lecture 35: The chivalrous society ; Lecture 36: Medieval political traditions, I

pt. 4. Lecture 37: Medieval political traditions, II ; Lecture 38: Scholastic culture ; Lecture 39: Vernacular culture ; Lecture 40: The crisis of Renaissance Europe ; Lecture 41: The Renaissance problem ; Lecture 42: Renaissance portraits ; Lecture 43: The Northern Renaissance ; Lecture 44: The Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther ; Lecture 45: The Protestant Reformation, John Calvin ; Lecture 46: Catholic reforms and "Confessionalization" ; Lecture 47: Exploration and empire ; Lecture 48: What challenges remain?