Test Bank for Western Civilization, 8th Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0495913243
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0495913245
• Author: Jackson J. Spielvogel

Best-selling book WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogel�s engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. The clear narrative of a single gifted author makes it easy to follow the story of Western civilization.

Table contents:

• Ch. 1 The Study of History and the Rise of Civilization

  • Splitting History
  • Dates and Calendars
  • Historical Bias
  • The Imperfect Historical Record
  • The Evolution of Humans
  • The Neolithic Revolution

• Ch. 2 Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations and Other Early Civilizations

  • River Valley Civilizations
  • The Sumerians
  • Ur
  • The Akkadian Empire
  • Babylon
  • Hammurabi’s Code
  • Babylonian Culture
  • Nebuchadnezzar and the Fall of Babylon
  • The Assyrians
  • The Hittites
  • The Phoenicians
  • The Minoans

• Ch. 3 Ancient Egypt

  • The Rise of Egyptian Civilization
  • The Old Kingdom
  • The First Intermediate Period
  • The Middle Kingdom
  • Ancient Egyptian Culture
  • The Second Intermediate Period
  • The New Kingdom
  • Hatshepsut
  • The Third Intermediate Period
  • The Decline of Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient Egyptian Religion
  • Ancient Egyptian Art
  • Ancient Egyptian Monuments
  • Ancient Egyptian Trade
  • Nubia and Ancient Culture

• Ch. 4 Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic World

  • Greek Dark Ages
  • Archaic Greece
  • The Rise of Classical Greece
  • Sparta
  • Culture in Classical Sparta
  • The Persian Wars
  • Effects of the Persian Wars
  • Athens
  • Athenian Society
  • Classical Greek Philosophy
  • Classical Greek Poetry and History
  • Classical Greek Theater
  • Classical Greek Architecture
  • Scientific Advancements in the Classical Period
  • Introduction to the Peloponnesian War
  • Effects of the Peloponnesian War
  • The Rise of the Macedon
  • Alexander the Great
  • Alexander’s Empire
  • The Legacy of Alexander the Great

• Ch. 5 Early Roman Civilization and the Roman Republic

  • The Origins of Etruria
  • Etruscan Artifacts
  • Etruscan Religion
  • The Founding of Rome
  • The Seven Kings
  • Early Roman Society
  • The Establishment of the Roman Republic
  • Roman Society Under the Republic
  • Structure of the Republic
  • Art and Literature in the Roman Republic
  • Republican Wars and Conquest
  • Crises of the Republic

• Chapter 6 The Roman Empire

  • Julius Caesar
  • Founding of the Roman Empire
  • The Pax Romana
  • The Julio-Claudian Emperors
  • The Last Julio-Claudian Emperors
  • The Flavian Dynasty
  • Military Achievements of the Flavians
  • Eruptions of Vesuvius and Pompeii
  • Flavian Architecture
  • Fall of the Flavian Emperors
  • The Nerva-Antonine Dynasty
  • Military Successes of the Nerva-Antonine Dynasty
  • Art and Culture Under the Nerva-Antonines
  • Crises of the Roman Empire
  • Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
  • The Rise of Christianity
  • Constantine
  • The Shift East
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

• Ch. 7 The Byzantine Empire

  • Naming of the Byzantine Empire
  • The Eastern Roman Empire, Constantine the Great, and Byzantium
  • Justinian and Theodora
  • The Justinian Code
  • Emperor Heracluis
  • The Theme System
  • The Isaurian Dynasty
  • Iconoclasm in Byzantium
  • The Emperor Irene
  • The Macedonian Dynasty
  • The Great Schism of 1054
  • The Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
  • The Double Disasters
  • Crisis and Fragmentation
  • The Last Byzantine Dynasty
  • The Fall of Constantinople
  • Byzantium’s Legacy

• Ch. 8 The Middle Ages in Europe

  • The Germanic Tribes
  • Odoacer and the Fall of Rome
  • Theoderic the Great
  • The Vikings
  • The Catholic Church
  • The Development of Papal Supremacy
  • The Rise of the Monasteries
  • The Western Schism
  • The Coronation of 800 CE
  • The Rise of Charlemagne
  • Charlemagne’s Reforms
  • Charles Martel and Pepin the Short
  • The End of the Carolingians
  • Rise of the Holy Roman Empire
  • Administration of the Empire
  • The Investiture Controversy
  • The Anglo-Saxons
  • The Norman Invasion of 1066 CE
  • William the Conqueror’s Rule
  • The Magna Carta
  • The Hundred Years’ War
  • The Crusades
  • The First Crusade
  • The Second Crusade
  • The Third Crusade
  • The Fourth Crusade
  • Feudalism
  • The Manor System
  • Trade and Commerce
  • Daily Medieval Life
  • Intellectual Life
  • Arts and Sciences
  • The Black Death

• Ch. 9 The Development of Russia

  • Rurik and the Foundation of Rus’
  • Vladimir I and Christianization
  • Yaroslav the Wise
  • The Mongol Threat
  • Ivan I and the Rise of Moscow
  • The Formation of Russia
  • Ivan the Terrible
  • The Time of Troubles
  • The Romanovs

• Ch. 10 The Renaissance

  • Introduction to the Renaissance
  • Italian Trade Cities
  • Italian Politics
  • The Church During the Italian Renaissance
  • Petrarch
  • Humanism
  • Education and Humanism
  • The Italian Renaissance
  • Art and Patronage
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Michelangelo
  • Mannerism
  • The Rise of the Vernacular
  • Renaissance Writers
  • Christine de Pizan
  • Machiavelli
  • Erasmus
  • The Printing Revolution
  • Flemish Painting in the Northern Renaissance

• Chapter 11: The Protestant Reformation

  • Discontent with the Roman Catholic Church
  • Luther and Protestantism
  • Calvinism
  • The Anabaptists
  • The Anglican Church
  • The French Wars of Religion
  • The Witch Trials
  • Religious Divide in the Holy Roman Empire
  • Bohemian Period
  • Danish Intervention
  • Swedish Intervention
  • Swedish-French Intervention
  • The Peace of Westphalia

• Ch. 12 The Rise of Nation-States

  • Introduction to Nation-States
  • The Peace of Westphalia and Sovereignty
  • The Reconquista
  • The Spanish Habsburgs
  • Philip II and the Spanish Armada
  • The Siglo de Oro
  • Elizabeth I and English Patriotism
  • The First Stuarts and Catholicism
  • Charles I and the Power to Tax
  • Cromwell and the Roundheads
  • The English Protectorate
  • Restoration of the Stuarts
  • The Glorious Revolution
  • France and Cardinal Richelieu
  • Cardinal Mazarin and the Fronde
  • The Sun-King and Authoritarianism
  • Louis XIV and the Huguenots
  • Louis XIV’s Wars
  • The Question of Spanish Succession
  • William of Orange and the Grand Alliance
  • The Peace of Utrecht
  • Peter the Great
  • The Westernization of Russia
  • Peter’s Foreign Policy
  • Peter’s Domestic Reforms

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