Study tips: understanding the past for Hause and Maltby's Essentials of western civilization / John Soares.

The ancient near east: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Israel -- Ancient Greece to the end of Peloponnesian War - - Grrek culture and its Hellenistic diffusion -- The rise of the Roman Republic -- Social, political, and economic structurs of imperial Rome -- The origins of Christianity and the decline of the Roman Empire -- Rome's successors: Byzantium, Islam, and the Germanic West -- The beginings of the Feudal age -- Medieval religion and thought -- Economic development in the high middle ages -- Material and social life in the middle ages -- Plague, war, and socila change in the "Long" fourteen century -- The Renaissance: political renewal and intellectual change -- The religious reformations of the sixteenth century -- Overseas conquest and religious war to 1648 -- Preindustrial Europe: science, the economy, and political reorganization -- The soical and economic structure of the old regime -- Daily life in the old regime -- The political evolution of the old regime -- The culture of old rgime Europe -- The French revolution and Napoleon, 1789-1815 -- Industrialization and the social and economic structure of Europe -- Daily life in the nineteenth century -- The defense of the old regime, 1815-1848 -- Europe in an age of nationalism, 1848-1870 -- Europe in the Belle Epoque, 1871-1914 -- Imperialism, war, and revolution, 1881-1920 -- Europe in an age of dictatorship, 1919-1939 -- Europe in an age of total war: World War II, 1939-1945 -- The social and economic structure of contemporary Europe -- Europe in the age of cold war, 1945 -1975 -- The new belle Epoque: democracy and prosperity since 1975.