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Tables of Contents for The Humanities in Western Culture
Unit 1: Ancient River-Valley Civilizations1 Prehistory and Mesopotamia2 EgyptUnit 2: Greece: Birthplace of Western Civilization3 The Aegean Heritage4 Early Greece: Preparation for the Good Life5 Hellenic Athens: The Fulfillment of the Good Life6 Greece: From Hellenic to Hellenistic World7 The Greek ArtsUnit 3: Rome: The International Culture8 A Thousand Years of Rome9 Roman Art and Architecture: The Arts of MegalopolisUnit 4: Judaism and Christianity10 The Star and the Cross11 The Beginnings of Christian ArtUnit 5: The Age of Faith12 Building Medieval Walls13 The Late Middle Ages: Expansion and Synthesis14 The Medieval Synthesis in Art15 Medieval Music: Sacred and SecularUnit 6: The Renaissance, 1350-160016 New Ideas and Discoveries Result from a New Way of Looking at the World17 Renaissance Art: A New Golden Age18 Renaissance Music: Court and Church19 Shadow and Substance: Literary Insights into the RenaissanceUnit 7: The Early Modern World, 1600-178920 Science, Reason, and Absolutism21 Art: Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassic22 Music: Baroque, Rococo, and ClassicalUnit 8: the Middle Modern World, 1789-191423 Revolution, Romanticism, Realism24 Romanticism in Music25 Nineteenth-Century Art: Conflict and DiversityUnit 9: The Twentieth Century26 Things Fall Apart: The Center Cannot Hold27 Ideas and Conflicts that Motivate the Twentieth Century28 Art in the Twentieth Century: Shock Waves and Reactions29 Modern Music30 Twentieth-Century LiteratureAppendices