Topics covered include: • Prehistory of the West to 35,000 BCE • The First Civilizations, 10,000-1250 BCE • Growing Civilizations of the Near East, 1200 BCE-450 BCE • The Greek Polis in War & Peace, 750-371 BCE • The Greek World Expands, 359-142 BCE • Greek Culture, Science & Philosophy, 725-140 BCE • The Rise of Rome & the Republic, 753-31 BCE • The Roman Empire, 27 BCE-476 CE • Roman Culture, 240 BCE-121 CE • East & West in the Early middle Ages, 493-1000 • Europe in the High Middle Ages, 1054-1400 • The Culture of Christendom in Medieval Europe, 910-1351 • The Emergence of Early Modern Europe, 1400-1497 • The Culture of the Renaissance, 1304-1500