Chapter 1: Near Eastern Origins

Chapter 2: Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East

Chapter 3: The Legacy of Greece

Chapter 4: Hellenistic Diffusion

Chapter 5: The Rise of Rome

Chapter 6: The Pax Romana

Chapter 7: The Making of Europe

Chapter 8: The Carolingian World: Europe in the Early Middle Ages

Chapter 9: Revival, Recovery, Reform, and Expansion

Chapter 10: Life in Christian Europe in the High Middle Ages

Chapter 11: The Creativity and Vitality of the High Middle Ages

Chapter 12: The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages

Chapter 13: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance

Chapter 14: Reform and Renewal in the Christian Church

Chapter 15: The Age of Religious Wars and European Expansion

Chapter 16: Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe (ca 1589-1715)

Chapter 17: Absolutism in Eastern Europe to 1740

Chapter 18: Toward a New World-view

Chapter 19: The Expansion of Europe in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 20: The Changing Life of the People

Chapter 21: The Revolution in Politics, 1775-1815

Chapter 22: The Revolution in Energy and Industry

Chapter 23: Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815-1850

Chapter 24: Life in the Emerging Urban Society

Chapter 25: The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914

Chapter 26: The West and the World

Chapter 27: The Great Break: War and Revolution

Chapter 28: The Age of Anxiety

Chapter 29: Dictatorships and the Second World War

Chapter 30: Cold War Conflicts and Social Transformations, 1945-1985

Chapter 31: Revolution, Reunification, and Rebuilding, 1985 to the Present