The Foundations of Western Civilization

24h 40m
English
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April 4, 2024

In this sweeping course, you get the classic grand tour of ancient Western civilization, taught by an award-winning professor of history at Notre Dame.

You can discover the essential nature, evolution, and perceptions of Western civilization from its humble beginnings in the great river valleys of Iraq and Egypt to the dawn of the modern world. This broad, sweeping series helps you cover an enormous amount of historical material as you see how Western civilization evolved. Concentrating on the period 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600, Professor Thomas F. X. Noble unfolds for you the fascinating story of how the global reach of the West came to exist, what makes it distinctive and unique, and its possible future.

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# Title Duration
1 1 "Western", "Civilization", and "Foundations" 32:41
2 2 History Begins at Sumer 30:28
3 3 Egypt - The Gift of the Nile 31:10
4 4 The Hebrews - Small States and Big Ideas 30:45
5 5 A succession of Empires 30:40
6 6 Wide-Ruling Agamemnon 30:09
7 7 Dark Age and Archaic Greece 30:35
8 8 The Greek Polis-Sparta 30:26
9 9 The Greek Polis-Athens 30:33
10 10 Civic Culture - Architecture and Drama 30:37
11 11 The Birth of History 30:54
12 12 From Greek Religion to Socratic Philoshophy 30:47
13 13 Plato and Aristotle 31:15
14 14 The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander 30:46
15 15 The Hellenistic World 30:49
16 16 The Rise of Rome 30:50
17 17 The Roman Republic-Government and Politics 30:12
18 18 Roman Imperialism 30:01
19 19 The Culture of the Roman Republic 30:17
20 20 Rome - From Republic to Empire 30:26
21 21 The Pax Romana 30:32
22 22 Rome's Golden and Silver Ages 31:04
23 23 Jesus and the New Testament 30:44
24 24 The Emergence of a Christian Church 30:43
25 25 Late Antiquity-Crisis and Response 30:45
26 26 Barbarians and Emperors 31:02
27 27 The Emergence of the Catholic Church 31:40
28 28 Christian Culture in Late Antiquity 30:13
29 29 Muhammad and Islam 30:02
30 30 The Birth of Byzantium 30:48
31 31 Barbarian Kingdoms in the West 30:50
32 32 The World of Charlemagne 30:49
33 33 The Carolingian Renaissance 30:44
34 34 The Expansion of Europe 30:43
35 35 The Chivalrous Society 30:50
36 36 Mediaval Political Traditions, I 30:41
37 37 Medieval Political Traditions, II 31:12
38 38 Scholastic Culture 30:33
39 39 Vernacular Culture 30:56
40 40 The Crisis of Renaissance Europe 30:45
41 41 The Renaissance Problem 30:53
42 42 Renaissance Portraits 31:20
43 43 The Northern Renaissance 31:17
44 44 The Protestant Reformation - Martin Luther 31:12
45 45 The Protestant Reformation - John Calvin 31:10
46 46 Catholic Reforms and "Confessionalization" 31:21
47 47 Exploration and Empire 29:44
48 48 What Challenges Remain? 33:06

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