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Special thanks to Keith Schlesinger, Ph.D, Wilberforce University, for contributing content to this companion website.

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Select a chapter: 1: The Birth of Civilization 2: The Rise of Greek Civilization 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece 4: Rome: From Republic To Empire 5: The Roman Empire 6: The Early Middle Ages: The Birth of Europe, 476-1000 7: The High Middle Ages (1000 -- 1300): the Ascendency of The Church and the Rise of States 8: The High Middle Ages (1000-1300): People, Towns, and Universities 9: The Late Middle Ages (1300 -- 1527): Centuries of Crisis 10: Renaissance and Discovery 11: The Age of Reformation 12: The Age of Religious Wars 13: Paths To Constitutionalism And Absolutism: England And France 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 15: Successful and Unsuccessful Paths to Power (1686 -- 1740) 16: Society and Economics Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century 17: Empire, War, and Colonial Rebellion 18: The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought 19: The French Revolution 20: The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism 21: Restoration, Reaction, and Reform (1815 -- 1832) 22: Economic Advance and Social Unrest (1830 - 1850) 23: The Age of Nation States 24: The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I 25: The Birth of Contemporary European Thought 26: Imperialism, Alliances, and War 27: Political Experiments of the 1920s 28: Europe and the Great Depression of the 1930s 29: World War II 30: Europe and the Soviet-American Rivalry 31: Toward a New Europe and the Twenty-First Century