COURSE OUTLINE IN WORLD HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION I. THE PREHISTORIC PERIOD A. INTRODUCTION 1. Definition, Data, and Methods 2.

The Origin of Man 3. Cultures and Their Dating a. Cultures and Periods b. Relative Dating c. Absolute Dating THE PALEOLITHIC PERIOD 1. Culture and Industries 2. Europe 3. Africa 4. Asia and Oceania 5. America 6. Interrelationship of Palaeolithic Cultures 7. The Dates of Palaeolithic Cultures 8. Physical Types of Palaeolithic Man

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C. THE POST-PALEOLITHIC PERIOD 1. Nature and Sequence of Post-Palaeolithic Cultures a. Mesolithic Period b. Neolithic Period c. Chalcolithic Period d. Bronze Age e. Iron Age 2. Modern Races of Man 3. Regional Distribution of Post-Palaeolithic Cultures a. Asia b. Europe c. Africa d. Oceania e. America II. ANCIENT HISTORY A. EARLY EMPIRES OF AFRICA AND ASIA 1. Egypt 2. Mesopotamia a. Sumer and Akkad b. Babylonia c. Assyria 3. Upper Mesopotamia (Mitanni) 4. Palestine a. Israel and Judah b. The Jews 5. Phoenicia a. Carthage 6. Syria a. Damascus 7. Asia Minor a. Hittites b. Phrygians c. Lydians d. Hellenistic Monarchies 8. Armenia a. The Kingdom of Van b. Armenia 9. Iran a. Elamites b. Medes c. Persians 10. India 11. China GREECE 1. The Early Period, to c.500 BC a. Geographical Factors

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The Aegean Civilization The Invasions Aristocracy and Tyranny; Colonization and Trade Formation of the Greek States (1.) Asia Minor (2.) The Peloponnese (3.) Athens (4.) Central and Northern Greece (5.) Sicily and Magna Graecia The Persian Wars The Fifth Century a. The Peloponnese, 479-461 b. Athens and the Delian League, 479-461 c. The First Peloponnesian War d. Athens, 460-431 e. Sicily, 499-409 f. The Great Peloponnesian War g. Economic and Social Conditions The Rise of Macedon a. Spartan Hegemony b. Theban Hegemony c. Macedon under Philip and Alexander the Great d. The West during the Fourth Century e. Greek Culture in the Fourth Century

C. ROME, TO 287 BC 1. The Early Period a. Geographical Factors b. Early Populations of Italy c. The Roman Monarchy 2. The Early Republic D. THE HELLENISTIC WORLD 1. Cultural Development 2. The Wars of the Diadochi 3. Macedon and Greece to the Roman Conquest 4. The Seleucid Empire and Pergamum 5. Parthia 6. Bactria 7. Ptolemaic Egypt, to the Roman Conquest E. ROME, THE MIDDLE AND LATER REPUBLIC 1. The Punic and Macedonian Wars 2. Domestic Strife and Eastern Conquest THE ROMAN EMPIRE 1. The Early Empire (31 BC-192 AD) 2. The Third Century (192-284) 3. The Later Empire (284-527)

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G. THE EMPIRES OF ASIA 1. The Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanians (226-651 AD) 2. India, to 500 AD a. Northern India b. Southern India c. Ceylon 3. China, to 618 AD 4. Korea, to 562 AD 5. Japan, to 645 AD III. THE MIDDLE AGES A. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES 1. Western Europe a. The Early Papacy b. Invaders of the West (1) The Huns (2) The Visigoths (3) The Vandals (4) The Burgundians c. The Ostrogoths in Italy, 489-554

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The Frankish Kingdom, 481-752; The Carolingians The Lombards and the Popes, 568-774 The Empire of the Charlemagne and Its Disintegration The West Franks under the Carolingian Kings, 843-987 Germany under the Carolingian and Saxon Emperors, 843-1024 Spain (1) The Visigothic Kingdom, 466-711 (2) Moslem Spain, 711-1031 (3) Christian Spain j. The British Isles (1) England, to 1066 (2) Scotland, to 1034 (3) Ireland, to 1171 k. Scandinavia Eastern Europe a. The Eastern Empire to 1025 b. The First Bulgarian Empire The Moslem World a. Mohammed and Islam b. The Omayyad Caliphate, 661-750 c. The Abbasid Caliphate, 750-c.1100

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THE AGE OF THE CRUSADERS 1. Western Europe a. The British Isles (1) England, 1066-1307 (2) Scotland, 1034-1304 (3) Ireland, 872-1319 b. Scandinavia (1) Denmark, 950-1320 (2) Sweden, 993-1319 (3) Norway, 872-1319 c. Germany under the Salian and Hohenstaufen Emperors, 1024-1268 (1) The Teutonic Knights d. Italy and the Papacy, 888-1314 (1) The Norman Kingdom in South Italy and Sicily, 1105-1194 (2) The Development of Italian Towns (3) The Rise of Venice to 1310 e. France, 987-1314 f. The Iberian Peninsula, 1037-1284 (1) Moslem Spain (2) Castile (3) Barcelona and Catalonia (4) Navarre (5) Aragon (6) Portugal, to 1279 2. Eastern Europe a. The Slavs b. Bohemia and Manrovia, to 1306 c. Poland, to 1305 d. Russia, to 1263 e. Hungary, to 1276 f. The Second Bulgarian Empire 3. The Near East a. The Eastern Empire b. The Seljuk Turks c. The Crusades d. Latin and Greek States in the Near East, 1204-1261 e. The Mongols f. Moslem Egypt g. Moslem Dynasties of North Africa

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