Unit 1: Ancient River-Valley Civilizations 1 The Emergence of Early Culture 2 Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs

Unit 2: Greece: Birthplace of Western Civilization 3 The Aegean Heritage 4 Early Greece: Preparation for the Good Life 5 Hellenic Athens: The Fulfillment of the Good Life 6 Greece: From Hellenic to Hellenistic World 7 The Greek Arts

Unit 3: Rome: The International Culture 8 A Thousand Years of Rome 9 Roman Art and Architecture: The Arts of Megalopolis

Unit 4: Judaism and Christianity 10 The Star and the Cross 11 The Beginnings of Christian Art

Unit 5: The Age of Faith 12 Building Medieval Walls 13 The Late Middle Ages: Expansion and Synthesis 14 The Medieval Synthesis in Art 15 Medieval Music: Sacred and Secular

Unit 6: The Renaissance 16 A New Way of Looking at the World 17 Renaissance Art: A New Golden Age 18 Renaissance Music: Court and Church 19 Shadow and Substance: Literary Insights into the Renaissance

Unit 7: The Early Modern World 20 Science, Reason, and Absolutism 21 Art: Baroque, Rococo, and Neoclassic 22 Music: Baroque, Rococo, and Classical

Unit 8: The Middle Modern World 23 Revolution, Romanticism, Realism 24 Romanticism in Music 25 Nineteenth-Century Art: Conflict and Diversity

Unit 9: The Twentieth Century 26 Things Fall Apart: The Center Cannot Hold 27 Ideas and Conflicts that Motivate the Twentieth Century 28 Art in the Twentieth Century: Shock Waves and Reactions 29 Modern Music 30 Twentieth-Century Literature

Unit 10: Into the Twenty-First Century 31 Crossing Borders: Historical Overview, 1990-2003 32 Art: Moving into the Twenty-First Century 33 Music and Dance in the Twenty-First Century 34 Literature for the New Century