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

2. 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

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

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

5. 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

6. 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

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

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

9. 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

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