Unit 1 The First Civilizations 1
Text A The Cradle of Civilization ………………………………………………………………… 2
Text B Pyramids in Egypt ………………………………………………………………………… 9
Text C tzi’s Last Meal ………………………………………………………………………… 11
Unit 2 Ancient Greece (I) 14
Text A The Classical Greece …………………………………………………………………… 15
Text B ATale of Two Cities: Sparta vs. Athens ………………………………………………… 22
Text C Alexander the Great: The King of Kings ………………………………………………… 24
Unit 3 Ancient Greece (II) 26
Text A The Hellenistic Greece …………………………………………………………………… 28
Text B The Ancient Olympic Games …………………………………………………………… 34
Text C The Parthenon …………………………………………………………………………… 36
Unit 4 Ancient Rome (I) 40
Text A Rome: From Republic to Empire ………………………………………………………… 41
Text B Conversion of the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire ……………………………… 49
Text C The Burning of Rome …………………………………………………………………… 51
Unit 5 Ancient Rome (II) 55
Text A Roman Art and Architecture……………………………………………………………… 57
Text B Roman Baths …………………………………………………………………………… 64
Text C The Roman Forum ……………………………………………………………………… 66
Unit 6 The Bible and the Rise of Christianity 70
Text A An Introduction to the Bible ……………………………………………………………… 71
Text B The Rise of Christianity ………………………………………………………………… 80
Text C The Gospels ……………………………………………………………………………… 82
Unit 7 The Middle Ages 85
Text A Between Ancient and Modern …………………………………………………………… 87
Text B The Crusades …………………………………………………………………………… 95
Text C The Black Death ………………………………………………………………………… 98
Unit 8 The Making of Renaissance 101
Text A The Dawn of a New Age ……………………………………………………………… 102
Text B Humanism of the Renaissance ………………………………………………………… 111
Text C Johannes Gutenberg …………………………………………………………………… 113
Unit 9 High Renaissance 117
Text A Renaissance Art and Artists …………………………………………………………… 118
Text B Mystery behind theMona Lisa ………………………………………………………… 126
Text C William Shakespeare …………………………………………………………………… 127
Unit 10 The Reformation 131
Text A The European Reformation……………………………………………………………… 132
Text B The Roman Catholic Church in 1500…………………………………………………… 140
Text C Driven to Defiance ……………………………………………………………………… 142
Unit 11 The Baroque Age 145
Text A The Age of Revolution ………………………………………………………………… 146
Text B Newton, the Apple, and Gravity………………………………………………………… 154
Text C Baroque Style …………………………………………………………………………… 155
Unit 12 The Age of Enlightenment 159
Text A The Enlightenment ……………………………………………………………………… 161
Text B Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart …………………………………………………………… 168
Text C Women in the Enlightenment …………………………………………………………… 170
Unit 13 The French Revolution 174
Text A The French Revolution ………………………………………………………………… 175
Text B The Storming of the Bastille …………………………………………………………… 183
Text C The Reign of Terror …………………………………………………………………… 185
Unit 14 Romanticism 189
Text A Romanticism …………………………………………………………………………… 190
Text B The Sorrows of YoungWerther ………………………………………………………… 197
Text C The Romantic Painting ………………………………………………………………… 199
Unit 15 Realism 203
Text A Science and Culture in an Age of Realism ……………………………………………… 204
Text B ATale of Two Cities …………………………………………………………………… 211
Text C Charles Darwin ………………………………………………………………………… 213
Unit 16 Modernism and Other Contemporary Trends 217
Text A Modernism Defined …………………………………………………………………… 219
Text B Modernism afterWorldWar II (I) ……………………………………………………… 226
Text C Modernism afterWorldWar II (II)……………………………………………………… 229
Bibliography ……………………………………………………………………………………… 232
