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I. Introduction (no outline available)

II. Prehistory: The Long Foreground

III. Agricultural Revolutions

IV. Empire: Mesopotamia and Egypt

V. Ancient Civilizations, cont.

VI. Ancient Israel and Judaism

VII. Greek Precursors

VIII. Archaic - Classical Greece

IX. Athens and Sparta - Persian Wars

X. Peloponnesian Wars - Greek Achievements

XI. Macedonian Conquest - Hellenism

XII. Roman Republic

XIII. Roman Empire

XIV. Rome - Cultural Achievements

XV. Indian Civilization - Hinduism

XVI. Mauryan Empire

XVII. Buddhism; Guptas

XVIII. Ancient China

XIX. Eastern Chou; Warring States Period; Philosophy

XX. Chin and Han Dynasties

XXI. Tang and Sung; Chinese Achievements

XXII. Early Japan

XXIII. Christianity; Fall of Rome; "Dark Ages" in the West

XXIV. Byzantium - The Second Rome

XXV. The West - Early Middle Ages

XXVI. Rise of Islam

XXVII. Persian Empire

XXVIII. Muslim Spain; Europe and Islam - Crusades

XXIX. Sub-Saharan Africa; Islam

XXX. Islam, cont. - India, Egypt, Turks

XXXI. Mongols - Yuan Dynasty; Ming Dynasty

XXXII. Feudal Japan

XXXIII. Medieval Synthesis

XXXIV. High Middle Ages

XXXV. Rise of Monarchy; Italian Renaissance

XXXVI. Renaissance, cont. - Northern Renaissance

XXXVII. Age of European Exploration

XXXVIII. Pre-Columbian American Civilizations

XXXIX. Spanish Conquest