Course Overview
This course covers the development of the uniquely self-aware culture known as ‘Western civilization’ from its origins in the geography and ecology of the early Holocene through the emergence of Greece and Rome, the rise of Christianity, and the coming of self-government in Britain in the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
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- Syllabus (List of Recommended Reading)
- Lecture 01: Introduction: Go West (130:25)
- Lecture 02: Guns, Germs and Steel (115:29)
- Lecture 03: Pens and Pots (114:55)
- Lecture 04: Socrates and the Hemlock (107:20)
- Lecture 05: Carthage and Rome (105:45)
- Lecture 06: Oh, Jesus! (132:25)
- Lecture 07: Neither Holy, Roman, nor an Empire (119:37)
- Lecture 08: When Gothic Was Good (117:02)
- Lecture 09: Bad King John and Worse King Louis (115:22)
- Lecture 10: East is East (112:57)
- Lecture 11: Eppur Si Muove (122:43)
- Lecture 12: 95 Theses and a Big War (140:10)
- Lecture 13: Review (120:34)