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The Hebrews: Small States and Big Ideas
Lecture no. 4 from the course: The Foundations of Western Civilization
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Taught by Professor Thomas F. X. Noble | 31 min | Categories: History
Israel, built by the descendants of Abraham, was one of the small states that arose after the Egyptian Empire fell (c. 700 BCE). Unified and independent only from 1200–900 BCE, it bequeathed to the West crucial religious ideas.
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“Western,” “Civilization,” and “Foundations”
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History Begins at Sumer
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Egypt: The Gift of the Nile
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The Hebrews: Small States and Big Ideas
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A Succession of Empires
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Wide-Ruling Agamemnon
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Dark Age and Archaic Greece
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The Greek Polis: Sparta
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The Greek Polis: Athens
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Civic Culture: Architecture and Drama
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The Birth of History
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From Greek Religion to Socratic Philosophy
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Plato and Aristotle
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The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander
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The Hellenistic World
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The Rise of Rome
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The Roman Republic: Government and Politics
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Roman Imperialism
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The Culture of the Roman Republic
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Rome: From Republic to Empire
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The Pax Romana
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Rome’s Golden and Silver Ages
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Jesus and the New Testament
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The Emergence of a Christian Church
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Late Antiquity: Crisis and Response
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Barbarians and Emperors
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The Emergence of the Catholic Church
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Christian Culture in Late Antiquity
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Muhammad and Islam
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The Birth of Byzantium
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Barbarian Kingdoms in the West
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The World of Charlemagne
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The Carolingian Renaissance
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The Expansion of Europe
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The Chivalrous Society
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Medieval Political Traditions, I
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Medieval Political Traditions, II
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Scholastic Culture
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Vernacular Culture
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The Crisis of Renaissance Europe
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The Renaissance Problem
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Renaissance Portraits
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The Northern Renaissance
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The Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther
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The Protestant Reformation: John Calvin
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Catholic Reforms and “Confessionalization”
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Exploration and Empire
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What Challenges Remain?
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