Taught by Professor Thomas F. X. Noble | 31 min | Categories: History
48 Lectures
1!["Western," "Civilization," and "Foundations"](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l01.jpg)
![History Begins at Sumer](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l02.jpg)
![Egypt-The Gift of the Nile](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l03.jpg)
![The Hebrews-Small States and Big Ideas](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l04.jpg)
![A Succession of Empires](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l05.jpg)
![Wide-Ruling Agamemnon](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l06.jpg)
![Dark Age and Archaic Greece](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l07.jpg)
![The Greek Polis-Sparta](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l08.jpg)
![The Greek Polis-Athens](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l09.jpg)
![Civic Culture-Architecture and Drama](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l10.jpg)
![The Birth of History](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l11.jpg)
![From Greek Religion to Socratic Philosophy](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l12.jpg)
![Plato and Aristotle](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l13.jpg)
![The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l14.jpg)
![The Hellenistic World](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l15.jpg)
![The Rise of Rome](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l16.jpg)
![The Roman Republic-Government and Politics](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l17.jpg)
![Roman Imperialism](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l18.jpg)
![The Culture of the Roman Republic](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l19.jpg)
![Rome-From Republic to Empire](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l20.jpg)
![The Pax Romana](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l21.jpg)
![Rome's Golden and Silver Ages](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l22.jpg)
![Jesus and the New Testament](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l23.jpg)
![The Emergence of a Christian Church](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l24.jpg)
![Late Antiquity-Crisis and Response](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l25.jpg)
![Barbarians and Emperors](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l26.jpg)
![The Emergence of the Catholic Church](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l27.jpg)
![Christian Culture in Late Antiquity](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l28.jpg)
![Muhammad and Islam](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l29.jpg)
![The Birth of Byzantium](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l30.jpg)
![Barbarian Kingdoms in the West](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l31.jpg)
![The World of Charlemagne](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l32.jpg)
![The Carolingian Renaissance](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l33.jpg)
![The Expansion of Europe](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l34.jpg)
![The Chivalrous Society](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l35.jpg)
![Medieval Political Traditions, I](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l36.jpg)
![Medieval Political Traditions, II](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l37.jpg)
![Scholastic Culture](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l38.jpg)
![Vernacular Culture](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l39.jpg)
![The Crisis of Renaissance Europe](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l40.jpg)
![The Renaissance Problem](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l41.jpg)
![Renaissance Portraits](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l42.jpg)
![The Northern Renaissance](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l43.jpg)
![The Protestant Reformation-Martin Luther](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l44.jpg)
![The Protestant Reformation-John Calvin](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l45.jpg)
![Catholic Reforms and "Confessionalization"](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l46.jpg)
![Exploration and Empire](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l47.jpg)
![What Challenges Remain?](https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/media/catalog/product/cache/7207348cfc3d8f67bbad63e7d5ef279e/3/7/370-l48.jpg)
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Taught by Professor Thomas F. X. Noble | 31 min | Categories: History