Test Bank for Western Civilization, 8th Edition
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0495913243
- ISBN-13 : 978-0495913245
- Author: Jackson J. Spielvogel
Best-selling book WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million users learn about the present by exploring the past. Jackson Spielvogel�s engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military aspects of history into a gripping story that is as memorable as it is instructive. The clear narrative of a single gifted author makes it easy to follow the story of Western civilization.
Table contents:
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Ch. 1 The Study of History and the Rise of Civilization
- Splitting History
- Dates and Calendars
- Historical Bias
- The Imperfect Historical Record
- The Evolution of Humans
- The Neolithic Revolution
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Ch. 2 Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations and Other Early Civilizations
- River Valley Civilizations
- The Sumerians
- Ur
- The Akkadian Empire
- Babylon
- Hammurabi’s Code
- Babylonian Culture
- Nebuchadnezzar and the Fall of Babylon
- The Assyrians
- The Hittites
- The Phoenicians
- The Minoans
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Ch. 3 Ancient Egypt
- The Rise of Egyptian Civilization
- The Old Kingdom
- The First Intermediate Period
- The Middle Kingdom
- Ancient Egyptian Culture
- The Second Intermediate Period
- The New Kingdom
- Hatshepsut
- The Third Intermediate Period
- The Decline of Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Egyptian Religion
- Ancient Egyptian Art
- Ancient Egyptian Monuments
- Ancient Egyptian Trade
- Nubia and Ancient Culture
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Ch. 4 Ancient Greece and the Hellenistic World
- Greek Dark Ages
- Archaic Greece
- The Rise of Classical Greece
- Sparta
- Culture in Classical Sparta
- The Persian Wars
- Effects of the Persian Wars
- Athens
- Athenian Society
- Classical Greek Philosophy
- Classical Greek Poetry and History
- Classical Greek Theater
- Classical Greek Architecture
- Scientific Advancements in the Classical Period
- Introduction to the Peloponnesian War
- Effects of the Peloponnesian War
- The Rise of the Macedon
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander’s Empire
- The Legacy of Alexander the Great
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Ch. 5 Early Roman Civilization and the Roman Republic
- The Origins of Etruria
- Etruscan Artifacts
- Etruscan Religion
- The Founding of Rome
- The Seven Kings
- Early Roman Society
- The Establishment of the Roman Republic
- Roman Society Under the Republic
- Structure of the Republic
- Art and Literature in the Roman Republic
- Republican Wars and Conquest
- Crises of the Republic
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Chapter 6 The Roman Empire
- Julius Caesar
- Founding of the Roman Empire
- The Pax Romana
- The Julio-Claudian Emperors
- The Last Julio-Claudian Emperors
- The Flavian Dynasty
- Military Achievements of the Flavians
- Eruptions of Vesuvius and Pompeii
- Flavian Architecture
- Fall of the Flavian Emperors
- The Nerva-Antonine Dynasty
- Military Successes of the Nerva-Antonine Dynasty
- Art and Culture Under the Nerva-Antonines
- Crises of the Roman Empire
- Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
- The Rise of Christianity
- Constantine
- The Shift East
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Ch. 7 The Byzantine Empire
- Naming of the Byzantine Empire
- The Eastern Roman Empire, Constantine the Great, and Byzantium
- Justinian and Theodora
- The Justinian Code
- Emperor Heracluis
- The Theme System
- The Isaurian Dynasty
- Iconoclasm in Byzantium
- The Emperor Irene
- The Macedonian Dynasty
- The Great Schism of 1054
- The Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
- The Double Disasters
- Crisis and Fragmentation
- The Last Byzantine Dynasty
- The Fall of Constantinople
- Byzantium’s Legacy
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Ch. 8 The Middle Ages in Europe
- The Germanic Tribes
- Odoacer and the Fall of Rome
- Theoderic the Great
- The Vikings
- The Catholic Church
- The Development of Papal Supremacy
- The Rise of the Monasteries
- The Western Schism
- The Coronation of 800 CE
- The Rise of Charlemagne
- Charlemagne’s Reforms
- Charles Martel and Pepin the Short
- The End of the Carolingians
- Rise of the Holy Roman Empire
- Administration of the Empire
- The Investiture Controversy
- The Anglo-Saxons
- The Norman Invasion of 1066 CE
- William the Conqueror’s Rule
- The Magna Carta
- The Hundred Years’ War
- The Crusades
- The First Crusade
- The Second Crusade
- The Third Crusade
- The Fourth Crusade
- Feudalism
- The Manor System
- Trade and Commerce
- Daily Medieval Life
- Intellectual Life
- Arts and Sciences
- The Black Death
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Ch. 9 The Development of Russia
- Rurik and the Foundation of Rus’
- Vladimir I and Christianization
- Yaroslav the Wise
- The Mongol Threat
- Ivan I and the Rise of Moscow
- The Formation of Russia
- Ivan the Terrible
- The Time of Troubles
- The Romanovs
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Ch. 10 The Renaissance
- Introduction to the Renaissance
- Italian Trade Cities
- Italian Politics
- The Church During the Italian Renaissance
- Petrarch
- Humanism
- Education and Humanism
- The Italian Renaissance
- Art and Patronage
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Michelangelo
- Mannerism
- The Rise of the Vernacular
- Renaissance Writers
- Christine de Pizan
- Machiavelli
- Erasmus
- The Printing Revolution
- Flemish Painting in the Northern Renaissance
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Chapter 11: The Protestant Reformation
- Discontent with the Roman Catholic Church
- Luther and Protestantism
- Calvinism
- The Anabaptists
- The Anglican Church
- The French Wars of Religion
- The Witch Trials
- Religious Divide in the Holy Roman Empire
- Bohemian Period
- Danish Intervention
- Swedish Intervention
- Swedish-French Intervention
- The Peace of Westphalia
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Ch. 12 The Rise of Nation-States
- Introduction to Nation-States
- The Peace of Westphalia and Sovereignty
- The Reconquista
- The Spanish Habsburgs
- Philip II and the Spanish Armada
- The Siglo de Oro
- Elizabeth I and English Patriotism
- The First Stuarts and Catholicism
- Charles I and the Power to Tax
- Cromwell and the Roundheads
- The English Protectorate
- Restoration of the Stuarts
- The Glorious Revolution
- France and Cardinal Richelieu
- Cardinal Mazarin and the Fronde
- The Sun-King and Authoritarianism
- Louis XIV and the Huguenots
- Louis XIV’s Wars
- The Question of Spanish Succession
- William of Orange and the Grand Alliance
- The Peace of Utrecht
- Peter the Great
- The Westernization of Russia
- Peter’s Foreign Policy
- Peter’s Domestic Reforms
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