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The History Guide

Lectures on Ancient and Medieval European History

Steven Kreis

Lecture 1: What is Civilization?
Lecture 2: Ancient Western Asia and the Civilization of Mesopotamia
Lecture 3: Egyptian Civilization
Lecture 4: The Akkadians, Egyptians and the Hebrews
Lecture 5: Homer and the Greek Renaissance, 900-600BC
Lecture 6: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy
Lecture 7: Classical Greece, 500-323BC
Lecture 8: Greek Thought: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
Lecture 9: From Polis to Cosmopolis: Hellenization and Alexander the Great, 323-30BC
Lecture 10: Early Roman Civilization, 753-509BC

Lecture 11: Republican Rome, 509-31BC
Lecture 12: Augustus Caesar and the Pax Romana
Lecture 13: A Brief Social History of the Roman Empire
Lecture 14: The Decline and Fall of Rome
Lecture 15: Christianity as a Cultural Revolution
Lecture 16: The Church Fathers: Jerome and Augustine
Lecture 17: Byzantine Civilization
Lecture 18: Islamic Civilization
Lecture 19: Early Medieval Monasticism
Lecture 20: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance
Lecture 21: Feudalism and the Feudal Relationship
Lecture 22: European Agrarian Society: Manorialism
Lecture 23: Medieval Society: The Three Orders
Lecture 24: The Medieval World View
Lecture 25: The Holy Crusades
Lecture 26: The 12th Century Renaissance
Lecture 27: Heretics, Heresies and the Church
Lecture 28: Aquinas and Dante
Lecture 29: Satan Triumphant: The Black Death
Lecture 30: In the Wake of the Black Death

Yale University

Ancient Documents: 4000bc - 399

Avalon Project, Yale University

Ibis Communications

Eyewitness to the Ancient World

Institute of Museum and Library Services

The Art of Asia

The Art of Asia features objects from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts permanent collection and explores several cross-cultural Asian themes. History (China, Japan, Korea); Maps; Buddhism; Architecture; Ceramics

Encyclopedia of Mythica

Greek and Roman mythology

US Library of Congress

World Digital Library

Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world.