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Western Civilization I to 1500
: The Byzantine Empire and the Rise of Islam
Editor in Chief:
Joseph T. Stuart, University of Mary
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1. Archaic and Early Classical Greece
2. Late Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Age
3. Roman Republic
4. Roman Empire
5. Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire
6. The Fall of Rome and the European Peoples
7. The Byzantine Empire and the Rise of Islam
8. The Church and the Conversion of the European Peoples
9. Age of Charlemagne
10. Feudal Europe and the “Dark Age”
11. Church Reform in the Eleventh Century and the Medieval Papacy
12. International Relations
13. Medieval Institutions
14. The Waning of the Middle Ages
15. The Renaissance and the Transformation of the Western World
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Pope Gelasius I: Letter to Emperor Anastasius (494)
Code of Justinian (534)
Qur’an (Koran) (ca. 610–632)
Covenant of Umar I (637)
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: Confessions (ca. 1100)
The Lay of the Cid (ca. 1195–1207)
Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada (1491)
Muhammad Bakhtáwar Khan: On the Emperor Aurangzeb (c. 1667)
Dionysius the Areopagite: The Celestial Hierarchy (ca. 500)
Justice of the Rus (1019)
Anna Comnena: Alexiad (ca. 1148)
Key Arguments: Western Civilization I, Unit 7
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Key Terms: Western Civilization I, Unit 7
Map Exercises: Western Civilization I, Unit 7
Short-answer Questions: Western Civilization I, Unit 7
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Ascendancy of the East
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Islamic Spain
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The Rise of Islam
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The Byzantine Empire
