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This page provides links to information on a variety of significant topics in Western Civilization
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Created by undergraduate students at Marquette University, each reference document contains:
historical data, links to relevant web sites, and short bibliography


Chapter Questions, Outlines & Maps
Reference Topics

 
Chapter 1:  Sumer, Mesopotamia, and the Origins of Western Civilization
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
 

 
Chapter 2:Early Empires of the Near East
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Bronze Age;   Hieroglyphics;

 
Chapter 3:  Ancient Greek Civilization
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Stoicism;   Olympic Games;   Thucydides;   Sappho;
 Hysteria and Women;

 
Chapter 4:  Alexander the Great and the Spread of Hellenistic Culture
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
 

 
Chapter 5:  The Rise of Rome and the Roman Republic
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Sicily;

 
Chapter 6:  Augustus, the Roman Empire, and Pax Romana
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   The Colossem;   Roman Baths;   Gladiators;

 
Chapter 7:  Invasions, the Church, and the Roots of European Culture
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
 

 
Chapter 8:  Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
 

 
Chapter 9:  European Stability, Revival and the Crusades
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
 

 
Chapter 10:  European Society During the High Middle Ages
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
 

 
Chapter 11:  Government, Economy and Culture of the High Middle Ages
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
 

 
Chapter 12:  Horsemen of the Apocalypse -- Plague, War and Death
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline 
   Military Medicine;  The Black Death;   Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse;

 
Chapter 13:  The Renaissance
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Renaissance Music;   Richard the Lion-Hearted;   Leonardo DaVinci;

 
Chapter 14:  Martin Luther, Protestantism, and the Counter Reformation
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
 

 
Chapter 15:  Global Exploration, Conquest and Religious Wars
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
 

 
Chapter 16:  Absolutism, Constitutionalism, and State Growth in Western Europe
   Map: 17th C. French Wars
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Niccolo Machiavelli;   French Finances;

 
Chapter 17:  State Growth in Eastern Europe
   Map: Russian Expansion
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Ivan the Terrible;   Russian Fashion & Culture;

 
Chapter 18:  The Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Nicolaus Copernicus;   Montesquieu;

 
Chapter 19:  Economic Change & Global Expansion
   Maps: European Exploration
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
 

 
Chapter 20: Social Change in Europe
   Map: Early 19th C. Revolutions
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Rococo;

 
Chapter 21: Political Revolutions: America & France
   Maps: French Revolution
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
    American Revolutionary Army;   Maximilien Robespierre;

 
Chapter 22: Industrial Revolution
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Adam Smith;    Aviation;

 
Chapter 23: Ideologies, Reforms & Revolutions
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Ludwig van Beethoven;   Karl Marx;

 
Chapter 24: Urban Life & the Triumph of Science
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Charles Darwin;   Louis Pasteur;   History of Psychology;   Monet;

 
Chapter 25: Nation Building in Europe and America
   Map: German Unification
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Guiseppe Garibaldi;   Crimean War;   Jack the Ripper;

 
Chapter 26: The World Market & Western Imperialism
   Maps: Imperialism in Africa & Asia
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
 

 
Chapter 27: World War and the Russian Revolution
   Maps: World War I
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Russian Revolution;   KGB;    Paris Peace Conference;

 
Chapter 28: Modern Thought and the Age of Anxiety
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
  The Great Depression;

 
Chapter 29: Totalitarianism, Fascism, & World War II
   Maps: World War II
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
    Atlantic Wall & D-Day;   Atomic Bomb-Japan;   Eisenhower & Korea;   Hitler & the Jews;    Hollywood at War;   Nuremberg Trials;

 
Chapter 30: Hot Wars & the Cold War
   Maps: Global Changes
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Berlin Wall;   John F. Kennedy;   McCarthyism;   Martin Luther King, Jr.;   Negro League Baseball;  Space Race;

 
Chapter 31: Contemporary Western Civilization
   Sample Quiz;  Chapter Outline
   Punk Music & Culture;