UNIT I

Origins (prehistory - 330B.C.)

1.   Dawn of Man
2.  The Fertile Crescent
3.  The Ancient Orient
4.  The Iron Age

UNIT II

Classical Antiquity (2700B.C. - 323B.C.)

1.  Mediterranean Rivals: Achaemenid Persian Empire & the Greeks
​2.  Greco-Persian War
3.  Classical Greece & Alexander

UNIT III

The Dream that was Rome (509B.C. - 476A.D.)

1.  The Roman Republic & the Punic Wars
2.  Death Throes of the Republic
3.  The Roman Empire
4.  Christianity and the Fall of the Empire

UNIT IV

Age of Faith (476A.D. - 1216)

1.  Dark Age Europe and Rise of the Church
2.  Islamic Invasions and Feudalism
3.  Centralizing Control:  Europe & Asia

UNIT V

Crossroads of Catastrophe (1095 - 1492)

1.  The Crusades: Cross vs. Crescent
2.  Medieval Society
3.  Wrath of Khans
4.  Medieval Armageddon: Plague, Schism and War

UNIT VI

Into the Unknown (1350 - 1620)

1.  Renaissance and the Rebirth of Europe
2.  God, Glory and Gold: The Age of Exploration
3.  The New World: Empires in America
4. Slavery!

UNIT VII

Crisis of Faith (1517 - 1776)

1.  The Reformation
2. Rise and Reform: Protestants & Catholics
3.  Wars of Religion
4.  Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment

UNIT VIII

Revolution! (1756 - 1815)

1.  Colonial Conflict: America Unleashed
2.  The French Revolution
3.  Revolutionary Terror
4.  Age of Napoleon

UNIT IX

Engineering of Empires (1769 - 1914)

1.  The Industrial Revolution
2.  Nationalism and the Forces of Change
3.  Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa
4.  Imperialism and the Building of Empires

UNIT X

The Great War (1914 - 1920)

1.  The Great War: Clash of Empires
2.  The Great War: Fall of Empires
3.  The Russian Revolution
4.  Scars of the Great War

UNIT XI

Twilight of Empires: A World at War (1920 - 1945)

1.  The Interwar Years: Rise of Dictators
2.  World War II: Poland to Stalingrad
3.  World War II: Sicily to Nagasaki 

UNIT XI

Shadows of War (1945 - present)

1.  The Cold War & Decolonization
2.  Globalization and the Age of Terror