Essays Used for This Course

The essays by Knox are at this site. Those by others (Hooker, Kreis, Nelson) are located off-site.

• Introduction, Knox
• Origins of Democracy, Kreis
• The Persian Wars, Knox
• The Peloponnesian War, Knox
• Greek Philosophy, Kreis
• Alexander the Great, Knox
• The Kingdom of Rome, Hooker
• The Early Republic, Hooker
• The Conquest of Italy, Hooker
• The Punic Wars, Knox
• The Roman Revolution, Knox
• The First Emperors, Knox
• A Brief Social History of the Roman Empire, Kreis
• Roman Emperors, Knox
• Introduction to Middle Ages, Knox
• The So-called Dark Ages, Knox
• Rise of Monasticism, Nelson
• Introduction to Islam, Nelson
• The Carolingian Era, Knox
• The Later Carolingians, Nelson
• Development of the Papacy, Knox
• The Tenth Century, Knox
• Advances in Agriculture, 800-1000, Nelson
• William the Conqueror, Knox
• Renaissance of the 12^th Century, Kreis
• Origins of Universities, Nelson
• The Black Death, Knox
• Heresy in the Later Middle Ages, Nelson
• The Papacy in Avignon, Knox
• Hundred Years' War, Nelson
• Introduction to Early Modern, Knox
• The Reformation, Knox
• Thirty Years War (off-site; follow all the links; there are seventeen pages in all)
• English Civil War, Knox
• The Renaissance, Knox
• The Scientific Revolution, 1543-1600, by Steven Kreis
• The Scientific Revolution, 1600-1642, by Steven Kreis
• The Scientific Revolution, 1642-1730, by Steven Kreis

History of Western Civilization

E.L. Skip Knox
Boise State University

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