Culture and Values

The Arts: An Introduction. 1. Beginnings. 2. The Rise of Greece. 3. Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period. 4. Rome. 5. Ancient Civilizations of India and China. 6. The Rise of the Biblical Tradition. 7. Early Christianity: Ravenna and Byzantium. 8. Islam. 9. The Rise of Medieval Culture. 10. The High Middle Ages. 11. The Fourteenth Century: A Time of Transition. 12. The Renaissance in the Fifteenth Century. 13. The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy. 14. The High Renaissance in the North. 15. The Seventeenth Century: The Baroque Era. 16. The Eighteenth Century. 17. Romanticism, Realism, and Photography. 18. Toward the Modern Era: 1870-1914. 19. India, China, and Japan: From Medieval to Modern Times. 20. Africa. 21. The World at War. 22. The Contemporary Contour.