Antiquity to Enlightenment

JOHN P.MCKAY Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA BENNETT D. HILL Sometime Chairman and Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA JOHN BUCKLER Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA CLARE HARU CROWSTON Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA MERRY E WIESNER-HANKS UWM Distinguished Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA JOE PERRY Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University, USA

'Students relate well to the 'people' emphasis. It's the best textbook I've seen.' - Nancy B. Bjorklund, Fullerton College, USA

• Origins ca. 400,000-1100 B.C.E. Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East ca. 1100-513 B.C.E. The Development of Classical Greece ca. 2000-338 B.C.E. The Hellenistic World 336-30 B.C.E. The Rise of Rome ca. 750-31 B.C.E. The Pax Romana 31 B.C.E.-284 C.E. Late Antiquity 250-600 Europe in the Early Middle Ages 600-1000 State and Church in the High Middle Ages 1000-1300 The Life of the People in the High Middle Ages 1000-1300 The Creativity and Challenges of Medieval Cities 1100-1300 The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages 1300-1450 European Society in the Age of the Renaissance 1350-1550 Reformations and Religious Wars 1500-1600 European Exploration and Conquest 1450-1650 Absolutism and Constitutionalism ca. 1589-1725 Toward a New Worldview 1540-1789