The Ancient world. Eastern peoples and empires: The first historical peoples ; The early civilisations of the East ; The birth of new nations ; Conflict between East and West.
The supremacy of the Eastern Mediterranean: The age of Pericles ; The age of discord ; The Macedonian epic ; The Hellenistic monarchies.
The great empires of antiquity: The birth of imperialism ; The age of Caesar ; Pax Romana and Pax Sinica ; The decline of the Ancient world.
The Middle Ages. The Barbarian invasions: The destruction of the Roman world ; The restoration of the stable empires ; The Arabs ; The end of invasions.
The rise of Europe: The awakening ; The beginning of Europe's expansion ; Western Europe in the Thirteenth Century ; Fringe Europe and Islam in the Thirteenth Century.
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries: Religious and political change in Western Europe ; On the fringe of Europe ; Mongol decline and Islam's revenge ; Pre-Columbian America.
