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A History of the Modern World
A History of the Modern World, 9/e
R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The Rise of Europe

Chapter Outline

I. Ancient Times: Greece, Rome, and Christianity

    1. [Secondary Discussion Stonehenge]
    2. [Secondary Discussion Indo-European languages]
  1. The Greek World
    1. [Maps Ancient Greece]
    2. [Primary Source Iliad]
    3. [Primary Source Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration]
    4. [Primary Source Description of Corinth]
    5. [Primary Source Aristotle, Description of Sparta]
    6. [Secondary Discussion Ssocrates]
    7. [Primary Source Plato, Republic]
    8. [Primary Source Herodotus, History]
    9. [Primary Source Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War]
    10. [Primary Source Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans]
    11. [Primary Source Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution]
    12. [Map Conquests of Alexander the Great]
    13. [Map Hellenistic world, 310 BC]
    14. [Image Ptolemaic Solar System]
  1. The Roman World
    1. [Image Roman aristocrat]
    2. [Image Roman Forum]
    3. [Image Roman couple]
    4. [Image Roman fortress in Germany]
    5. [Primary Source Roman Army]
    6. [Roman Army]
    7. [Roman Army]
    8. [Secondary Discussion Majestas]
  1. The Coming of Christianity
    1. [Primary Source Josephus on Jesus]
    2. [Primary Source Pliny on the Christians]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Rise of Christianity]
    4. [Image Early Christian]
    5. [Primary Source Constantine]
    6. [Primary Source Augustine, City of God]

II. The Early Middle Ages: The Formation of Europe

  1. The Disintegration of the Roman Empire
    1. [Primary Source Goths]
    2. [Primary Source Attila the Hun]
    3. [Primary Source Beowulf]
    4. [Primary Source Alaric's Sack of Rome, 410]
    5. [Image Muhammad]
    6. [Map Early Islamic Empire]
  1. The Byzantine World, Arabic World, and the West about 700
    1. [Image Muhammad on a camel/ Jesus on a donkey]
    2. [Image Koran]
    3. [Map Arab Expansion, 622-740]
    4. [Primary Source Germanic law code]
    5. [Map Europe c. 526]
  1. The Church and the Rise of the Papacy
    1. [Secondary Discussion Rise of Monasticism]
    2. [Image St. Benedict]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Carthusian Order]
    4. [Image Bishop]
    5. [Primary Source On Papal Elections]
  1. The Empire of Charlemagne, 800-814
    1. [Primary Source Charlemagne]
    2. [Image Charlemagne crowned, 800]
    3. [Primary Source Carolingians]
    4. [Primary Source Monetary Regulations of the Carolingians]
  1. Ninth-Century Invasions; Europe by 1000
    1. [Secondary Discussion Magyars]
    2. [Primary Source Norsemen]
    3. [Map Movement of Hungarians into Europe]
    4. [Secondary Discussion Great Schism]
    5. [Image Russian Orthodox Christians]
    6. [Primary Source Moscow as the Third Rome]
    7. [Image Iconoclasts]

III. The High Middle Ages: Secular Civilization

  1. Agriculture and the Feudal System after 1000
    1. [Image Medieval German town]
    2. [Secondary Discussion Heavy plow]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Windmills]
    4. [Image Windmill]
    5. [Image Water mill]
    6. [Secondary Discussion Medieval Village]
    7. [Image Village in Winter]
    8. [Primary Source Manorial Management and Organization, c. 1275]
    9. [Secondary Discussion Medieval Manor]
    10. [Primary Source Fief Ceremonies]
    11. [Primary Source Feudal Oaths of Fidelity]
    12. [Secondary Discussion French Noble Family]
    13. [Primary Source Election of Hugh Capet]
    14. [Secondary Discussion Holy Roman Empire]
    15. [Secondary Discussion Norman Conquest]
    16. [Primary Source Manor]
  1. The Rise of Towns and Commerce
    1. [Primary Source Long-distance trading]
    2. [Primary Source Venetian Doges]
    3. [Primary Source Great Fair at Thessalonica]
    4. [Image Medieval Strasbourg]
    5. [Primary Source Charter for Town of St. Omer, 1127]
    6. [Primary Source Merchant guild]
    7. [Primary Source Apprenticeship Agreements, c. 1250]
  1. The Growth of National Monarchies
    1. [Primary Source Magna Carta]
    2. [Primary Source Summons to Parliaments]
    3. [Primary Source Parliament of 1376]

IV. The High Middle Ages: The Church

    1. [Image Miracle play]
    2. [Virtual Tour Durham Cathedral]
    3. [Virtual Tour Amiens Cathedral]
    4. [Image Priest celebrating Mass]
    5. [Image Bishop marrying couple]
  1. The Development of the Medieval Church and Papacy
    1. [Map Holy Roman Empire, 962]
    2. [Primary Source Foundation Charter of Cluny, 910]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Gregory VII]
    4. [Primary Source Lay investiture]
    5. [Secondary Discussion Innocent III]
    6. [Image Innocent III]
    7. [Primary Source Albigensians]
    8. [Image Trial by battle]
  1. Intellectual Life: The Universities, Scholasticism
    1. [Primary Source Abelard, Sic et Non, 1120]
    2. [Primary Source Aquinas, Summa]
    3. [Primary Source Scholastic philosophy: Anselm on God's]
    4. [Secondary DiscussionAverroes]
    5. [Image Averroes]
    6. [Image Muslim Astronomers]
  1. The Crusades; New Invasions; Europe by 1300
    1. [Primary Source The Crusades]
    2. [Image Urban II Preaches First Crusade]
    3. [Map Map of Reconquista]
    4. [Secondary Discussion Ottoman Turks]
    5. [Primary Source Marco Polo]








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