Research at the University of Warwick shows that the rise of civilization of ancient Greece began one century earlier than ...

The Benson Center promotes study of the intellectual, artistic and political traditions that characterize Western civilization ... the rise of Christendom, the Renaissance, the Reformation and ...

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

Over the last 60 years, there has been unconscionable neglect of civics and American history at both the K-12 and university ...

This course surveys some important issues and tendencies in the history of Western Civilization from its origins through the early modern period, including ancient Mesopotamia, classical Greece and ...

Making the Renaissance The collapse of the Greek state ... However, the Europeans, who started talking about Western civilization, did not abolish the Turkish (Ottoman) empire.

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