Introduction to the Course, Pre-historic Age, Primitive man, and growth of culture, The culture of paleolithic people, The Mesolithic culture, The ‘Neolithic, The Urban Revolution, Theories of civilization The ‘Fertile Crescent, The Sumerian origins of Mesopotamian civilization and their developments, The Old Babylonian developments, The metamorphosis under Assyrians, The rise of the Lydians and the Medes The Chaldean Renaissance, the importance of the Nile, The Old Kingdom and the Middle Kingdom, Divine kingship and the New Kingdom, Egyptian life and their achievements, The Shang dynasty – their creativity and culture, The Chou period – the ‘Classical Age’, The state of Ch’in and its reforms, The rise of philosophical schools – Confucianism, Taoism, and Mencius doctrine, The Han Era, The spread of Buddhism and its impact, The T’ang dynasty and their contributions, The Sung Dynasty , China under the Mongols – administration, culture and Pax-tataricage, Aegean civilization, a forerunner of the Greek: The Minoan and the Mycenaean, The Hellenic era: The Homeric age, the City-States, and the age of oligarchy Athens, the Dalian League, Sparta, the Peloponnesian League, and the Peloponnesian war, The Macedonian Era, Alexander the great, The Hellenistic civilization, Early Italy and the Roman monarchy, The Early Republic. The Punic wars, The social struggle of the Late Republic, Pax Romana, Roman Law, The land and people of Ancient America, Mexico – its political institutions and the Classical Mayan Government The Toltecs and the Aztecs, Division and Decline of the Roman Empire, The Barbarian invasions and the fall of the Roman Empire in the west, Impact of the Barbarian invasions on the European civilization, Byzantine administration, Feudalism, Harappa, Majenjidaro and Bengal Delta, Rise of Islam, Four Caliphs, Abbasids & Umayyad, Muslim Spain, The Ottomans, The Renaissance, and middle Ages, 15th century’s Renaissance in Europe, Spanish, Portuguese and the British colonial empire, Europe invades the East: Dutch and Portuguese empire in the East, The French and the British in India, Political, Decline of the Medieval Church, The Lutheran upheaval, The spread of Protestantism, the Religious division of Europe in 1550, The English Reformation, The intellectual origins of the Scientific Revolution, The Copernican Revolution, the Thinking of Galileo and Isaac Newton, The Enlightenment, The French Revolution, The Industrial Revolution, Colonialism, Mercantilism.