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全英文西方文明史
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更新日期：2025/05/11
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开课高校国际关系学院
开课教师刘俊阳
学科专业历史学历史学类
开课时间2025/01/21 - 2025/07/20
课程周期26 周
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The Western Civilization has a glorious history but also has a cruel or ugly dark side, and it is worth learning. Let's start from ancient Greece. It will be a long, passionate and glorious journey. 别说你英语不行！只要事先预习，你会渐渐适应。西方文明之旅漫长而艰难，让我们从古希腊出发，一起领略其中的美妙与灿烂，也去发现其丑恶和黑暗。本课已在学堂在线国内版国际版、学习强国、智慧树、英华学堂、中国高校外语慕课平台和国家高等教育智慧平台上线（国家级慕课），入选第一批中国国际慕课，16万人在线学习，包括美、英、法、巴西、马来西亚、刚果和印尼等20个国家8千外国学生。被评为北京市教改创新项目、北京市优质课程、优质教材课件和课程思政示范课。
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Introduction
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Introduction
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Ancient Greek Civilization 1
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GREEK BRONZE AGE AND DARK AGE
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THE GREEK GODS
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THE ARCHAIC GREECE (700 - 480 BC)
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ATHENS AND THE PERSIAN WARS
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WAR AND POLITICS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY BC
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GREECE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY BC
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CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHY
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ATHENIAN DRAMA
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE HELLENISTIC WORLD
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Ancient Roman Civilization 1
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ROMAN KINGDOM (753 - 509 BC)
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THE EARLY REPUBLIC (509 BC - 264 BC)
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THE MID-REPUBLIC (264 - 146 BC)
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THE LATE-REPUBLIC 1 (146 - 63 BC)
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THE LATE-REPUBLIC 2 (63 - 27 BC)
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PAX ROMANA 1 (27BC - 69AD)
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PAX ROMANA 2 (69 - 180)
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THE CRISIS OF THE THIRD CENTURY AND CONSTANTINE
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THE VICTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
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THE FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE, RISE OF MUSLIM AND BYZANTINE EMPIRE
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The Middle Ages
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THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (5TH - 10TH CENTURY)
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THE CAROLINGIAN DYNASTY
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THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (1000-1250)
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THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 1 (1250-1500)
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THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 2 (1250-1500)
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Renaissance and Protestant Reformation
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THE RENAISSANCE (FOURTEEN TO SEVENTEENTH CENTURY)
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PROTESTANT REFORMATION
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ITALIAN WARS AND RISE OF RUSSIA
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THE AGE OF DISCOVERY
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FRENCH WAR OF RELIGION, REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS AND RUSSIA’S TIME OF TROUBLES
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West in the Seventeenth Century
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THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR (1618-1648)
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THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION
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THREE ABSOLUTE MONARCHS
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THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE
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SCIENCE AND CULTURE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
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West in the Eighteenth Century
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THE UNITED KINGDOM
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
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WEST IN THE NINETEENTH TH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY
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  • 绪章Introduction

    This is a class teach in English, No Chinese. You should learn think, listen, speak, read, write, and speak in English. Western Civilization is great but not superior over other civilizations; different civilizations should co-exist and learn from each other. Why I teach this class and why teach in English. Symbols of Western Civilization, Walking Stick Dependency Syndrome, requirement and recommended books.

  • ●0.1Introduction

    Introduction

  • 第一章Ancient Greek Civilization 1

    Ancient Greek Civilization 1

  • ●1.1GREEK BRONZE AGE AND DARK AGE

    What is the West? The devolvement of the West and Westernization. The Minoan Civilization, the Mycenaean Civilization. Europa, Europe, Greece. The Julian Calendar and Gregorian Calendar, three Abbreviations: BC, AD and CA. Golden Apple of Discord, Homer’s epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey.

  • ●1.2THE GREEK GODS

    The Oracle of Delphi, Hesiod’s Theogony. The Twelve Titans, Prometheus and the Pandora’s Box. Twelve Olympian Gods: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, Ares, Aphrodite, Dionysus. Chinese gods and goddesses are more human and selfless.

  • ●1.3THE ARCHAIC GREECE (700 - 480 BC)

    Polis, City-State, Colonization, Greek Alphabet, Phalanx Formation, Wealthy Corinth, Cypselus and Periander, Martial Sparta.

  • ●1.4ATHENS AND THE PERSIAN WARS

    Athena and Athens, Democratic Athens, Archon and Areopagus, Draco, Solon. The Athenian tyranny: Peisistratus and Hippias. Cleisthenes the father of Athenian Democracy. The Persian Wars: Battle of Marathon, Battle of Thermopylae, Battle of Salamis.

  • 第二章Ancient Greek Civilization 2

    Ancient Greek Civilization 2

  • ●2.1WAR AND POLITICS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY BC

    Great Athenian leader Pericles, the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, the Father of History Herodotus, Thucydides’ Trap.

  • ●2.2GREECE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY BC

    The Spartan hegemony, the Theban hegemony and the Rise of Kingdom of Macedonia, Philip II.

  • ●2.3CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHY

    Four philosophic terms: metaphysics, dialectics, materialism and idealism. The pre-Socratic period, Socrates, the Socratic Paradox, the death of Socrates, Plato, Allegory of the Cave, Aristotle.

  • ●2.4ATHENIAN DRAMA

    The theatre of Dionysus in Athens, Tragedy, comedy and Satyr play. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Euripides, Aristophanes.

  • ●2.5ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

    Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic World, three Kingdoms. Hellenistic Philosophy: Cynicism, Epicureans, Stoics.

  • 第三章Ancient Roman Civilization 1

    Ancient Roman Civilization 1

  • ●3.1ROMAN KINGDOM (753 - 509 BC)

    Twin Brothers and the She-Wolf, Roman epic The Aeneid, Roman Kingdom: Kings, Curiate Assembly and the Senate, Rape of Lucretia.

  • ●3.2THE EARLY REPUBLIC (509 BC - 264 BC)

    Patricians and Plebeians, Constitution of the Roman Republic. Four assemblies: Curiate Assembly, Tribal Assembly, Centuriate Assembly and Plebeian Assembly. The Senate, the Magistrates. Celtic Invasion of Italy, Camillus.

  • ●3.3THE MID-REPUBLIC (264 - 146 BC)

    The Punic Wars, Carthage, Hannibal, the Roman Legion, the Roman religion, Jupiter and Mars, the Roman Triumph.

  • ●3.4THE LATE-REPUBLIC 1 (146 - 63 BC)

    Crisis of the Roman Republic, Optimates and Populares, Reform of the Gracchus Brothers, Gaius Marius, Sulla’s First Civil War, Cicero, Spartacus.

  • ●3.5THE LATE-REPUBLIC 2 (63 - 27 BC)

    The First Triumvirate: Pompey, Crassus and Julius Caesar. Gallic Wars, Crossing the Rubicon, Cleopatra VII. The Second Triumvirate: Mark Antony, Lepidus and Octavian.

  • 第四章Ancient Roman Civilization 2

    Ancient Roman Civilization 2

  • ●4.1PAX ROMANA 1 (27BC - 69AD)

    The Augustan Age, the Pax Romana. Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Livy and The History of Rome, Julio-Claudian Dynasty, Nero. The Year of the Four Emperors.

  • ●4.2PAX ROMANA 2 (69 - 180)

    The Flavian Dynasty: Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. The Nerva-Antonine Dynasty: Five Good Emperors, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Commodus, Tacitus and Plutarch.

  • ●4.3THE CRISIS OF THE THIRD CENTURY AND CONSTANTINE

    Germanic Peoples, Diocletian, the Tetrarchy, Constantine the Great, the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, Constantinople.

  • ●4.4THE VICTORY OF CHRISTIANITY

    Christianity became the State Religion, Theodosius. Basic knowledge of Christianity: the Bible, the Book of Genesis, Noah’ Ark, Abraham, Moses and Exodus, Kingdom of Israel and David, Jesus Christ. The Crucifixion and Resurrection, Saint Paul and Saint Peter.

  • ●4.5THE FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE, RISE OF MUSLIM AND BYZANTINE EMPIRE

    The Barbarian Invasions, the Huns, Attila and Pope Leo I, the Visigoths. The Fall of Rome, Odoacer, the Kingdom of Italy. The Rise of Muslim: Muhammad, Caliphate, Sunni and Shia. The Byzantine Empire: Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul, Justinian I, the Fall of Constantinople (1453).

  • 第五章The Middle Ages

    The Middle Ages

  • ●5.1THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (5TH - 10TH CENTURY)

    Italy: Odoacer, the first king of Italy, the Ostrogothic Kingdom, the Lombard Kingdom, the Papal States. Spain: the Visigothic Kingdom, Muslim Invasion. Britain: Anglo-Saxons, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Wessex and the Danes, Scandinavian Vikings. Frankish Kingdom: Merovingian Dynasty, Clovis I.

  • ●5.2THE CAROLINGIAN DYNASTY

    Pepin II, Charles Martel, Pepin III, Charlemagne “the Father of Europe,” Holy Roman Emperor. Disintegration of the Empire.

  • ●5.3THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (1000-1250)

    Conrad I, Henry the Fowler the first German King, the Ottonian Dynasty, Otto the Great crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Investiture Controversy: Henry III intervened in the Papal elections, struggle between Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII. Hugh Capet the First King of Medieval France. England: William the Conqueror and the Norman Dynasty, Kingdom of Wessex, The House of Plantagenet and the Angevin Empire, King John and Magna Carta, Crusades, the East-West Schism.

  • ●5.4THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 1 (1250-1500)

    The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages. The Holy Roman Empire: the Salian Dynasty, the House of Luxembourg, Charles IV, the Golden Age of Bohemia, the Golden Bull of 1356, Sigismund and Jan Hus. The House of Hapsburg.

  • ●5.5THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 2 (1250-1500)

    Hundred Years’ War: Philip VI of France, Edward III of England, Gascony, the English Victories, the Burghers of Calais, Joan of Arc, Battle of Castillon Ended the War. The Age of Chivalry: the Code of Chivalry, Song of Roland, the legend of King Arthur. Black Death, Papal Schism, Dante and Divine Comedy.

  • 第六章Renaissance and Protestant Reformation

    Renaissance and Protestant Reformation

  • ●6.1THE RENAISSANCE (FOURTEEN TO SEVENTEENTH CENTURY)

    Humanism, the Italian City-States, Petrarch. The Early Renaissance Art: Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio, Botticelli. Trinity of Great Masters of High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael. Machiavelli and The Prince.

  • ●6.2PROTESTANT REFORMATION

    The Sale of Indulgence, Martin Luther, Geneva and Calvin. The War of Roses 1455-1485. The English Reformation: Henry VIII Started Reformation, Sir Thomas More, the Second English Reformation.

  • ●6.3ITALIAN WARS AND RISE OF RUSSIA

    Burgundy, Marriage of Mary and Maximilian of Habsburg. France: Louis XI, Charles VIII. The Kingdom of Spain: Catholic Monarchs and Reconquista, how Spain Became the Hapsburg Land, the end of the War in 1559. The Rise of Russia: the Rus’ People, Kievan Rus’ and the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Ivan the Great, Ivan “the Terrible.”

  • ●6.4THE AGE OF DISCOVERY

    Zhang Qian’s Diplomatic Trips Created the Silk Road, the Ottomans Blocked the Silk Road, Spices. Dias Passed the Cape of Good Hope, Vasco da Gama Reached India, voyages of Christopher Columbus to Americas, Magellan’s Circumnavigation. Spanish Colonization of the Americas, Slave trade. Zheng He’ peaceful voyage.

  • ●6.5FRENCH WAR OF RELIGION, REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS AND RUSSIA’S TIME OF TROUBLES

    French War of Religion: Francis II, Catherine and Mary, Charles IX, St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, the War of the Three Henrys, Henry IV the First Bourbon King. Revolt of the Netherlands: the Spanish Fury, the Twelve Years Truce. Russia’s Time of Troubles: Feodor, Godunov and False Dmitry, Polish-Russian War, Michael Romanov.

  • 第七章West in the Seventeenth Century

    West in the Seventeenth Century

  • ●7.1THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR (1618-1648)

    Ferdinand II king of Bohemia, Defenestration of Prague, Frederick V “the Winter King,” the Battle of White Mountain, Danish Intervention, King Christian IV, Swedish intervention, Gustavus Adolphus, the Battle of Lützen, Dutch Revolt and French Intervention, Peace of Westphalia.

  • ●7.2THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION

    The Elizabethan Era, James I, First king of the House of Stuart, Charles I. The Long Parliament, Civil War Started in 1642, execution of Charles I, Commonwealth, Oliver Cromwell, restoration of Monarchy. The Glorious Revolution, William III and Mary II, Bill of Right 1689.

  • ●7.3THREE ABSOLUTE MONARCHS

    Louis XIV of France, the Palace of Versailles. Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia, religious Tolerance. Peter the Great of Russia, the first emperor of the Russian Empire, the Great Northern War, Westernization, Saint Petersburg.

  • ●7.4THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE

    Holland or Netherlands, Independent Netherlands. The Dutch Golden Age: Trade, Society, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. Rembrandt, René Descartes.

  • ●7.5SCIENCE AND CULTURE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

    The Scientific Revolution: Nicolaus Copernicus, Heliocentrism and Geocentrism, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Giordano Bruno. Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare. The Baroque Art: Peter Paul Rubens, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The Baroque music: Bach, Handel, Vivaldi.

  • 第八章West in the Eighteenth Century

    West in the Eighteenth Century

  • ●8.1THE UNITED KINGDOM

    Anne and the Act of Union 1707. House of Hanover: George I, Sir Robert Walpole, George III and the Acts of Union 1800, the Seven Years’ War. Pax Britannica (1815-1914), the First and the Second Opium War. The Victorian Era (1837-1901), Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin. The Empire on which the Sun never sets.

  • ●8.2THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

    Symbols of American Culture: Statue of Liberty, American Gothic, the Buffalo nickel and Uncle Sam. Thirteen British Colonies, the American Revolution, Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, Separation of Powers, Bill of Rights. Four greatest presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt.

  • ●8.3THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

    Liberty Leading the People, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Louis XV, General Marquis de Lafayette, Louis XVI, The Estates General, the National Assembly and the Tennis Court Oath. Storming of the Bastille, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. The First Republic, the Execution of Louis XVI, Robespierre and Reign of Terror. The Thermidorian Reaction, the Directory

  • ●8.4THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

    Immanuel Kant “Dare to Know,” the Bourgeoisie, Salon, the Café Procope. Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Adam Smith, Cesare Beccaria. The first Viennese school: Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven.

  • ●8.5WEST IN THE NINETEENTH TH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY

    Big Events in the 19th Century: Napoleon, the Battle of Austerlitz, the Battle of Waterloo, German Empire. Marxism: Marxist historical materialism, The Communist Manifesto. Big Events in the 20th Century: World War I, October Revolution, World War II, Cold War, Francis Fukuyama The End of History, Samuel Huntington The Clash of Civilizations. Dialogue Among Civilizations, Oswald Spengler The Decline of the West. Peace rise of China, Community of Shared Future for Mankind.

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  • 绪章  作业测试
    绪章Introduction

    0.1 Introduction

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  • 第一章  作业测试
    第一章 Ancient Greek Civilization 1

    1.1 GREEK BRONZE AGE AND DARK AGE

    1.2 THE GREEK GODS

    1.3 THE ARCHAIC GREECE (700 - 480 BC)

    1.4 ATHENS AND THE PERSIAN WARS

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  • 第二章  作业测试
    第二章 Ancient Greek Civilization 2

    2.1 WAR AND POLITICS IN THE FIFTH CENTURY BC

    2.2 GREECE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY BC

    2.3 CLASSICAL GREEK PHILOSOPHY

    2.4 ATHENIAN DRAMA

    2.5 ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND THE HELLENISTIC WORLD

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  • 第三章  作业测试
    第三章 Ancient Roman Civilization 1

    3.1 ROMAN KINGDOM (753 - 509 BC)

    3.2 THE EARLY REPUBLIC (509 BC - 264 BC)

    3.3 THE MID-REPUBLIC (264 - 146 BC)

    3.4 THE LATE-REPUBLIC 1 (146 - 63 BC)

    3.5 THE LATE-REPUBLIC 2 (63 - 27 BC)

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  • 第四章  作业测试
    第四章 Ancient Roman Civilization 2

    4.1 PAX ROMANA 1 (27BC - 69AD)

    4.2 PAX ROMANA 2 (69 - 180)

    4.3 THE CRISIS OF THE THIRD CENTURY AND CONSTANTINE

    4.4 THE VICTORY OF CHRISTIANITY

    4.5 THE FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE, RISE OF MUSLIM AND BYZANTINE EMPIRE

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  • 第五章  作业测试
    第五章 The Middle Ages

    5.1 THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (5TH - 10TH CENTURY)

    5.2 THE CAROLINGIAN DYNASTY

    5.3 THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES (1000-1250)

    5.4 THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 1 (1250-1500)

    5.5 THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 2 (1250-1500)

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  • 第六章  作业测试
    第六章 Renaissance and Protestant Reformation

    6.1 THE RENAISSANCE (FOURTEEN TO SEVENTEENTH CENTURY)

    6.2 PROTESTANT REFORMATION

    6.3 ITALIAN WARS AND RISE OF RUSSIA

    6.4 THE AGE OF DISCOVERY

    6.5 FRENCH WAR OF RELIGION, REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS AND RUSSIA’S TIME OF TROUBLES

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  • 第七章  作业测试
    第七章 West in the Seventeenth Century

    7.1 THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR (1618-1648)

    7.2 THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION

    7.3 THREE ABSOLUTE MONARCHS

    7.4 THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE

    7.5 SCIENCE AND CULTURE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

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  • 第八章  作业测试
    第八章 West in the Eighteenth Century

    8.1 THE UNITED KINGDOM

    8.2 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

    8.3 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

    8.4 THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

    8.5 WEST IN THE NINETEENTH TH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY

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