Unit 1: Ancient River-Valley Civilizations1 Prehistory and Mesopotamia 2 Egypt Unit 2: Greece: Birthplace of Western Civilization 3 The Aegean Heritage 4 Early Greece: Preparation for the Good Life 5 Hellenic Athens: The Fulfillment of the Good Life 6 Greece: From Hellenic to Hellenistic World 7 The Greek Arts Unit 3: Rome: The International Culture 8 A Thousand Years of Rome 9 Roman Art and Architecture: The Arts of Megalopolis Unit 4: Judaism and Christianity 10 The Star and the Cross 11 The Beginnings of Christian Art Unit 5: The Age of Faith 12 Building Medieval Walls 13 The Late Middle Ages: Expansion and Synthesis 14 The Medieval Synthesis in Art 15 Medieval Music: Sacred and Secular Unit 6: The Renaissance, 1350-1600 16 New Ideas and Discoveries Result from a New Way of Looking at the World 17 Renaissance Art: A New Golden Age 18 Renaissance Music: Court and Church 19 Shadow and Substance: Literary Insights into the Renaissance (and more...)