pt. 1. lecture 1: "Western, " "Civilization, " and "Foundations" ; lecture 2: History begins at Sumer ; lecture 3: Egypt, the gift of the Nile ; lecture 4: The Hebrews, small states and big ideas ; lecture 5: A succession of empires ; lecture 6: Wide-ruling Agamemnon ; lecture 7: Dark Age and Archaic Greece ; lecture 8: The Greek polis, Sparta ; lecture 9: The Greek polis, Athens ; lecture 10: Civic culture, architecture and drama ; lecture 11: The birth of history ; lecture 12: From Greek religion to Socratic philosophy

pt. 2. lecture 13: Plato and Aristotle ; lecture 14: The failure of the polis and the rise of Alexander ; lecture 15: The Hellenistic world ; lecture 16: The rise of Rome ; lecture 17: The Roman Republic, government and politics ; lecture 18: Roman imperialism ; lecture 19: The culture of the Roman Republic ; lecture 20: Rome, from Republic to Empire ; lecture 21: The Pax Romana ; lecture 22: Rome's Golden and Silver Ages ; lecture 23: Jesus and the New Testament ; lecture 24: The emergence of a Christian Church.

pt. 3. lecture 25: Late Antiquity, crisis and response ; lecture 26: Barbarians and emperors ; lecture 27: The emergence of the Catholic Church ; lecture 28: Christian culture in late antiquity ; lecture 29: Muhammad and Islam ; lecture 30: The birth of Byzantium ; lecture 31: Barbarian kingdoms in the West ; lecture 32: The world of Charlemagne ; lecture 33: The Carolingian Renaissance ; lecture 34: The expansion of Europe ; lecture 35: The chivalrous society ; lecture 36: Medieval political traditions, I

pt. 4. lecture 37: Medieval political traditions, II ; lecture 38: Scholastic culture ; lecture 39: Vernacular culture ; lecture 40: The crisis of Renaissance Europe ; lecture 41: The Renaissance problem ; lecture 42: Renaissance portraits ; lecture 43: The Northern Renaissance ; lecture 44: The Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther ; lecture 45: The Protestant Reformation, John Calvin ; lecture 46: Catholic reforms and "Confessionalization" ; lecture 47: Exploration and empire ; lecture 48: What challenges remain?