Chapter One The Classic Age：Greek and Roman Cultures
Ⅰ.Greek Culture
1.Background
2.Literature
3.History
4.Philosophy
5.Science
6.Art，Architecture，Sculpture and Pottery
7.Influence and Contribution
Ⅱ.Roman Culture
1.Background
2.Literature
3.Architecture and Sculpture
Exercises
Chapter Two Biblical Culture
Ⅰ.Introduction
Ⅱ.The Old Testament
1.Fhe Old Lestament
2.Components of the Old Testament
Ⅲ.Rise of Christianity
1.The Life ofJesus
2.The Spread of Christianity
Ⅳ.The New Testament
1.The Birth ofJesus
2.Jesus Is Tempted by the Devil
3.The Sermon on the Mount
4.The Last Supper
5.The Crucifixion
6.Translation of the Bible
Exercises
Chapter Three The Middle Ages：Pavement for Renaissance
Ⅰ.IntrOductiOn
Ⅱ.Manor and Church
1.Feudalism
2.The Church
3.The Crusades
Ⅲ.Learning and Science
1.Charlemagne and Carolingian Renaissance
2.Alfred the Great and Wessex as the Centre of Learning
3.St.Thomas Aquinas and Scholasticism
4.Roger Bacon and Experimental Science
Ⅳ.Literature
1.National Epics
Chapter Four The Age of Renaissance and Religious Reformation
Chapter Five The Age of Experiments in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter Six The Age of Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter Seven The Age of Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Eight The Age of Marxism，Darwinism and Other“-isms”
Chapter Nine The Age of Realism
Chapter Ten The Age of Modernism in the Twentieth Century
Key to the Exercises
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