This is the Western Civilization part of the course 806-211 World Civilization.

This LMS course is created and maintained by Aj Peter Coan.

The course begins with Gobekli Tepe and moves on from there up to the present day, touching on:

Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent

Egypt

Greece

Rome

The Dark Ages

The Medieval period

Islamic civilization - Beginnings and Spread

The Renaissance

The Industrial Revolution and the Age of Empires

The French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the Russian Revolution

World War 1

World War 2

The Cold War

The Post-War Consensus: The UN, Human Rights, Bretton Woods and the Age of Globalization

Decolonization, the collapse of the USSR, and "the End of History"

Modern Western cultural values such as democracy, human rights, freedom of speech and freedom of religion