Book Title: Western Civilization A Concise History – Revised
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Western Civilization: A Concise History – Revised is an adaptation of Western Civilization: A Concise History by Christopher Brooks. This book is an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook published under a CC BY-NC-SA Licence. Published in 2019, with updates in 2020.
The book covers the history of Western Civilization from from the origins of civilization in Mesopotamia c. 8,000 BCE through approximately 1600. Topics include Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Islamic caliphates, the European Middle Ages, the Renaissance, European conquest of the Americas, and the Reformation and resulting religious wars.
Edits include the addition of chapter heading numbers, glossary terms, and other textbox materials. This text includes Ch. 1-3 from Vol 1 and 1-7 from Vol. 2 of Christopher Brooks’ original volume.
Cover Art created by Nicole V. Jobin using a cropped image from Atlas Cosmographicae by Gerardus Mercator (1595) – Wikimedia Commons.
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This book is a cloned version of Western Civilization A Concise History - Revised by Nicole Jobin, published using Pressbooks by University of Colorado under a CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.
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Western Civilization A Concise History - Revised Copyright © 2021 by Nicole Jobin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Western Civilization A Concise History - Revised Copyright © 2021 by Nicole Jobin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.