Western Civilization: A Concise History – Revised has been remixed/revised in 2021 from Western Civilization: A Concise History Volume 1 & Volume 2 written 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.