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, timelines and further resource recommendations. Chapters 1-13 from Vol.1 and Chapters 1-7 of Vol. 2 of Brook’s original publication have been included in this text.

Cover art created by Nicole V. Jobin includes cropped public domain image of Atlas Cosmographicae by Gerardus Mercator (1595) from Wikimedia Commons.