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• The Roman legacy - Roman citizenship, Roman law, art, architecture, engineering, and philosophy; preservation and the transmission of Christianity
• Fall of the Roman Empire - internal weaknesses, external threats
• The Byzantine Empire - Constantine, Constantinople, and the Eastern Orthodox Church
• Test: 114 questions

• Life of the Bedouin
• Muhammad
• The Five Pillars of Islam
• Expansion – the Islamic empire
• Muslim Merchants
• The Golden Age of Islam
• Test: 348 questions

• The spread of Buddhism
• The Golden Age of China
• The impact of Confucianism
• Overland trade and maritime expeditions
• Chinese inventions – and their impact on Europe
• Rise of the imperial state and the scholar-official class
• Test: 338 questions

• The trans-Saharan caravan trade
• The Niger River Valley – “where the camel met the canoe”
• Empires of Ghana and Mali
• Family, labor specialization, and regional trade
• The spread of Islam and the Arabic language
• Griot: the oral tradition
• Test: 246 questions

• How geography shaped the culture
• Prince Shotoku and “cultural borrowing”
• The Rise of Feudalism
• Zen Buddhism
• The Golden Age of Literature
• The Rise of a Military Society
• Concludes with the mother of all tests: 631 questions

• Geography of medieval Europe
• The Spread of Christianity
• The Rise of Feudalism
• Popes v. Kings
• English Law and Constitution: Common Law, the Magna Carta, Parliament
• The Crusades
• The Black Death
• The Roman Catholic Church
• The Reconquista
• Concludes with the mother of all tests: 1,364 questions!!

• How geography gave rise to three civilizations in the Americas
• Class structure, family life, warfare, religion, and slavery
• How the Aztec and Incan empires were defeated by the Spanish
• Art, architecture, and oral traditions
• Achievements in astronomy and mathematics
• Test: 178 questions

THE RENAISSANCE
• What was the Renaissance? (Causes & Results)
• Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance
• Marco Polo
• Gutenberg and the printing press
• Advances in literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography, engineering
• Causes & Results

THE REFORMATION
• What was the Reformation? (Causes & Results)
• The ideas of Erasmus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, William Tyndale
• Self-government in the Protestant church
• The world divides in two
• The Counter-Reformation
• Missionaries in Asia and Latin America
• The Golden Age of cooperation between Jews and Muslims in medieval Spain
• The Spanish Inquisition

• The Scientific Revolution
• The Scientific Method
• The Age of Exploration
• The Enlightenment
• Concludes with the mother of all tests: 356 questions

Part No.	Title
BZ-4474	The Middle Ages - The Fall of Rome
BZ-4403	The Middle Ages - Europe - Sample
BZ-4754	The Middle Ages - Islam - Sample
BZ-4322	The Middle Ages - China - Sample
BZ-4828	The Middle Ages - Africa
BZ-4331	The Middle Ages - Japan - Sample
BZ-4755	The Maya, Aztec & Inca - Sample
BZ-4404	Renaissance & Reformation - Sample
BZ-4405	Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment - Sample