The best test preparation for the CLEP : western civilization : [college level examination program] / Robert Ziomkowski. [print]

CHAPTER 1: THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST : Western and Near Eastern Civilizations ; The Fertile Crescent ; Mesopotamia ; Mesopotamian Culture ; Egypt and the Nile ; Egyptian Culture ; The Spread of Civilization ; The Hittites ; The Sea Peoples ; The Minoans ; The Mycenaeans ; The Phoenicians ; The Assyrians ; The Neo-Babylonians (Chaldeans) ; The Persians ; The Hebrews

CHAPTER TWO: ANCIENT GREECE : The Mycenaean Bronze Age (c. 2300-1100 B.C.E.) ; The Dark Age (c. 1100-800 B.C.E.) ; The Archaic Period (c. 800-500 B.C.E.) ; Sparta ; Athens ; The Persian Wars ; Periclean Athens ; The Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.E.) ; Greek Classical Culture ; Religion ; Literature ; Art and Architecture ; The Hellenistic Age ; Hellenistic Culture ;

CHAPTER THREE: ANCIENT ROME : The Republic ; The Empire ; Literature ; Art, Architecture, and Engineering ; Religion ; The Jews in the Roman Empire ; Christianity ; Reorganization of the Empire ; The Germanic Invasions ; The Late Empire ; The Fall of Rome ;

CHAPTER FOUR: THE MIDDLE AGES : The Byzantine Empire ; Islam ; Byzantium to 1000 B.C.E. ; The Germanic Kingdoms ; The Medieval Church ; Feudalism and Manorialism ; Population Growth ; Trade and Towns ; Church and State ; The Rise of Centralized Monarchies ; The Holy Roman Empire ; England ; France ; The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) ; Spain ; Eastern Europe ; The Church in the Late Middle Ages ; The Medieval Cultural Tradition ; The Intellectual Tradition ; The Vernacular Tradition ; The Black Death ; Architecture and Art

CHAPTER FIVE: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION : The Italian Renaissance ; Florence ; Italian Politics ; Art and Architecture ; Literature ; Economic Innovations ; The Northern Renaissance ; Christian Humanism ; The Protestant Reformation ; Diversification of Protestantism ; The Catholic Reformation ; The New Monarchies

CHAPTER SIX: EARLY MODERN EUROPE : The Age of Exploration ; The Commercial Revolution ; Nation-States and Wars of Religion ; France ; Spain ; England ; Dutch Independence ; The Thirty Years' War ; A Revolution in World View ; Modernity ;

PRACTICE TESTS : Practice Test 1 ; Test 1 ; Practice Test 2 ; Test 2.

Link to source of summary "The CLEP* Western Civilization I test prep assesses the skills tested on the official CLEP* exam. Our comprehensive review chapters cover the age-old Near East kingdoms through Ancient Greece and Rome, up to the Middle Ages and early Modern Europe of 1648. The book includes two full-length practice tests. Each exam comes with detailed feedback on every question. We don't just say which answers are right-we explain why the other answer choices are wrong-so you can identify your strengths and weaknesses while building your skills." AMAZON