Africa
Mayans
Toltecs and Aztecs
Incas
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India 30 BC-320 CE
Gupta Empire and India 320-750
Plays of Bhasa, Kalidasa, and Bhavabhuti
Hindu Kingdoms 750-1000
Tibetan Buddhism
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Literature of Medieval India
Wang Mang's Revolution
Later Han Empire
China Divided and Reunited 220-618
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Neo-Confucian Ethics
Mongol Empire
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Vietnam
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Java, Sumatra, and Malaya
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Japan to 794
Japan's Heian Era
Murasaki's Tale of Genji
Feudal Japan 1192-1453
No Plays of Kannami, Zeami, and Zenchiku
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Virgil's Aeneid
Horace and Propertius
Ovid's Art of Love
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Rome Under Tiberius
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Philo of Alexandria
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Caligula 37-41
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Nero 54-68
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Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian 70-96
Roman Literature in the First Century
Quintilian's Education of an Orator
Apollonius of Tyana
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Dio Chrysostom's Discourses
Plutarch's Essays
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Antoninus Pius 138-161
Marcus Aurelius 161-180
Stoic Ethics of Marcus Aurelius
Literature in the Second Century
Lucian's Comic Criticism
Commodus 180-192 and Pertinax
Severus Dynasty 193-235
Roman Wars 235-285
Judah and the Mishnah
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Clement of Alexandria and Origen
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Literature in the Third Century
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Lactantius
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Martin, Ambrose, and Prudentius
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Macrobius and Cassian
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Orosius and Salvian
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Talmud
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Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy
Frank Kingdom of Clovis and His Sons
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Justinian and Roman Law
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Ferdowsi's Shah-nameh
Rabi'a, Muhasibi, Al-Hallaj and other Sufis
Al-Razi, Al-Farabi, and Miskawayh
Avicenna, Ibn Hazm, and Ibn Gabirol
1001 Nights and 'Umar Khayyam's Ruba'iyat
Heraclius and Byzantine Wars 610-717
Maximus the Confessor and John of Damascus
Leo III and Byzantine Iconoclasm 717-843
Byzantine Empire and Bulgaria 843-927
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Barlaam and Ioasaph and Digenis Akritas
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Charlemagne 768-814 and Alcuin
Frank Empire Divided 814-899
Anglo-Saxons 616-865
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John Scotus Erigena
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Christian Spain 900-1095
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England and the Norman Conquest 1042-1095
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Saladin and Crusading Kings 1174-1198
Crusades to Constantinople and Egypt 1198-1255
Mongol and Egyptian Invasions 1255-1300
Al-Ghazali's Mystical Ethics
Ibn Tufayl, Averroes, and Al-Tusi
Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed
Sufism of Gilani, Suhrawardi, and Ibn 'Arabi
Sufi Literature of Sana'i and 'Attar
Rumi's Masnavi and Discourses
Sa'di's Rose Garden and Orchard
German Empire 1095-1152
England under Norman Kings 1095-1154
Italian Republics and Norman Sicily 1095-1197
France and Flanders 1095-1200
Spanish Peninsula 1095-1200
Scandinavia 1095-1200
Eastern Europe 1095-1200
Germany's Frederick I and Henry VI 1152-1197
England under Henry II and Richard 1154-1199
England's John and Magna Carta 1199-1226
Frederick II, Italy and German Empire 1197-1250
France and Flanders 1200-1300
Spanish Peninsula 1200-1300
Scandinavia 1200-1300
Eastern Europe 1200-1300
England Under Henry III 1227-1272
Germany and Italian City States 1250-1300
England Under Edward I 1272-1300
Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux
Aelred of Rievaulx's Spiritual Friendship
John of Salisbury on Politics
Hildegard of Bingen
Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade
Dominic and His Preaching Brothers
Francis of Assisi and His Lesser Brothers
Bonaventure's Ethics
Ethics of Thomas Aquinas
Roger Bacon and Moral Philosophy
Ramon Llull's Spiritual Writings
Epics of Roland and the Cid
Geoffrey of Monmouth and The Mabinogion
Romantic Love and Lais by Marie de France
Arthurian Romances by Chrétien de Troyes
Nibelungenlied and Wolfram von Eschenbach
Romances of Tristan and Lancelot
Snorri Sturluson and His Sagas
Icelandic Sagas: Laxdaela, Eyrbyggja, and Njal
Romance of the Rose
Theater and Lives of Saints
Asia, Africa and America
Roman Domination 30 BC to 180 CE
Roman Decline and Christianity 180-610
Muslim, Byzantine and Frank Empires 610-1095
Crusades Era 1095-1300
Evaluating the Age of Belief