Chapter 1:  Times of change

• A Changing Society

• A Religious Society

Chapter 2:  The Expansion of Trade

• The Rise of International Trade

• The Italian City-State

Chapter 3:  The Humanist Approach

• Rebirth of Ideas

• Thinkers and Society

• Society and the Arts

Chapter 4:  The Exchange of Ideas

• Science:  A New Way of Seeing

• Political and Religious Leadership

• European Expansion

Chapter 5:  The Age of Exploration

• The Desire to Explore

• The Means to Explore

• European Expansion

Chapter 6:  "O Brave New World"

• European Imperialism

• European Worldview and Identity