1) the development of western culture from ancient civilisations to the twentieth century = major ideas + cultures + people + innovations

2) influnce = extraordinary legacies + remarkable achievments of writers/architects/artists/thinkers/learders/inventors II the lives of ordinary fold in the epochs of the past with how we live now

3) Mesopotamian/Greek/Roman epochs/Medieval/Renaissance Europe/the Enlightenment/Romanticism/Industrial expansion/Modernism

4) the course of Western history = Citizenship + Humanism + Evolution + Democracy