Choose a timeline from below:

Volume A	•	Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures (3000 BC–30 AD)
	•	Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind (220 BC–80 AD)
	•	Poetry and Thought in Early China (1700 BC–220 AD)
	•	India's Heroic Age (3000 BC–200 AD)
	•	The Roman Empire (753 BC–64 AD)
Volume B	•	From Roman Empire to Christian Europe (100–476)
	•	India's Classical Age (200–1200)
	•	China's Middle Period (220–1299)
	•	The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature (510–1495)
	•	The Formation of a Western Literature (529–1495)
	•	The Golden Age of Japanese Culture (400–1597)
	•	Mystical Poetry of India (600–1600)
Volume C	•	Africa: The Mali Epic of Son-Jara (300–1600)
	•	The Renaissance in Europe (1527–1660)
	•	Native America and Europe in the New World (1500–1630)
Volume D	•	Vernacular Literature in China (1300–1788)
	•	The Ottoman Empire (1500–1798)
	•	The Enlightenment in Europe (1660–1799)
	•	The Rise of Popular Arts in Premodern Japan (1600–1880)
Volume E	•	Revolution and Romanticism in Europe and America (1781–1894)
	•	Urdu Lyric Poetry in North India (1816–1894)
	•	Realism, Naturalism,and Symbolism in Europe (1856–1904)
Volume F	•	The Twentieth Century (1927–2000)