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- SparkNotes provides simplified historical information over many eras that are covered in Western Civilization I. In the History section, there are a wide variety of links that lead to deeper information and analysis of a specific era. Under each specific era link, are a number of sub links leading to a wide variety of important topics of the era. For example, under The Roman Emprie (60BCE-160 CE), there are summaries and analysis ranging from the change of leadership from From Republic to Dictatorship: Caesar to Octavian (50-30 BCE) to Rome’s Halcyon Days: 96-161 CE. SparkNotes does not offer first hand historical documents about Western Civilization, but they do have well written summaries about important events of each era. The summaries
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