1. Attitudes to the Past. Population movement and ethnicity. Diffusion. Trade. Social structure. Spatial organisation. Chronology -- 2. The Old Order. The origin of iron working. The end of Mycenaean Greece. Iron working in Greece. Proto-Geometric Greece. Late Bronze Age Europe -- 3. Reawakening in the East. The ninth century. Greece and Cyprus in the eighth century. Italy in the eighth century -- 4. The Trade Explosion. Greece in the seventh century. Etruscan civilisation. Situla Art. Central and western Europe in the seventh century. Hallstatt D, 600-475 BC -- 5. The Tide Turns, 500-250 BC. The classical world of Greece. The classical world of Italy. Northern Italy and southern France. Orientalising in central Europe: La Tene A. La Tene B-C - the age of migration -- 6. The Economic Revival. La Tene C, second century BC. The oppida -- 7. The Roman Empire and Beyond. Britain. Germany. The impact of conquest