The Earth and Its People

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780618000746
• ISBN10: 0618000747
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-03
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Part One The Emergence of Human Communities, To 500 B.C.E.	1	(80)
Nature, Humanity, and History: The First Four Million Years	4	(23)
The First River-Valley Civilizations, 3500--1500 B.C.E.	27	(27)
The Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Hemisphere, 2200--500 B.C.E.	54	(27)
Part Two The Formation of New Cultural Communities, 1000 B.C.E.-400 C.E.	81	(116)
New Civilizations in the Americas and Western Eurasia, 1200--250 B.C.E.	84	(29)
Greece and Iran, 1000--30 B.C.E.	113	(31)
An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.--330 C.E.	144	(28)
India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E.--1100 C.E.	172	(25)
Part Three Growth and Interaction of Cultural Communities, 300 B.C.E.-1200 C.E.	197
Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.--1100 C.E.	200
The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam, 200--1200	224
Christian Europe Emerges, 300--1200	249
Central and Eastern Asia, 400--1200	275
Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 200--1500	297