The Heritage of World Civilizations

by Craig, Albert M.

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4th

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9780132624527

ISBN10:

0132624524

Pub. Date:

1/1/1997

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Volume 1: To 1650. Designed to accomodate a variety of approaches to a course in world civilization, allowing teachers to stress what is most important to them. Paper. DLC: Civilization - History.

The Coming of Civilization	p. 1
Birth of Civilization	p. 2
Comparative Perspectives: Writing, Literacy, and Orality	p. 34
The Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion	p. 38
Religions of the World: Judaism	p. 70
Empires and Cultures of the Ancient World	p. 75
Greek and Hellenistic Civilization	p. 76
Iran, India, and Inner Asia to 200 C.E.	p. 116
Religions of the World: Hinduism	p. 136
Republican and Imperial Rome	p. 138
Africa: Early History to 1000 C.E.	p. 176
China's First Empire (221 B.C.E.-220 C.E.)	p. 200
Comparative Perspectives: Ancient Slavery	p. 218
Consolidation and Interaction of World Civilization	p. 225
Imperial China (589-1369)	p. 226
Japan: Early History to 1467	p. 252
Religions of the World: Buddhism	p. 278
Iran and India Before Islam	p. 280
The Formation of Islamic Civilization (622-945)	p. 296
The Early Middle Ages in the West to 1000: The Birth of Europe	p. 316
The High Middle Ages (1000-1300)	p. 342
The Islamic Heartlands and India (1000-1500)	p. 374
Ancient Civilizations of the Americas	p. 396
The World in Transition	p. 420
The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the West (1300-1527)	p. 424
The Age of Reformation and Religious Wars	p. 448
Religions of the World: Christianity	p. 486
Comparative Perspectives: Family Life West and East in the Premodern Era	p. 488
Africa (ca. 1000-1800)	p. 492
Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transatlantic Economy	p. 518
Index	p. I-1
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