World History to 1800, Volume I (with InfoTrac)

by Duiker, William J.; Spielvogel, Jackson J.

• ISBN13: 9780534571696
• ISBN10: 0534571697
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Table of Contents

Chronologies	xv
Maps	xvi
Document Credits	xviii
Preface	xxiii
Acknowledgments	xxviii
A Note to Students about Languages and the Dating of Time	xxx
Themes for Understanding World History	xxxi
Part I The First Civilizations and the Rise of Empires (Prehistory to 500 C.E.)	1	(165)
The First Civilizations: The Peoples of Western Asia and Egypt	2	(36)
Ancient India	38	(26)
China in Antiquity	64	(30)
The Civilization of the Greeks	94	(34)
The World of the Romans	128	(38)
Part II New Patterns of Civilization	166	(230)
The New World	168	(24)
The World of Islam	192	(24)
Early Civilizations in Africa	216	(24)
The Expansion of Civilization in Southern Asia	240	(26)
From the Tang to the Mongols: The Flowering of Traditional China	266	(28)
The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam	294	(24)
The Making of Europe and the World of the Byzantine Empire, 500--1300	318	(38)
Crisis and Rebirth: Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries	356	(40)
Part III The Emergence of New World Patterns (1500--1800)	396	(191)
New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market	398	(28)
Religious Reform and State Building in Europe	426	(34)
The Muslim Empires	460	(28)
The East Asian World	488	(28)
Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: An Intellectual Revolution in the West	516	(28)
Europe on the Eve of a New World Order	544	(43)
Glossary	587	(9)
Pronunciation Guide	596	(5)
Credits	601	(4)
Index	605