Across the Centuries

by Cordova, Jacqueline M.

• ISBN13: 9780395930663
• ISBN10: 0395930669
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin School

Table of Contents

About Your Book	xii
Map and Globe Handbook	1	(1)
Unit 1 Links to the Ancient World	1	(47)
A Changing World View	2	(22)
Connections in the Roman Empire	4	(6)
The Expanding Horizon	10	(6)
Traveling Through the Past	16	(8)
Empires of the Ancient World	24	(24)
The Fall of the Roman Empire	26	(6)
Acquainted Cultures	32	(10)
The Rise of th Byzantine Empire	42	(6)
Unit 2 The Growth of Islam	48	(56)
The Roots of Islam	50	(22)
Desert Bloom---Caravan Cities	52	(6)
Muhammad and Islam	58	(7)
Early Islam	65	(7)
The Empire of Islam	72	(32)
A Century of Expansion	78	(7)
The Golden Age	85	(10)
Islamic Spain	95	(9)
Unit 3 Sub-Saharan Africa	104	(54)
West Africa	106	(28)
The Roots of Mighty Empires	108	(4)
The Empire of Ghana	112	(6)
The Empires of Mali and Songhai	118	(6)
Village Society in West Africa	124	(10)
Central and Southern Africa	134	(24)
The Spread of Bantu	136	(5)
The Rise of Coastal Trading States	141	(4)
The Rise of the Zimbabwe State	145	(4)
The Kongo Kingdom	149	(9)
Unit 4 Asian Civilizations	158	(88)
Three Empires	160	(30)
The Mongols	162	(8)
The Ottoman Empire	170	(8)
The Mughal Empire	178	(12)
China	190	(30)
An Emerging Empire	192	(10)
The Flowering of Chinese Culture	202	(7)
China and the Larger World	209	(11)
Japan	220	(26)
Land of the Rising Sun	222	(5)
A Developing National Culture	227	(4)
The Power of the Shoguns	231	(6)
Japan: Unified Yet Isolated	237	(9)
Unit 5 Medieval Societies	246	(60)
Feudal Europe and Japan	248	(32)
Europe After the Roman Empire	256	(6)
Daily Life in Feudal Europe	262	(9)
Two Feudal Societies	271	(9)
Europe: Rule, Religion, and Conflict	280	(26)
The Power of the Church	282	(7)
The Byzantine Empire	289	(6)
The Crusades	295	(11)
Unit 6 Europe: 1300-1600	306	(86)
The Renaissance	308	(28)
Europe at the End of the Middle Ages	310	(6)
The Italian Renaissance	316	(9)
Renaissance Life	325	(4)
Renaissance in Northern Europe	329	(7)
Reformation and the Scientific Revolution	336	(26)
The Decline of Church Authority	338	(4)
Martin Luther and the Reformation	342	(7)
Era of Reformation	349	(4)
Scientific Revolution	353	(9)
The Age of Exploration	362	(30)
Travel, Trade, and Exploration	364	(7)
Adventure and Profit	371	(6)
Exploring the Americas	377	(15)
Unit 7 Civilizations of the Americas	392	(56)
Early American Civilizations	394	(26)
Origins	396	(4)
The Olmec	400	(4)
The Maya	404	(8)
The Tiwanakans and the Moche	412	(8)
Two American Empires	420	(28)
The Aztec	422	(7)
The Inca	429	(8)
The Arrival of the Spanish	437	(11)
Unit 8 Europe: 1600-1789	448	(55)
European Rule and Expansion	450	(24)
The French Monarchy	452	(6)
The English Monarchy	458	(6)
European Expansion	464	(10)
The Enlightenment	474	(29)
A New Order of Ideals	476	(4)
Ideas in Action	480	(10)
Economic Changes	490	(7)
After the American Revolution	497	(6)
Time/Space Databank	503	(46)
Primary Sources	504	(9)
Minipedia	513	(5)
Atlas	518	(16)
Glossary of Geographic Terms	534	(2)
Gazetteer	536	(3)
Biographical Dictionary	539	(4)
Glossary	543	(6)
Index	549	(8)
Acknowledgments	557