Although this brief edition is two-thirds the length of its full-length counterpart, it retains coverage of all major themes and provides a truly global perspective on world history, without over-emphasizing Europe or the U.S. The Earth and Its Peoples focuses on the interaction of human beings and the environment, using this central theme to compare different times, places, and societies. Special emphasis is given to technology and how technological development underlies all human activity. Ideal for one-semester survey courses or courses where instructors want to supplement their textbook with many primary sources, this text has been carefully abbreviated to maintain the essential narrative of world history. Specific areas of improved coverage are the early Americas, Russia, the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution. Structural updates include earlier coverage of the Americas and a chronologically organized section on the period from 1945 to the present. The new part openers include a brief narrative overview with a relief map and timeline that outline major historic events. The colors used in the timeline correlate to specific regions on the relief map so students can see both when and where an event occurred. All events shown on the timeline and map are discussed in-depth within the part. To increase student accessibility, the new brief edition now features a full-color design, which provides more effective maps and a colorful new part opener design.

The Emergence of Human Communities, to 600 BCE
Human Origins and the First River-Valley Civilizations, to 1500 BCE
African Genesis History and Culture in the Ice Age
The Agricultural Revolutions Life in Neolithic Communities
The First River-Valley Civilizations
Environment & Technology: Environmental Stress in the Indus Valley
The Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Hemisphere, 2200-500 BCE
Early China
The Cosmopolitan Middle East Nubia
The Aegean World
The Fall of Late Bronze Age Civilizations Voices & Visions: The Amarna Letters
The Formation of New Cultural Communities, 1000 BCE-500 CE
The Early Iron Age in Western Eurasia, 1000-300 BCE
Celtic Europe
The First Empire
The Rise of Assyria
Israel Phoenicia and the Mediterranean
The End of an Era: The Fall of Assyria
Environment & Technology: Ancient Textiles and Dyes
Greece and Iran, 1000-30 BCE Ancient Iran Rise of the Greeks
The Struggle of Persia and Greece
The Hellenistic Synthesis
Voices & Visions: Conceptions of Identity in Greece and Persia
An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 BCE-330 CE
Imperial Parallels Rome''s Creation of a Mediterranean Empire, 753 BCE-330 CE
Origins of Imperial China, 221 BCE-220 CE
Environment & Technology: Writing as an Imperial Technology
India and Southeast Asia, 1500 BCE-1100 CE
Foundations of Indian Civilization
Imperial Expansion and Collapse Southeast Asia
Voices & Visions: Tamil Culture
Growth and Interaction of Cultural Communities, 300-1200
Christian Europe Emerges, 300-1200
The Post-Roman Transformation
The Western Church
The Byzantium Empire
Western Europe Revives
Environment & Technology: Castles and Fortifications
Expanding Networks of Communication and the Rise of Islam, 300 BCE-1200 CE
The Silk Road Indian Ocean
Trade Routes Across the Sahara Sub-Saharan Africa
The Spread of Ideas Origins of Islam
The Caliphate in Power Islamic Civilization
Voices & Visions: Saba, a Caravan City
Central and Eastern Asia, 400-1200
The Tang Empire and the Power of Transmission
Localism and Specialization
During the Centuries of Disunion Environment and Technology: Writing in East Asia, 600-1200
Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, to 1500
Mesoamerica, to 800 CE
Mesoamerica, from 800 to 1500 Northern Peoples Andean Civilizations
Voices & Visions: Acllas
Interregional Patterns of Culture and Contact, 1200-1500
Eurasia, 1200-1500 Central Asia in the Thirteenth Century
The Fall and Rise of Islam National
Definition in Response to the Mongols
The Shaping of Eastern
Eurasia Social Change and National
Definition in East Asia
Environment & Technology: Explosive Power
Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200-1500
Tropical Lands and Peoples New Islamic Empires
Indian Ocean Trade
Social and Cultural Change
Voices & Visions: Personal Styles of Rule in India
The Latin West, 1200-1500
Rural Growth and Crisis Urban
Revival Cultural Advances and the Renaissance
The Rise of New Monarchies
Environment & Technology: Cannon
The Globe Encompassed, 1500-1800
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European Expansion, 1450-1550
Encounters with Europe, 1450-1550 Voices & Visions: European Male Sexual
Dominance Overseas: A Metaphor?
The Transformation of Europe, 1500-1750
Religious and Political Innovations Building
State Power: War and Diplomacy
Urban Society and Commercial Technology
Rural Society and the Environment
The Realm of Ideas
Environment & Technology: New Cosmologies
American Colonial Societies and the Atlantic System, 1530-1800
The Columbian Exchange
Spanish America and Brazil
English and French Colonies in North America
The Atlantic System
Creating the Atlantic Economy
Africa and the Atlantic System
Voices & Visions: Society in Colonial Mexico
Southwest Asia and the Muslim Empires, 1500-1750
The Ottoman Empire
The Safavid Empire
The Mughal Empire Environment & Technology: Textile Production
Central and Eastern Asia, 1500-1800
The Ming to Qing Transition
Consolidation of the Qing Empire
Decentralization and Innovation: Tokugawa Japan
Voices & Visions: The Macartney Mission
Revolutions Reshape the World, 1750-1870
The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1870
Britain: A Society Open to Innovation
The Technological Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
Spreads Environmental
Impact of the Industrial Revolution
Social Transformations
Ideological and Political Responses to Industrialization
Industrialization and Nonindustrial World Before 1870
Environment & Technology: "The Annihilation of Time and Space"
Revolutionary Changes and Nation Building, 1750-1890
Prelude to Revolution: The Crisis of the Old Order
The American Revolution
The French Revolution
Revolution Spreads, Conservatives Respond
Nation Building in the Americas
The Problem of Order
The Challenge of Economic and Social Change
Voices & Visions: Opportunities for Freedom Within the Cuban Slave System
Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750-1870
Changes and Exchanges in Africa India
Under Company Rule Britain''s Eastern Empire
Environment & Technology: Whaling
The Ottoman Empire and East Asia, 1800-1870
The Ottoman Empire and the European Model
The Qing Empire and Foreign Coercion Japan, from Shogunate to Empire
Voices & Visions: Lin Zexu
Global Dominance and Diversity, 1850-1945
The New Power Balance, 1850-1914
New Technologies and the World Economy Social Transformations
Women and Gender Relations in the Victorian Age
Nationalism and the Unification of Germany
The Great Powers of Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century
Great Powers Overseas
Environment & Technology: Railroads and Immigration
The New Imperialism, 1869-1914
The New Imperialism: Motives and Methods
The Scramble for Africa Asia and Western Dominance
Imperialism in Latin America
The World Economy and Tropical Environments
Voices & Visions: A Nigerian Woman Remembers Her Childhood
The First and Second World Wars, 1914-1945
The "Great War"
War and Revolution in Russia War in the Middle East
Europe and America in the Twenties
Aftermath of War in the Middle East
The Depression
The Stalin Revolution Japan Goes to War Fascism in Europe
The Second World War
The Character of Warfare
Environment & Technology: Birth of the Computer
Revolutions and National Independence, 1900-1950
The Chinese Revolution
The Indian Independence Movement
The Mexican Revolution
Voices & Visions: Revolutionary Art
The Perils and Promises of a Global Community, 1945 to the Present
Decolonization and the Cold War, 1945-1991
Decolonization and Nation Building
The Cold War Limits to Superpower Influence
The End of the Bipolar World
Environment & Technology: Rocketry and Space Exploration
The Global Contest for Resources after 1945
Competition and Integration in a Global
Economy Population Growth
The Movement of People
Technological and Environmental Change
Voices & Visions: China''s Family Planning Needs
The World at the End of the Twentieth Century: A Global Culture?
Toward a Global Culture?
Toward a Global Government?
Toward a Fragmented World?
The Endurance of Cultural Diversity
Environment & Technology
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