The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History

by Bulliet, Richard; Crossley, Pamela; Headrick, Daniel; Hirsch, Steven; Johnson, Lyman

• ISBN13: 9780618000739
• ISBN10: 0618000739
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780395527573, 9780618403349
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-03
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

The Earth and Its Peoples is a truly global text that employs a fundamental theme, the interaction of human beings and the environment, as a point of comparison for different times, places, and societies. Special emphasis is given to technology and how technological development underlies all human activity. The text has been rewritten to improve coverage of the early Americas, Russia, the Enlightenment, the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution. The Second Edition is full color, which provides more effective maps and a colorful new part opener design. The part opener includes a brief narrative overview with a relief map and timeline that outline major historic events.

Table of Contents

Note: Each chapter ends with a Conclusion, Key Terms, and Suggested Reading

The Emergence of Human Communities, to 500 B.C.E

Nature, Humanity, and History: The First Four Million Years African Genesis

History and Culture in the Ice Age

The Agricultural Revolutions

Life in Neolithic Communities

Environment and Technology: The Iceman

Society and Culture: Interpreting Rock Art

The First River-Valley Civilizations, 3500–1500 B.C.E

Mesopotamia Egypt

The Indus Valley Civilization

Environment and Technology: Environmental Stress in the Indus Valley

Society and Culture: The Babylonian New Year's Festival

The Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Hemisphere, 2200–500 B.C.E

Early China

The Cosmopolitan Middle East Nubia

The Aegean World

The Fall of Late Bronze Age Civilizations

Environment and Technology: Chinese and Mesopotamian Divination

Society and Culture: The Amarna Letters

The Formation of New Cultural Communities, 1000 B.C.E.–400 C.E

New Civilizations in the Americas and Western Eurasia, 1200–250 B.C.E

First Civilizations of the Americas Celtic Europe

The Assyrian Empire Israel Phoenicia and the Mediterranean Failure and Transformation

Environment and Technology: Ancient Textiles and Dyes

Society and Culture: Mass Deportation in the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Greece and Iran, 1000–30 B.C.E.

Ancient Iran

The Rise of the Greeks

The Struggle of Persia and Greece

The Hellenistic Synthesis

Environment and Technology: The Farmer's Year

Society and Culture: Greeks and Egyptians in Hellenistic Egypt

An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.–330 C.E

Rome's Creation of a Mediterranean Empire, 753 B.C.E.–330 C.E

The Origins of Imperial China, 221 B.C.E.–220 C.E

Imperial Parallels

Environment and Technology: Water Engineering in Rome and China

Society and Culture: Slavery in Rome and China

India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E.–1100 C.E

Foundations of Indian Civilization Imperial

Expansion and Collapse Southeast Asia

Environment and Technology: Indian Mathematics

Society and Culture: Reflections of the Status of Women in Indian Literature

Growth and Interaction of Cultural Communities, 300 B.C.E.–1200 C.E

Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.–1100 C.E

The Silk Road

The Indian Ocean Routes

Across the Sahara Sub-Saharan Africa

The Spread of Ideas

Environment and Technology: Camel Saddles

Society and Culture: Caravan Cities

The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam, 200–1200

The Sasanid Empire, 224–651

The Origins of Islam

The Rise and Fall of the Caliphate, 632–1258

Islamic Civilization

Environment and Technology: Automata

Society and Culture: The Fraternity of Beggars

Christian Europe Emerges, 300–1200

Early Medieval Europe, 300–1000

The Western Church

The Byzantine Empire, 300–1200

Kievan Russia, 900–1200

Western Europe Revives, 1000–1200

Environment and Technology: Castles and Fortifications

Society and Culture: The Penitentials of St. Patrick

Central and Eastern Asia, 400–1200

The Sui and Tang Empires, 581-755

Fractured Power in Central Asia and China, to 907

The Emergence of East Asia, to 1200

Environment and Technology: Writing in East Asia, 400-1200

Society and Culture: Poverty of the Land

Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 200–1500 C.E

Classic-Era Culture and Society in Mesoamerica, 200–900

The Postclassic Period in Mesoamerica, 900–1500

Northern Peoples Andean Civilizations, 200–1500

Environment and Technology: Inca Roads

Society and Culture: Acllas

Interregional Patterns of Culture and Contact, 1200-1500

Western Eurasia, 1200–1500

The Rise of the Mongols, 1200–1260

The Fall and Rise of Islam, 1260–1500

Regional Definition in Response to the Mongols

Environment and Technology: Horses

Society and Culture: Dueling Pieties

Eastern Eurasia, 1200–1500

Mongol Domination in Eastern Eurasia, 1200–1368

The Early Ming Empire, 1368–1500

Centralization and Militarism in East Asia, 1200–1500

Environment and Technology: From Gunpowder to Guns

Society and Culture: Everyday Law in Ming China

Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200–1500

Tropical Lands and Peoples New Islamic Empires

Indian Ocean Trade Social and Cultural Change

Environment and Technology: The Indian Ocean Dhow

Society and Culture: Personal Styles of Rule in India and Mali

The Latin West, 1200–1500

Rural Growth and Crisis Urban Revival Learning, Literature, and the Renaissance

Political and Military Transformations

Environment and Technology: The Clock

Society and Culture: Blaming the Black Death on the Jews, Strasbourg, 1349

The Maritime Revolution, to 1550 Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450

European Expansion, 1400–1550

Encounters with Europe, 1450–1550

Environment and Technology: Vasco da Gama's Fleet

Society and Culture: European Male Sexual Dominance Overseas

The Globe Encompassed, 1500–1750

The Transformation of Europe, 1500–1750

Religious and Political Innovations Building

State Power Urban Society and Commercial Technology

Rural Society and the Environment

The Realm of Ideas

Environment and Technology: Mapping the World

Society and Culture: Witchcraft

The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530–1770

The Columbian Exchange Spanish America and Brazil

English and French Colonies in North America

Colonial Expansion and Conflict

Environment and Technology: The Silver Refinery at Potosiacute;, Bolivia, 1700

Society and Culture: Colonial Wealth and the Exploitation of Indigenous Peoples

The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550–1800

Plantations in the West Indies

Plantation Life in the Eighteenth Century

Creating the Atlantic Economy Africa, the Atlantic, and Islam

Environment and Technology: Amerindian Foods in Africa

Society and Culture: A Maroon Village in French Guiana, 1748

Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500–1750

The Ottoman Empire, to 1750

The Safavid Empire, 1502–1722

The Mughal Empire, 1526–1761

Trade Empires in the Indian Ocean, 1600–1729

Environment and Technology: Metal Currency and Inflation

Society and Culture: Indian Merchants in Russia

Eastern Eurasia, 1500–1800

New Patterns of Contact in Eurasia

The Triumph of the Russian Empire

The Later Ming and Early Qing Empires, 1500-1800

Decentralization and Innovation in Tokugawa Japan, to 1800

Environment and Technology: Women and Tokugawa Technology

Society and Culture: Style and Conversion: Christian Rivalries in Beijing

Revolutions Reshape the World, 1750–1870

Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750–1850

Prelude to Revolution: The Eighteenth-Century Crises

The American Revolution, 1775–1800

The French Revolution, 1789–1815

Revolution Spreads, Conservatives Respond, 1789–1850

Environment and Technology: The Pencil

Society and Culture: March to Versailles

The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760–1851

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