Heritage of World Civilizations, The: Volume I, To 1650, Brief Edition

by Craig, Albert M.; Graham, William A.; Kagan, Donald M.; Ozment, Steven; Turner, Frank M.

• ISBN13: 9780130340627
• ISBN10: 0130340626
• Edition: BRIEF
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For courses in World History I (to 1500) and World History II (since 1500). Brief yet detailed, this text provides a thoughtful history of human civilizations while maintaining a balance between the Western world and the rest of global civilization. It covers the general intellectual and material history of human societies and cultures that have left some kind of written and/or archeological record behind. The combined edition is organized in a rough chronological order by cultural/ civilization and/or geographical areas.

Table of Contents

I. THE COMING OF CIVILIZATION.

1. Birth of Civilization.
2. The Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion.

II. EMPIRES AND CULTURES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.

3. Greek and Hellenistic Civilization.
4. Iran, India, and Inner Asia to 200 c.e.
5. Republican and Imperial Rome.
6. Africa: Early History to 1000 c.e.
7. China's First Empire (221 b.c.e.-220 c.e.)

III. CONSOLIDATION AND INTERACTION OF WORLD CIVILIZATIONS.

8. Imperial China (589-1368).
9. Japan: Early History to 1467.
10. Iran and India Before Islam.
11. The Formation of Islamic Civilization (622-945).
12. The Early Middle Ages in the West to 1000: The Birth of Europe.
13. The High Middle Ages (1000-1300).
14. The Islamic Heartlands and India (1000-1500).
15. Ancient Civilizations of the Americas.

IV. THE WORLD IN TRANSITION.

16. The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the West (1300-1527).
17. The Age of Reformation and Religious Wars.
18. Africa (ca. 1000-1800).
19. Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transatlantic Economy.