Note: Each chapter includes a Conclusion, Key Terms, Suggested Reading, and Notes | |
From the Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations, 8000–1500 B.C.E. | |
Before Civilization Mesopotamia Egypt | |
The Indus Valley Civilization Diversity and Dominance: Violence and Order in the Babylonian New Year's Festival | |
New Civilizations in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 2200–250 B.C.E. | |
Early China, 2000–221 B.C.E. | |
Nubia, 3100 B.C.E.–350 C.E. | |
Celtic Europe, 1000–50 B.C.E. | |
First Civilizations of the Americas | |
The Olmec and Chaviacute;n, 1200–250 B.C.E. | |
Diversity and Dominance: Hierarchy and Conduct in the Analects of Confucius | |
The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000–500 B.C.E. | |
The Cosmopolitan Middle East, 1700–1100 B.C.E. | |
The Aegean World, 2000–1100 B.C.E. | |
The Assyrian Empire, 911–612 B.C.E. | |
Israel, 2000–500 B.C.E. | |
Phoenicia and the Mediterranean, 1200–500 B.C.E. | |
Failure and Transformation, 750–550 B.C.E. | |
Part Two | |
Greece and Iran, 1000–30 B.C.E. / | |
India, 1500 B.C.E.–550 C.E. | |
Ancient Iran The Rise of the Greeks | |
The Struggle of Persia and Greece | |
The Hellenistic Synthesis Foundations of Indian Civilization Imperial Expansion and Collapse Diversity and Dominance: The Persian Idea of Kingship | |
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 | |
Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.–600 C.E. | |
The Silk Road The Sasanid Empire, 224–600 | |
The Indian Ocean Maritime System Routes Across the Sahara Sub-Saharan Africa | |
The Spread of Ideas Diversity and Dominance: The Indian Ocean Trading World | |
Part Three | |
The Rise of Islam, 600–1200 | |
The Origins of Islam | |
The Rise and Fall of the Caliphate, 632–1258 | |
Islamic Civilization Diversity and Dominance: Beggars, Con Men, and Singing-Girls | |
Christian Europe Emerges, 600–1200 | |
The Byzantine Empire, 600–1200 | |
The Western Church Kievan Russia, 900–1200 | |
The Crusades, 1095–1204 | |
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 | |
Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 200–1500 | |
Classic-Era Culture and Society in Mesoamerica, 200–900 | |
The Postclassic Period in Mesoamerica, 900–1500 | |
Northern Peoples Andean Civilizations, 200–1500 | |
Diversity and Dominance: Burials as Historical Texts | |
Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200–1500 | |
The Rise of the Mongols, 1200–1260 | |
The Mongols and Islam, 1260–1500 | |
Regional Responses in Western Eurasia Mongol Domination in China, 1271–1368 | |
The Early Ming Empire, 1368–1500 | |
Centralization and Militarism in East Asia, 1200–1500 | |
Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200–1500 | |
Tropical Lands and Peoples New Islamic Empires Indian Ocean Trade Social and Cultural Change | |
The Latin West, 1200–1500 | |
Rural Growth and Crisis Urban Revival Learning, Literature, and the Renaissance Political and Military Transformations Diversity and Dominance: Persecution and Protection of Jews, 1272–1349 | |
The Maritime Revolution, to 1550 Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450 Iberian Expansion, 1400–1550 | |
Encounters with Europe, 1450–1550 Diversi | |
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