Student Achievement Series: The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History

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

• ISBN13: 9780618731589
• ISBN10: 061873158X
• Edition: Student
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-27
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Student Achievement Series: The Earth and Its Peoples is an innovative survey text and part of a program developed in partnership with teachers and students to meet the learning, study, and assessment goals necessary for student success. Through extensive research and focus groups conducted with a diverse cross-section of students, Houghton Mifflin presents a groundbreaking solution for skills mastery, understanding, and retention. Feedback from students has been instrumental in all aspects of development, from design and pedagogy to testing and assessment to title and cover. These elements culminate in a textbook program that reflects the way students learn and study best.As with all texts in this series, Student Achievement Series: The Earth and Its Peoples incorporates concise, to-the-point coverage; eliminates extraneous material; integrates pedagogy that reinforces key concepts; features a strong, supporting web component for review, testing, and assessment purposes; and provides students with real value for their educational dollar. Like the corresponding full-length version, Student Achievement Series: The Earth and Its Peoples takes a global approach to the study of world history. With its thematic focus on "environment and technology" and "diversity and dominance," the text offers a balanced perspective and a comparative approach.

Table of Contents

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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