Traditions and Encounters, Volume B From 1000 to 1800 with Powerweb; MP

by Bentley, Jerry H; Ziegler, Herbert F

• ISBN13: 9780072565027
• ISBN10: 0072565020
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-07
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

From 1000 to 1800, Chapters 13-29This groundbreaking world history text has, in its first edition, become a market leader by offering a fresh, global perspective on the past. The text is unique in approach; covering the world as a whole, examining the formations and development of the world’s major societies (“traditions”), and also systematically exploring cross-cultural interactions and exchanges that have been some of the most effective agents of change in all of world history (“encounters”). In addition, the authors have taken great care in constructing a coherent vision of the past that is not weighed down by a mass of detail, thus enabling instructors to incorporate additional readings of their choosing. Finally the text emphasizes that historical processes work themselves out through the lives and experiences of individual human beings, opening each chapter with an account of individual experiences that illuminate themes in that chapter. The second edition includes scholarship updates throughout and revisions to organization and content.d content.

Table of Contents

List of Maps

Preface

A Brief Note on Usage

Acknowledgements

PART III: THE POST-CLASSICAL ERA, 500 TO 1000 C.E.

Chapter 13: THE COMMONWEALTH OF BYZANTIUM

The Early Byzantine Empire

The Later Roman Empire and Byzantium/Justinian and His Legacy/Islamic Conquests and Byzantine Revival/Byzantium and Western Europe

Byzantine Economy and Society

Rural Economy and Society/Industry and Trade/Urban Life

Classical Heritage and Orthodox Christianity

The Legacy of Classical Greece/The Byzantine Church/Monasticism and Popular Piety/Tensions between Eastern and Western Christianity

The Influence of Byzantium in Eastern Europe

Domestic Problems and Foreign Pressures/Early Relations between Byzantium and Slavic Peoples/Byzantium and Russia

Chapter 14: THE EXPANSIVE REALM OF ISLAM

A Prophet and His World

Muhammad and His Message/Muhammads Migration to Medina/The Establishment of Islam in Arabia

The Expansion of Islam

The Early Caliphs and the Umayyad Dynasty/The Abbasid Dynasty

Economy and Society of the Early Islamic World

New Crops, Agricultural Experimentation, and Urban Growth/The Formation of a Hemispheric Trading Zone/The Changing Status of Women

Islamic Values and Cultural Exchanges

The Formation of an Islamic Cultural Tradition/Islam and the Cultural Traditions of Persia, India, and Greece

Chapter 15: THE RESURGENCE OF EMPIRE IN EAST ASIA

The Restoration of Centralized Imperial Rule in China

The Sui Dynasty/The Tang Dynasty/The Song Dynasty

The Economic Development of Tang and Song China

Agricultural Development/Technological and Industrial Development/The Emergence of a Market Economy/The Establishment of Buddhism/Neo-Confucianism

Chinese Influence in East Asia

Korea and Vietnam/Early Japan/Medieval Japan

Chapter 16: INDIA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN BASIN

Islamic and Hindu Kingdoms

The Quest for Centralized Imperial Rule/The Introduction of Islam to Northern India/The Hindu Kingdoms of Southern India

Production and Trade in the Indian Ocean Basin

Agriculture in the Monsoon World/Trade and the Economic Development of Southern India/Cross-Cultural Trade in the Indian Ocean Basin/Caste and Society

The Meeting of Hindu and Islamic Traditions

The Development of Hinduism/Islam and Its Appeal

The Influence of Indian Society in Southeast Asia

The States of Southeast Asia/The Arrival of Islam

Chapter 17: THE FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIAN SOCIETY IN WESTERN EUROPE

The Quest for Political Order

Germanic Successor States/The Franks and the Temporary Revival of Empire/Decline and Dissolution of the Carolingian Empire/The Establishment of Regional Authorities/Early Medieval Society/Organizing a Decentralized Society/Serfs and Manors/The Economy of Europe

The Formation of Christian Europe

The Politics of Conversion/The Papacy/Monasticism

PART IV: AN AGE OF CROSS CULTURAL INTERACTION, 1000 TO 1500 C.E.

Chapter 18: NOMADIC EMPIRES AND EURASION INTEGRATION

Turkish Migrations and Imperial Expansion

Nomadic Economy and Society/Turkish Empires in Persia, Anatolia, and India

The Mongol Empires

Chinggis Khan and the Making of the Mongol Empire/The Mongol Empires after Chinggis Khan/The Mongols and Eurasion Integration/Decline of the Mongols in Persia and China

After the Mongols

Tamerlane the Whirlwind/The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire

Chapter 19: STATES AND SOCIETIES OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Effects of Early African Migrations

Agriculture and Population Growth/African Political Organization

Islamic Kingdoms and Empires

Trans-Saharan Trade and Islamic States in West Africa/The Indian Ocean Trade and Islamic States in East Africa/African Society and Cultural Development/Social Classes/African Religion/The Arrival of Christianity and Islam

Chapter 20: WESTERN EUROPE DURING THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES

The Establishment of Regional States

The Holy Roman Empire/Regional Monarchies in France and England/Regional States in Italy and Iberia

Economic Growth and Social Development

Growth of the Agricultural Economy/The Revival of Towns and Trade/Social Change

European Christianity During the High Middle Ages

Schools, Universities, and Scholastic Theology/Popular Religion/Reform Movements and Popular Heresies

The Medieval Expansion of Europe

Atlantic and Baltic Colonization/The Reconquest of Sicily and Spain/The Crusades

Chapter 21: WORLDS APART: THE AMERICAS AND OCEANIA

States and Empires in Mesoamerica and North America

The Toltecs and the Mexica/Mexica Society/Mexica Religion/Peoples and Societies of the North

States and Empires in South America

The Coming of the Incas/Inca Society and Religion

The Societies of Oceania

The Nomadic Foragers of Australia/The Development of Pacific Island Societies

Chapter 22: REACHING OUT: CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTIONS

Long-Distance Trade and Travel

Patterns of Long-Distance Trade/Political and Diplomatic Travel/Missionary Campaigns/Long-Distance Travel and Cross-Cultural Exchanges

Crisis and Recovery

Bubonic Plague/Recovery in China: The Ming Dynasty/Recovery in Western Europe: State Building/Recovery in Western Europe: The Renaissance

Exploration and Colonization

The Chinese Reconnaissance of the Indian Ocean Basin/European Exploration in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

PART V: THE ORIGINS OF GLOBAL INTERDEPENDENCE, 1500-1800

Chapter 23:TRANSOCEANIC ENCOUNTERS AND GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

The European Reconnaissance of the Worlds Oceans

Motives for Exploration/The Technology of Exploration/Voyages of Exploration: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic/Voyages of Exploration: From the Atlantic to the Pacific

Trade and Conflict in Early Modern Asia

Trading-Post Empires/European Conquests in Southeast Asia/Commercial Rivalries and the Seven Years War

Global Exchanges

The Columbian Exchange/The Origins of Global Trade

Chapter 24: THE TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE

The Fragmentation of Western Christendom

The Protestant Reformation/The Catholic Reformation/Witch-Hunts and Religious Wars

The Consolidation of Sovereign States

The Attempted Revival of Empire/The New Monarchs/Constitutional States and Absolute Monarchies/The European States System

Early Capitalist Society

Population Growth and Urbanization/Early Capitalism and Protoindustrialization/Social Change in Early Modern Europe

Science and Enlightenment

The Reconception of the Universe/The Scientific Revolution/The Enlightenment

Chapter 25: NEW WORLDS: THE AMERICAS AND OCEANIA

Colliding Worlds

The Spanish Caribbean/The Conquest of Mexico and Peru/Iberian Empires in the Americas/Settler Colonies in North America

Colonial Society in the Americas

The Formation of Multicultural Societies/Mining and Agricultural in the Spanish Empire/Sugar and Slavery in Portuguese Brazil/Fur Traders and Settlers in North America/Christianity and Native Religions in the Americas

Europeans in the Pacific

Australia and the Larger World/The Pacific Islands and the Larger World

Chapter 26: AFRICA AND THE ATLANTIC WORLD

African Politics and Society in Early Modern Times

The States of West Africa and East Africa/The Kingdoms of Central Africa and South Africa/Islam and Christianity in Early Modern Africa/Social Change in Early Modern Africa

The Atlantic Slave Trade

Foundations of the Slave Trade/Human Cargoes/The Impact of the Slave Trade in Africa

The African Diaspora

Plantation Societies/The Making of African-American Cultural Traditions/The End of the Slave Trade and the Abolition of Slavery

Chapter 27: TRADITION AND CHANGE IN EAST ASIA

The Quest for Political Stability

The Ming Dynasty/The Qing Dynasty/The Son of Heaven and the Scholar Bureaucrats

Economic and Social Changes

The Patriarchal Family /Population Growth and Economic Development/Gentry, Commoners, Soldiers, and Mean People

The Confucian Tradition and New Cultural Influences

Neo-Confucianism and Pulp Fiction/The Return of Christianity in China

The Unification of Japan

The Tokugawa Shogunate/Economic and Social Change/Neo-Confucianism and Floating Worlds/Christianity and Dutch Learning

Chapter 28: THE ISLAMIC EMPIRES

Formation of the Islamic Empires

The Ottoman Empire /The Safavid Empire/The Mughal Empire

Imperial Islamic Society

The Dynastic State/Agriculture and Trade/Religious Affairs in the Islamic Empires/Cultural Patronage of the Islamic Emperors

The Empires in Transition

The Deterioration of Imperial Leadership/Economic and Military Decline/Cultural Insularity

Chapter 29: THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN EUROPE AND ASIA

Foundations of the Absolutist State

The Gathering of the Russian Land/The Time of Troubles/Westernization and Empires/A Window on the West/The Limits of Westernization/The Russian Empire in Europe/The Russian Empire in Asia

A Society in Tension

Muscovite Society before Westernization/The Growth of Trade and Industry

Cultural Clashes

Crisis in the Church/Westernization and the Enlightenment in Russia in Russia