Traditions and Encounters, Volume I with Powerweb; MP

by Bentley, Jerry H.; Ziegler, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780072564990
• ISBN10: 0072564997
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-07
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

From the Beginnings to 1500, Chapters 1-22 This 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.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	xv
List of Sources from the Past	xvii
Preface	xix
Acknowledgments	xxix
PART I THE EARLY COMPLEX SOCIETIES, 3500 TO 500 B.C.E.	2	(158)
Before History	7	(26)
Early Societies in Southwest Asia and the Indo-European Migrations	33	(28)
Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations	61	(28)
Early Societies in South Asia	89	(22)
Early Society in East Asia	111	(24)
Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania	135	(25)
PART II THE FORMATION OF CLASSICAL SOCIETIES, 500 B.C.E. TO 500 C.E.	160	(162)
The Empires of Persia	165	(22)
The Unification of China	187	(26)
State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India	213	(26)
Mediterranean Society: The Greek Phase	239	(30)
Mediterranean Society: The Roman Phase	269	(26)
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads	295	(27)
PART III THE POSTCLASSICAL ERA, 500 TO 1000 C.E.	322	(144)
The Commonwealth of Byzantium	327	(28)
The Expansive Realm of Islam	355	(28)
The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia	383	(30)
India and the Indian Ocean Basin	413	(28)
The Foundations of Christian Society in Western Europe	441	(25)
PART IV AN AGE OF CROSS-CULTURAL INTERACTION, 1000 TO 1500 C.E.	466	(5)
Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration	471	(22)
States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa	493	(24)
Western Europe during the High Middle Ages	517	(30)
Worlds Apart: The Americas and Oceania	547	(26)
Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Interactions	573
Glossary	G
Credits	1	(1)
Index	1