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From Hunting and Gathering To Civilizations, 2.5 Million-1000 B.C.E.: Origins | |
The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization | |
A Hunter | |
Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers | |
Document: Tales of the Hunt: Paleolithic Cave Paintings as History | |
Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization: The Neolithic Revolution | |
Visualizing the Past Representations of Women in Early Art | |
In Depth: The Idea of Civilization in World Historical Perspective | |
The First Towns: Seedbeds of Civilization | |
Global Connections: The Neolithic Revolution as a Basis for World History | |
The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa | |
Women in Mesopotamia and Egypt | |
Setting the Scene: The Middle East by 4000 b.c.e. | |
Civilization in Mesopotamia | |
Visualizing the Past: Mesopotamia in Maps | |
Document: Hammurabi's Law Code | |
Ancient Egypt | |
Egypt and Mesopotamia Compared | |
In Depth: Women in Patriarchal Societies | |
Civilization Centers in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | |
The Issue of Heritage | |
Global Connections: The Early Civilizations and the World | |
Asia's First Civilizations: India and China | |
The Indus Valley and the Birth of South Asian Civilization | |
Aryan Incursions and Early Aryan Society in India | |
Document: Aryan Poetry in Praise of a War-Horse | |
A Bend in the River and the Beginnings of China | |
Visualizing the Past: Mapping the Rise of Civilizations | |
The Decline of the Shang and the Era of Zhou Dominance | |
In Depth: The Legacy of Asia's First Civilizations | |
Global Connections: Contrasting Legacies: Indus and Early Chinese Civilizations | |
The Classical Period, 1000 Bce-500 Ce:Uniting Large Regions | |
Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China | |
Philosophical Remedies for the Prolonged Crisis the Later Zhou | |
Document: Teachings of the Rival Chinese Schools | |
The Triumph of the Qin and Imperial Unity | |
In Depth: Sunzi and the Shift from Ritual Combatto "Real" War | |
The Han Dynasty and the Foundations of China's Classical Age | |
Visualizing the Past: Capital Designs and Patterns of Political Power | |
Global Connections: Classical China and the World | |
Classical Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean: Persia and Greece | |
The First Marathon | |
The Persian Empire: Parallel Power in the Middle East | |
The Political Character of Classical Greece | |
The Hellenistic Period | |
Creativity in Greek and Hellenistic Culture | |
Document: The Power of Greek Drama | |
Patterns of Greek and Hellenistic Society | |
In Depth: Defining Social History | |
Visualizing the Past: Commerce and Society | |
Global Connections: Greece and the World | |
Religious Rivalries and India's Golden Age | |
The Age of Brahman Dominance | |
In Depth: Inequality as the Social Norm | |
Religious Ferment and the Rise of Buddhism | |
Brahmanical Recovery and the Splendors of the Gupta Age | |
Visualizing the Past: The Pattern of Trade in the Ancient Eurasian World | |
Document: A Guardian's Farewell Speech to a Young Woman About to Be Married | |
Global Connections: India and the Wider World | |
Rome and Its Empire | |
Roman Legions and Army Life | |
The Development of Rome's Republic | |
Roman Culture | |
Document: Rome and a Values Crisis | |
The Institutions of Empire | |
The Evolution of Rome's Economic and Social Structure | |
Visualizing the Past: Religions in Rome | |
In Depth: The Classical Civilizations in Comparative Perspective | |
The Origins of Christianity | |
The Decline of Rome | |
Global Connections: Rome and the World | |
The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas | |
Origins of American Societies | |
Spread of Civilization in Mesoamerica | |
Document: Deciphering the Maya Glyphs | |
The Peoples to the North | |
In Depth: Different Times for Different Peoples | |
The Andean World | |
Visualizing the Past: Ancient Agriculture | |
Global Connections: American Civilizations and the World | |
The Spread of Civilizations and the Movement of Peoples | |
The Spread of Civilization in Africa | |
Document: Myths of Origin | |
In Depth: Language as a Historical Source | |
Nomadic Societies and Indo-European Migrations | |
Visualizing the Past: Varieties of Human Adaptation and the Potential for Civilization | |
The Spread of Chinese Civilization to Japan | |
The Scattered Societies of Polynesia | |
Global Connections: The Emerging Cultures | |
The End of the Classical Era: World History in Transition, 200-700 c.e. | |
Change in the Indian Ocean | |
Upheavals in Eastern and Southern Asia | |
Document: The Popularization of Buddhism | |
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | |
In Depth: The Problem of Decline and Fall | |
The Development and Spread of World Religions | |
Visualizing the Past: Religious Geography | |
Global Connections: The Late Classical Period and the World | |
The Postclassical Period, 500-1450: New Faith and New Commerce | |
The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam | |
Desert and Town: The Arabian World and the Birth of Islam | |
The Life of Muhammad and the Genesis of Islam | |
The Arab Empire of the Umayyads | |
In Depth: Civilization and Gender Relationships | |
From Arab to Islamic Empire: The Early Abbasid Era | |
Document: The Thousand and One Nights as a Mirror of Elite Society in the Abbasid Era | |
Visualizing the Past: The Mosque as a Symbol of Islamic Civilization | |
Global Connections: Early Islam and the World | |
Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia | |
The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle and Late Abbasid Eras | |
Document:Ibn Khaldun on the Rise and Decline of Empires | |
An Age of Learning and Artistic Refinements | |
Visualizing the Past:The Patterns of Islam's Global Expansion | |
The Coming of Islam to South Asia | |
The Spread of Islam to Southeast Asia | |
In Depth:Conversion and Accommodation in the Spread of World Religions | |
Global Connections:Islam: A Bridge Between Worlds | |
African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam | |
African Societies: Diversity and Similarities | |
Kingdoms of the Grasslands | |
Document:The Great Oral Tradition and the Epic of Sundiata | |
The Swahili Coast of East Africa | |
In Depth:Two Transitions in the History of World Population | |
Peoples of the Forest and Plains | |
Global Connections:Internal Development and Global Contacts | |
Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe | |
Russia Chooses a Religion | |
The Byzantine Empire | |
Visualizing the Past:Women and Power in Byzantium | |
The Spread of Civilization in Eastern Europe | |
Document:Russia Turns to Christianity | |
In Depth:Eastern and Western Europe: The Problem of Boundaries | |
Global Connections:Eastern Europe and the World | |
A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe | |
A Merchant Becomes a Saint | |
Stages of Postclassical Development | |
In Depth:Western Civilization | |
Western Culture in the Postclassical Era | |
Changing Economic and Social Forms in the Postclassical Centuries | |
Visualizing the Past:Peasant Labor | |
Document:Changing Roles for Women | |
The Decline of the Medieval Synthesis | |
Global Connections:Medieval Europe and the World | |
The Americas on the Eve of Invasion | |
Postclassic Mesoamerica, 1000-1500 c.e. | |
Aztec Society in Transition | |
Document:Aztec Women and Men | |
In Depth:The "Troubling" Civilizations of the Americas | |
Twantinsuyu: World of the Incas | |
Visualizing the Past:Archeological Evidence of Political Practices | |
The Other Indians | |
Global Connections:The Americas and the World | |
Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties | |
Rebuilding the Imperial Edifice in the Sui-Tang Era | |
Document:Ties That Bind: Paths to Power | |
Tang Decline and the Rise of the Song | |
Tang and Song Prosperity: The Basis of a Golden Age | |
In Depth:Artistic Expression and Social Values | |
Global Connections:China's World Role | |
The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam | |
Japan: The Imperial Age | |
The Era of Warrior Dominance | |
In Depth:Comparing Feudalisms | |
Korea: Between China and Japan | |
Between China and Southeast Asia: The Making of Vietnam | |
Visualizing the Past:What Their Portraits Tell Us: Gatekeeper Elites and the Persistence of Civilizations | |
Document:Literature as a Mirror of the Exchanges Between Civilized Centers | |
Global Connections:In the Orbit of China: The East Asian Corner of the Global System | |
The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur | |
The Mongol Empire of Chinggis Khan | |
Document: A European Assessment of the Virtues and Vices of the Mongols | |
The Mongol Drive to the West | |
Visualizing the Past:The Mongol Empire as a Bridge Between Civilizations | |
The Mongol Interlude in Chinese History | |
In Depth:The Eclipse of the Nomadic War Machine | |
Global Connections:The Mongol Linkages | |
The West and the Changing World Balance | |
The Compass: A New Sense of Direction | |
The Decline of the Old Order | |
The Rise of the West | |
Visualizing the Past:Population Trends | |
Document:Italian Renaissance Culture | |
Western Expansion: The Experimental Phase | |
Outside the World Network | |
In Depth:The Problem of Ethnocentrism | |
Global Connections:1450 and the World | |
The Early Modern Period, 1450-1750: The World Shrinks | |
The World Economy | |
The West's First Outreach: Maritime Power | |
In Depth:Causation and the West's Expansion | |
Toward a World Economy | |
Visualizing the Past:West Indian Slaveholding | |
Colonial Expansion | |
Document:Western Conquerors: Tactics and Motives | |
Global Connections:The World Economy-and the World | |
The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750 | |
Changes in Childhood | |
The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce, 1450-1650 | |
Science and Politics: The Next Phase of Change | |
Visualizing the Past:Versailles | |
In Depth:Elites and Masses | |
The West by 1750 | |
Document:Controversies About Women | |
Global Connections:Europe and the World | |
Maps | |
The Spread of Agriculture | |
The Spread of Human Populations | |
The International Bronze Age | |
Mesopotamia in Maps | |
China in the Shang and Zhou Eras | |
Mapping the rise of civilizations in three parts | |
China from the Later Zhou to the early Han | |
Contemporary China | |
Greek and Phoenician Colonies and Trade | |
Alexander's Empire | |
India at the time of the Ashoka and the Gupta Empire | |
Pattern of Trade in the Ancient Eurasian World | |
Expansion of the Roman Republic and Empire | |
The Spread of Christianity | |
Mesoamerican settlements | |
Civilizations of Central and South America | |
Spread of Polynesian Peoples | |
West African empires (called West African States on website) | |
Nomad Empires | |
Religious Geography | |
Expansion of Islam | |
Trade Maps in the Medieval Islamic World | |
Spread of Islam 7th - 8th centuries | |
Spread of Islam 10th- 16th centuries | |
Crusades | |
Empires of the Western Sudan | |
Swahili Coast and 13.3 Trade Routes in Africa | |
Byzantine Empire | |
East European Kingdoms and Slavic Expansion | |
Christian Reconquest of Muslim Spain | |
Invasions of Europe, 7th - 11th centuries | |
Outline Map Quiz for Civilizations of South and Central America | |
Inca Expansion | |
China in the Song and Southern Song Dynastic periods | |
China During the Tang | |
The Korean Peninsula during the Three Kingdom era | |
Japan in the Imperial and Warlords period | |
Outline map Quiz for Mongol empire | |
Mongol Empire as a Bridge Between Civilizations | |
Ptolemy map | |
World Boundaries 1453 and 1700 | |
Spain and Portugal: Explorations and Colonies ca. 1600 | |
French, British and Dutch holdings, ca. 1700 | |
Western Europe during the Renaissance and Reformation, ca. 14th-15th centuries | |
European Population Density c. 1600 | |
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