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Preface
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Part I: Human Origins and Early Civilizations to 500 B.C.E.
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Chapter 1: The Birth of a Civilization
Early Humans and Their Culture
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Civilizations
Early Civilizations in the Middle East to About 1000 B.C.E.
A CLOSER LOOK Babylonian World Map
Ancient Near Eastern Empires
Early Indian Civilization
Early Chinese Civilization
The Rise of Civilization in the Americas
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Chapter 2: Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion
Comparing the Four Great Revolutions
Philosophy in China
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Philosophy and Religion
Religion in India
A CLOSER LOOK Statue of Siddhartha Gotama asFasting Ascetic (2nd Century C.E.)
The Religion of the Israelites
Greek Philosophy
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RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD Judaism
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Part II: Empires and Cultures of the Ancient World, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.
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Chapter 3: Greek and Hellenistic Civilization
The Bronze Age on Crete and on the Mainland to ca. 1150 B.C.E.
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Achievement of Greek and Hellenistic Civilization
Greek ? Middle Age? to ca. 750 B.C.E.
The Polis
Expansion of the Greek World
Life in Archaic Greece
Major City-States
The Persian Wars
A CLOSER LOOK The Trireme
Classical Greece
Emergence of the Hellenistic World
Hellenistic Culture
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Chapter 4: West Asia, Inner Asia, and South Asia to?1000 C.E.
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Indo-Iranian Roles in the Eurasian World before Islam
West and Inner Asia
The Ancient Background
The First Persian Empire in the Iranian Plateau (550? 330 B.C.E.)
The Seleucid Successors to Alexander in the East (ca. 312? 63 B.C.E.)
The Parthian Arsacid Empire (ca. 247 B.C.E.? 223 C.E.)
The Sasanid Empire (224? 651 C.E.)
South Asia to 1000 C.E.
The First Indian Empire: The Mauryas (321? 185 B.C.E.)
The Consolidation of Indian Civilization (ca. 200 B.C.E.? 300 C.E.)
A CLOSER LOOK Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath
The Golden Age of the Guptas (ca. 320? 550 C.E.)
The Development of ? Classical? Indian Civilization (ca. 300? 1000 C.E.)
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RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD Hinduism
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Chapter 5: Africa: Early History to?1000 C.E.
Issues of Interpretation, Sources, and Disciplines
Physical Description of the Continent
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ? Traditional? Peoples and Nontraditional Histories
African Peoples
The Sahara and the Sudan to the Beginning of the Common Era
Nilotic Africa and the Ethiopian Highlands
The Western and Central Sudan
Central, Southern, and East Africa
A CLOSER LOOK Four Rock Art Paintings from Tassili n-Ajjer (4000? 2000 B.C.E.)
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Chapter 6: Republican and Imperial Rome
Prehistoric Italy
The Etruscans
Royal Rome
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Republican and Imperial Rome
The Republic
A CLOSER LOOK Lictors
Civilization in the Early Roman Republic:
Greek Influence
Roman Imperialism
The Fall of the Republic
The Augustan Principate
Civilization of the Ciceronian and Augustan Ages
Peace and Prosperity: Imperial Rome (14? 180 C.E.)
The Rise of Christianity
The Crisis of the Third Century
The Late Empire
Arts and Letters in the Late Empire
The Problem of the Decline and Fall of the Empire in the West
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Chapter 7: Chinas First Empire,?221 B.C.E.? 589 C.E.
Qin Unification of China
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE China? s First Empire
Former Han Dynasty (206 B.C.E.? 8 C.E.)
A CLOSER LOOK The Terra-Cotta Army of the First Qin Emperor
Later Han (25? 220 C.E.) and Its Aftermath
Han Thought and Religion
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Part III: Consolidation and Interaction of World Civilizations, 500 C.E. to 1500 C.E.
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Chapter 8: Imperial China,?589? 1368
Reestablishment of Empire: Sui (589? 618) and Tang (618? 907) Dynasties
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Imperial China
A CLOSER LOOK A Tang Painting of the Goddess of Mercy
Transition to Late Imperial China: The Song Dynasty (960? 1279)
China in the Mongol World Empire: The Yuan Dynasty (1279? 1368)
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Chapter 9: Early Japanese History
Japanese Origins
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE East Asia
Nara and Heian Japan
Japan? s Early Feudal Age
A CLOSER LOOK The East Meets the East
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RELIGIONS OF THE World Buddhism
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Chapter 10: The Formation of Islamic Civilization,?622? 100
Origins and Early Development
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Early Islamic Worlds of Arab and Persian Cultures
Women in Early Islamic Society
Early Islamic Conquests
The New Islamic World Order
A CLOSER LOOK The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem (Interior)
The High Caliphate
Islamic Culture in the Classical Era
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Chapter 11: The Byzantine Empire and Western Europe to?1000
The End of the Western Roman Empire
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Early Middle Ages
The Impact of Islam on East and West
The Developing Roman Church
The Kingdom of the Franks
A CLOSER LOOK A Multicultural Book Cover
Feudal Society
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Chapter 12: The Islamic World,1000? 1500
the islamic heartlands
Religion and Society
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Expansion of Islamic Civilization, 1000? 1500
Regional Developments
A CLOSER LOOK Al-Hariri, Assemblies (Maqamat)
The Spread of Islam beyond the Heartlands
Islamic India and Southeast Asia
The Spread of Islam to South Asia
Muslim? Hindu Encounter
Islamic States and Dynasties
Religious and Cultural Accommodation
Hindu and Other Indian Traditions
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Chapter 13: Ancient Civilizations of the Americas
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Ancient Civilizations of the Americas
Problems in Reconstructing the History of Native American Civilization
Mesoamerica
The Formative Period and the Emergence of Mesoamerican Civilization
The Classic Period in Mesoamerica
A CLOSER LOOK The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuac?n
The Post-Classic Period
Andean South America
The Preceramic and the Initial Periods
Chav?n de Huantar and the Early Horizon
The Early Intermediate Period
The Middle Horizon through the Late
Intermediate Period
The Inca Empire
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Chapter 14: Africa CA.?1000? 1700
North Africa and Egypt
The Spread of Islam South of the Sahara
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Africa, 1000? 1700
Sahelian Empires of the Western and Central Sudan
The Eastern Sudan
The Forestlands? Coastal West and
Central Africa
A CLOSER LOOK Benin Bronze Plaque with Chief and Two Attendants
East Africa
Southern Africa
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Chapter 15: Europe to the Early 1500s: Revival, Decline, and Renaissance
Revival of Empire, Church, and Towns
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The High Middle Ages in Western Europe
A CLOSER LOOK European Embrace of a Black Saint
Society
Growth of National Monarchies
Political and Social Breakdown
Ecclesiastical Breakdown and Revival:
The Late Medieval Church
The Renaissance in Italy (1375? 1527)
Revival of Monarchy: Nation Building in the Fifteenth Century
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Part IV: The World in Transition, 1500 to 1850
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Chapter 16: Europe,?1500? 1650: Expansion, Reformation, and Religious Wars
The Discovery of a New World
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE European Expansion
The Reformation
The Reformation? s Achievements
A CLOSER LOOK A Contemporary Commentary on the Sexes
The Wars of Religion
Superstition and Enlightenment: The Battle Within
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RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD Christianity
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Chapter 17: Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transatlantic Economy
Periods of European Overseas Expansion
Mercantilist Theory of Economic Exploitation
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Atlantic World
Establishment of the Spanish Empire in America
Economies of Exploitation in the Spanish Empire
Colonial Brazil
French and British Colonies in North America
The Columbian Exchange: Disease, Animals, and Agriculture
Slavery in the Americas
Africa and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
A CLOSER LOOK The Slave Ship Brookes
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Chapter 18: East Asia in the Late Traditional Era
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE East Asia in the Late Traditional Era
Late Imperial China
Ming (1368? 1644) and Qing (1644? 1911) Dynasties
Japan
Warring States Era (1467? 1600)
Tokugawa Era (1600? 1868)
A CLOSER LOOK Bridal Procession
Korea and Vietnam
Korea
Vietnam
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Chapter 19: State Building and Society in Early Modern Europe
European Political Consolidation
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Early Modern Europe
A CLOSER LOOK Versailles
European Warfare: From Continental to World Conflict
The Old Regime
Family Structures and the Family Economy
The Revolution in Agriculture
The Eighteenth-Century Industrial Revolution: An Event in World History
European Cities
The Jewish Population: Age of the Ghetto
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Chapter 20: The Last Great Islamic Empires,1500? 1800
The Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean World
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Last Great Islamic Empires
The Safavid Empire and the West Asian World
The Mughals
A CLOSER LOOK The Mughal Emperor Jahangir
Honoring a Muslim Saint over Kings and Emperors
Central Asia: Islamization in the Post-Timur Era
Power Shifts in the Southern Oceans
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Part V: Enlightenment and Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1700? 1850
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Chapter 21: The Age of European Enlightenment
The Scientific Revolution
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The European Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment and Religion
The Enlightenment and Society
Enlightened Absolutism
A CLOSER LOOK An Eighteenth-Century Artist Appeals to the Ancient World
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Chapter 22: Revolutions in the Transatlantic World
Revolution in the British Colonies in North America
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Transatlantic Revolutions
Revolution in France
A CLOSER LOOK Challenging the French Political Order
Wars of Independence in Latin America
Toward the Abolition of Slavery in the Transatlantic Economy
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Chapter 23: Political Consolidation in the Nineteenth-Century
Europe and North America
The Emergence of Nationalism in Europe
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE European and North American Political Consolidation
Early Nineteenth-Century Political Liberalism
Efforts to Liberalize Early Nineteenth-Century European
Political Structures
Testing the New American Republic
The Canadian Experience
Midcentury Political Consolidation in Europe
A CLOSER LOOK The Crimean War Recalled
Unrest of Nationalities in Eastern Europe
Racial Theory and Anti-Semitism
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Part VI: Into the Modern World, 1815? 1949
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Chapter 24: Northern Transatlantic Economy and Society,1815? 1914
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Building of Northern Transatlantic Supremacy
European Factory Workers and Urban Artisans
Nineteenth-Century European Women
Jewish Emancipation
European Labor, Socialism, and Politics to World War I
A CLOSER LOOK Bloody Sunday, Saint Petersburg 1905
North America and the New Industrial Economy
The Emergence of Modern European Thought
Islam and Late Nineteenth-Century European Thought
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Chapter 25: Latin America from Independence to the1940S
Independence without Revolution
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Latin American History
Economy of Dependence
Search for Political Stability
Three National Histories
A CLOSER LOOK Benito Ju?rez
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Chapter 26: India, the Islamic Heartlands, and Africa,?1800? 1945
The Indian Experience
British Dominance and Colonial Rule
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Challenge of Modernity: India, Islam, and Africa
From British Crown Raj to Independence
A CLOSER LOOK Gandhi and His Spinning Wheel
The Islamic Experience
Islamic Responses to Declining Power and
Independence
Western Political and Economic Encroachment
The Western Impact
Islamic Responses to Foreign Encroachment
The African Experience
New States and Power Centers
Islamic Reform Movements
Increasing European Involvement: Exploration and Colonization
Patterns in European Colonial Rule and African Resistance
The Rise of African Nationalism
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RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD Islam
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Chapter 27: Modern East Asia
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Modern East Asia
Modern Japan (1853? 1945)
Overthrow of the Tokugawa Bakufu (1853? 1868)
A CLOSER LOOK East Meets the West
Building the Meiji State (1868? 1890)
Growth of a Modern Economy
The Politics of Imperial Japan (1890? 1945)
Japanese Militarism and German Nazism
Modern China (1839? 1949)
Close of Manchu Rule
From Dynasty to Warlordism (1895? 1926)
Cultural and Ideological Ferment: The May Fourth
Movement
Nationalist China
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Part VII: Global Conflict and Change, 1900? Present
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Chapter 28: Imperialism and World War I
Expansion of European Power and the
? New Imperialism?
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Imperialism and the Great War
Emergence of the German Empire
World War I
A CLOSER LOOK The Development of the Armored Tank
The Russian Revolution
End of World War I
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Chapter 29: Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal
After Versailles: Demands for Revision and Enforcement
Toward the Great Depression in Europe
GOBAL PERSPECTIVE The Interwar Period in Europe and the United States
The Soviet Experiment
The Fascist Experiment in Italy
German Democracy and Dictatorship
A CLOSER LOOK The Nazi Party Rally
The Great Depression and the New Deal in the United States
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Chapter 30: World War II
Again the Road to War
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE World War II
World War II
The Domestic Fronts
A CLOSER LOOK The Vichy Regime in France
Preparation for Peace
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Chapter 31: The West Since World War II
The Cold War Era
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE The West Since 1945
Toward Western European Unification
European Society in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century and Beyond
American Domestic Scene since World War II
The Soviet Union to 1989
1989: Year of Revolutions in Eastern Europe
A CLOSER LOOK Collapse of the Berlin Wall
The Collapse of the Soviet Union
The Collapse of Yugoslavia and Civil War
Challenges to the Atlantic Alliance
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Chapter 32: East Asia: The Recent Decades
Japan
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Modern East Asia
China
A CLOSER LOOK Trial of a Landlord
Taiwan
Korea
Vietnam
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Chapter 33: Postcolonialism and Beyond: Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
Beyond the Postcolonial Era
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Democratization, Globalization, and Terrorism
Latin America since 1945
A CLOSER LOOK Mexican Farmers Protest in North American Free Trade Agreement
Postcolonial Africa
The Islamic Heartlands, from North Africa to Indonesia
The Postcolonial Middle East
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