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1. Early Civilizations
From Caves to Towns
Mesopotamian Civilization
Egypt, The Land of the Pharaohs (3100-1200 B.C.E.)
A Changing Region
Individuals in Society: Wen-Amon
The Children of Israel
Assyria, the Military Monarchy
The Empire of the Persian Kings
Listening to the Past: A Quest for Immortality
2. The Foundation of Indian Society, to 300 C.E.
The Land and Its First Settlers (ca 3000-1500 B.C.E.)
The Aryans and the Vedic Age (ca 1500-500 B.C.E.)
India's Great Religions
Individuals in Society:Gosala
India and the West (CA 513-298 B.C.E.)
The Mauryan Empire (CA 322-185 B.C.E.)
Contacts with Other Cultures (200 B.C.E.-300 C.E.)
Listening to the Past: Rama and Sita
3. China's Classical Age, to 256 B.C.E.
The Land and Its Challenge
China's Earliest Civilizations, to 1050 B.C.E.
The Zhou Dynasty (ca 1050-256 B.C.E.)
The Golden Age of Chinese Philosophy
Individuals in Society: Guan Zhong
Listening to the Past: The Book of Mencius
4. The Greek Experience
Hellas: The Land and Its Earliest Inhabitants (ca. 1650-ca.1100 B.C.E.)
The Polis
The Archaic Age (800-500 B.C.E.)
The Classical Period (500-338 B.C.E.)
The Spread of Hellenism
Individuals in Society: Queen Cratesicleia's Sacrifice
The Economic Scope of the Hellenistic World
Religion in the Hellenistic World
Hellenistic Thought
Listening to the Past: Alexander and the Brotherhood of Man
5. The World of Rome
The Land and the Sea
Early Rome (753-290 B.C.E.)
The Roman Republic
The Pax Romana
The Coming of Christianity
The Golden Age
Individuals in Society: Plutarch of Chaironeia
Life in the Golden Age: Imperial Rome and the Provinces
Rome and the East
The Empire in Crisis
Global Trade: Pottery
Listening to the Past: Titus Flamininus and the Liberty of the Greeks
6. East Asia and the Spread of Buddhism, ca 256 B.C.E.-800 C.E.
The Age of Empire in China
Global Trade: Silk
Individuals in Society: The Ban Family
The Spread of Buddhism Out of India
The Chinese Empire Recreated: Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-907)
The East Asian Cultural Sphere
Listening to the Past: Copying Buddhist Sutras
7. The Making of Europe
The Growth of the Christian Church
Christian Attitudes Toward Classical Culture
Christian Monasticism
The Migration of the Germanic Peoples
Germanic Society
The Byzantine East (ca. 400-788)
Individuals in Society: Theodora of Constantinople
Listening to the Past: The Conversion of Clovis
8. The Islamic World, ca 600-1400
The Arabs Before Islam
Muhammad and the Faith of Islam
The Expansion of Islam
Beginnings of the Islamic State
Decentralization
The Life of the People
Individuals in Society: Abu' Abdallah Ibn Battuta
Listening to the Past: A Treatise on Buying Slaves
9. African Societies and Kingdoms, ca 400-1450
The Land and Peoples of Africa
African Kingdoms and Empires (ca 800-1450)
Individuals in Society: Amda Siyon
Listening to the Past: A Tenth-Century Muslim Traveler Describes Parts of the East African Coast
10. Central and Southern Asia, to 1400
Central Asia, to 1400
East-West Communication During the Mongol Era
India, 300-1400
Individuals in Society: Bhaskara the Teacher
Southeast Asia, to 1400
Listening to the Past: The Abduction of Women in the Secret Life of the Mongols
11. East Asia, ca 800-1400
China (800-ca. 1400)
Individuals in Society: Shen Gua
Global Trade: Tea
Korea (780-1392)
Japan (794-1333)
Listening to the Past: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
12. Europe in the Middle Ages
The Frankish Kingdom
Crisis and Recovery
The Crusades
The Expansion of Latin Christendom
Medieval Origins of the Modern State
Economic Revival
The Culture of the Middle Ages
Life in Christian Europe in the Central Middle Ages
Individuals in Society: Jean Mouflet of Sens
Crises of the Later Middle Ages
Listening to the Past: An Arab View of the Crusades
13. Civilizations of the Americas, ca 400-1500
The Geography and Peoples of the Americas
Mesoamerican Civilizations from the Olmecs to the Toltecs
Aztec Society: Religion and War
Individuals in Society: Quetzalcoatl
The Incas of Peru
North America and the Mound Builders
Listening to the Past: The Death of Inca Yupanque (Pachacuti Inca) in 1471
14. Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation
Economic and Political Origins of the Italian Renaissance
Intellectual Hallmarks of the Renaissance
Individuals in Society: Leonardo da Vinci
Social Change During the Renaissance
Politics and the State in the Renaissance (ca 1450-1521)
The Condition of the Church (ca 1400-1517)
The Protestant Reformation
The Catholic Reformation and the Counter-Reformation
Politics, Religion, and War
Changing Attitudes
Literature, Art, and Music
Listening to the Past: Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty
15. The Acceleration of Global Contact
The World of the Indian Ocean
Individuals in Society: Zheng He
European Discovery, Reconnaissance, and Expansion
Global Trade Networks
The Chinese and Japanese Discovery of the West
The Impact of Contact
Listening to the Past: Columbus Describes His First Voyage
16. Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Europe, ca 1589-1725
France: The Model of Absolute Monarchy
The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century
Absolutism in Eastern Europe: Austria, Prussia, and Russia
Individuals in Society: Stenka Razin, Russian Rebel
England: The Triumph of Constitutional Monarchy
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century
Listening to the Past: The Court at Versailles
17. Toward a New World-View in the West
The Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment and Absolutism
Individuals in Society: Madame du Coudray, the Nation's Midwife
Listening to the Past: Diderot Condemns European Colonialism
18. Africa and the World, ca 1400-1800
Senegambia and Benin
The Sudan: Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland
Ethiopia
The Swahili City-States
The African Slave Trade
Global Trade: Slaves
Individuals in Society: Olaudah Equiano
Listening to the Past: Duarte Barbosa on the Swahili City-States
19. West and South Asia: The Islamic World Powers, ca 1450-1800
The Ottoman Turkish Empire
Individuals in Society: Hürrem
The Persian Theocratic State
India, from Mughal Domination to British Dominion (ca 1498-1805)
Listening to the Past: The Weighing of Shah Jahan on His Forty-second Lunar Birthday
20. Continuity and Change in East Asia, ca 1400-1800
Ming China, 1368-1644
Individuals in Society: Tan Yunxian, Woman Doctor
The Manchus and Qing China, 1644-1800
Choson Korea, 1392-1800
Japan, ca 1400-1800
Listening to the Past: Keinen's Poetic Diary of the Korea Campaign
21. The Revolution in Western Politics, 1775-1815
Liberty and Equality
The American Revolutionary Era (1775-1789)
The French Revolution (1789-1791)
World War and Republican France (1791-1799)
The Napoleonic Era (1799-1815)
Individuals in Society: Jakob Walter, German Draftee with Napoleon
Listening to the Past: Revolution and Women's Rights
22. The Industrial Revolution in Europe
The Initial Breakthrough in England
Energy and Transportation
Industrialization in Continental Europe
Capital and Labor
Individuals in Society: The Strutt Family
Listening to the Past: The Testimony of Young Mine Workers
23. The Triumph of Nationalism in Europe, 1815-1914
The Peace Settlement
Radical Ideas and the Romantic Movement
Reforms and Revolutions, 1815-1850
Nation Building in Italy and Germany
Individuals in Society: Giuseppe Garibaldi
Life in Urban Society
The Responsive National State (1871-1914)
Marxism and the Socialist Movement
Listening to the Past: The Making of a Socialist
24. Africa, Southwest Asia, and Western Imperialism, 1800-1914
Industrialization and the World Economy
Global Trade: Indigo
Western Imperialism, 1880-1914
The Islamic Heartland Under Pressure
Individuals in Society: Muhammad Ali
Sub-Saharan Africa: From the Slave Trade to European Rule
Listening to the Past: A French Leader Defends Imperialism
25. Asia in the Era of Western Imperialism, 1800-1914
European Penetration
South and Southeast Asia: The Consolidation of European Colonial Control
East Asia: Pressure to Conform to a Western-Dominated International Order
The Movement of Peoples
Individuals in Society: Chin Gee-hee
Listening to the Past: A Call for Rebellion
26. Nation Building in the Western Hemisphere and Australia
Latin America (1800-1929)
The United States (1789-1929)
Individuals in Society: Crazy Horse
Canada, from French Colony to Nation
Australia, from Penal Colony to Nation
Listening to the Past: Simón Bolívar's Speculation on Latin America
27. The Great Break: War and Revolution
The First World War
The Home Front
Individuals in Society: Vera Brittain
The Russian Revolution
The Peace Settlement
Listening to the Past: The Experience of War
28. Nationalism in Asia, 1914-1939
The First World War and Western Imperialism
The Middle East
Toward Self-Rule in India
Turmoil in East Asia
Individuals in Society: Ning Lao, A Chinese Working Woman
Listening to the Past: Arab Political Aspirations in 1919
29. The Age of Anxiety in the West
Uncertainty in Modern Thought
Modern Art and Music
Movies and Radio
The Search for Peace and Political Stability
Individuals in Society: Gustav Stresemann
The Great Depression (1929-1939)
Listening to the Past: Life on the Dole in Great Britain
30. Dictatorship and the Second World War
Authoritarian States
Stalin's Soviet Union
Mussolini and Fascism in Italy
Hitler and Nazism in Germany
The Second World War
Individuals in Society: Primo Levi
Listening to the Past: Radical Nationalism for Japanese Students
31. Global Recovery and Division Between Superpowers
The Division of Europe
Renaissance and Crisis in Western Europe
Global Trade: Oil
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1945-1991
Individuals in Society: Václav Havel
The United States: Confrontation and Transformation
The Resurgence of Japan as a First World Power
The Post-Cold War Era in Europe, 1991 to the Present
Listening to the Past: A Solidarity Leader Speaks from Prison
32. Latin America, Asia, and Africa in the Contemporary World
Latin America: Moving Toward Democracy
The Resurgence of East Asia
New Nations and Old Rivalries in South Asia
The Islamic Heartland
Imperialism and Nationalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Individuals in Society: Léopold Sédar Senghor, Poet and Statesman
Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1960
Interpreting the Experiences of the Emerging World
Listening to the Past: The Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
33. Global Politics and Economics
Global Unity or Continued Division?
Global Trade: Arms
Global Interdependence
Individuals in Society: Rigoberta Menchú: Speaking for Her People
Listening to the Past: Voices from the Village
34. One Small Planet
The Growth of Cities, 1945 to the Present
Science and Technology: Changes and Challenges
Social Reform and Progress
Patterns of Thought
Individuals in Society: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, a Simple Buddhist Monk
Listening to the Past: The United Nations Millennium Project Report