World History

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Preface
A Note to Students about Language and the Dating of Time
Themes for Understanding World History
Part I: The First Civilizations and the Rise of Empires (Prehistory to 500 CE)
	Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
		1-1 The First Humans
		1-2 The Emergence of Civilization
		1-3 Civilization in Mesopotamia
		1-4 Egyptian Civilization: "The Gift of the Nile"
		1-5 New Centers of Civilization
		1-6 The Rise of New Empires
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 2: Ancient India
		2-1 The Emergence of Civilization in India: The Indus Valley Society
		2-2 The Aryans in India
		2-3 Escaping the Wheel of Life: The Religious World of Ancient India
		2-4 The Exuberant World of Indian Culture
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
		3-1 The Dawn of Chinese Civilization
		3-2 The Zhou Dynasty
		3-3 The First Chinese Empire: The Qin Dynasty
		3-4 The Glorious Han Dynasty (202 BCE-221 CE)
		3-5 Daily Life in Ancient China
		3-6 Chinese Culture
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
		4-1 Early Greece
		4-2 The World of the Greek City-States (c. 750-c. 500 BCE)
		4-3 The High Point of Greek Civilization: Classical Greece
		4-4 The Rise of Macedonia and the Conquests of Alexander
		4-5 The World of the Hellenistic Kingdoms
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 5: The Roman World Empire
		5-1 Early Rome and the Republic
		5-2 The Roman Empire at Its Height
		5-3 Crisis and the Late Empire
		5-4 Transformation of the Roman World: The Development of Christianity
		5-5 A Comparison of the Roman and Han Empires
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
Part II: New Patterns of Civilization (500-1500 CE)
	Chapter 6: The Americas
		6-1 The Peopling of the Americas
		6-2 Early Civilizations in Mesoamerica
		6-3 Peoples and Societies in Early North America
		6-4 The First Civilizations in South America
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam
		7-1 The Rise of Islam
		7-2 The Arab Empire and Its Successors
		7-3 Islamic Civilization
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
		8-1 The Emergence of Civilization
		8-2 The Coming of Islam
		8-3 States and Noncentralized Societies in Central and Southern Africa
		8-4 African Society
		8-5 African Culture
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
		9-1 The Silk Road
		9-2 India after the Mauryas
		9-3 The Arrival of Islam
		9-4 Society and Culture
		9-5 The Golden Region: Early Southeast Asia
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
		10-1 China's Golden Age: The Sui, the Tang, and the Song
		10-2 Explosion in Central Asia: The Mongol Empire
		10-3 The Ming Dynasty
		10-4 In Search of the Way
		10-5 Changing Social Conditions in Traditional China
		10-6 The Apogee of Chinese Culture
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
		11-1 Japan: Land of the Rising Sun
		11-2 Korea: Bridge to the East
		11-3 Vietnam: The Smaller Dragon
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
		12-1 The Emergence of Europe in the Early Middle Ages
		12-2 Europe in the High Middle Ages
		12-3 Medieval Europe and the World
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West
		13-1 From Eastern Roman to Byzantine Empire
		13-2 The Zenith of Byzantine Civilization (750-1025)
		13-3 The Decline and Fall of the Byzantine Empire (1025-1453)
		13-4 The Crises of the Fourteenth Century in the West
		13-5 Recovery: The Renaissance
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
Part III: The Emergence of New World Patterns (1500-1800)
	Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
		14-1 An Age of Exploration and Expansion
		14-2 The Portuguese Maritime Empire
		14-3 The Conquest of the "New World"
		14-4 Africa in Transition
		14-5 Southeast Asia in the Era of the Spice Trade
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
		15-1 The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
		15-2 Europe in Crisis, 1560-1650
		15-3 Response to Crisis: The Practice of Absolutism
		15-4 England and Limited Monarchy
		15-5 The Flourishing of European Culture
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
		16-1 The Ottoman Empire
		16-2 The Safavids
		16-3 The Grandeur of the Mughals
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 17: The East Asian World
		17-1 China at Its Apex
		17-2 Changing China
		17-3 Tokugawa Japan
		17-4 Korea and Vietnam
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
		18-1 Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: An Intellectual Revolution in the West
		18-2 Economic Changes and the Social Order
		18-3 Colonial Empires and Revolution in the Americas
		18-4 Toward a New Political Order
		18-5 The French Revolution
		18-6 The Age of Napoleon
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
Part IV: Modern Patterns of World History (1800-1945)
	Chapter 19: The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century
		19-1 The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact
		19-2 The Growth of Industrial Prosperity
		19-3 Reaction and Revolution: The Growth of Nationalism
		19-4 National Unification and the National State, 1848-1871
		19-5 The European State, 1871-1914
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 20: The Americas and Society and Culture in the West
		20-1 Latin America in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
		20-2 North American Neighbors: The United States and Canada
		20-3 The Emergence of Mass Society in the West
		20-4 Cultural Life: Romanticism and Realism in the Western World
		20-5 Toward the Modern Consciousness: Intellectual and Cultural Developments
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 21: The High Tide of Imperialism
		21-1 The Spread of Colonial Rule
		21-2 The Colonial System
		21-3 India under the British Raj
		21-4 Colonial Regimes in Southeast Asia
		21-5 Empire Building in Africa
		21-6 The Emergence of Anticolonialism
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 22: Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia under Challenge
		22-1 The Decline of the Manchus
		22-2 Chinese Society in Transition
		22-3 A Rich Country and a Strong State: The Rise of Modern Japan
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 23: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution
		23-1 The Road to World War I
		23-2 The Great War
		23-3 War and Revolution
		23-4 An Uncertain Peace
		23-5 In Pursuit of a New Reality: Cultural and Intellectual Trends
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 24: Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939
		24-1 The Rise of Nationalism
		24-2 Revolution in China
		24-3 Japan between the Wars
		24-4 Nationalism and Dictatorship in Latin America
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 25: The Crisis Deepens: World War II
		25-1 Retreat from Democracy: Dictatorial Regimes
		25-2 The Path to War
		25-3 World War II
		25-4 The New Order
		25-5 The Home Front
		25-6 Aftermath of the War
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
Part V: Toward a Global Civilization? The World since 1945
	Chapter 26: East and West in the Grip of the Cold War
		26-1 The Collapse of the Grand Alliance
		26-2 Cold War in Asia
		26-3 From Confrontation to Coexistence
		26-4 An Era of Equivalence
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 27: Brave New World: Communism on Trial
		27-1 The Postwar Soviet Union
		27-2 The Disintegration of the Soviet Empire
		27-3 The East Is Red: China under Communism
		27-4 "Serve the People": Chinese Society under Communism
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere since 1945
		28-1 Recovery and Renewal in Europe
		28-2 Emergence of the Superpower: The United States
		28-3 The Development of Canada
		28-4 Latin America since 1945
		28-5 Society and Culture in the Western World
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East
		29-1 Uhuru: The Struggle for Independence in Africa
		29-2 The Era of Independence
		29-3 Continuity and Change in Modern African Societies
		29-4 Crescent of Conflict
		29-5 Society and Culture in the Contemporary Middle East
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
	Chapter 30: Toward the Pacific Century?
		30-1 South Asia
		30-2 Southeast Asia
		30-3 Japan: Asian Giant
		30-4 The Little Tigers
		Chapter Summary
		Chapter Timeline
		Chapter Review
Epilogue
Glossary
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Index