The earth and its peoples

The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, 4th Edition
I. The Emergence of Human Communities, to 500 B.C.E.
1. Nature, Humanity, and History, to 3500 B.C.E.
African Genesis
History and Culture in the Ice Age
The Agricultural Revolutions
Life in Neolithic Communities
Diversity and Dominance: Cave Art
Environment and Technology: The Iceman
2. The First River-Valley Civilizations, 3500-1500 B.C.E.
Mesopotamia
Egypt
The Indus Valley Civilization
Comparative Perspectives
Diversity and Dominance: Violence and Order in the Babylonian New Year's Festival
Environment and Technology: Environmental Stress in the Indus Valley
3. New Civilizations in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 2200-250 B.C.E.
Early China, 2000-221 B.C.E.
Nubia, 3100 B.C.E.-350 C.E.
Celtic Europe, 1000-50 B.C.E.
First Civilizations of the Americas: The Olmec and Chavín, 1200-250 B.C.E.
Environment and Technology: Divination in Ancient Societies
Diversity and Dominance: Human Nature and Good Government in the Analects of Confucius and the Legalist
Writings of Han Fei
4. The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000-500 B.C.E.
The Cosmopolitan Middle East, 1700-1100 B.C.E.
The Aegean World, 2000-1100 B.C.E.
The Assyrian Empire, 911-612 B.C.E.
Israel, 2000-500 B.C.E.
Phoenicia and the Mediterranean, 1200-500 B.C.E.
Failure and Transformation, 750-550 B.C.E.
Diversity and Dominance: Protests Against the Ruling Class in Israel and Babylonia
Environment and Technology: Ancient Textiles and Dyes
Issues in World History: Animal Domestication

II. The Formation of New Cultural Communities, 1000 B.C.E.-400 C.E.
5. Greece and Iran, 1000-30 B.C.E.
Ancient Iran, 1000-500 B.C.E.
The Rise of the Greeks, 1000-500 B.C.E.
The Struggle of Persia and Greece, 546-323 B.C.E.
The Hellenistic Synthesis, 323-30 B.C.E.
Diversity and Dominance: Persian and Greek Perceptions of Kingship
Material Culture: Wine and Beer in the Ancient World
Environment and Technology: Ancient Astronomy
6. An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.-330 C.E.
Rome's Creation of a Mediterranean Empire, 753 B.C.E.-330 C.E.
The Origins of Imperial China, 221 B.C.E.-220 C.E
Diversity and Dominance: The Treatment of Slaves in Rome and China
Environment and Technology: Water Engineering in Rome and China
7. India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E.-1025 C.E.
Foundations of Indian Civilization, 1500 B.C.E.-300 C.E.
Imperial Expansion and Collapse, 324 B.C.E.-650 C.E.
Southeast Asia, 50-1025 C.E.
Environment and Technology: Indian Mathematics
Diversity and Dominance: Relations Between Women and Men in the Kama Sutra and the Arthashastra
Issues in World History: Oral Societies and the Consequences of Literacy
III. Growth and Interaction of Cultural Communities, 300 B.C.E. -1200 C.E.
8. Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.-1100 C.E.
The Silk Road
The Indian Ocean Maritime System
Routes Across the Sahara
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Spread of Ideas
Diversity and Dominance: Travel Accounts of Africa and India
Environment and Technology: Camel Saddles
9. The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam, 200-1200
The Sasanid Empire, 224-651
The Origins of Islam
The Rise and Fall of the Caliphate, 632-1258
Islamic Civilization
Diversity and Dominance: Secretaries, Turks, and Beggars

Environment and Technology: Chemistry
Material Culture: Head Coverings
10. Christian Societies Emerge in Europe, 300-1200
The Byzantine Empire, 300-1200
Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000
The Western Church
Kievan Russia, 900-1200
Western Europe Revives, 1000-1200
The Crusades, 1095-1204
Environment and Technology: Iron Production
Diversity and Dominance: The Struggle for Christian Morality
11. Inner and East Asia, 400-1200
The Sui and Tang Empires, 581-755
Rivals for Power in Inner Asia and China, 600-907
The Emergence of East Asia, to 1200
New Kingdoms in East Asia
Diversity and Dominance: Law and Society in China and Japan
Environment and Technology: Writing in East Asia, 400-1200
12. Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 200-1500
Classic-Era Culture and Society in Mesoamerica, 200-900
The Post-Classic Period in Mesoamerica, 900-1500
Northern Peoples
Andean Civilizations, 200-1500
Diversity and Dominance: Burials as Historical Texts
Environment and Technology: Inca Roads
Issues in World History: Religious Conversion
IV. Interregional Patterns of Culture and Contact, 1200-1550
13. Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200-1500
The Rise of the Mongols, 1200-1260
The Mongols and Islam, 1260-1500
Regional Responses in Western Eurasia
Mongol Domination in China, 1271-1368
The Early Ming Empire, 1368-1500
Centralization and Militarism in East Asia, 1200-1500
Diversity and Dominance: Observations of Mongol Life
Environment and Technology: From Gunpowder to Guns
14. Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200-1500
Tropical Lands and Peoples

New Islamic Empires
Indian Ocean Trade
Social and Cultural Change
Diversity and Dominance: Personal Styles of Rule in India and Mali
Environment and Technology: The Indian Ocean Dhow
15. The Latin West, 1200-1500
Rural Growth and Crisis
Urban Revival
Learning, Literature, and the Renaissance
Political and Military Transformations
Diversity and Dominance: Persecution and Protection of Jews, 1272-1349
Environment and Technology: The Clock
16. The Maritime Revolution, to 1550
Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450
European Expansion, 1400-1550
Encounters with Europe, 1450-1550
Environment and Technology: Vasco da Gama's Fleet
Diversity and Dominance: Kongo's Christian King
Issues in World History: Climate and Population, to 1500
V. The Globe Encompassed, 1500-1750
17. Transformations in Europe, 1500-1750
Culture and Ideas
Social and Economic Life
Political Innovations
Environment and Technology: Mapping the World
Diversity and Dominance: Political Craft and Craftiness
18. The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530-1770
The Columbian Exchange
Spanish America and Brazil
English and French Colonies in North America
Colonial Expansion and Conflict
Environment and Technology: The Silver Refinery at Potosí, Bolvia, 1700
Diversity and Dominance: Race and Ethnicity in the Spanish Colonies: Negotiating Hierarchy
19. The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800
Plantations in the West Indies

Plantation Life in the Eighteenth Century
Creating the Atlantic Economy
Africa, the Atlantic, and Islam
Environment and Technology: Amerindian Foods in Africa
Diversity and Dominance: Slavery in West Africa and the Americas
20. Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1750
The Ottoman Empire, to 1750
The Safavid Empire, 1502-1722
The Mughal Empire, 1526-1761
The Maritime Worlds of Islam, 1500-1750
Diversity and Dominance: Islamic Law and Ottoman Rule
Environment and Technology: Tobacco and Waterpipes
21. Northern Eurasia, 1500-1800
Japanese Reunification
The Later Ming and Early Quing Empires
The Russian Empire
Environment and Technology: East Asian Porcelain
Diversity and Dominance: Gendered Violence: The Yangzhou Massacre
Issues in World History: The Little Ice Age
VI. Revolutions Reshape the World, 1750-1870
22. Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850
Prelude to Revolution: The Eighteenth-Century Crisis
The American Revolution, 1775-1800
The French Revolution, 1789-1815
Revolution Spreads, Conservatives Respond, 1789-1850
Environment and Technology: The Guillotine
Diversity and Dominance: Robespierre and Wollstonecraft Defend and Explain the Terror
23. The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851
Causes of the Industrial Revolution
The Technological Revolution
The Impact of the Early Industrial Revolution
New Economic and Political Ideas
The Limits of Industrialization Outside the West
Diversity and Dominance: Adam Smith and the Division of Labor
Environment and Technology: Gas Lighting
24. Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1800-1890
Independence in Latin America, 1800-1830

The Problem of Order, 1825-1890
The Challenge of Social and Economic Change
Diversity and Dominance: The Afro-Brazilian Experience, 1828
Environment and Technology: Constructing the Port of Buenos Aires, Argentina
25. Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1870
The Ottoman Empire
The Russian Empire
The Qing Empire
Environment and Technology: The Web of War
Diversity and Dominance: Chinese Responses to Imperialism
26. Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750-1870
Changes and Exchanges in Africa
India Under British Rule
Britain's Eastern Empire
Diversity and Dominance: Ceremonials of Imperial Domination
Environment and Technology: Whaling
Issues in World History: State Power, the Census, and the Question of Identity
VII. Global Diversity and Dominance, 1850-1945
27. The New Power Balance, 1850-1900
New Technologies and the World Economy
Social Changes
Socialism and Labor Movements
Nationalism and the Rise of Italy, Germany, and Japan
The Great Powers of Europe, 1871-1900
China, Japan and the Western Powers
Environment and Technology: Railroads and Immigration
Material Culture: Cotton Clothing
Diversity and Dominance: Marx and Engels on Global Trade and Bourgeoisie
28. The New Imperialism, 1869-1914
The New Imperialism: Motives and Methods
The Scramble for Africa
Imperialism in Asia and the Pacific
Imperialism in Latin America
The World Economy and the Global Environment
Diversity and Dominance: Two Africans Recall the Arrival of the Europeans
Environment and Technology: Imperialism and Tropical Ecology

29. The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900-1929
Origins of the Crisis in Europe and the Middle East
The "Great War" and the Russian Revolutions, 1914-1918
Peace and Dislocation in Europe, 1919-1929
China and Japan: Contrasting Destinies
The New Middle East
Society, Culture, and Technology in the Industrialized World
Diversity and Dominance: The Middle East After World War I
Environment and Technology: The Birth of Civil Aviation
30. The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949
The Stalin Revolution
The Depression
The Rise of Fascism
East Asia, 1931-1945
The Second World War
The Character of Warfare
Diversity and Dominance: Women, Family Values, and the Russian Revolution
Environment and Technology: The Enigma Machine
31. Striving for Independence: India, Africa, and Latin America, 1900-1949
The Indian Independence Movement, 1905-1947
Sub-Saharan Africa, 1900-1945
Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, 1900-1949
Environment and Technology: Gandhi and Technology
Diversity and Dominance: A Vietnamese Nationalist Denounces French Colonialism
Issues in World History: Families and Politics
VIII. Perils and Promises of a Global Community, 1945 to the Present
32. The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1975
The Cold War
Decolonization and Nation Building
Beyond a Bipolar World
Environment and Technology: The Green Revolution
Diversity and Dominance: Race and the Struggle for Justice in South Africa
33. The End of the Cold War and the Challenge of Economic Development and Immigration, 1975-2000
Postcolonial Crises and Asian Economic Expansion
The End of the Bipolar World
The Challenge of Population Growth
Unequal Development and the Movement of Peoples

Technological and Environmental Change
Diversity and Dominance: The Struggle for Women's Rights in an Era of Global Political and Economic Change
Environment and Technology: The Personal Computer
Material Culture: Fast Food
34. Globalization in the New Millennium
Global Economic and Political Currents
Trends and Visions
Global Culture
Environment and Technology: Global Warming
Diversity and Dominance: World Literature in English

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