Civilizations Past & Present, Combined Volume
12th Edition
Published on 26. October 2007
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1200 pages
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Civilizations Past and Present, written by specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, and East European history- offers a clear and accessible analysis of diverse trends shaping world history.
Civilizations Past and Present, now in its Twelfth Edition, is a survey text well known in the marketplace for its readability, offering a strong narrative exploration of world history that examines details at levels appropriate for both students and instructors. The book's narrative-enriched by photographs, maps, primary source documents, timelines, and other pedagogical aids-places great emphasis on the connections between the world's many cultures and regions. The book uses intriguing avenues of historical interpretation and examines all of the major areas of historical study: social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.
Civilizations Past and Present, now in its Twelfth Edition, is a survey text well known in the marketplace for its readability, offering a strong narrative exploration of world history that examines details at levels appropriate for both students and instructors. The book's narrative-enriched by photographs, maps, primary source documents, timelines, and other pedagogical aids-places great emphasis on the connections between the world's many cultures and regions. The book uses intriguing avenues of historical interpretation and examines all of the major areas of historical study: social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.
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Content
1. Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East
The Origins of Humankind
Preliterate Cultures
Preliterate Society and Religion
Mesopotamia: The First Civilization
The Babylonian Empire, c. 2000-1600 B.C.E.
Egypt: Gift of the Nile
Mesopotamian Successors to Babylon, c. 1600-550 B.C.E.
The Persian Empire, 550-331B.C.E.
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Oldest Known Map: Catul Hueyuek
DOCUMENT
"The Great Hymn to the Aton" and Psalm 104
DOCUMENT
Dining with the Great King: A Persian Royal Feast
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Pyramids of Meroe
2. Early Chinese Civilization:
From Neolithic Origins to 220 C.E.
The Origins of China, 6500-221B.C.E.
The Qin and Han Empires, 221 B.C.E.-220 C.E.
DOCUMENT
The Wisdom of Confucius
DOCUMENT
Legalism: The Theories of Han Feizi (d. 233 B.C.E.)
DOCUMENT
"The Mother of Mencius" from Biographies of Heroic Women by Liu Xiang
SEEING CONNECTIONS
War Chariots
3. Early Indian Civilizations
From Neolithic Origins to 300 C.E.
Early India
Dramatic Developments in Religion and Culture, 600-320B.C.E.
The Mauryan Empire and Other Kingdoms, 320 B.C.E.-300 C.E.
Emergent Hinduism and Buddhism, 200 B.C.E.-300 C.E.
The Meeting of East and West: Networks of Exchange
DOCUMENT
Rig-Veda: Creation and the Kinds of Men
DOCUMENT
The Jains on the Souls in All Things
DOCUMENT
The Ramayana: The Trial of Sita
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Goddess Lakshmi in Pompeii
4. Greece
Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000-30 B.C.E.
Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations, c. 2000-1200 B.C.E.
The Development of Hellenic Civilization, c. 1150-500 B.C.E.
The Golden Age of Greece, 500-336 B.C.E.
The Greek Cultural Achievement
The Hellenistic Age, 336-30 B.C.E.
Hellenistic Society and Culture
DOCUMENT
Homer-The Iliad: Andromache and Hector
DOCUMENT
Pericles' Funeral Oration
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The World According to Herodotus, c. 450 B.C.E.
DOCUMENT
Arrian: Alexander the Leader
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Buddha and Heracles
5. Roman Civilization
The Roman World, c. 900 B.C.E. to 476 C.E.
Early Italy and the Origins of Rome, c. 900-509 B.C.E.
The Republic and the Roman Conquest of Italy: 509-133 B.C.E.
The Late Republic: 133-30 B.C.E.
The Roman Empire and the Pax Romana: 30 B.C.E.-476 C.E.
The Growth of Early Christianity
The Roman Legacy
DOCUMENT
Columella: Roman Farm Women
DOCUMENT
Plutarch-The Murder of Tiberius Gracchus
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Roman Ruins of Nubia
6. The Eastern Mediterranean World, 300-750 CE
The Eastern Mediterranean Milieu
The Sasanid Empire
Byzantium, Constantinople, and Christianity
Muhammad and the Birth of Islam
The Arab-Islamic Empire
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
A Sixth-Century Map: The Madaba Mosaic
DOCUMENT
The Ecumenical Councils and Heresies
DOCUMENT
The Qur'an
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Great Mosque of Damascus
7. The Islamic World, 800-1300 CE
The Early Abbasid Caliphate, 750-1000
The Shaping of Early Islamic Faith and Culture
The Fatamid Empire, 909-1171
Turkic Peoples and the Islamic Near East, 1000-1200
Al-Andalus: Islamic Iberia, 700-1100
Resisting the Latin Crusades
The Islamic World, 1100-1300: Unity and Diversity
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
An Islamic Map of the World
DOCUMENT
The History of Ahmad ibn Abi Ya`qub al-Ya`qubi
DOCUMENT
Ibn Sina's Path to Wisdom
SEEING CONNECTIONS
A Mamluk Incense Burner
8. African Beginnings:
African Civilizations to 1500 C.E.
The African Environment
African Cultural Patterns
The Peopling of Africa
The Bantu Dispersion
Ethiopia and Northeastern Africa
Empires of the Western Sudan
Swahili City-States and the Indian Ocean Economy
Kingdoms of Central and Southern Africa
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Mansa Musa and The Catalan Atlas of 1375
DOCUMENT
Oral Traditions and History
DOCUMENT
Emperor Zar'a Ya'kob's Coronation and His Concern for the Church
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Chinese in Africa
9. The Formation of Christian Europe, 476-1300 C.E.
The Catholic Church in the Early Middle Ages
The Merovingians and Carolingians
Feudalism and Manorialism
The Revival of Trade and Towns
The Catholic Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000-1300
The Crusades
The Development of Western European States: 1000-1300
Byzantium In Its Golden Age and Decline
Russia and the Nations of Southeastern Europe
DOCUMENT
Charlemagne: A Contemporary Profile
DOCUMENT
The First Crusade Takes Jerusalem
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Muslim and Christian Chess Players
DOCUMENT
Vladimir Accepts Orthodox Christianity
10. Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220-1350
India and Southeast Asia in the Classical and Medieval Eras
China: Cultural and Political Empires
Korea: From Three Kingdoms to One
The Emergence of Japan
Oceania
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Gog and Magog in the Ebstorf Mappamundi
DOCUMENT
Bo Juyi (772-846): "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow"
DOCUMENT
Faxian: A Chinese Buddhist Monk in Gupta India
DOCUMENT
Sei Sh?onagon: The Pillow Book
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Biwa from the Imperial Treasury at Nara
11. The Americas to 1500
Origins of The First Americans and Their Cultures
Emerging Civilizations in Mesoamerica
Classical Mayan Civilization
The Postclassical Era
The Amerindians of North America
DOCUMENT
Father Bernabe Cobo, "Pachacuti, the Greatest Inca"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Aztec Sun Stone
12.The Great Dynastic Empires of Eurasia, 1300-1650
New Polities in Eurasia
The Ottoman Empire
The Safavid Empire in Iran
The Mughal Empire in South Asia
Networks of Trade and Communication
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The World Map of Piri Reis
DOCUMENT
The Coming of Ismail Safavi Foretold
DOCUMENT
The Idea of Seclusion and Lady Nurjahan
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Religious Tolerance Under Akbar
13. East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300-1650
China: The Ming Dynasty
Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society
Japan: The Era of ShMguns and Warring States
Southeast Asia: States Within a Region
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Map of China's Ancient Heartland, circa 1500 C.E.
DOCUMENT
Zhang Han's Essay on Merchants
DOCUMENT
Sotoba Komachi, a Fourteenth-Century Japanese NM Play
DOCUMENT
A Traveller's Account of Siam
SEEING CONNECTIONS
A Giraffe in the Ming Court
14. European Cultural and Religious Transformations
The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300-1600
An Era of General Crisis
The Italian Renaissancen
Italian Renaissance Art
The Northern Renaissance
The Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300-1517
Luther and the German Reformation
Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation
Protestantism from Switzerland to Holland
Reform in the Catholic Church
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Lagoon of Venice
DOCUMENT
Machiavelli, The Prince: On Cruelty and Mercy
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Marco Polo's Book of Wonders
DOCUMENT
Anne Ayscough (Mrs. Thomas Kyme), English Protestant Martyr
15. State Development in Europe:
Western and Central Europe, Russia, and the Balkans to 1650
Western and Central Europe, 1300-1500
Politics, Diplomacy, and the Wars of Religions, 1556-1598
The Austrian Hapsburgs and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Russia: From the Tatar Yoke to the Romanovs
The Balkans: Byzantine Collapse and Ottoman Rule
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Battle of Kahlenberg
DOCUMENT
Simplicissimus on the Horrors of the Thirty Years' War
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Fall of Constantinople
16. Global Encounters:
Europe and the New World Economy, 1400-1650
The Iberian Golden Age
The Portuguese and Africa
The Growth of New Spain
Iberian Systems in the New World
Beginnings of Northern European Expansion
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Savage Pictures: Sebastian Munster's Map of Africa
DOCUMENT
Portuguese Encounters with Africans
DOCUMENT
Disease and the Spanish Conquest omen
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Portuguese in Benin
17. Absolutism and Limited Central Power in Europe, 1650-1774:
Politics during the First Age of Capitalism
Louis XIV, the Sun King: The Model for European Absolutism
The Gravitational Pull of French Absolutism
Holland and England: Limited Central Power
Breaking the Bank: Diplomacy and War: 1650-1774
The Decline of European Absolutism, the Example of Louis XV: 1715-1774
Capitalism and the Forces of Change
Social Crises During the Capitalist Revolution
DOCUMENT
Catherine II on Life in St. Petersburg in 1750
DOCUMENT
Conditions Among Eighteenth-Century French Peasants
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Elegant Destruction of Poland
SEEING CONNECTIONS
A New Product from the New World: Tobacco
18. New Ideas and Their Political Consequences:
The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolutions
Discovering the Laws of Nature: the Scientific Revolution
The Age of Reason and the Ancien Regime
The Failure of Monarchical Reform
The French Revolution: The Domestic Phase, 1789-1799
The French Revolution: The Napoleonic Phase, 1799-1815
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Heliocentric Cosmos of Copernicus
The Widening Scope of Scientific Discovery
DOCUMENT
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
DOCUMENT
Olympe de Gouges on the Rights of Women
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Benjamin Franklin in Paris
19. Africa in the World Economy, 1650-1850
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The End of the Slave Trade in West Africa
Islamic Africa
Africans and European Settlement in Southern Africa
African State Formation in Eastern and Northeastern Africa
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Myth of the Empty Land
DOCUMENT
A Slave's Memoir
DOCUMENT
Usman dan Fodio on Women and Islam
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Moshoeshoe in European Dress
20. Asian and Middle Eastern Empires and Nations, 1650-1815
The Ottomans in the Early Modern Era
Muslim Politics in Persia
Early Modern India Under the Mughals
The Qing Dynasty Before the Opium War
Korea in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Early Modern Japan: The Tokugawa Period
Southeast Asia: Political and Cultural Interactions
Europeans in the New Pacific Frontiers
DOCUMENT
Lady Montagu, Florence Nightingale, and the Myths of "Orient"
DOCUMENT
Lan Dingyuan, County Magistrate: Depraved Religious Sects Deceive People
DOCUMENT
Ihara Saikaku: "The Umbrella Oracle"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Jesuits in the Ming Court
21. The Americas, 1650-1825:
From European Dominance to Independence
The Iberian Colonies: 1650-1789
The West Indies
Breaking Away: The Creation of the United States of America
Haiti: The First Successful Slave Revolution
The Latin American Revolutions
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Island of California
DOCUMENT
Letter from Abigail Adams
DOCUMENT
Simon Bolivar, Proclamation to the People of Venezuela
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Gold and Precious Stones in Brazil
22. Industrialization:
Social, Political, and Cultural Transformations
The Industrial Revolution: British Phase
Industrialization: Continental Phase
The Workers: The Manchester Microcosm
Socialism and Industrialization
The Middle Classes
Science, Technology, and the Second Industrial Revolution
Cultural Responses to the Age
DOCUMENT
Child Labor
DOCUMENT
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861)
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Singer Sewing Machines in Zululand
23. Europe, 1815-1914:
Political Change and Diplomatic Failure
Reassembling Europe, 1815-1850
1848: The Revolutionary Year
Prussia, German Unification, and the Second Reich
The Decline of Austria
Italy to 1914
France: The Second Empire and the Third Republic
The United Kingdom: Reform and Stability
Russia: Reform and Revolution
The "Eastern Question" and the Failure of European Diplomacy to 1914
DOCUMENT
Bismarck and the Ems Dispatch
DOCUMENT
Emmeline Pankhurst, from "My Own Story..."
SEEING CONNECTIONS
French and German Rivalry
24. Africa and the Middle East During the Age of European Imperialism
European Conquest of Africa
European Technology and the African Response to Conquest
The Mineral Revolution in South Africa and the Anglo-Boer War
Colonial Rule in Africa
The Growth of Christianity and Islam in Africa
The Ottoman Empire Refashioned
Iran and the Great Power Struggle
DOCUMENT
That Was No Brother
DOCUMENT
General von Trotha's Extermination Order
DOCUMENT
A Middle Eastern Vision of the West
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Suez Canal
25. Imperialism and Modernity in Asia and the Pacific, 1815-1914:
India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and Oceania
India
Southeast Asia
China: The Long Nineteenth Century
Japan: Modernity and Imperialism
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
DOCUMENT
The Great Revolt of 1857-1858
DOCUMENT
Lin Zexu on the Opium Trade
DOCUMENT
"The Beefeater"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Western Houses in Tokyo
26. The Americas, 1825-1914;
The Challenges of Independence
Challenges to Latin American States After Independence
Latin America, 1875-1914
The United States
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
An American View of the World in the 1820s
DOCUMENT
Newspaper Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Brazil
DOCUMENT
Jose Marti's Observations on the United States and Cuba
DOCUMENT
Susan Anthony, On Women's Right to Vote
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Paris of the Pampas
27. World War I and Its Economic and Political Consequences
World War I
The Allied Peace Settlement
Economic Disasters
Politics in the Democracies
The Western Tradition in Transition: Changing Certainties
DOCUMENT
The Western Front: Christmas 1914
DOCUMENT
John Maynard Keynes on Clemenceau
SEEING CONNECTIONS
African American recipients of the Croix de Guerre
28. The Failure of the Liberal Model and the Rise of Authoritarianism:
Japan, Italy, Germany, and the USSR, 1917-1940
Japan: From Budding Democracy to Militarist State
A European Response to Liberal Decline: Fascism
Italy and Mussolini
The German Tragedy
Revolutions in Russia: 1917 and 1928-1939
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Wishful Thinking: A Nazi Tourism Map
DOCUMENT
The New German Woman
DOCUMENT
Stalin and State Terror
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Mussolini and Imperial Destiny
29. Forging New Nations in Asia, 1910-1950
China: Revolution and Republic
Korea: From Monarchy to Colony
Nationalism in Southeast Asia
India: The Drive for Independence
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
What's in a Name? Siam or Thailand?
DOCUMENT
Lu Xun and China's May Fourth Generation
DOCUMENT
Gandhi and "Truth-Force"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Gandhi the Civil Rights Leader
30. National Movements and the Drive for Independence in the Middle East and Africa from the 1920s to 1950s
The Middle East Divided
The Challenge to Colonial Rule in Africa
Pan-Africanism
World War II and Its Aftermath
Decolonization
DOCUMENT
We Have Not Come as Conquerors, But as Liberators
DOCUMENT
The Color Line Belts the World
DOCUMENT
Pass Laws and African Women in South Africa
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Hashimite Family
31. World War II:
Origins and Consequences, 1919-1946
The Troubled Calm: The West in the 1920s
Epoch of the Aggressors
World War II
Postwar Settlements
DOCUMENT
Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back
DOCUMENT
The Hossbach Memorandum
DOCUMENT
The Nazi Death Camps
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Modern Civilization and Mass Killing
32. Europe and the United States Since 1945:
The Cold War and After
The Cold War: The US and The USSR in Global Competition to 1991
The Soviet Union and the Russian Republic
Eastern Europe: From Soviet Control to Independence
Western Europe
The United States
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Massive Retaliatory Power, 1954
DOCUMENT
Khrushchev's Address to the Twentieth Party Congress
DOCUMENT
Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam, A Time to Break Silence"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
JFK and Khrushchev
33. The Middle East and Africa Since 1945:
The Struggle for Survival
The Middle East: Religion and Politics
Africa: The Search for National Identities
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Borders and Identities: The UN Partition Plan
DOCUMENT
The Village That Has "Eaten Itself Limb by Limb"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Ayatollah Khomeini
34. Latin America Since 1910:
Reform, Repression, and Revolution
Latin America: 1910-1945
The Perils of the Post-War Era
South America
The Caribbean
Mexico
Central America
DOCUMENT
President Hugo Chavez's 2006 Address to the U.N. General Assembly
DOCUMENT
Evita Speaks
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Lucha Libre
35. Asia and the South Pacific since 1945:
Political, Economic, and Social Revolutions
The People's Republic of China and Other Chinese Countries
Japan: From Defeat to Dominance to Doubt
Korea: A Nation Divided
Southeast Asia
The Subcontinent
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
DOCUMENT
Mao on Communism in China
DOCUMENT
Kora Rumiko, "When the War Ended"
DOCUMENT
Benazir Bhutto at Harvard
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Transistor
36. Into the 21st Century: An Uncertain Future
An Uncertain Future
Economics: The Tension Between Dollars and Sense
The Promises and Perils of Technology
People on the Move in a Changing World
Toward a World Culture
Looming Challenges
Reasons for Hope
DOCUMENT
Muhammad Yunus's Acceptance Speech for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
DOCUMENT
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
DOCUMENT
Wangari Maathai, A Matter of Life or Death
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Earth
The Origins of Humankind
Preliterate Cultures
Preliterate Society and Religion
Mesopotamia: The First Civilization
The Babylonian Empire, c. 2000-1600 B.C.E.
Egypt: Gift of the Nile
Mesopotamian Successors to Babylon, c. 1600-550 B.C.E.
The Persian Empire, 550-331B.C.E.
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Oldest Known Map: Catul Hueyuek
DOCUMENT
"The Great Hymn to the Aton" and Psalm 104
DOCUMENT
Dining with the Great King: A Persian Royal Feast
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Pyramids of Meroe
2. Early Chinese Civilization:
From Neolithic Origins to 220 C.E.
The Origins of China, 6500-221B.C.E.
The Qin and Han Empires, 221 B.C.E.-220 C.E.
DOCUMENT
The Wisdom of Confucius
DOCUMENT
Legalism: The Theories of Han Feizi (d. 233 B.C.E.)
DOCUMENT
"The Mother of Mencius" from Biographies of Heroic Women by Liu Xiang
SEEING CONNECTIONS
War Chariots
3. Early Indian Civilizations
From Neolithic Origins to 300 C.E.
Early India
Dramatic Developments in Religion and Culture, 600-320B.C.E.
The Mauryan Empire and Other Kingdoms, 320 B.C.E.-300 C.E.
Emergent Hinduism and Buddhism, 200 B.C.E.-300 C.E.
The Meeting of East and West: Networks of Exchange
DOCUMENT
Rig-Veda: Creation and the Kinds of Men
DOCUMENT
The Jains on the Souls in All Things
DOCUMENT
The Ramayana: The Trial of Sita
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Goddess Lakshmi in Pompeii
4. Greece
Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000-30 B.C.E.
Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations, c. 2000-1200 B.C.E.
The Development of Hellenic Civilization, c. 1150-500 B.C.E.
The Golden Age of Greece, 500-336 B.C.E.
The Greek Cultural Achievement
The Hellenistic Age, 336-30 B.C.E.
Hellenistic Society and Culture
DOCUMENT
Homer-The Iliad: Andromache and Hector
DOCUMENT
Pericles' Funeral Oration
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The World According to Herodotus, c. 450 B.C.E.
DOCUMENT
Arrian: Alexander the Leader
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Buddha and Heracles
5. Roman Civilization
The Roman World, c. 900 B.C.E. to 476 C.E.
Early Italy and the Origins of Rome, c. 900-509 B.C.E.
The Republic and the Roman Conquest of Italy: 509-133 B.C.E.
The Late Republic: 133-30 B.C.E.
The Roman Empire and the Pax Romana: 30 B.C.E.-476 C.E.
The Growth of Early Christianity
The Roman Legacy
DOCUMENT
Columella: Roman Farm Women
DOCUMENT
Plutarch-The Murder of Tiberius Gracchus
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Roman Ruins of Nubia
6. The Eastern Mediterranean World, 300-750 CE
The Eastern Mediterranean Milieu
The Sasanid Empire
Byzantium, Constantinople, and Christianity
Muhammad and the Birth of Islam
The Arab-Islamic Empire
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
A Sixth-Century Map: The Madaba Mosaic
DOCUMENT
The Ecumenical Councils and Heresies
DOCUMENT
The Qur'an
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Great Mosque of Damascus
7. The Islamic World, 800-1300 CE
The Early Abbasid Caliphate, 750-1000
The Shaping of Early Islamic Faith and Culture
The Fatamid Empire, 909-1171
Turkic Peoples and the Islamic Near East, 1000-1200
Al-Andalus: Islamic Iberia, 700-1100
Resisting the Latin Crusades
The Islamic World, 1100-1300: Unity and Diversity
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
An Islamic Map of the World
DOCUMENT
The History of Ahmad ibn Abi Ya`qub al-Ya`qubi
DOCUMENT
Ibn Sina's Path to Wisdom
SEEING CONNECTIONS
A Mamluk Incense Burner
8. African Beginnings:
African Civilizations to 1500 C.E.
The African Environment
African Cultural Patterns
The Peopling of Africa
The Bantu Dispersion
Ethiopia and Northeastern Africa
Empires of the Western Sudan
Swahili City-States and the Indian Ocean Economy
Kingdoms of Central and Southern Africa
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Mansa Musa and The Catalan Atlas of 1375
DOCUMENT
Oral Traditions and History
DOCUMENT
Emperor Zar'a Ya'kob's Coronation and His Concern for the Church
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Chinese in Africa
9. The Formation of Christian Europe, 476-1300 C.E.
The Catholic Church in the Early Middle Ages
The Merovingians and Carolingians
Feudalism and Manorialism
The Revival of Trade and Towns
The Catholic Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000-1300
The Crusades
The Development of Western European States: 1000-1300
Byzantium In Its Golden Age and Decline
Russia and the Nations of Southeastern Europe
DOCUMENT
Charlemagne: A Contemporary Profile
DOCUMENT
The First Crusade Takes Jerusalem
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Muslim and Christian Chess Players
DOCUMENT
Vladimir Accepts Orthodox Christianity
10. Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220-1350
India and Southeast Asia in the Classical and Medieval Eras
China: Cultural and Political Empires
Korea: From Three Kingdoms to One
The Emergence of Japan
Oceania
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Gog and Magog in the Ebstorf Mappamundi
DOCUMENT
Bo Juyi (772-846): "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow"
DOCUMENT
Faxian: A Chinese Buddhist Monk in Gupta India
DOCUMENT
Sei Sh?onagon: The Pillow Book
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Biwa from the Imperial Treasury at Nara
11. The Americas to 1500
Origins of The First Americans and Their Cultures
Emerging Civilizations in Mesoamerica
Classical Mayan Civilization
The Postclassical Era
The Amerindians of North America
DOCUMENT
Father Bernabe Cobo, "Pachacuti, the Greatest Inca"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Aztec Sun Stone
12.The Great Dynastic Empires of Eurasia, 1300-1650
New Polities in Eurasia
The Ottoman Empire
The Safavid Empire in Iran
The Mughal Empire in South Asia
Networks of Trade and Communication
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The World Map of Piri Reis
DOCUMENT
The Coming of Ismail Safavi Foretold
DOCUMENT
The Idea of Seclusion and Lady Nurjahan
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Religious Tolerance Under Akbar
13. East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300-1650
China: The Ming Dynasty
Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society
Japan: The Era of ShMguns and Warring States
Southeast Asia: States Within a Region
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Map of China's Ancient Heartland, circa 1500 C.E.
DOCUMENT
Zhang Han's Essay on Merchants
DOCUMENT
Sotoba Komachi, a Fourteenth-Century Japanese NM Play
DOCUMENT
A Traveller's Account of Siam
SEEING CONNECTIONS
A Giraffe in the Ming Court
14. European Cultural and Religious Transformations
The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300-1600
An Era of General Crisis
The Italian Renaissancen
Italian Renaissance Art
The Northern Renaissance
The Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300-1517
Luther and the German Reformation
Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation
Protestantism from Switzerland to Holland
Reform in the Catholic Church
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Lagoon of Venice
DOCUMENT
Machiavelli, The Prince: On Cruelty and Mercy
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Marco Polo's Book of Wonders
DOCUMENT
Anne Ayscough (Mrs. Thomas Kyme), English Protestant Martyr
15. State Development in Europe:
Western and Central Europe, Russia, and the Balkans to 1650
Western and Central Europe, 1300-1500
Politics, Diplomacy, and the Wars of Religions, 1556-1598
The Austrian Hapsburgs and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Russia: From the Tatar Yoke to the Romanovs
The Balkans: Byzantine Collapse and Ottoman Rule
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Battle of Kahlenberg
DOCUMENT
Simplicissimus on the Horrors of the Thirty Years' War
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Fall of Constantinople
16. Global Encounters:
Europe and the New World Economy, 1400-1650
The Iberian Golden Age
The Portuguese and Africa
The Growth of New Spain
Iberian Systems in the New World
Beginnings of Northern European Expansion
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Savage Pictures: Sebastian Munster's Map of Africa
DOCUMENT
Portuguese Encounters with Africans
DOCUMENT
Disease and the Spanish Conquest omen
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Portuguese in Benin
17. Absolutism and Limited Central Power in Europe, 1650-1774:
Politics during the First Age of Capitalism
Louis XIV, the Sun King: The Model for European Absolutism
The Gravitational Pull of French Absolutism
Holland and England: Limited Central Power
Breaking the Bank: Diplomacy and War: 1650-1774
The Decline of European Absolutism, the Example of Louis XV: 1715-1774
Capitalism and the Forces of Change
Social Crises During the Capitalist Revolution
DOCUMENT
Catherine II on Life in St. Petersburg in 1750
DOCUMENT
Conditions Among Eighteenth-Century French Peasants
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Elegant Destruction of Poland
SEEING CONNECTIONS
A New Product from the New World: Tobacco
18. New Ideas and Their Political Consequences:
The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolutions
Discovering the Laws of Nature: the Scientific Revolution
The Age of Reason and the Ancien Regime
The Failure of Monarchical Reform
The French Revolution: The Domestic Phase, 1789-1799
The French Revolution: The Napoleonic Phase, 1799-1815
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Heliocentric Cosmos of Copernicus
The Widening Scope of Scientific Discovery
DOCUMENT
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
DOCUMENT
Olympe de Gouges on the Rights of Women
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Benjamin Franklin in Paris
19. Africa in the World Economy, 1650-1850
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The End of the Slave Trade in West Africa
Islamic Africa
Africans and European Settlement in Southern Africa
African State Formation in Eastern and Northeastern Africa
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Myth of the Empty Land
DOCUMENT
A Slave's Memoir
DOCUMENT
Usman dan Fodio on Women and Islam
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Moshoeshoe in European Dress
20. Asian and Middle Eastern Empires and Nations, 1650-1815
The Ottomans in the Early Modern Era
Muslim Politics in Persia
Early Modern India Under the Mughals
The Qing Dynasty Before the Opium War
Korea in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Early Modern Japan: The Tokugawa Period
Southeast Asia: Political and Cultural Interactions
Europeans in the New Pacific Frontiers
DOCUMENT
Lady Montagu, Florence Nightingale, and the Myths of "Orient"
DOCUMENT
Lan Dingyuan, County Magistrate: Depraved Religious Sects Deceive People
DOCUMENT
Ihara Saikaku: "The Umbrella Oracle"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Jesuits in the Ming Court
21. The Americas, 1650-1825:
From European Dominance to Independence
The Iberian Colonies: 1650-1789
The West Indies
Breaking Away: The Creation of the United States of America
Haiti: The First Successful Slave Revolution
The Latin American Revolutions
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
The Island of California
DOCUMENT
Letter from Abigail Adams
DOCUMENT
Simon Bolivar, Proclamation to the People of Venezuela
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Gold and Precious Stones in Brazil
22. Industrialization:
Social, Political, and Cultural Transformations
The Industrial Revolution: British Phase
Industrialization: Continental Phase
The Workers: The Manchester Microcosm
Socialism and Industrialization
The Middle Classes
Science, Technology, and the Second Industrial Revolution
Cultural Responses to the Age
DOCUMENT
Child Labor
DOCUMENT
Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861)
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Singer Sewing Machines in Zululand
23. Europe, 1815-1914:
Political Change and Diplomatic Failure
Reassembling Europe, 1815-1850
1848: The Revolutionary Year
Prussia, German Unification, and the Second Reich
The Decline of Austria
Italy to 1914
France: The Second Empire and the Third Republic
The United Kingdom: Reform and Stability
Russia: Reform and Revolution
The "Eastern Question" and the Failure of European Diplomacy to 1914
DOCUMENT
Bismarck and the Ems Dispatch
DOCUMENT
Emmeline Pankhurst, from "My Own Story..."
SEEING CONNECTIONS
French and German Rivalry
24. Africa and the Middle East During the Age of European Imperialism
European Conquest of Africa
European Technology and the African Response to Conquest
The Mineral Revolution in South Africa and the Anglo-Boer War
Colonial Rule in Africa
The Growth of Christianity and Islam in Africa
The Ottoman Empire Refashioned
Iran and the Great Power Struggle
DOCUMENT
That Was No Brother
DOCUMENT
General von Trotha's Extermination Order
DOCUMENT
A Middle Eastern Vision of the West
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Suez Canal
25. Imperialism and Modernity in Asia and the Pacific, 1815-1914:
India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and Oceania
India
Southeast Asia
China: The Long Nineteenth Century
Japan: Modernity and Imperialism
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
DOCUMENT
The Great Revolt of 1857-1858
DOCUMENT
Lin Zexu on the Opium Trade
DOCUMENT
"The Beefeater"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Western Houses in Tokyo
26. The Americas, 1825-1914;
The Challenges of Independence
Challenges to Latin American States After Independence
Latin America, 1875-1914
The United States
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
An American View of the World in the 1820s
DOCUMENT
Newspaper Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Brazil
DOCUMENT
Jose Marti's Observations on the United States and Cuba
DOCUMENT
Susan Anthony, On Women's Right to Vote
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Paris of the Pampas
27. World War I and Its Economic and Political Consequences
World War I
The Allied Peace Settlement
Economic Disasters
Politics in the Democracies
The Western Tradition in Transition: Changing Certainties
DOCUMENT
The Western Front: Christmas 1914
DOCUMENT
John Maynard Keynes on Clemenceau
SEEING CONNECTIONS
African American recipients of the Croix de Guerre
28. The Failure of the Liberal Model and the Rise of Authoritarianism:
Japan, Italy, Germany, and the USSR, 1917-1940
Japan: From Budding Democracy to Militarist State
A European Response to Liberal Decline: Fascism
Italy and Mussolini
The German Tragedy
Revolutions in Russia: 1917 and 1928-1939
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Wishful Thinking: A Nazi Tourism Map
DOCUMENT
The New German Woman
DOCUMENT
Stalin and State Terror
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Mussolini and Imperial Destiny
29. Forging New Nations in Asia, 1910-1950
China: Revolution and Republic
Korea: From Monarchy to Colony
Nationalism in Southeast Asia
India: The Drive for Independence
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
What's in a Name? Siam or Thailand?
DOCUMENT
Lu Xun and China's May Fourth Generation
DOCUMENT
Gandhi and "Truth-Force"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Gandhi the Civil Rights Leader
30. National Movements and the Drive for Independence in the Middle East and Africa from the 1920s to 1950s
The Middle East Divided
The Challenge to Colonial Rule in Africa
Pan-Africanism
World War II and Its Aftermath
Decolonization
DOCUMENT
We Have Not Come as Conquerors, But as Liberators
DOCUMENT
The Color Line Belts the World
DOCUMENT
Pass Laws and African Women in South Africa
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Hashimite Family
31. World War II:
Origins and Consequences, 1919-1946
The Troubled Calm: The West in the 1920s
Epoch of the Aggressors
World War II
Postwar Settlements
DOCUMENT
Erich Maria Remarque, The Road Back
DOCUMENT
The Hossbach Memorandum
DOCUMENT
The Nazi Death Camps
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Modern Civilization and Mass Killing
32. Europe and the United States Since 1945:
The Cold War and After
The Cold War: The US and The USSR in Global Competition to 1991
The Soviet Union and the Russian Republic
Eastern Europe: From Soviet Control to Independence
Western Europe
The United States
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Massive Retaliatory Power, 1954
DOCUMENT
Khrushchev's Address to the Twentieth Party Congress
DOCUMENT
Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam, A Time to Break Silence"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
JFK and Khrushchev
33. The Middle East and Africa Since 1945:
The Struggle for Survival
The Middle East: Religion and Politics
Africa: The Search for National Identities
DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPS
Borders and Identities: The UN Partition Plan
DOCUMENT
The Village That Has "Eaten Itself Limb by Limb"
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Ayatollah Khomeini
34. Latin America Since 1910:
Reform, Repression, and Revolution
Latin America: 1910-1945
The Perils of the Post-War Era
South America
The Caribbean
Mexico
Central America
DOCUMENT
President Hugo Chavez's 2006 Address to the U.N. General Assembly
DOCUMENT
Evita Speaks
SEEING CONNECTIONS
Lucha Libre
35. Asia and the South Pacific since 1945:
Political, Economic, and Social Revolutions
The People's Republic of China and Other Chinese Countries
Japan: From Defeat to Dominance to Doubt
Korea: A Nation Divided
Southeast Asia
The Subcontinent
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
DOCUMENT
Mao on Communism in China
DOCUMENT
Kora Rumiko, "When the War Ended"
DOCUMENT
Benazir Bhutto at Harvard
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Transistor
36. Into the 21st Century: An Uncertain Future
An Uncertain Future
Economics: The Tension Between Dollars and Sense
The Promises and Perils of Technology
People on the Move in a Changing World
Toward a World Culture
Looming Challenges
Reasons for Hope
DOCUMENT
Muhammad Yunus's Acceptance Speech for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize
DOCUMENT
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
DOCUMENT
Wangari Maathai, A Matter of Life or Death
SEEING CONNECTIONS
The Earth