CONTENTS Preface 1-1 Introduction: The World Through Historians' Eyes 1-9 PART ONE HUMAN ORIGINS AND HUMAN CULTURES To 10,000 B.C.E. Building an Interpretive Framework: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? 2 CHAPTER ONE The Dry Bones Speak To 10,000 B.C.E. 4 TURNING POINT The Agricultural Village 36 PART TWO SETTLING DOWN 10,000 B.C.E.-1000 C.E. The First Cities and Why They Matter: Digs, Texts, and Interpretations 40 CHAPTER TWO From Village Community to City-state Food First: The Agricultural Village 10,000 B.C.E.-750 B.C.E. 42 CHAPTER THREE River Valley Civilizations The Nile and the Indus 7000 B.C.E.-750 B.C.E. 64 CHAPTER FOUR A Polycentric World Cities and States in East Asia, the Americas, and West Africa 1700 B.C.E.-1000 C.E. 88 TURNING POINT From City-state to Empire 118 PART THREE EMPIRE AND IMPERIALISM 2000 B.C.E.-! 100 C.E. What are Empires and Why are they Important? 122 CHAPTER FIVE Dawn of the Empires Empire-building in North Africa, West Asia, and the Mediterranean 2000 B.C.E.-300 B.C.E. 124 CHAPTER six Rome and the Barbarians The Rise and Dismemberment of Empire 753 B.C.E.-1453 C.E. 162 CHAPTER SEVEN China Fracture and Unification: The Qin, Man, Sui, and Tang Dynasties 200 B.C.E.-900 C.E. 204 CHAPTER EIGHT Indian Empires Cultural Cohesion in a Divided Subcontinent 1500B.C.E.-1100 C.E. 240 TURNING POINT Politics and Religion264 PART FOUR THE RISE OF WORLD RELIGIONS 2500 B.C.E.-1500 C.E. Not by Bread Alone: Religion in World History268 CHAPTER NINE Hinduism and Buddhism The Sacred Subcontinent: The Spread of Religion in India and Beyond 1 500 B.C.E.-1200 C.E. 270 CHAPTER TEN Judaism and Christianity Peoples of the Bible: God's Evolution in West Asia and Europe 1700 B.C.E.-1100 C.E. 306 CHAPTER ELEVEN Islam Submission to Allah: Muslim Civilization Bridges the World 570C.E.-1500 C.E.344 TURNING POINT Religion and Trade385 PART FIVE GLOBAL TRADE: THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN WORLD 1 300-1 700 Trade, Traders, Disease, and Migration 388 CHAPTER TWELVE Establishing World Trade Routes The Geography and Philosophies of Early Economic Systems 1 300-1 500 390 CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Opening of the Atlantic and the Pacific Economic Growth, Religion and Renaissance, Global Connections 1 300-1 500 422 CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Unification of World Trade New Philosophies for New Trade Patterns 1 500-1 776 450 CHAPTER FIFTEEN Migration Demographic Changes in a New Global World 1 300-1 750484 TURNING POINT Comparisons Across Time 516 PART six SOCIAL CHANGE 1640-1914 Western Revolutions and their Influence518 CHAPTER SIXTEEN Political Revolutions in Europe and the Americas The Birth of Political Rights in the Age of Enlightenment 1649-1830 520 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Industrial Revolution A Global Process 1 700-1 914 560 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Nationalism, Imperialism, and Resistance Competition among Industrial Powers 1650-1914 596 TURNING POINT The Olympics and International Politics 644 PART SEVEN EXPLODING TECHNOLOGIES 1914-1991 Contested Visions of a New International Order 646 CHAPTER NINETEEN Methods of Mass Production and Destruction Technological Systems 1914-1937 648 CHAPTER TWENTY World War II To Hell and Back 1937-1949 684 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Cold War, New Nations, and Revolt Against Authority Remaking the Post-World War II World 1945-1991 724 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO China and India Into the Twenty-First Century 766 TURNING POINT From Past to Present to Future 802 PART EIGHT THE USEFULNESS OF HISTORY Understanding the Present in the Light of the Past 804 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Contemporary History: Evolution, Settlements, Politics, and Religion 806 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Contemporary History: Trade, Social Revolution, Technology, Identity 848