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| Foreword | |
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| Ancient Civilizations | |
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| Earliest Settlements, c. 8000 BC | |
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| Mesopotamia, c. 2279 BC | |
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| Civilization of the Indus Valley, c. 2750 BC | |
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| The Babylonian Empire | |
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| The Hittite Empire | |
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| Bronze Age China | |
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| The Indo-Europeans | |
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| The Persian Empire under Darius I, c. 520 BC | |
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| The Feuding States of China, 403-221 BC | |
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| Alexander's Campaigns in Asia Minor | |
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| Alexander's Successors | |
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| Communication, Commerce, and Culture | |
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| The Mauryan Empire in India, c. 322 BC | |
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| The Unification of China | |
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| The Silk Road, c. 112 BC | |
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| The Han Dynasty in China | |
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| The Sasanian Empire | |
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| The Gupta Empire, AD 320-480 | |
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| The Expansion of Persia | |
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| Arab Conquests, AD 632-718 | |
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| Philosophies and Empires | |
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| The Taika Reform of Japan, 646-710 | |
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| T'ang China | |
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| Sung China | |
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| Byzantium and the Seljuk Turks | |
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| The Christian Crusades | |
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| Sumatra and the Srivijaya Kingdom | |
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| Muslim Empire in India, c. 1175 | |
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| The Empire of Angkor, c. 1180 | |
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| Mongol Conquests | |
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| The Empire of the Great Khan | |
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| Conquest, Consolidation, and Decline | |
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| Chinese Expansion during the Ming Dynasty | |
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| The Conquests of Tamerlane | |
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| Expansion of the Ottoman Turks | |
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| Decline of the Ottoman Empire | |
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| Colonialism | |
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| The Mughal Dynasty in India, 1526-1707 | |
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| European Expansion in Asia, 1800-1900 | |
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| China under the Manchu Dynasty | |
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| Russian Expansion into Asia, 1581-1900 | |
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| British Conquest of India | |
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| Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895 | |
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| Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 | |
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| Mustafa Kemal and Turkish Nationalism | |
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| Revolution and Invasion in China, 1912-1939 | |
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| Japan's Imperial Grasp | |
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| Nuclear War, 1945 | |
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| Imperial Sunset | |
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| Asia Today | |
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| Communism in China and the Korean War | |
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| Vietnam, 1961-1973 | |
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| South Asia: Conflict and Growth | |
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| The Asian Economic Miracle | |
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| Modern China | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| Acknowledgments | |