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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 | |