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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Human Origins and Human Cultures: 5 Million BCE-10,000 BCE Building an Interpretive Framework: What do we Know and How do we Know It? | |
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| The Dry Bones Speak: 5 Million BCE-10,000 BCE What Is Paleoanthropology and Why Is It Important? | |
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| Settling Down: 10,000 BCE-1000 CE The First Cities and Why they Matter: DIGS, Texts, and Interpretations | |
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| From Village Community to City State: 10,000 BCE- 750 BCE What Are Cities and Why Are They Important? | |
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| River Valley Civilizations: 7000 BCE-750 BCE The Rise of Cities and States Along the Nile and the Indus | |
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| A Polycentric World: 1700 BCE-1000 CE Cities and States in East Asia, West Africa, and the Americas | |
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| Empire and Imperialism: 2300 BCE-1100 CE What are Empires and why are they Important? | |
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| Dawn of the Empires: 2300 BCE-300 BCE Empire-Building in West Africa, West Asia, and the Mediterranean | |
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| Rome and the Barbarians: 750 BCE-480 CE From Conquest, Colonization, and Alliance to Revolt, Bankruptcy, and Dismemberment | |
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| China: 220 BCE-910 CE Fracture and Unification: The Qin, Han, Sui, and T'ang Dynasties | |
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| Indian Empires: 1500 BCE-1100 CE Cultural Cohesion in a Divided Continent | |
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| The Rise of World Religions: 600 BCE-1500 CE Not by Bread Alone: How do Historians Understand Religion in World History? | |
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| Hinduism and Buddhism: 300 BCE-1200 CE The Sacred Subcontinent: The Spread of Religion in India and Beyond | |
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| Judaism and Christianity: 600 BCE-1100 CE Peoples of the Bible: God's Evolution in West Asia and Europe | |
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| Islam: 570 CE-1500 CE Submission to Allah: Muslim Civilization Bridges the World | |
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| World Trade: 1100-1776 CE Channels of Communication: The Exchange of Commodities, Diseases, and Culture | |
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| Establishing World Trade Routes: 1100-1500 CE The Patterns and Philosophies of Early Economic Systems | |
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| The Unification of World Trade: 1500-1776 The Invisible Hand Reaches Out: A Capitalist World System Appears | |
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| Migration: Free People and Slaves: 1300-1750 BE Fruitful and Multiply, Fill up the Earth and Subdue it: Demographic Changes in a New Global Ecumene | |
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| Demography and Migration: 1300-1750 The Movement of Peoples Around the Earth | |
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| Social Change: 1688-1914 Western Revolutions and their Export | |
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| Political Revolutions in Europe and the Americas: 1688-1850 The Birth of Human Rights in the Age of Enlightenment | |
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| The Industrial Revolution: 1740-1914 The Global Consequences of Industrial Expansion and Imperialism | |
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| Social Revolutions: 1830-1914 Urbanization, Gender Relations, and Nationalism West and East | |
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| Exploding Technologies: 1914-2000 Contested Visions of a New International Order | |
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| Technologies of Mass-Production and Destruction: 1914-2000 What Is a Technological System and Why Is It Important? | |
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| The Soviet Union and Japan: 1914-2000 Playing Technological Catch-Up with the West | |
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| China and India: 1914-2000 The Giant Agrarian Nation-Worlds | |
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| The Middle East and North Africa: 1880s-2000 Nationalism, Culture, and Technology | |
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| Sub-Saharan Africa: 1914-2000 Colonialism, Independence, and their Aftermath | |
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| Latin America: 1870-2000 The Search for an International Policy on Economics and Technology and a Domestic Policy on Ethnicity and Culture | |
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| Afterward So What? | |
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| Making Sense Of It All | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |