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| From Hunting and Gathering To Civilizations, 2.5 Million-1000 B.C.E.: Origins | |
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| The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization | |
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| A Hunter | |
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| Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers | |
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| Document: Tales of the Hunt: Paleolithic Cave Paintings as History | |
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| Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization: The Neolithic Revolution | |
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| Visualizing the Past Representations of Women in Early Art | |
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| In Depth: The Idea of Civilization in World Historical Perspective | |
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| The First Towns: Seedbeds of Civilization | |
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| Global Connections: The Neolithic Revolution as a Basis for World History | |
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| The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa | |
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| Women in Mesopotamia and Egypt | |
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| Setting the Scene: The Middle East by 4000 b.c.e. | |
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| Civilization in Mesopotamia | |
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| Visualizing the Past: Mesopotamia in Maps | |
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| Document: Hammurabi's Law Code | |
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| Ancient Egypt | |
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| Egypt and Mesopotamia Compared | |
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| In Depth: Women in Patriarchal Societies | |
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| Civilization Centers in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | |
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| The Issue of Heritage | |
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| Global Connections: The Early Civilizations and the World | |
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| Asia's First Civilizations: India and China | |
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| The Indus Valley and the Birth of South Asian Civilization | |
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| Aryan Incursions and Early Aryan Society in India | |
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| Document: Aryan Poetry in Praise of a War-Horse | |
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| A Bend in the River and the Beginnings of China | |
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| Visualizing the Past: Mapping the Rise of Civilizations | |
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| The Decline of the Shang and the Era of Zhou Dominance | |
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| In Depth: The Legacy of Asia's First Civilizations | |
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| Global Connections: Contrasting Legacies: Indus and Early Chinese Civilizations | |
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| The Classical Period, 1000 Bce-500 Ce:Uniting Large Regions | |
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| Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China | |
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| Philosophical Remedies for the Prolonged Crisis the Later Zhou | |
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| Document: Teachings of the Rival Chinese Schools | |
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| The Triumph of the Qin and Imperial Unity | |
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| In Depth: Sunzi and the Shift from Ritual Combatto "Real" War | |
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| The Han Dynasty and the Foundations of China's Classical Age | |
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| Visualizing the Past: Capital Designs and Patterns of Political Power | |
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| Global Connections: Classical China and the World | |
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| Classical Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean: Persia and Greece | |
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| The First Marathon | |
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| The Persian Empire: Parallel Power in the Middle East | |
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| The Political Character of Classical Greece | |
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| The Hellenistic Period | |
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| Creativity in Greek and Hellenistic Culture | |
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| Document: The Power of Greek Drama | |
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| Patterns of Greek and Hellenistic Society | |
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| In Depth: Defining Social History | |
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| Visualizing the Past: Commerce and Society | |
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| Global Connections: Greece and the World | |
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| Religious Rivalries and India's Golden Age | |
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| The Age of Brahman Dominance | |
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| In Depth: Inequality as the Social Norm | |
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| Religious Ferment and the Rise of Buddhism | |
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| Brahmanical Recovery and the Splendors of the Gupta Age | |
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| Visualizing the Past: The Pattern of Trade in the Ancient Eurasian World | |
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| Document: A Guardian's Farewell Speech to a Young Woman About to Be Married | |
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| Global Connections: India and the Wider World | |
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| Rome and Its Empire | |
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| Roman Legions and Army Life | |
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| The Development of Rome's Republic | |
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| Roman Culture | |
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| Document: Rome and a Values Crisis | |
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| The Institutions of Empire | |
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| The Evolution of Rome's Economic and Social Structure | |
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| Visualizing the Past: Religions in Rome | |
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| In Depth: The Classical Civilizations in Comparative Perspective | |
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| The Origins of Christianity | |
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| The Decline of Rome | |
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| Global Connections: Rome and the World | |
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| The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas | |
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| Origins of American Societies | |
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| Spread of Civilization in Mesoamerica | |
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| Document: Deciphering the Maya Glyphs | |
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| The Peoples to the North | |
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| In Depth: Different Times for Different Peoples | |
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| The Andean World | |
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| Visualizing the Past: Ancient Agriculture | |
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| Global Connections: American Civilizations and the World | |
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| The Spread of Civilizations and the Movement of Peoples | |
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| The Spread of Civilization in Africa | |
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| Document: Myths of Origin | |
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| In Depth: Language as a Historical Source | |
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| Nomadic Societies and Indo-European Migrations | |
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| Visualizing the Past: Varieties of Human Adaptation and the Potential for Civilization | |
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| The Spread of Chinese Civilization to Japan | |
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| The Scattered Societies of Polynesia | |
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| Global Connections: The Emerging Cultures | |
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| The End of the Classical Era: World History in Transition, 200-700 c.e. | |
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| Change in the Indian Ocean | |
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| Upheavals in Eastern and Southern Asia | |
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| Document: The Popularization of Buddhism | |
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| The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | |
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| In Depth: The Problem of Decline and Fall | |
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| The Development and Spread of World Religions | |
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| Visualizing the Past: Religious Geography | |
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| Global Connections: The Late Classical Period and the World | |
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| The Postclassical Period, 500-1450: New Faith and New Commerce | |
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| The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam | |
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| Desert and Town: The Arabian World and the Birth of Islam | |
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| The Life of Muhammad and the Genesis of Islam | |
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| The Arab Empire of the Umayyads | |
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| In Depth: Civilization and Gender Relationships | |
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| From Arab to Islamic Empire: The Early Abbasid Era | |
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| Document: The Thousand and One Nights as a Mirror of Elite Society in the Abbasid Era | |
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| Visualizing the Past: The Mosque as a Symbol of Islamic Civilization | |
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| Global Connections: Early Islam and the World | |
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| Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia | |
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| The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle and Late Abbasid Eras | |
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| Document:Ibn Khaldun on the Rise and Decline of Empires | |
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| An Age of Learning and Artistic Refinements | |
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| Visualizing the Past:The Patterns of Islam's Global Expansion | |
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| The Coming of Islam to South Asia | |
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| The Spread of Islam to Southeast Asia | |
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| In Depth:Conversion and Accommodation in the Spread of World Religions | |
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| Global Connections:Islam: A Bridge Between Worlds | |
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| African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam | |
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| African Societies: Diversity and Similarities | |
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| Kingdoms of the Grasslands | |
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| Document:The Great Oral Tradition and the Epic of Sundiata | |
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| The Swahili Coast of East Africa | |
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| In Depth:Two Transitions in the History of World Population | |
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| Peoples of the Forest and Plains | |
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| Global Connections:Internal Development and Global Contacts | |
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| Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe | |
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| Russia Chooses a Religion | |
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| The Byzantine Empire | |
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| Visualizing the Past:Women and Power in Byzantium | |
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| The Spread of Civilization in Eastern Europe | |
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| Document:Russia Turns to Christianity | |
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| In Depth:Eastern and Western Europe: The Problem of Boundaries | |
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| Global Connections:Eastern Europe and the World | |
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| A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe | |
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| A Merchant Becomes a Saint | |
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| Stages of Postclassical Development | |
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| In Depth:Western Civilization | |
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| Western Culture in the Postclassical Era | |
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| Changing Economic and Social Forms in the Postclassical Centuries | |
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| Visualizing the Past:Peasant Labor | |
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| Document:Changing Roles for Women | |
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| The Decline of the Medieval Synthesis | |
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| Global Connections:Medieval Europe and the World | |
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| The Americas on the Eve of Invasion | |
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| Postclassic Mesoamerica, 1000-1500 c.e. | |
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| Aztec Society in Transition | |
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| Document:Aztec Women and Men | |
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| In Depth:The "Troubling" Civilizations of the Americas | |
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| Twantinsuyu: World of the Incas | |
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| Visualizing the Past:Archeological Evidence of Political Practices | |
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| The Other Indians | |
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| Global Connections:The Americas and the World | |
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| Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties | |
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| Rebuilding the Imperial Edifice in the Sui-Tang Era | |
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| Document:Ties That Bind: Paths to Power | |
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| Tang Decline and the Rise of the Song | |
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| Tang and Song Prosperity: The Basis of a Golden Age | |
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| In Depth:Artistic Expression and Social Values | |
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| Global Connections:China's World Role | |
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| The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam | |
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| Japan: The Imperial Age | |
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| The Era of Warrior Dominance | |
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| In Depth:Comparing Feudalisms | |
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| Korea: Between China and Japan | |
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| Between China and Southeast Asia: The Making of Vietnam | |
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| Visualizing the Past:What Their Portraits Tell Us: Gatekeeper Elites and the Persistence of Civilizations | |
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| Document:Literature as a Mirror of the Exchanges Between Civilized Centers | |
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| Global Connections:In the Orbit of China: The East Asian Corner of the Global System | |
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| The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur | |
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| The Mongol Empire of Chinggis Khan | |
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| Document: A European Assessment of the Virtues and Vices of the Mongols | |
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| The Mongol Drive to the West | |
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| Visualizing the Past:The Mongol Empire as a Bridge Between Civilizations | |
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| The Mongol Interlude in Chinese History | |
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| In Depth:The Eclipse of the Nomadic War Machine | |
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| Global Connections:The Mongol Linkages | |
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| The West and the Changing World Balance | |
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| The Compass: A New Sense of Direction | |
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| The Decline of the Old Order | |
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| The Rise of the West | |
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| Visualizing the Past:Population Trends | |
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| Document:Italian Renaissance Culture | |
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| Western Expansion: The Experimental Phase | |
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| Outside the World Network | |
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| In Depth:The Problem of Ethnocentrism | |
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| Global Connections:1450 and the World | |
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| The Early Modern Period, 1450-1750: The World Shrinks | |
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| The World Economy | |
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| The West's First Outreach: Maritime Power | |
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| In Depth:Causation and the West's Expansion | |
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| Toward a World Economy | |
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| Visualizing the Past:West Indian Slaveholding | |
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| Colonial Expansion | |
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| Document:Western Conquerors: Tactics and Motives | |
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| Global Connections:The World Economy-and the World | |
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| The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750 | |
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| Changes in Childhood | |
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| The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce, 1450-1650 | |
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| Science and Politics: The Next Phase of Change | |
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| Visualizing the Past:Versailles | |
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| In Depth:Elites and Masses | |
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| The West by 1750 | |
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| Document:Controversies About Women | |
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| Global Connections:Europe and the World | |
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| Maps | |
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| The Spread of Agriculture | |
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| The Spread of Human Populations | |
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| The International Bronze Age | |
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| Mesopotamia in Maps | |
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| China in the Shang and Zhou Eras | |
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| Mapping the rise of civilizations in three parts | |
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| China from the Later Zhou to the early Han | |
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| Contemporary China | |
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| Greek and Phoenician Colonies and Trade | |
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| Alexander's Empire | |
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| India at the time of the Ashoka and the Gupta Empire | |
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| Pattern of Trade in the Ancient Eurasian World | |
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| Expansion of the Roman Republic and Empire | |
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| The Spread of Christianity | |
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| Mesoamerican settlements | |
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| Civilizations of Central and South America | |
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| Spread of Polynesian Peoples | |
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| West African empires (called West African States on website) | |
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| Nomad Empires | |
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| Religious Geography | |
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| Expansion of Islam | |
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| Trade Maps in the Medieval Islamic World | |
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| Spread of Islam 7<sup>th</sup> - 8<sup>th</sup> centuries | |
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| Spread of Islam 10<sup>th</sup>- 16<sup>th</sup> centuries | |
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| Crusades | |
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| Empires of the Western Sudan | |
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| Swahili Coast and 13.3 Trade Routes in Africa | |
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| Byzantine Empire | |
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| East European Kingdoms and Slavic Expansion | |
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| Christian Reconquest of Muslim Spain | |
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| Invasions of Europe, 7<sup>th</sup> - 11<sup>th</sup> centuries | |
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| Outline Map Quiz for Civilizations of South and Central America | |
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| Inca Expansion | |
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| China in the Song and Southern Song Dynastic periods | |
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| China During the Tang | |
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| The Korean Peninsula during the Three Kingdom era | |
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| Japan in the Imperial and Warlords period | |
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| Outline map Quiz for Mongol empire | |
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| Mongol Empire as a Bridge Between Civilizations | |
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| Ptolemy map | |
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| World Boundaries 1453 and 1700 | |
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| Spain and Portugal: Explorations and Colonies ca. 1600 | |
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| French, British and Dutch holdings, ca. 1700 | |
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| Western Europe during the Renaissance and Reformation, ca. 14<sup>th</sup>-15<sup>th</sup> centuries | |
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| European Population Density c. 1600 | |