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| Volume 2: From 1500 | |
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| Preface | |
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| Prologue: Considering World History | |
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| Why World History? | |
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| Comparison, Connection, and Change: The Three Cs of World History | |
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| The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century | |
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| Snapshot: Around the World in the Fifteenth Century | |
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| The Shapes of Human Communities | |
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| Paleolithic Persistence | |
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| Agricultural Village Societies | |
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| Herding Peoples | |
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| Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: Comparing | |
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| China and Europe | |
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| Ming Dynasty China | |
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| European Comparisons: State-Building and Cultural Renewal | |
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| European Comparisons: Maritime Voyaging | |
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| Snapshot: Key Moments in European Oceanic Voyaging | |
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| Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: The Islamic World | |
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| In the Islamic Heartland: The Ottoman and Safavid Empires | |
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| On the Frontiers of Islam: The Songhay and Mughal Empires | |
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| Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: The "Americas" | |
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| The Aztec Empire | |
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| The Inca Empire | |
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| Webs of Connection | |
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| A Preview of Coming Attractions: Looking Ahead to the Modern Era, 1500-2000 | |
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| Snapshot: World Population Growth, 1000-2000 | |
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| Reflections: What If? Chance and Contingency in | |
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| World History | |
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| Second Thoughts | |
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| What's the Significance? | |
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| Big Picture Questions | |
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| Next Steps: For Further Study | |
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| The Early Modern World, 1450-1750 | |
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| The Big Picture: Debating the Character of an Era | |
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| An Early Modern Era? | |
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| A Late Agrarian Era? | |
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| Landmarks of the Early Modern Era, 1450-1750 | |
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| Empires and Encounters, 1450-1750 | |
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| European Empires in the Americas | |
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| The European Advantage | |
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| The Great Dying | |
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| The Columbian Exchange | |
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| Comparing Colonial Societies in the Americas | |
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| In the Lands of the Aztecs and Incas | |
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| Colonies of Sugar | |
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| Snapshot: Comparing Colonial Societies in | |
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| Latin America | |
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| Settler Colonies in North America | |
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| Steppe Lands and Siberia: The Making of a Russian Empire | |
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| Experiencing the Russian Empire | |
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| Russians and Empire | |
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| Snapshot: Demographics of the Russian Empire | |
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| Asian Empires | |
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| Making China an Empire | |
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| Muslims and Hindus in the Mughal Empire | |
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| Muslims, Christians, and the Ottoman Empire | |
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| Reflections: Countering Eurocentrismï¿½Ç or Reflecting It | |