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| Detailed Contents | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Supplements | |
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| Prologue | |
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| The Origins of Civilizations | |
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| The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization | |
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| The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa | |
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| Asia's First Civilizations: India and China | |
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| The Classical Period in World History | |
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| Nomadic Challenges and Sedentary Responses | |
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| Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China | |
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| Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World | |
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| Rome and Its Empire | |
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| Religious Rivalries and India's Golden Age | |
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| The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas | |
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| The Spread of Peoples and Civilizations | |
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| The End of the Classical Era: World History in Transition, 200-700 c.e. | |
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| The Postclassical Era | |
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| The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam | |
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| Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia | |
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| African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam | |
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| Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe | |
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| A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe | |
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| The Americas on the Eve of Invasion | |
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| Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties | |
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| The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam | |
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| The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur | |
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| The West and the Changing World Balance | |
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| The World Shrinks, 1450-1750 | |
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| The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750 | |
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| The West and the World | |
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| The Rise of Russia | |
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| Early Latin America | |
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| The Muslim Empires | |
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| Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
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| Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change | |
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| Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony, 1750-1914 | |
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| The Industrialization of the West, 1760-1914 | |
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| Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order | |
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| The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920 | |
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| Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China | |
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| Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West | |
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| The 20th Century in World History | |
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| International Contacts and Conflicts, 1914-1999 | |
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| The West in the 20th Century | |
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| Russia and Eastern Europe | |
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| Japan and the Pacific Rim | |
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| Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century | |
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| Decolonization and the Decline of the European World Order | |
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| Africa and Asia in the Era of Independence | |
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| War and Revolution in China and Vietnam | |
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| A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |