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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Renaissances | |
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| Logic and Compromise: England, Rome, and the Holy Roman Empire, 1100-1122 | |
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| The Crusader Enemy: Byzantium, Venice, and the Crusader kingdoms, 1100-1138 | |
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| Anarchy: England, Western Francia, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1120-1139 | |
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| The Lost Homeland: China, Dai Viet, and Khmer, 1127-1150 | |
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| Crusade Resurrected: The Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, with visitations from Germany and France, 1128-1149 | |
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| Reconquista and Rediscovery: The Spanish peninsula, 1134-1146 | |
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| Questions of Authority: France and Italy, 1135-1160 | |
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| The New Song: China, 1141-1165 | |
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| The Heiji Disturbance: Japan, 1142-1159 | |
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| Death of an Army: Goryeo, 1146-1197 | |
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| The First Plantagenet: England and Western Francia, 1147-1154 | |
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| Frederick Barbarossa: Germany and Italy, 1147-1177 | |
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| The Almohads in Spain: North Africa and Spain, 1147-1177 | |
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| "Many Nations": Africa, sometime in the twelfth century | |
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| The Last Fatimid Caliph: Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1149-1171 | |
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| Monks and Brahmans: South India, 1150-1189 | |
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| Conquest of the Willing: Northern India, 1150-1202 | |
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| Death of a Priest: England and France, 1154-1170 | |
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| Foreign Relations: Byzantium, Hungary, and the Balkans, 1157-1168 | |
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| The Venetian Problem: Byzantium and Italy, 1171-1185 | |
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| Resentments: England Ireland and France, 1171-1186 | |
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| Saladin: The Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1171-1188 | |
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| The Gempei War: Japan, 1179-1185 | |
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| Kings' Crusade: England, France, and the Turkish and Crusader kingdoms, 1188-1199 | |
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| The Sack of Constantinople: Byzantium and Europe, 1195-1204 | |
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| Invasions, Heresies, and Uprisings | |
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| Westward: Central and South America, 1200 | |
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| The Mongol School of Warfare: China, North and Central Asia, 1201-1215 | |
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| John Softsword: England and France, 1203-1213 | |
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| Sundiata of the Mali: Africa, 1263-1240 | |
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| The Jokyu War: Japan, 1203-1242 | |
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| The Unwanted Throne: The old Byzantine lands, 1204-1225 | |
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| The First Delhi Sultanate: Northern and central India, 1206-1236 | |
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| Heresy: France, 1209-1210 | |
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| Reconquest and Failure: France and the Spanish peninsula, 1210-1213 | |
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| From Bouvines to Magna Carta: France, England and the Holy Roman Empire, 1213-1217 | |
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| The Birth of the Inquisition: France, 1215-1229 | |
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| Moving Westward: China, North and Central Asia, and the Middle East, 1215-1229 | |
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| South of India: India and Sri Lanka, 1215-1283 | |
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| The Fifth Crusade: Egypt and the Crusader kingdoms, 1217-1221 | |
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| From the Golden Bull to the Baltic Crusade: Hungary, Poland, and the lands of the Lithuanians, 1218-1233 | |
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| Lakeshores, Highlands, and Hilltops: Africa, 1221-1290 | |
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| The Sixth Crusade: The Holy Roman Empire, the Crusader kingdoms, and the Ayyubid empire, 1223-1229 | |
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| The Tran Dynasty: Southeast Asia, 1224-1257 | |
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| Young Kings: England France, and the kingdoms of Spain, 1227-1242 | |
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| The Mongol Horde: Most of Asia and Europe, 122P-1248 | |
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| The Debt of Hatred: The Holy Roman Empire, 1229-1250 | |
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| The Shadow of God: India, 1236-1266 | |
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| The Seventh Crusade: France, Egypt, and Syria, 1244-1250 | |
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| The Splintering Khanate: The Mongol conquests, 1246-1264 | |
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| The Mamluks of Egypt: Egypt, Syria, and the Mongol lands, 1250-1268 | |
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| Louis the Saint: France and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1250-1267 | |
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| The Lions Den: Germany, Italy, Sicily, and England 1252-1273 | |
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| The Recapture of Constantinople: The Latin Empire and the empire of Nicaea, 1254-1261 | |
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| The Last Crusades: North Africa, Egypt, France, Italy, and the Crusader kingdoms, 1270-1291 | |
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| Kublai Khan: China, Japan, Goryeo, Champa, and the Dai Viet, 1273-1294 | |
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| The Sicilian Vespers: Germany, Italy, Sicily, Aragon, and France, 1274-1288 | |
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| The Wars of Edward I: England Scotland Wales, and France, 1275-1299 | |
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| The Second Sultanate of Delhi: India, 1287-1300 | |
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| The End of the Papal Monarchy: France, Germany, and Italy, 1301-1317 | |
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| The Appearance of the Ottomans: Byzantium and the Turks of the Il-khanate, 1302-1347 | |
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| The Fall of the Khilji: India, 1303-1320 | |
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| The Triumph of the Bruce: Scotland England and Ireland 1304-1314 | |
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| Catastrophes | |
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| The Great Famine: All of Europe, 1310-1321 | |
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| The Sultan and the Khan: Egypt, the Il-khanate, and the Golden Horde, 1310-1335 | |
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| Mansa Musa of Mali: West Africa, 1312-1360 | |
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| After the Famine: France and England, 1318-1330 | |
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| The Southern and Northern Courts: Japan, 1318-1339 | |
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| Rebellions: India, 1320-1351 | |
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| Naming the Renaissance: Germany, Italy, and France, 1322-1341 | |
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| The Cities in the Lake: Central America, 1325-1375 | |
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| A Hundred Years of War: France and England 1329-1347 | |
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| The End of the World: Asia, Europe, and India, 1338-1353 | |
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| Regroupings | |
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| The Will to War: France, England and the Spanish kingdoms, 1349-1369 | |
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| White Lotus, Red Turban: China, 1351-1382 | |
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| After the Mongols: Southeast Asia, 1351-1399 | |
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| The Turks and the Desperate Emperor: Byzantium and the lands of the Turks, with side journeys to France and Italy | |
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| The Disintegration of Delhi: India and Sri Lanka, 1352-1388 | |
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| The Union of Krewo: Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania, 1364-1399 | |
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| The Rebirth of the Mongol Horde: Central Asia, the Middle East, India, and the lands of the Rus', 1367-1399 | |
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| Compromises and Settlements: The Korean peninsula and Japan, 1368-1392 | |
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| The House of Visconti and the Papal States: France and Italy, 1368-1390 | |
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| Bad Beginnings: France and England, 1369-1381 | |
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| Dislocation: Africa, 1370-1399 | |
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| Madness and Usurpation: Castile, Portugal, England, and France, 1383-1401 | |
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| The Battle of Nicopolis: The Ottoman empire, Constantinople, and the lands of eastern Europe, 1385-1396 | |
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| The Union and Disunion of Kalmar: Scandinavia, 1387-1449 | |
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| The Hussite Uprising: Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bohemia, 1388-1419 | |
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| The Taking of France: France and England 1401-1420 | |
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| After Timurlane: The north of India, the empire of Timur, the lands of the Ottoman Turks, Egypt, and Byzantium, 1401-1415 | |
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| Endings | |
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| The Withdrawal of the Ming: China and the land of the Dai Viet, 1405-1455 | |
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| Failure: The old lands of the Holy Roman Empire and the remnants of Byzantium, 1412-1440 | |
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| Perpetual Slavery: Portugal, Castile, and Africa, 1415-1455 | |
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| The Loss of France: France and England 1422-1453 | |
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| The Fall: The Byzantine and Ottoman empires, along with Hungary, Germany, Wallachia, Bohemia, and Serbia, 1430-1453 | |
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| Notes | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Permissions | |
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| Index | |