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| Note: Each chapter includes a Conclusion, Key Terms, Suggested Reading, and Notes | |
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| From the Origins of Agriculture to the First River-Valley Civilizations, 80001500 B.C.E. | |
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| Before Civilization Mesopotamia Egypt | |
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| The Indus Valley Civilization Diversity and Dominance: Violence and Order in the Babylonian New Year's Festival | |
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| New Civilizations in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 2200250 B.C.E. | |
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| Early China, 2000221 B.C.E. | |
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| Nubia, 3100 B.C.E.350 C.E. | |
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| Celtic Europe, 100050 B.C.E. | |
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| First Civilizations of the Americas | |
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| The Olmec and Chaviacute;n, 1200250 B.C.E. | |
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| Diversity and Dominance: Hierarchy and Conduct in the Analects of Confucius | |
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| The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000500 B.C.E. | |
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| The Cosmopolitan Middle East, 17001100 B.C.E. | |
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| The Aegean World, 20001100 B.C.E. | |
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| The Assyrian Empire, 911612 B.C.E. | |
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| Israel, 2000500 B.C.E. | |
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| Phoenicia and the Mediterranean, 1200500 B.C.E. | |
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| Failure and Transformation, 750550 B.C.E. | |
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| Part Two | |
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| Greece and Iran, 100030 B.C.E. / | |
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| India, 1500 B.C.E.550 C.E. | |
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| Ancient Iran The Rise of the Greeks | |
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| The Struggle of Persia and Greece | |
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| The Hellenistic Synthesis Foundations of Indian Civilization Imperial Expansion and Collapse Diversity and Dominance: The Persian Idea of Kingship | |
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| Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.330 C.E. | |
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| Rome's Creation of a Mediterranean Empire, 753 B.C.E.330 C.E. | |
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| The Origins of Imperial China, 221 B.C.E.220 C.E. | |
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| Imperial Parallels | |
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| Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.600 C.E. | |
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| The Silk Road The Sasanid Empire, 224600 | |
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| The Indian Ocean Maritime System Routes Across the Sahara Sub-Saharan Africa | |
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| The Spread of Ideas Diversity and Dominance: The Indian Ocean Trading World | |
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| Part Three | |
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| The Rise of Islam, 6001200 | |
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| The Origins of Islam | |
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| The Rise and Fall of the Caliphate, 6321258 | |
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| Islamic Civilization Diversity and Dominance: Beggars, Con Men, and Singing-Girls | |
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| Christian Europe Emerges, 6001200 | |
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| The Byzantine Empire, 6001200 | |
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| The Western Church Kievan Russia, 9001200 | |
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| The Crusades, 10951204 | |
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| Central and Eastern Asia, 4001200 | |
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| The Sui and Tang Empires, 581755 | |
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| Fractured Power in Central Asia and China, to 907 | |
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| The Emergence of East Asia, to 1200 | |
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| Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 2001500 | |
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| Classic-Era Culture and Society in Mesoamerica, 200900 | |
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| The Postclassic Period in Mesoamerica, 9001500 | |
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| Northern Peoples Andean Civilizations, 2001500 | |
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| Diversity and Dominance: Burials as Historical Texts | |
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| Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 12001500 | |
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| The Rise of the Mongols, 12001260 | |
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| The Mongols and Islam, 12601500 | |
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| Regional Responses in Western Eurasia Mongol Domination in China, 12711368 | |
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| The Early Ming Empire, 13681500 | |
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| Centralization and Militarism in East Asia, 12001500 | |
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| Tropical Africa and Asia, 12001500 | |
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| Tropical Lands and Peoples New Islamic Empires Indian Ocean Trade Social and Cultural Change | |
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| The Latin West, 12001500 | |
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| Rural Growth and Crisis Urban Revival Learning, Literature, and the Renaissance Political and Military Transformations Diversity and Dominance: Persecution and Protection of Jews, 12721349 | |
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| The Maritime Revolution, to 1550 Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450 Iberian Expansion, 14001550 | |
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| Encounters with Europe, 14501550 Diversi | |