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Authors
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Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison) is Distinguished Professor of History, emerita, at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including A Concise History of the World. From 2017 to 2019 she served as the president of the World History Association.
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Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Patricia B. Ebrey (Ph.D., Columbia University) is professor of history at the University of Washington in Seattle. Editor of the Journal of Chinese History, she is the author or editor of some twenty books, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of China and Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, as well as more specialized books on Song dynasty China. In 2014 she was awarded the American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction and in 2020 the Association for Asian Studies Award for Outstanding Contributions to Asian Studies.
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Roger B. Beck
Roger B. Beck (Ph.D., Indiana University) is Distinguished Professor of African and twentieth-century world history at Eastern Illinois University. His publications include The History of South Africa; a translation of P. J. van der Merwe’s The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony, 1657–1842; and more than a hundred articles, book chapters, and reviews. In 2018 he received the Pioneer in World History award from the World History Association, its highest honor.
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Jerry Davila
Jerry Dávila (Ph.D., Brown University) is Jorge Paulo Lemann Chair of Brazilian History and directs the Global Institute at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Dictatorship in South America; Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, winner of the Latin Studies Association Brazil Section Book Prize; and Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945. He has served as president of the Conference on Latin American History.
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Clare Haru Crowston
Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Professor of history at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France and Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women’s History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies.
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John P. McKay
John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913.
Table of Contents
The Combined Volume includes all chapters.
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16.
Volume 2 includes Chapters 16-33.
Contents
Preface
Versions and Supplements
Maps, Figures, and Tables
Special Features
1
The Earliest Human Societies
to 2500 b.c.e.
Evolution and Migration
Understanding the Early Human Past • Hominin Evolution • Homo Sapiens, "Thinking Humans" • Migration and Differentiation
Later Paleolithic Society, ca. 200,000–9000 b.c.e.
Foraging for Food • Family and Kinship Relationships • Cultural Creations and Spirituality
The Development of Agriculture in the Neolithic Era, ca. 9000 b.c.e.
Plant Domestication and the Development of Horticulture • Animal Domestication and the Rise of Pastoralism • Plow Agriculture
Neolithic Society
Social Hierarchies and Slavery • Gender Hierarchies and Inheritance • Trade and Cross-Cultural Connections
Chapter Summary
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Primary Source Features
Analyze Visual Evidence Paleolithic Venus Figures
Analyze Visual Evidence Bison and Human in Lascaux Cave
Think Like a Historian Paleolithic Hand Markings
Compare Viewpoints Calendar Megaliths in Egypt and England
Individuals in Society The Iceman, A Neolithic Murder Victim
2
Complex Societies in Southwest Asia and the Nile Valley
3800–500 b.c.e.
Writing, Cities, and States
Written Sources and the Human Past • Cities and the Idea of Civilization • The Rise of States, Laws, and Social Hierarchies
Mesopotamia from Sumer to Babylon
Environmental Challenges, Irrigation, and Religion • Sumerian Politics and Society • Writing, Mathematics, and Poetry • Empires in Mesopotamia • Life Under Hammurabi
The Egyptians
The Nile and the God-King • Egyptian Society and Work • Migrations, Revivals, and Collapse • Iron and the Emergence of New States
The Hebrews
The Hebrew State • The Jewish Religion • Hebrew Family and Society
The Assyrians and Persians
Assyria, the Military Monarchy • The Rise and Expansion of the Persian Empire • The Religion of Zoroaster
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Hammurabi’s Code on Marriage and Divorce
Analyze Visual Evidence Egyptian Families
Think Like a Historian Addressing the Gods
Compare Viewpoints Babylonian and Hebrew Ideas of Rulers and Divine Favor
Individuals in Society King Taharqa, Ruler of Kush and Egypt
3
The Foundation of Indian Society
to 300 c.e.
The Land and Its First Settlers, ca. 3000–1500 b.c.e.
The Aryans During the Vedic Age, ca. 1500–500 b.c.e.
Aryan Dominance in North India • Life in Early India • Brahmanism
India’s Great Religions
Jainism • Siddhartha Gautama and Buddhism • Hinduism
Western Contact and the Mauryan Unification of North India, ca. 513–185 b.c.e.
Encounters with the West • Chandragupta and the Founding of the Mauryan Empire • The Reign of Ashoka, ca. 269–232 b.c.e.
Small States and Trading Networks, 185 b.c.e.–300 c.e.
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Conversations Between Rama and Sita from the Ramayana
Analyze Visual Evidence Gandharan Frieze Depicting the Buddha’s Enlightenment
Think Like A Historian Harappan Artifacts
Compare Viewpoints Divine Martial Prowess in India and Sumer
Individuals in Society Sudatta, Lay Follower of the Buddha
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China’s Classical Age
to 221 b.c.e.
The Emergence of Civilization in China
The Impact of Geography • Early Agricultural Societies of the Neolithic Age
The Shang Dynasty, ca. 1500–1050 b.c.e.
Shang Society • Bronze Metalworking • The Development of Writing
The Early Zhou Dynasty, ca. 1050–400 b.c.e.
Zhou Politics • Life During the Zhou Dynasty
The Warring States Period, 403–221 b.c.e.
New Technologies for War • The Victorious States
Confucius and His Followers
Confucius • The Spread of Confucian Ideas
Daoism, Legalism, and Other Schools of Thought
Daoism • Legalism • The Workings of Nature
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence The Teachings of Confucius
Analyze Visual Evidence Inscribed Bamboo Slips
Think Like A Historian Ideas About the Divine Realm
Compare Viewpoints The Inglorious Side of War in the Book of Songs and the Patirruppattu
Individuals in Society Li Bing, Water-Works Expert
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The Greek Experience
3500–30 b.c.e.
Greece in the Bronze Age and the "Dark Age," ca. 3000–800 b.c.e.
The Minoans and Mycenaeans • The "Dark Age"
The Development of the Polis in the Archaic Age, ca. 800–500 b.c.e.
Organization of the Polis • Overseas Expansion and Trade • The Growth of Sparta • The Evolution of Athens
Turmoil and Culture in the Classical Period, 500–338 b.c.e.
The Deadly Conflicts, 499–404 b.c.e. • Athenian Arts in the Age of Pericles • Social Hierarchies and Sexual Relations • Public and Personal Religion • The Development of Philosophy
Hellenistic Society, 323–30 b.c.e.
From Polis to Monarchy, 404–200 b.c.e. • Building a Hellenized Society • The Hellenistic Economy
Hellenistic Religion, Philosophy, and Science
Religion in the Hellenistic World • Philosophy and Its Guidance for Life • Hellenistic Science and Medicine
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Homer’s Iliad
Analyze Visual Evidence The Acropolis of Athens
Think Like a Historian Gender Roles in Classical Athens
Compare Viewpoints Hellenistic and Chinese Spells
Individuals in Society Archimedes, Scientist and Inventor
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The World of Rome
ca. 1000 b.c.e.–400 c.e.
The Romans in Italy
The Etruscans • The Founding of Rome • The Roman Conquest of Italy • The Roman State • Social Conflict in Rome
Roman Expansion and Its Repercussions
Overseas Conquests and the Punic Wars, 264–133 b.c.e. • New Influences and Old Values in Roman Culture • The Late Republic and the Rise of Augustus, 133–27 b.c.e. • The Successes of Augustus
Rome and the Provinces
Political and Military Changes in the Empire • Life in Imperial Rome • Prosperity and Problems in the Roman Provinces • Eastward Expansion and Contacts Between Rome and China
The Coming of Christianity
Factors Behind the Rise of Christianity • The Life and Teachings of Jesus • The Spread of Christianity • The Growing Acceptance and Evolution of Christianity
Turmoil and Reform
Political Measures • Economic Issues • The Acceptance of Christianity
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence The Edict of Toleration and the Edict of Milan
Analyze Visual Evidence The Temple of Hercules Victory
Think Like a Historian Army and Empire
Compare Viewpoints Roman and Chinese Officials Confront Natural Disasters
Individuals in Society Cleopatra, Ruler and Sex Symbol
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East Asia and the Spread of Buddhism
221 b.c.e.–845 c.e.
The Age of Empire in China: The Qin and Han Dynasties
The Qin Unification, 221–206 b.c.e. • The Han Dynasty, 206 b.c.e.–220 c.e. • Han Intellectual and Cultural Life • Inner Asia and the Silk Road • Life in Han China • China and Rome • The Fall of the Han and the Age of Division
The Spread of Buddhism Out of India
Buddhism’s Path Through Central Asia • The Appeal and Impact of Buddhism in China
The Chinese Empire Re-created: The Sui and Tang Dynasties
The Sui Dynasty, 581–618 • The Tang Dynasty, 618–907 • Tang Culture
The East Asian Cultural Sphere
Vietnam • Korea • Japan
Chapter Summary
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Primary Source Features
Analyze Written Evidence Sixth-Century Biographies of Buddhist Nuns
Analyze Visual Evidence Hōryūji Temple
Think Like A Historian Who Made the Chinese Silks Found Along the Silk Road?
Compare Viewpoints Coping with Epidemics in Japan and Byzantium
Individuals in Society The Ban Family, a Tale of Three Siblings
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Continuity and Change in Europe and Western Asia
250–850
The Byzantine Empire
Sources of Byzantine Strength • The Sassanid Empire and Conflicts with Byzantium • Justinian’s Code of Law • Byzantine Learning and Science • Life in Constantinople
The Growth of the Christian Church
The Evolution of Church Leadership and Orthodoxy • The Western Church and the Eastern Church • Christian Monasticism
Christian Ideas and Practices
Christianity and Classical Culture • Saint Augustine on Sin, Grace, and Redemption • The Iconoclastic Controversy
Migrating Peoples
Movement Patterns • Economic and Social Structures • Tribes, Warriors, and Laws
Christian Missionaries and Conversion
Missionaries’ Actions • The Process of Conversion
Frankish Rulers and Their Territories
The Merovingians and Carolingians • The Warrior-Ruler Charlemagne
Chapter Summary
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Primary Source Features
Analyze Written Evidence The Capitulary de Villis
Analyze Visual Evidence Orthodox Icon of Jesus
Think Like a Historian Slavery in Roman and Germanic Society
Compare Viewpoints Roman and Byzantine Views of Barbarians
Individuals in Society Theodora of Constantinople, Actress and Empress
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The Islamic World
600–1400
The Origins of Islam
Society and Culture in the Arabian Peninsula • Muhammad’s Rise as a Religious and Political Leader • The Teachings of Islam
The Expansion of Islam
Islam’s Spread Beyond Arabia • The Shi’a/Sunni Split and the Umayyad Caliphate • The Abbasid Caliphate • The Environmental Impact of Islamic Expansion
Fragmentation and Military Challenges, 900–1400
Breakaway Territories and Shi’a Gains • The Ascendancy of the Turks • The Mongol Invasions
Muslim Society
The Social Hierarchy • Slavery • Women in Islamic Society • Sexuality and Marriage
Cultural Developments
The Cultural Centers of Baghdad and Córdoba • Education • Cultural and Intellectual Life • The Mystical Tradition of Sufism
Trade and Cross-cultural Interactions
Trade and Commerce • Muslim-Christian Encounters
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Towns and Travel in the Western Sahara
Analyze Visual Evidence The Court of the Lions at the Alhambra
Think Like a Historian The Risks and Rewards of Indian Ocean Seaborne Trade
Compare Viewpoints The Muslim Conquest of Spain
Individuals in Society Ibn Battuta, World Traveler
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African Societies and Kingdoms
1000 b.c.e.–1500 c.e.
The Land and Peoples of Africa
Early African Societies
Agriculture and Its Impact • Bantu Migrations • Life in the Kingdoms of the Western Sudan, ca. 1000 b.c.e.–800 c.e.
The Trans-Saharan Trade
The Berbers of North Africa • Effects of Trade on West African Society • The Spread of Islam in Africa
African Kingdoms and Empires, ca. 800–1500
The Kingdom of Ghana, ca. 900–1100 • The Kingdom of Mali, ca. 1200–1450 • Ethiopia: The Christian Kingdom of Aksum • The East African City-States • Southern Africa and Great Zimbabwe
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence A Tenth-Century Muslim Traveler Describes Parts of the East African Coast
Analyze Visual Evidence The Queen of Sheba and King Solomon
Think Like a Historian Great Zimbabwe
Compare Viewpoints Early Descriptions of the East African Coast
Individuals in Society King Ezana, Christian Ruler of Aksum
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The Americas
To 1500 c.e.
Societies of the Americas in a Global Context
Trade and Technology • Settlement and Environment
Ancient Societies
Olmec Agriculture, Technology, and Religion • Hohokam, Hopewell, and Mississippian Societies • Climate Change and North American Societies • Kinship and Ancestors in the Andes
The Incas
The Inca Model of Empire • Inca Imperial Expansion • Imperial Needs and Obligations
The Maya and Teotihuacan
Maya Agriculture and Trade • Maya Science and Religion • Teotihuacan and the Toltecs
The Aztec Empire
The Mexica: From Vassals to Rulers • Life in the Aztec Empire • The Limits of the Aztec Empire
American Empires and the Encounter
The Last Day of the Aztecs • The Fall of the Incas
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, The First New Chronicle and Good Government
Analyze Visual Evidence The Maya Calendar
Think Like a Historian Feathers, Snakes, and Humans
Compare Viewpoints Inca and Spanish Views on Religion, Authority, and Tribute
Individuals in Society Tlacaelel, Architect of Empire
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States and Cultures in East Asia
800–1400
The Medieval Chinese Economic Revolution, 800–1100
China During the Song, Liao, and Jin Dynasties, 960–1232
The Song Dynasty and its Northern Rivals • The Scholar-Officials and Neo-Confucianism • Women’s Lives in Song Times • Environmental Crises
Korea Under the Goryeo Dynasty, 935–1392
Japan’s Heian Period, 794–1185
Fujiwara Rule • Aristocratic Culture
The Samurai and the Kamakura Shogunate, 1185–1333
Military Rule • Cultural and Economic Trends
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Kamo no Chomei on Calamities Witnessed
Analyze Visual Evidence Ma Yuan’s Painting On a Mountain Path in Spring
Think Like a Historian When and Why Did Foot Binding Begin?
Compare Viewpoints Painters of Uncanny Skill in China and Rome
Individuals in Society Shen Gua, Polymath
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Cultural Exchange in Central and Southern Asia
300–1400
Central Asian Nomads
Nomadic Society • The Turks • The Mongols
Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire
Chinggis Khan • Chinggis’s Successors • The Mongols as Rulers
East-West Communication During the Mongol Era
The Movement of Peoples • The Spread of Disease, Goods, and Ideas
India, Islam, and the Development of Regional Cultures, 300–1400
The Gupta Empire, ca. 320–480 • India’s Medieval Age and the First Encounter with Islam • The Delhi Sultanate • Life in Medieval India
Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Growth of Maritime Trade
State Formation and Indian Influences • The Srivijayan Maritime Trade Empire • The Spread of Indian Culture in Comparative Perspective • The Settlement of the Pacific Islands
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence The Abduction of Women in The Secret History of the Mongols
Analyze Visual Evidence Bayan Relief at Angkor Thom
Think Like a Historian The Mongol Army
Compare Viewpoints The Mongols’ Adoption of Paper Money
Individuals in Society Bana, Romance Writer
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Europe and Western Asia in the Middle Ages
800–1450
Political Developments
Invasions and Migrations • "Feudalism" and Serfdom • The Restoration of Order • Law and Justice
The Christian Church
Papal Reforms • Monastic Life • Popular Religion • The Expansion of Western and Eastern Christianity
The Crusades
Background and Motives • The Course of the Crusades • Consequences of the Crusades
The Life of the People
The Life and Work of Peasants • The Life and Work of Nobles • Towns, Cities, and the Growth of Commercial Interests • The Expansion of Trade and the Commercial Revolution
Learning and Culture
Universities and Scholasticism • Cathedrals and a New Architectural Style • Vernacular Literature and Drama
Crises of the Later Middle Ages
The Little Ice Age and the Black Death • The Hundred Years’ War • Challenges to the Christian Church • Peasant and Urban Revolts
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Courtly Love Poetry
Analyze Visual Evidence The Battle of Nicopolis
Think Like a Historian Christian and Muslim Views of the Crusades
Compare Viewpoints Italian and English Views of the Plague
Individuals in Society Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess, Mystic, and Composer
15
Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation
1350–1600
Renaissance Culture
Wealth and Power in Renaissance Italy • The Rise of Humanism • Christian Humanism • Printing and Its Social Impact • Art and the Artist
Social Hierarchies
Race and Slavery • Wealth and the Nobility • Gender Roles
Politics and the State in the Renaissance
Warfare, Money, and Mining • France • England • Spain • The Habsburgs
The Protestant Reformation
Criticism of the Church • Martin Luther • Protestant Thought and Its Appeal • The Radical Reformation and the German Peasants’ War • Marriage and Women’s Roles • The Reformation and German Politics • England’s Shift Toward Protestantism • Calvinism and Its Moral Standards
The Catholic Reformation
Papal Reforms and the Council of Trent • New Religious Orders
Religious Violence
French Religious Wars • Civil Wars in the Netherlands • The Great European Witch-Hunt
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty
Analyze Visual Evidence Woodcuts from Agricola’s De re metallica
Think Like a Historian Humanist Learning
Compare Viewpoints Chinese and European Views on Proper Behavior
Individuals in Society Leonardo da Vinci, Artist, Inventor, Genius
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The Acceleration of Global Contact
1450–1600
The Afro-Eurasian Trade World
The Trade World of the Indian Ocean • Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia • Muslim Influences and African Trade • Genoese and Venetian Middlemen
The European Voyages of Discovery
Causes of European Expansion • Technology and the Rise of Exploration • The Portuguese in Africa and Asia • Spain’s Voyages to the Americas • Spain "Discovers" the Pacific • Early Exploration by Northern European Powers
Conquest and Settlement
Spanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires • Portuguese Brazil • Colonial Administration • Economic Exploitation of the Indigenous Population • Patterns of Settlement
The Era of Global Contact
Population Loss and the Ecological Impacts of Contact • Sugar and Early Transatlantic Slavery • Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects • The Birth of the Global Economy
Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
Religious Conversion • European Debates About Indigenous Peoples • New Ideas About Race
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Analyze Written Evidence Columbus Describes His First Voyage
Analyze Visual Evidence Depictions of Africans in European Portraiture
Think Like a Historian Who Was Doña Marina?
Compare Viewpoints Aztec and Spanish Views on Christian Conversion in New Spain
Individuals in Society Catarina de San Juan, Former Slave and Popular Saint
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The Islamic World Powers
1300–1800
The Islamic Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
Environmental Challenges • The Expansion of the Ottoman Empire • Land-Holding, Slavery and Imperial Administrations • The Safavid Empire in Persia • The Mughal Empire in India
Religious Developments
Religious Legitimacy and Orthodoxy • Sufism • Non-Muslims Under Muslim Rule
Cultural Flowering
The Arts • City and Palace Building • Gardens • Intellectual Advances
New Patterns of Trade and European Penetration
New Forms of Consumption • The Impact of Gunpowder • European Trade in Asia and the Islamic Powers’ Response • From the British East India Company to the British Empire in India
Political Decline
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Katib Chelebi on Tobacco
Analyze Visual Evidence Coffee Drinking
Think Like a Historian Forced Relocation of Armenians to Persia
Compare Viewpoints Mughal and French Views on Priorities for Monarchs
Individuals in Society Hürrem, Concubine, Empress, and Counselor
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European Power and Expansion
1500–1750
The Protestant and Catholic Reformations
The Protestant Reformation • The Catholic Reformation • Religious Violence
Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding
The Social Order and Peasant Life • Environmental, Economic, and Social Crisis • The Thirty Years’ War • European Achievements in State-Building
Absolutist States in Western and Central Europe
Spain • The Foundations of French Absolutism • Louis XIV and Absolutism • The Wars of Louis XIV • The Absolutist Palace • The Austrian Habsburgs
Alternatives to Absolutism
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth • The Failure of Absolutism in England • The Puritan Protectorate • Constitutional Monarchy • The Dutch Republic
Colonial Expansion and Empire
The Dutch Trading Empire • Colonial Empires of England and France • Mercantilism and Colonial Wars • People Beyond Borders
The Russian Empire
Mongol Rule in Russia and the Rise of Moscow • Building the Russian Empire • Peter the Great and Russia’s Turn to the West
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Peter the Great and Foreign Experts
Analyze Visual Evidence Genre Painting: Celebrating Daily Life
Think Like a Historian What Was Absolutism?
Compare Viewpoints Descriptions of Louis XIV of France and the Kangxi Emperor of China
Individuals in Society Glückel of Hameln, Mother and Businesswoman
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New Worldviews and Ways of Life
1540–1790
The Scientific Revolution
The Muslim Contribution • Scientific Thought to 1550 • Astronomy and Physics • Newton’s Synthesis • Natural History and Empire • Magic and Alchemy
Important Changes in Scientific Thinking and Practice
The Methods of Science • Medicine, the Body, and Chemistry • Science and Religion • Science and Society
The Rise and Spread of Enlightenment
The Early Enlightenment • The Influence of the Philosophes • Enlightenment Movements Across Europe
Key Issues of Enlightenment Debate
Global Contacts • New Definitions of Race • Women and the Enlightenment • Enlightened Absolutism and Its Limits
Economic Change and the Atlantic World
Economic and Demographic Change • The Atlantic Economy • Urban Life and the Public Sphere • Culture and Community in the Atlantic World • The Atlantic Enlightenment
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Denis Diderot, "Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage"
Analyze Visual Evidence Frontispiece to De On the Structure of the Human Body
Think Like a Historian The Enlightenment Debate on Religious Tolerance
Compare Viewpoints Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft on Women’s Nature
Individuals in Society Rebecca Protten, Mixed-Race Missionary
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Africa and the World
1400–1800
West Africa in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
The West Coast: Senegambia and Benin • The Sudan: Songhai, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland • Agriculture, Gender, and Marriage in West Africa • Trade and Industry
Cross-Cultural Encounters Along the East African Coast
Muslim and European Incursions in Ethiopia, ca. 1500–1630 • The Swahili City-States and the Arrival of the Portuguese, ca. 1500–1600
The African Slave Trade
The Institution of Slavery in Africa • The Transatlantic Slave Trade • Impact on African Societies
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Analyze Written Evidence Duarte Barbosa on the Swahili City-States
Analyze Visual Evidence Lamu Old Town, Lamu Island, Kenya
Think Like a Historian Perspectives on the African Slave Trade
Compare Viewpoints European Descriptions of Timbuktu and Jenne
Individuals in Society Olaudah Equiano, Slave to Abolitionist
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Continuity and Change in East Asia
1400–1800
Ming China, 1368–1644
The Rise of Zhu Yuanzhang and the Founding of the Ming Dynasty • Problems with the Imperial Institution • The Mongols and the Great Wall • The Examination Life • Everyday Life in Ming China • Ming Decline
The Manchus and Qing China, to 1800
The Rise of the Manchus • Competent and Long-Lived Emperors • Imperial Expansion
Japan’s Middle Ages, ca. 1400–1600
Muromachi Culture • Civil War • The Victors: Nobunaga and Hideyoshi
The Tokugawa Shogunate, to 1800
Tokugawa Government • Commercialization and the Growth of Towns • The Life of the People in the Edo Period
Maritime Trade, Piracy, and the Entry of Europe into the Asian Maritime Sphere
Zheng He’s Voyages • Piracy and Japan’s Overseas Adventures • Europeans Enter the Scene • Christian Missionaries • Learning from the West • The Shifting International Environment in the Eighteenth Century
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Analyze Written Evidence Control of Locusts
Analyze Visual Evience Interior View of a Kabuki Theater
Think Like a Historian Attention to Dress in Edo Japan
Compare Viewpoints Chinese and European Commentators on Urban Amusements
Individuals in Society Tan Yunxian, Woman Doctor
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Revolutions in the Atlantic World
1775–1825
Background to Revolution
Social Change • Demands for Liberty and Equality • The Seven Years’ War
The American Revolutionary Era, 1775–1789
The Origins of the Revolution • Independence from Britain • Framing the Constitution • Limitations of Liberty and Equality
Revolution in France, 1789–1799
Breakdown of the Old Order • The National Assembly • Constitutional Monarchy • The National Convention • The Directory
Napoleon’s Europe, 1799–1815
Napoleon’s Rule of France • Napoleon’s Expansion in Europe • The Grand Empire and Its End
The Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804
Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-Domingue • The Outbreak of Revolt • The War of Haitian Independence
Revolutions in Latin America
The Origins of the Revolutions Against Colonial Powers • Resistance, Rebellion, and Independence • The Aftermath of Revolution in the Atlantic World
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Analyze Written Evidence Abigail Adams, "Remember the Ladies"
Analyze Visual Evidence Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808
Think Like a Historian The Rights of Which Men?
Compare Viewpoints Declarations of Independence: The United States and Venezuela
Individuals in Society Vincent Ogé, Free Man of Color and Revolutionary
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The Revolution in Energy and Industry
1760–1850
The Industrial Revolution in Britain
Why Britain? • Technological Innovations and Early Factories • Steam Power and the Energy Revolution • Breakthrough • Steam-Powered Transportation • Industry and Population
Industrialization in Europe and the World
National and International Variations • Industrialization in Continental Europe • Agents of Industrialization • The Global Picture
New Patterns of Working and Living
Work in Early Factories • Working Families and Children • The Sexual Division of Labor • Living Standards for the Working Class • Environmental Impacts of Industrialization
Relations Between Capital and Labor
The New Class of Factory Owners • Responses to Industrialization • The Early Labor Movement in Britain • The Impact of Slavery
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Analyze Written Evidence The Experience of Child Labor
Analyze Visual Evidence Rain, Steam and Speed –– the Great Western Railway
Think Like a Historian Making the Industrialized Worker
Compare Viewpoints Indian Cotton Manufacturers
Individuals in Society Samuel Crompton, Inventor and Unsuccessful Entrepreneur
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Ideologies of Change in Europe
1815–1914
A Conservative Peace Gives Way to Radical Ideas
The Political and Social Situation After 1815 • Conservatism After 1815 • Liberalism and the Middle Class • The Growing Appeal of Nationalism • The Birth of Socialism
Reforms and Revolutions, 1815–1850
Social and Economic Conflict • Liberal Reform in Great Britain • Revolutions in France •
The Revolutions of 1848 in Central Europe
Nation Building in Italy, Germany, and Russia
Cavour, Garibaldi, and the Unification of Italy • Bismarck and German Unification • The Modernization of Russia
Urban Life in the Age of Ideologies
Improving the Urban Environment • Social Inequality and Class • The Changing Family • Science for the Masses • Cultural Shifts
Nationalism and Socialism, 1871–1914
Trends in Suffrage • The German Empire • Republican France • Great Britain and the Austro-Hungarian Empire • Jewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-Semitism • The Socialist Movement
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Analyze Written Evidence Stefan Zweig on Middle-Class Youth and Sexuality
Analyze Visual Evidence The Triumph of Democratic Republics
Think Like a Historian The Promise of Electricity
Compare Viewpoints German and Italian Views on Nationalism
Individuals in Society George Sand, Novelist Who Defied Gender Roles
25
Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and the New Imperialism
1800–1914
Africa: From the Slave Trade to European Colonial Rule
Trade and Social Change • Islamic Revival and Expansion in Africa • The Scramble for Africa, 1880–1914 • Southern Africa in the Nineteenth Century • Colonialism’s Impact After 1900
The New Imperialism, 1880–1914
Causes of the New Imperialism • A "Civilizing Mission" • Critics of Imperialism • African and Asian Resistance
The Islamic Heartland Under Pressure
Decline and Reform in the Ottoman Empire • Egypt: From Reform to British Occupation •
The Expanding World Economy
The Rise of Global Inequality • The World Market
The Great Global Migration
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Analyze Visual Evidence Pears’ Soap Advertisement
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Compare Viewpoints The Congo Free State
Individuals in Society Tippu Tip, Afro-Arab Slave Trader and Diplomat
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Asia and the Pacific in the Era of Imperialism
1800–1914
India and the British Empire in Asia
The Evolution of British Rule • The Socioeconomic Effects of British Rule • The British and the Indian Educated Elite
Competition for Southeast Asia
The Dutch East Indies • Mainland Southeast Asia • The Philippines
China Under Pressure
The Opium War • Internal Problems • The Self-Strengthening Movement • Republican Revolution
Japan’s Rapid Transformation
The "Opening" of Japan • The Meiji Restoration • Industrialization • Japan as an Imperial Power
The Pacific Region and the Movement of People
Settler Colonies in the Pacific: Australia and New Zealand • Asian Emigration
The Countries of Asia in Comparative Perspective
The Impact of Foreign Domination • Environmental and Economic Forces
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Analyze Written Evidence Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Escape from Asia"
Analyze Visual Evidence Japan’s First Skyscraper
Think Like a Historian English-Language Education for Indians
Compare Viewpoints Chinese and British Efforts to Reduce Infant Deaths
Individuals in Society José Rizal, Filipino Polymath and Revolutionary
27
The Americas in the Age of Liberalism
1810–1917
New Nations
Liberalism and Caudillos in Spanish America • Mexico and the United States • Liberal Reform in Mexico • Brazil: A New World Monarchy
Slavery and Abolition
Slave Societies in the Americas • Independence and Abolition • Abolition in Cuba and Brazil
Export-Led Growth and Social Unrest
Latin America Re-enters the World Economy • The Porfiriato and Liberal Stability in Mexico • The Mexican Revolution
Immigration
Immigration to Latin America • Immigration to the United States • Immigration to Canada • Settler Colonialism and its Impacts
A New American Empire
U.S. Intervention in Latin America • The Spanish-American War • The Panama Canal
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Analyze Written Evidence Reyita Castillo Bueno on Slavery and Freedom in Cuba
Analyze Visual Evidence Slaves Sold South from Richmond, 1853
Think Like a Historian The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil, from Above and Below
Compare Viewpoints Perspectives on the Mexican-American War
Individuals in Society Henry Meiggs, Promoter and Speculator
28
World War and Revolution
1914–1929
The First World War, 1914–1918
Origins and Causes of the Great War • The Outbreak of War • Stalemate and Slaughter • The War Becomes Global
The Home Front
Mobilizing for Total War • The Social Impact of War • Growing Political Tensions
The Russian Revolution
The Fall of Imperial Russia • The Provisional Government • Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution • Dictatorship and Civil War
The War’s Consequences
The End of the War • The Paris Peace Treaties • American Rejection of the Versailles Treaty
The Search for Peace and Political Stability, 1919–1929
Germany and the Western Powers • Hope in Foreign Affairs • Hope in Democratic Government
The Age of Anxiety
Uncertainty in Philosophy and Religion • The New Physics • Freudian Psychology • Twentieth-Century Literature • Modern Architecture, Art, and Music • Movies and Radio
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Analyze Written Evidence The Experience of War
Analyze Visual Evidence "Never Forget!"
Think Like a Historian Russian Views of War and Revolution
Compare Viewpoints British and Canadian Poetry of the Great War
Individuals in Society Vera Brittain, Author, Feminist, Pacifist
29
Nationalism in Asia
1914–1939
The First World War’s Impact on Nationalist Trends
Asian Reaction to the War in Europe • The Mandates System • Nationalism’s Appeal
Nationalist Movements in the Middle East
The Arab Revolt • The Turkish Revolution • Modernization Efforts in Persia and Afghanistan • Gradual Independence in the Arab States • Arab-Jewish Tensions in Palestine
Toward Self-Rule in India
British Promises and Repression • The Roots of Militant Nonviolence • Gandhi’s Resistance Campaign in India
Nationalist Struggles in East and Southeast Asia
The Rise of Nationalist China • China’s Intellectual Revolution • From Liberalism to Ultranationalism in Japan • Japan Against China • Striving for Independence in Southeast Asia
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Analyze Written Evidence Resolution of the General Syrian Congress at Damascus
Analyze Visual Evidence The Fate of a Chinese Patriot
Think Like a Historian Interpreting the May Fourth Movement
Compare Viewpoints Gandhi and Mao on Revolutionary Means
Individuals in Society Ning Lao, a Chinese Working Woman
30
The Great Depression and World War II
1929–1945
The Great Depression, 1929–1939
The Economic Crisis • Mass Unemployment • The New Deal in the United States • The European Response to the Depression • Worldwide Effects
Authoritarian States
Conservative Authoritarianism • Radical Totalitarian Dictatorships
Stalin’s Soviet Union
From Lenin to Stalin • The Five-Year Plans • Life and Culture in Soviet Society • Stalinist Terror and the Great Purges
Mussolini and Fascism in Italy
The Seizure of Power • The Regime in Action
Hitler and Nazism in Germany
The Roots of Nazism • Hitler’s Road to Power • The Nazi State and Society • Hitler’s Popularity • Aggression and Appeasement, 1933–1939
The Second World War, 1939–1945
Hitler’s Empire in Europe, 1939–1942 • The Holocaust • Japan’s Asian Empire • The Grand Alliance • The War in Europe, 1942–1945 • The War in the Pacific, 1942–1945
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Analyze Written Evidence Ultranationalist Pamphlet for Japanese Students
Analyze Visual Evidence British Conservative Party Poster
Think Like a Historian Peasant Resistance to Stalin’s Collectivization Plan
Compare Viewpoints Socialism and the Working Class
Individuals in Society Primo Levi, Writer and Holocaust Survivor
31
Decolonization, Revolution, and the Cold War
1945–1968
The World Remade
The Cold War • The United Nations • The Politics of Liberation • Dependency and Development Theories • Interpreting the Postcolonial Experience
Nation Building in South Asia and the Middle East
Independence in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh • Arab Socialism in the Middle East • The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Revolution and Resurgence in East and Southeast Asia
The Communist Victory in China • Conflict in Korea • Japan’s American Reconstruction • The Vietnam War
Decolonization in Africa
The Growth of African Nationalism • Ghana Shows the Way • Countries Emerging from French Rule
Populist and Revolutionary Pathways in Latin America
Economic Nationalism in Mexico • Populism in Argentina and Brazil • Communist Revolution in Cuba
The Limits of Postwar Prosperity
The Soviet Union Struggles to Move Beyond Stalin • Postwar Challenges in Western Europe and the United States • The World in 1968
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Analyze Written Evidence C. L. R. James on Pan-African Liberation
Analyze Visual Evidence Poster Art in Communist China
Think Like a Historian Global Perspectives on the Vietnam War
Compare Viewpoints U.S. and Latin American Views on Development
Individuals in Society Nawal El Saadawi, Public Health Advocate in Egypt
32
Liberalization and Liberation
1968–2000s
Oil Shocks and Liberalization
The OPEC Oil Embargo • Mexico Under the PRI • Nigeria, Africa’s Giant • The Camp David Accords and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict • Revolution and War in Iran and Iraq
Latin America: Dictatorship, Debt, and Democratization
Civil Wars in Central America • Boom and Bust in Chile • The Dirty War in Argentina • Development and Dictatorship in Brazil
Gender, Race and Liberation
Gay Liberation • Second-Wave and Third World Feminism • Pan-Africanism, Black Power and the African Diaspora
Resistance to White Rule in Southern Africa
Portuguese Decolonization and Rhodesia • South Africa Under Apartheid • Political Change in Africa Since 1990
Growth and Development in Asia
Japan’s Economic Miracle and the Emergence of the "Asian Tigers" • China’s Economic Resurgence • Development Versus Democracy in India and Pakistan
The End of the Cold War
The Limits of Reform in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe • Recasting Russia Without Communism • Integration and Reform in Europe
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Analyze Written Evidence A Member of China’s Red Guards on Democratic Reform
Analyze Visual Evidence Tiananmen Square
Think Like a Historian The Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
Compare Viewpoints Women’s Rights as Human Rights in Iran and the United States
Individuals in Society Anani Dzidzienvo, Scholar of the African Diaspora
33
The Contemporary World in Historical Perspective
The Neoliberal World and Its Limits
Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan • Conflict and Change in the Middle East • Right Wing Nationalism Re-emerges
Global Circulation and Exchange
Migration • Urbanization • Multinational Corporations
Social Movements
Children: The Right to Childhood • Women’s Right to Equality • LGBTQ Challenges • Environmentalism
Global Climate Change
Causes of Global Warming and Responses to It • Historical Experiences with Climate and Environmental Change • Automobility • Global Energy Reliance • Intensified Agriculture and the Green Revolution • Impacts of Climate Change
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Analyze Visual Evidence A Generational Movement on Climate
Think Like a Historian The Relationships Between People and Epidemics
Compare Viewpoints Women Activists in Chiapas, Mexico
Individuals in
Product Updates
New thematic emphasis on environmental history. We have added a new emphasis on the environment to the social and cultural focus, comprehensive regional organization, and global perspective that have long been its hallmarks. This threads through the entire book, from Chapter 1’s discussion of how the environment shaped human migration and settlement in the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras, to Chapter 33’s analysis of how global energy production and consumption have resulted in the climate change we experience today.
Narrative updates to incorporate the latest scholarship. Along with the addition of material on the environment and science-based evidence throughout, updates to the twelfth edition include: a revised section on human evolution (Chapter 1); a significant chapter revision, including more on the actual practices of Islam (Chapter 9); revision of the section on the Black Death to incorporate new scholarship (Chapter 14); expanded coverage of the Indian Ocean trade and new section on ideas about race (Chapter 16); more thorough discussion of the "Little Ice Age"(Chapter 18); new material on ocean fishing and whaling (Chapter 20); new section exploring human rights and liberation movements (Chapter 32).
Reversed order of Chapters 12 and 13. Our own teaching and discussion with colleagues led us to reverse the order of Chapters 12 and 13. To fit better with the more common course organization, Chapter 12 ("States and Cultures in East Asia 800–1400") is now followed by Chapter 13 ("Cultural Exchange in Central and Southern Asia 300–1400").
Authors
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Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison) is Distinguished Professor of History, emerita, at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including A Concise History of the World. From 2017 to 2019 she served as the president of the World History Association.
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Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Patricia B. Ebrey (Ph.D., Columbia University) is professor of history at the University of Washington in Seattle. Editor of the Journal of Chinese History, she is the author or editor of some twenty books, including The Cambridge Illustrated History of China and Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, as well as more specialized books on Song dynasty China. In 2014 she was awarded the American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction and in 2020 the Association for Asian Studies Award for Outstanding Contributions to Asian Studies.
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Roger B. Beck
Roger B. Beck (Ph.D., Indiana University) is Distinguished Professor of African and twentieth-century world history at Eastern Illinois University. His publications include The History of South Africa; a translation of P. J. van der Merwe’s The Migrant Farmer in the History of the Cape Colony, 1657–1842; and more than a hundred articles, book chapters, and reviews. In 2018 he received the Pioneer in World History award from the World History Association, its highest honor.
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Jerry Davila
Jerry Dávila (Ph.D., Brown University) is Jorge Paulo Lemann Chair of Brazilian History and directs the Global Institute at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Dictatorship in South America; Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, winner of the Latin Studies Association Brazil Section Book Prize; and Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945. He has served as president of the Conference on Latin American History.
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Clare Haru Crowston
Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Professor of history at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France and Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women’s History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies.
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John P. McKay
John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913.
Table of Contents
The Combined Volume includes all chapters.
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16.
Volume 2 includes Chapters 16-33.
Contents
Preface
Versions and Supplements
Maps, Figures, and Tables
Special Features
1
The Earliest Human Societies
to 2500 b.c.e.
Evolution and Migration
Understanding the Early Human Past • Hominin Evolution • Homo Sapiens, "Thinking Humans" • Migration and Differentiation
Later Paleolithic Society, ca. 200,000–9000 b.c.e.
Foraging for Food • Family and Kinship Relationships • Cultural Creations and Spirituality
The Development of Agriculture in the Neolithic Era, ca. 9000 b.c.e.
Plant Domestication and the Development of Horticulture • Animal Domestication and the Rise of Pastoralism • Plow Agriculture
Neolithic Society
Social Hierarchies and Slavery • Gender Hierarchies and Inheritance • Trade and Cross-Cultural Connections
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Visual Evidence Paleolithic Venus Figures
Analyze Visual Evidence Bison and Human in Lascaux Cave
Think Like a Historian Paleolithic Hand Markings
Compare Viewpoints Calendar Megaliths in Egypt and England
Individuals in Society The Iceman, A Neolithic Murder Victim
2
Complex Societies in Southwest Asia and the Nile Valley
3800–500 b.c.e.
Writing, Cities, and States
Written Sources and the Human Past • Cities and the Idea of Civilization • The Rise of States, Laws, and Social Hierarchies
Mesopotamia from Sumer to Babylon
Environmental Challenges, Irrigation, and Religion • Sumerian Politics and Society • Writing, Mathematics, and Poetry • Empires in Mesopotamia • Life Under Hammurabi
The Egyptians
The Nile and the God-King • Egyptian Society and Work • Migrations, Revivals, and Collapse • Iron and the Emergence of New States
The Hebrews
The Hebrew State • The Jewish Religion • Hebrew Family and Society
The Assyrians and Persians
Assyria, the Military Monarchy • The Rise and Expansion of the Persian Empire • The Religion of Zoroaster
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Analyze Written Evidence Hammurabi’s Code on Marriage and Divorce
Analyze Visual Evidence Egyptian Families
Think Like a Historian Addressing the Gods
Compare Viewpoints Babylonian and Hebrew Ideas of Rulers and Divine Favor
Individuals in Society King Taharqa, Ruler of Kush and Egypt
3
The Foundation of Indian Society
to 300 c.e.
The Land and Its First Settlers, ca. 3000–1500 b.c.e.
The Aryans During the Vedic Age, ca. 1500–500 b.c.e.
Aryan Dominance in North India • Life in Early India • Brahmanism
India’s Great Religions
Jainism • Siddhartha Gautama and Buddhism • Hinduism
Western Contact and the Mauryan Unification of North India, ca. 513–185 b.c.e.
Encounters with the West • Chandragupta and the Founding of the Mauryan Empire • The Reign of Ashoka, ca. 269–232 b.c.e.
Small States and Trading Networks, 185 b.c.e.–300 c.e.
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Analyze Written Evidence Conversations Between Rama and Sita from the Ramayana
Analyze Visual Evidence Gandharan Frieze Depicting the Buddha’s Enlightenment
Think Like A Historian Harappan Artifacts
Compare Viewpoints Divine Martial Prowess in India and Sumer
Individuals in Society Sudatta, Lay Follower of the Buddha
4
China’s Classical Age
to 221 b.c.e.
The Emergence of Civilization in China
The Impact of Geography • Early Agricultural Societies of the Neolithic Age
The Shang Dynasty, ca. 1500–1050 b.c.e.
Shang Society • Bronze Metalworking • The Development of Writing
The Early Zhou Dynasty, ca. 1050–400 b.c.e.
Zhou Politics • Life During the Zhou Dynasty
The Warring States Period, 403–221 b.c.e.
New Technologies for War • The Victorious States
Confucius and His Followers
Confucius • The Spread of Confucian Ideas
Daoism, Legalism, and Other Schools of Thought
Daoism • Legalism • The Workings of Nature
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence The Teachings of Confucius
Analyze Visual Evidence Inscribed Bamboo Slips
Think Like A Historian Ideas About the Divine Realm
Compare Viewpoints The Inglorious Side of War in the Book of Songs and the Patirruppattu
Individuals in Society Li Bing, Water-Works Expert
5
The Greek Experience
3500–30 b.c.e.
Greece in the Bronze Age and the "Dark Age," ca. 3000–800 b.c.e.
The Minoans and Mycenaeans • The "Dark Age"
The Development of the Polis in the Archaic Age, ca. 800–500 b.c.e.
Organization of the Polis • Overseas Expansion and Trade • The Growth of Sparta • The Evolution of Athens
Turmoil and Culture in the Classical Period, 500–338 b.c.e.
The Deadly Conflicts, 499–404 b.c.e. • Athenian Arts in the Age of Pericles • Social Hierarchies and Sexual Relations • Public and Personal Religion • The Development of Philosophy
Hellenistic Society, 323–30 b.c.e.
From Polis to Monarchy, 404–200 b.c.e. • Building a Hellenized Society • The Hellenistic Economy
Hellenistic Religion, Philosophy, and Science
Religion in the Hellenistic World • Philosophy and Its Guidance for Life • Hellenistic Science and Medicine
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Homer’s Iliad
Analyze Visual Evidence The Acropolis of Athens
Think Like a Historian Gender Roles in Classical Athens
Compare Viewpoints Hellenistic and Chinese Spells
Individuals in Society Archimedes, Scientist and Inventor
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The World of Rome
ca. 1000 b.c.e.–400 c.e.
The Romans in Italy
The Etruscans • The Founding of Rome • The Roman Conquest of Italy • The Roman State • Social Conflict in Rome
Roman Expansion and Its Repercussions
Overseas Conquests and the Punic Wars, 264–133 b.c.e. • New Influences and Old Values in Roman Culture • The Late Republic and the Rise of Augustus, 133–27 b.c.e. • The Successes of Augustus
Rome and the Provinces
Political and Military Changes in the Empire • Life in Imperial Rome • Prosperity and Problems in the Roman Provinces • Eastward Expansion and Contacts Between Rome and China
The Coming of Christianity
Factors Behind the Rise of Christianity • The Life and Teachings of Jesus • The Spread of Christianity • The Growing Acceptance and Evolution of Christianity
Turmoil and Reform
Political Measures • Economic Issues • The Acceptance of Christianity
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence The Edict of Toleration and the Edict of Milan
Analyze Visual Evidence The Temple of Hercules Victory
Think Like a Historian Army and Empire
Compare Viewpoints Roman and Chinese Officials Confront Natural Disasters
Individuals in Society Cleopatra, Ruler and Sex Symbol
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East Asia and the Spread of Buddhism
221 b.c.e.–845 c.e.
The Age of Empire in China: The Qin and Han Dynasties
The Qin Unification, 221–206 b.c.e. • The Han Dynasty, 206 b.c.e.–220 c.e. • Han Intellectual and Cultural Life • Inner Asia and the Silk Road • Life in Han China • China and Rome • The Fall of the Han and the Age of Division
The Spread of Buddhism Out of India
Buddhism’s Path Through Central Asia • The Appeal and Impact of Buddhism in China
The Chinese Empire Re-created: The Sui and Tang Dynasties
The Sui Dynasty, 581–618 • The Tang Dynasty, 618–907 • Tang Culture
The East Asian Cultural Sphere
Vietnam • Korea • Japan
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Sixth-Century Biographies of Buddhist Nuns
Analyze Visual Evidence Hōryūji Temple
Think Like A Historian Who Made the Chinese Silks Found Along the Silk Road?
Compare Viewpoints Coping with Epidemics in Japan and Byzantium
Individuals in Society The Ban Family, a Tale of Three Siblings
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Continuity and Change in Europe and Western Asia
250–850
The Byzantine Empire
Sources of Byzantine Strength • The Sassanid Empire and Conflicts with Byzantium • Justinian’s Code of Law • Byzantine Learning and Science • Life in Constantinople
The Growth of the Christian Church
The Evolution of Church Leadership and Orthodoxy • The Western Church and the Eastern Church • Christian Monasticism
Christian Ideas and Practices
Christianity and Classical Culture • Saint Augustine on Sin, Grace, and Redemption • The Iconoclastic Controversy
Migrating Peoples
Movement Patterns • Economic and Social Structures • Tribes, Warriors, and Laws
Christian Missionaries and Conversion
Missionaries’ Actions • The Process of Conversion
Frankish Rulers and Their Territories
The Merovingians and Carolingians • The Warrior-Ruler Charlemagne
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence The Capitulary de Villis
Analyze Visual Evidence Orthodox Icon of Jesus
Think Like a Historian Slavery in Roman and Germanic Society
Compare Viewpoints Roman and Byzantine Views of Barbarians
Individuals in Society Theodora of Constantinople, Actress and Empress
9
The Islamic World
600–1400
The Origins of Islam
Society and Culture in the Arabian Peninsula • Muhammad’s Rise as a Religious and Political Leader • The Teachings of Islam
The Expansion of Islam
Islam’s Spread Beyond Arabia • The Shi’a/Sunni Split and the Umayyad Caliphate • The Abbasid Caliphate • The Environmental Impact of Islamic Expansion
Fragmentation and Military Challenges, 900–1400
Breakaway Territories and Shi’a Gains • The Ascendancy of the Turks • The Mongol Invasions
Muslim Society
The Social Hierarchy • Slavery • Women in Islamic Society • Sexuality and Marriage
Cultural Developments
The Cultural Centers of Baghdad and Córdoba • Education • Cultural and Intellectual Life • The Mystical Tradition of Sufism
Trade and Cross-cultural Interactions
Trade and Commerce • Muslim-Christian Encounters
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Towns and Travel in the Western Sahara
Analyze Visual Evidence The Court of the Lions at the Alhambra
Think Like a Historian The Risks and Rewards of Indian Ocean Seaborne Trade
Compare Viewpoints The Muslim Conquest of Spain
Individuals in Society Ibn Battuta, World Traveler
10
African Societies and Kingdoms
1000 b.c.e.–1500 c.e.
The Land and Peoples of Africa
Early African Societies
Agriculture and Its Impact • Bantu Migrations • Life in the Kingdoms of the Western Sudan, ca. 1000 b.c.e.–800 c.e.
The Trans-Saharan Trade
The Berbers of North Africa • Effects of Trade on West African Society • The Spread of Islam in Africa
African Kingdoms and Empires, ca. 800–1500
The Kingdom of Ghana, ca. 900–1100 • The Kingdom of Mali, ca. 1200–1450 • Ethiopia: The Christian Kingdom of Aksum • The East African City-States • Southern Africa and Great Zimbabwe
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence A Tenth-Century Muslim Traveler Describes Parts of the East African Coast
Analyze Visual Evidence The Queen of Sheba and King Solomon
Think Like a Historian Great Zimbabwe
Compare Viewpoints Early Descriptions of the East African Coast
Individuals in Society King Ezana, Christian Ruler of Aksum
11
The Americas
To 1500 c.e.
Societies of the Americas in a Global Context
Trade and Technology • Settlement and Environment
Ancient Societies
Olmec Agriculture, Technology, and Religion • Hohokam, Hopewell, and Mississippian Societies • Climate Change and North American Societies • Kinship and Ancestors in the Andes
The Incas
The Inca Model of Empire • Inca Imperial Expansion • Imperial Needs and Obligations
The Maya and Teotihuacan
Maya Agriculture and Trade • Maya Science and Religion • Teotihuacan and the Toltecs
The Aztec Empire
The Mexica: From Vassals to Rulers • Life in the Aztec Empire • The Limits of the Aztec Empire
American Empires and the Encounter
The Last Day of the Aztecs • The Fall of the Incas
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, The First New Chronicle and Good Government
Analyze Visual Evidence The Maya Calendar
Think Like a Historian Feathers, Snakes, and Humans
Compare Viewpoints Inca and Spanish Views on Religion, Authority, and Tribute
Individuals in Society Tlacaelel, Architect of Empire
12
States and Cultures in East Asia
800–1400
The Medieval Chinese Economic Revolution, 800–1100
China During the Song, Liao, and Jin Dynasties, 960–1232
The Song Dynasty and its Northern Rivals • The Scholar-Officials and Neo-Confucianism • Women’s Lives in Song Times • Environmental Crises
Korea Under the Goryeo Dynasty, 935–1392
Japan’s Heian Period, 794–1185
Fujiwara Rule • Aristocratic Culture
The Samurai and the Kamakura Shogunate, 1185–1333
Military Rule • Cultural and Economic Trends
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence Kamo no Chomei on Calamities Witnessed
Analyze Visual Evidence Ma Yuan’s Painting On a Mountain Path in Spring
Think Like a Historian When and Why Did Foot Binding Begin?
Compare Viewpoints Painters of Uncanny Skill in China and Rome
Individuals in Society Shen Gua, Polymath
13
Cultural Exchange in Central and Southern Asia
300–1400
Central Asian Nomads
Nomadic Society • The Turks • The Mongols
Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire
Chinggis Khan • Chinggis’s Successors • The Mongols as Rulers
East-West Communication During the Mongol Era
The Movement of Peoples • The Spread of Disease, Goods, and Ideas
India, Islam, and the Development of Regional Cultures, 300–1400
The Gupta Empire, ca. 320–480 • India’s Medieval Age and the First Encounter with Islam • The Delhi Sultanate • Life in Medieval India
Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Growth of Maritime Trade
State Formation and Indian Influences • The Srivijayan Maritime Trade Empire • The Spread of Indian Culture in Comparative Perspective • The Settlement of the Pacific Islands
Chapter Summary
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Analyze Written Evidence The Abduction of Women in The Secret History of the Mongols
Analyze Visual Evidence Bayan Relief at Angkor Thom
Think Like a Historian The Mongol Army
Compare Viewpoints The Mongols’ Adoption of Paper Money
Individuals in Society Bana, Romance Writer
14
Europe and Western Asia in the Middle Ages
800–1450
Political Developments
Invasions and Migrations • "Feudalism" and Serfdom • The Restoration of Order • Law and Justice
The Christian Church
Papal Reforms • Monastic Life • Popular Religion • The Expansion of Western and Eastern Christianity
The Crusades
Background and Motives • The Course of the Crusades • Consequences of the Crusades
The Life of the People
The Life and Work of Peasants • The Life and Work of Nobles • Towns, Cities, and the Growth of Commercial Interests • The Expansion of Trade and the Commercial Revolution
Learning and Culture
Universities and Scholasticism • Cathedrals and a New Architectural Style • Vernacular Literature and Drama
Crises of the Later Middle Ages
The Little Ice Age and the Black Death • The Hundred Years’ War • Challenges to the Christian Church • Peasant and Urban Revolts
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Analyze Visual Evidence The Battle of Nicopolis
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Compare Viewpoints Italian and English Views of the Plague
Individuals in Society Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess, Mystic, and Composer
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Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation
1350–1600
Renaissance Culture
Wealth and Power in Renaissance Italy • The Rise of Humanism • Christian Humanism • Printing and Its Social Impact • Art and the Artist
Social Hierarchies
Race and Slavery • Wealth and the Nobility • Gender Roles
Politics and the State in the Renaissance
Warfare, Money, and Mining • France • England • Spain • The Habsburgs
The Protestant Reformation
Criticism of the Church • Martin Luther • Protestant Thought and Its Appeal • The Radical Reformation and the German Peasants’ War • Marriage and Women’s Roles • The Reformation and German Politics • England’s Shift Toward Protestantism • Calvinism and Its Moral Standards
The Catholic Reformation
Papal Reforms and the Council of Trent • New Religious Orders
Religious Violence
French Religious Wars • Civil Wars in the Netherlands • The Great European Witch-Hunt
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Analyze Written Evidence Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty
Analyze Visual Evidence Woodcuts from Agricola’s De re metallica
Think Like a Historian Humanist Learning
Compare Viewpoints Chinese and European Views on Proper Behavior
Individuals in Society Leonardo da Vinci, Artist, Inventor, Genius
16
The Acceleration of Global Contact
1450–1600
The Afro-Eurasian Trade World
The Trade World of the Indian Ocean • Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia • Muslim Influences and African Trade • Genoese and Venetian Middlemen
The European Voyages of Discovery
Causes of European Expansion • Technology and the Rise of Exploration • The Portuguese in Africa and Asia • Spain’s Voyages to the Americas • Spain "Discovers" the Pacific • Early Exploration by Northern European Powers
Conquest and Settlement
Spanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires • Portuguese Brazil • Colonial Administration • Economic Exploitation of the Indigenous Population • Patterns of Settlement
The Era of Global Contact
Population Loss and the Ecological Impacts of Contact • Sugar and Early Transatlantic Slavery • Spanish Silver and Its Economic Effects • The Birth of the Global Economy
Changing Attitudes and Beliefs
Religious Conversion • European Debates About Indigenous Peoples • New Ideas About Race
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Analyze Written Evidence Columbus Describes His First Voyage
Analyze Visual Evidence Depictions of Africans in European Portraiture
Think Like a Historian Who Was Doña Marina?
Compare Viewpoints Aztec and Spanish Views on Christian Conversion in New Spain
Individuals in Society Catarina de San Juan, Former Slave and Popular Saint
17
The Islamic World Powers
1300–1800
The Islamic Empires: The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals
Environmental Challenges • The Expansion of the Ottoman Empire • Land-Holding, Slavery and Imperial Administrations • The Safavid Empire in Persia • The Mughal Empire in India
Religious Developments
Religious Legitimacy and Orthodoxy • Sufism • Non-Muslims Under Muslim Rule
Cultural Flowering
The Arts • City and Palace Building • Gardens • Intellectual Advances
New Patterns of Trade and European Penetration
New Forms of Consumption • The Impact of Gunpowder • European Trade in Asia and the Islamic Powers’ Response • From the British East India Company to the British Empire in India
Political Decline
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Analyze Written Evidence Katib Chelebi on Tobacco
Analyze Visual Evidence Coffee Drinking
Think Like a Historian Forced Relocation of Armenians to Persia
Compare Viewpoints Mughal and French Views on Priorities for Monarchs
Individuals in Society Hürrem, Concubine, Empress, and Counselor
18
European Power and Expansion
1500–1750
The Protestant and Catholic Reformations
The Protestant Reformation • The Catholic Reformation • Religious Violence
Seventeenth-Century Crisis and Rebuilding
The Social Order and Peasant Life • Environmental, Economic, and Social Crisis • The Thirty Years’ War • European Achievements in State-Building
Absolutist States in Western and Central Europe
Spain • The Foundations of French Absolutism • Louis XIV and Absolutism • The Wars of Louis XIV • The Absolutist Palace • The Austrian Habsburgs
Alternatives to Absolutism
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth • The Failure of Absolutism in England • The Puritan Protectorate • Constitutional Monarchy • The Dutch Republic
Colonial Expansion and Empire
The Dutch Trading Empire • Colonial Empires of England and France • Mercantilism and Colonial Wars • People Beyond Borders
The Russian Empire
Mongol Rule in Russia and the Rise of Moscow • Building the Russian Empire • Peter the Great and Russia’s Turn to the West
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Analyze Written Evidence Peter the Great and Foreign Experts
Analyze Visual Evidence Genre Painting: Celebrating Daily Life
Think Like a Historian What Was Absolutism?
Compare Viewpoints Descriptions of Louis XIV of France and the Kangxi Emperor of China
Individuals in Society Glückel of Hameln, Mother and Businesswoman
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New Worldviews and Ways of Life
1540–1790
The Scientific Revolution
The Muslim Contribution • Scientific Thought to 1550 • Astronomy and Physics • Newton’s Synthesis • Natural History and Empire • Magic and Alchemy
Important Changes in Scientific Thinking and Practice
The Methods of Science • Medicine, the Body, and Chemistry • Science and Religion • Science and Society
The Rise and Spread of Enlightenment
The Early Enlightenment • The Influence of the Philosophes • Enlightenment Movements Across Europe
Key Issues of Enlightenment Debate
Global Contacts • New Definitions of Race • Women and the Enlightenment • Enlightened Absolutism and Its Limits
Economic Change and the Atlantic World
Economic and Demographic Change • The Atlantic Economy • Urban Life and the Public Sphere • Culture and Community in the Atlantic World • The Atlantic Enlightenment
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Analyze Written Evidence Denis Diderot, "Supplement to Bougainville’s Voyage"
Analyze Visual Evidence Frontispiece to De On the Structure of the Human Body
Think Like a Historian The Enlightenment Debate on Religious Tolerance
Compare Viewpoints Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Mary Wollstonecraft on Women’s Nature
Individuals in Society Rebecca Protten, Mixed-Race Missionary
20
Africa and the World
1400–1800
West Africa in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
The West Coast: Senegambia and Benin • The Sudan: Songhai, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland • Agriculture, Gender, and Marriage in West Africa • Trade and Industry
Cross-Cultural Encounters Along the East African Coast
Muslim and European Incursions in Ethiopia, ca. 1500–1630 • The Swahili City-States and the Arrival of the Portuguese, ca. 1500–1600
The African Slave Trade
The Institution of Slavery in Africa • The Transatlantic Slave Trade • Impact on African Societies
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Analyze Written Evidence Duarte Barbosa on the Swahili City-States
Analyze Visual Evidence Lamu Old Town, Lamu Island, Kenya
Think Like a Historian Perspectives on the African Slave Trade
Compare Viewpoints European Descriptions of Timbuktu and Jenne
Individuals in Society Olaudah Equiano, Slave to Abolitionist
21
Continuity and Change in East Asia
1400–1800
Ming China, 1368–1644
The Rise of Zhu Yuanzhang and the Founding of the Ming Dynasty • Problems with the Imperial Institution • The Mongols and the Great Wall • The Examination Life • Everyday Life in Ming China • Ming Decline
The Manchus and Qing China, to 1800
The Rise of the Manchus • Competent and Long-Lived Emperors • Imperial Expansion
Japan’s Middle Ages, ca. 1400–1600
Muromachi Culture • Civil War • The Victors: Nobunaga and Hideyoshi
The Tokugawa Shogunate, to 1800
Tokugawa Government • Commercialization and the Growth of Towns • The Life of the People in the Edo Period
Maritime Trade, Piracy, and the Entry of Europe into the Asian Maritime Sphere
Zheng He’s Voyages • Piracy and Japan’s Overseas Adventures • Europeans Enter the Scene • Christian Missionaries • Learning from the West • The Shifting International Environment in the Eighteenth Century
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Analyze Written Evidence Control of Locusts
Analyze Visual Evience Interior View of a Kabuki Theater
Think Like a Historian Attention to Dress in Edo Japan
Compare Viewpoints Chinese and European Commentators on Urban Amusements
Individuals in Society Tan Yunxian, Woman Doctor
22
Revolutions in the Atlantic World
1775–1825
Background to Revolution
Social Change • Demands for Liberty and Equality • The Seven Years’ War
The American Revolutionary Era, 1775–1789
The Origins of the Revolution • Independence from Britain • Framing the Constitution • Limitations of Liberty and Equality
Revolution in France, 1789–1799
Breakdown of the Old Order • The National Assembly • Constitutional Monarchy • The National Convention • The Directory
Napoleon’s Europe, 1799–1815
Napoleon’s Rule of France • Napoleon’s Expansion in Europe • The Grand Empire and Its End
The Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804
Revolutionary Aspirations in Saint-Domingue • The Outbreak of Revolt • The War of Haitian Independence
Revolutions in Latin America
The Origins of the Revolutions Against Colonial Powers • Resistance, Rebellion, and Independence • The Aftermath of Revolution in the Atlantic World
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Analyze Written Evidence Abigail Adams, "Remember the Ladies"
Analyze Visual Evidence Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808
Think Like a Historian The Rights of Which Men?
Compare Viewpoints Declarations of Independence: The United States and Venezuela
Individuals in Society Vincent Ogé, Free Man of Color and Revolutionary
23
The Revolution in Energy and Industry
1760–1850
The Industrial Revolution in Britain
Why Britain? • Technological Innovations and Early Factories • Steam Power and the Energy Revolution • Breakthrough • Steam-Powered Transportation • Industry and Population
Industrialization in Europe and the World
National and International Variations • Industrialization in Continental Europe • Agents of Industrialization • The Global Picture
New Patterns of Working and Living
Work in Early Factories • Working Families and Children • The Sexual Division of Labor • Living Standards for the Working Class • Environmental Impacts of Industrialization
Relations Between Capital and Labor
The New Class of Factory Owners • Responses to Industrialization • The Early Labor Movement in Britain • The Impact of Slavery
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Analyze Written Evidence The Experience of Child Labor
Analyze Visual Evidence Rain, Steam and Speed –– the Great Western Railway
Think Like a Historian Making the Industrialized Worker
Compare Viewpoints Indian Cotton Manufacturers
Individuals in Society Samuel Crompton, Inventor and Unsuccessful Entrepreneur
24
Ideologies of Change in Europe
1815–1914
A Conservative Peace Gives Way to Radical Ideas
The Political and Social Situation After 1815 • Conservatism After 1815 • Liberalism and the Middle Class • The Growing Appeal of Nationalism • The Birth of Socialism
Reforms and Revolutions, 1815–1850
Social and Economic Conflict • Liberal Reform in Great Britain • Revolutions in France •
The Revolutions of 1848 in Central Europe
Nation Building in Italy, Germany, and Russia
Cavour, Garibaldi, and the Unification of Italy • Bismarck and German Unification • The Modernization of Russia
Urban Life in the Age of Ideologies
Improving the Urban Environment • Social Inequality and Class • The Changing Family • Science for the Masses • Cultural Shifts
Nationalism and Socialism, 1871–1914
Trends in Suffrage • The German Empire • Republican France • Great Britain and the Austro-Hungarian Empire • Jewish Emancipation and Modern Anti-Semitism • The Socialist Movement
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Analyze Written Evidence Stefan Zweig on Middle-Class Youth and Sexuality
Analyze Visual Evidence The Triumph of Democratic Republics
Think Like a Historian The Promise of Electricity
Compare Viewpoints German and Italian Views on Nationalism
Individuals in Society George Sand, Novelist Who Defied Gender Roles
25
Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and the New Imperialism
1800–1914
Africa: From the Slave Trade to European Colonial Rule
Trade and Social Change • Islamic Revival and Expansion in Africa • The Scramble for Africa, 1880–1914 • Southern Africa in the Nineteenth Century • Colonialism’s Impact After 1900
The New Imperialism, 1880–1914
Causes of the New Imperialism • A "Civilizing Mission" • Critics of Imperialism • African and Asian Resistance
The Islamic Heartland Under Pressure
Decline and Reform in the Ottoman Empire • Egypt: From Reform to British Occupation •
The Expanding World Economy
The Rise of Global Inequality • The World Market
The Great Global Migration
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Analyze Written Evidence A French Leader Defends Imperialism
Analyze Visual Evidence Pears’ Soap Advertisement
Think Like a Historian African Views of the Scramble for Africa
Compare Viewpoints The Congo Free State
Individuals in Society Tippu Tip, Afro-Arab Slave Trader and Diplomat
26
Asia and the Pacific in the Era of Imperialism
1800–1914
India and the British Empire in Asia
The Evolution of British Rule • The Socioeconomic Effects of British Rule • The British and the Indian Educated Elite
Competition for Southeast Asia
The Dutch East Indies • Mainland Southeast Asia • The Philippines
China Under Pressure
The Opium War • Internal Problems • The Self-Strengthening Movement • Republican Revolution
Japan’s Rapid Transformation
The "Opening" of Japan • The Meiji Restoration • Industrialization • Japan as an Imperial Power
The Pacific Region and the Movement of People
Settler Colonies in the Pacific: Australia and New Zealand • Asian Emigration
The Countries of Asia in Comparative Perspective
The Impact of Foreign Domination • Environmental and Economic Forces
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Analyze Written Evidence Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Escape from Asia"
Analyze Visual Evidence Japan’s First Skyscraper
Think Like a Historian English-Language Education for Indians
Compare Viewpoints Chinese and British Efforts to Reduce Infant Deaths
Individuals in Society José Rizal, Filipino Polymath and Revolutionary
27
The Americas in the Age of Liberalism
1810–1917
New Nations
Liberalism and Caudillos in Spanish America • Mexico and the United States • Liberal Reform in Mexico • Brazil: A New World Monarchy
Slavery and Abolition
Slave Societies in the Americas • Independence and Abolition • Abolition in Cuba and Brazil
Export-Led Growth and Social Unrest
Latin America Re-enters the World Economy • The Porfiriato and Liberal Stability in Mexico • The Mexican Revolution
Immigration
Immigration to Latin America • Immigration to the United States • Immigration to Canada • Settler Colonialism and its Impacts
A New American Empire
U.S. Intervention in Latin America • The Spanish-American War • The Panama Canal
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Analyze Written Evidence Reyita Castillo Bueno on Slavery and Freedom in Cuba
Analyze Visual Evidence Slaves Sold South from Richmond, 1853
Think Like a Historian The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil, from Above and Below
Compare Viewpoints Perspectives on the Mexican-American War
Individuals in Society Henry Meiggs, Promoter and Speculator
28
World War and Revolution
1914–1929
The First World War, 1914–1918
Origins and Causes of the Great War • The Outbreak of War • Stalemate and Slaughter • The War Becomes Global
The Home Front
Mobilizing for Total War • The Social Impact of War • Growing Political Tensions
The Russian Revolution
The Fall of Imperial Russia • The Provisional Government • Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution • Dictatorship and Civil War
The War’s Consequences
The End of the War • The Paris Peace Treaties • American Rejection of the Versailles Treaty
The Search for Peace and Political Stability, 1919–1929
Germany and the Western Powers • Hope in Foreign Affairs • Hope in Democratic Government
The Age of Anxiety
Uncertainty in Philosophy and Religion • The New Physics • Freudian Psychology • Twentieth-Century Literature • Modern Architecture, Art, and Music • Movies and Radio
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Analyze Written Evidence The Experience of War
Analyze Visual Evidence "Never Forget!"
Think Like a Historian Russian Views of War and Revolution
Compare Viewpoints British and Canadian Poetry of the Great War
Individuals in Society Vera Brittain, Author, Feminist, Pacifist
29
Nationalism in Asia
1914–1939
The First World War’s Impact on Nationalist Trends
Asian Reaction to the War in Europe • The Mandates System • Nationalism’s Appeal
Nationalist Movements in the Middle East
The Arab Revolt • The Turkish Revolution • Modernization Efforts in Persia and Afghanistan • Gradual Independence in the Arab States • Arab-Jewish Tensions in Palestine
Toward Self-Rule in India
British Promises and Repression • The Roots of Militant Nonviolence • Gandhi’s Resistance Campaign in India
Nationalist Struggles in East and Southeast Asia
The Rise of Nationalist China • China’s Intellectual Revolution • From Liberalism to Ultranationalism in Japan • Japan Against China • Striving for Independence in Southeast Asia
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Analyze Written Evidence Resolution of the General Syrian Congress at Damascus
Analyze Visual Evidence The Fate of a Chinese Patriot
Think Like a Historian Interpreting the May Fourth Movement
Compare Viewpoints Gandhi and Mao on Revolutionary Means
Individuals in Society Ning Lao, a Chinese Working Woman
30
The Great Depression and World War II
1929–1945
The Great Depression, 1929–1939
The Economic Crisis • Mass Unemployment • The New Deal in the United States • The European Response to the Depression • Worldwide Effects
Authoritarian States
Conservative Authoritarianism • Radical Totalitarian Dictatorships
Stalin’s Soviet Union
From Lenin to Stalin • The Five-Year Plans • Life and Culture in Soviet Society • Stalinist Terror and the Great Purges
Mussolini and Fascism in Italy
The Seizure of Power • The Regime in Action
Hitler and Nazism in Germany
The Roots of Nazism • Hitler’s Road to Power • The Nazi State and Society • Hitler’s Popularity • Aggression and Appeasement, 1933–1939
The Second World War, 1939–1945
Hitler’s Empire in Europe, 1939–1942 • The Holocaust • Japan’s Asian Empire • The Grand Alliance • The War in Europe, 1942–1945 • The War in the Pacific, 1942–1945
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Analyze Written Evidence Ultranationalist Pamphlet for Japanese Students
Analyze Visual Evidence British Conservative Party Poster
Think Like a Historian Peasant Resistance to Stalin’s Collectivization Plan
Compare Viewpoints Socialism and the Working Class
Individuals in Society Primo Levi, Writer and Holocaust Survivor
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Decolonization, Revolution, and the Cold War
1945–1968
The World Remade
The Cold War • The United Nations • The Politics of Liberation • Dependency and Development Theories • Interpreting the Postcolonial Experience
Nation Building in South Asia and the Middle East
Independence in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh • Arab Socialism in the Middle East • The Arab-Israeli Conflict
Revolution and Resurgence in East and Southeast Asia
The Communist Victory in China • Conflict in Korea • Japan’s American Reconstruction • The Vietnam War
Decolonization in Africa
The Growth of African Nationalism • Ghana Shows the Way • Countries Emerging from French Rule
Populist and Revolutionary Pathways in Latin America
Economic Nationalism in Mexico • Populism in Argentina and Brazil • Communist Revolution in Cuba
The Limits of Postwar Prosperity
The Soviet Union Struggles to Move Beyond Stalin • Postwar Challenges in Western Europe and the United States • The World in 1968
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Analyze Written Evidence C. L. R. James on Pan-African Liberation
Analyze Visual Evidence Poster Art in Communist China
Think Like a Historian Global Perspectives on the Vietnam War
Compare Viewpoints U.S. and Latin American Views on Development
Individuals in Society Nawal El Saadawi, Public Health Advocate in Egypt
32
Liberalization and Liberation
1968–2000s
Oil Shocks and Liberalization
The OPEC Oil Embargo • Mexico Under the PRI • Nigeria, Africa’s Giant • The Camp David Accords and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict • Revolution and War in Iran and Iraq
Latin America: Dictatorship, Debt, and Democratization
Civil Wars in Central America • Boom and Bust in Chile • The Dirty War in Argentina • Development and Dictatorship in Brazil
Gender, Race and Liberation
Gay Liberation • Second-Wave and Third World Feminism • Pan-Africanism, Black Power and the African Diaspora
Resistance to White Rule in Southern Africa
Portuguese Decolonization and Rhodesia • South Africa Under Apartheid • Political Change in Africa Since 1990
Growth and Development in Asia
Japan’s Economic Miracle and the Emergence of the "Asian Tigers" • China’s Economic Resurgence • Development Versus Democracy in India and Pakistan
The End of the Cold War
The Limits of Reform in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe • Recasting Russia Without Communism • Integration and Reform in Europe
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Analyze Written Evidence A Member of China’s Red Guards on Democratic Reform
Analyze Visual Evidence Tiananmen Square
Think Like a Historian The Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
Compare Viewpoints Women’s Rights as Human Rights in Iran and the United States
Individuals in Society Anani Dzidzienvo, Scholar of the African Diaspora
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The Contemporary World in Historical Perspective
The Neoliberal World and Its Limits
Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan • Conflict and Change in the Middle East • Right Wing Nationalism Re-emerges
Global Circulation and Exchange
Migration • Urbanization • Multinational Corporations
Social Movements
Children: The Right to Childhood • Women’s Right to Equality • LGBTQ Challenges • Environmentalism
Global Climate Change
Causes of Global Warming and Responses to It • Historical Experiences with Climate and Environmental Change • Automobility • Global Energy Reliance • Intensified Agriculture and the Green Revolution • Impacts of Climate Change
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Analyze Visual Evidence A Generational Movement on Climate
Think Like a Historian The Relationships Between People and Epidemics
Compare Viewpoints Women Activists in Chiapas, Mexico
Individuals in
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Narrative updates to incorporate the latest scholarship. Along with the addition of material on the environment and science-based evidence throughout, updates to the twelfth edition include: a revised section on human evolution (Chapter 1); a significant chapter revision, including more on the actual practices of Islam (Chapter 9); revision of the section on the Black Death to incorporate new scholarship (Chapter 14); expanded coverage of the Indian Ocean trade and new section on ideas about race (Chapter 16); more thorough discussion of the "Little Ice Age"(Chapter 18); new material on ocean fishing and whaling (Chapter 20); new section exploring human rights and liberation movements (Chapter 32).
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For instructors who want the easiest and most affordable way to ensure students come to class prepared, Achieve pairs LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and our mobile, accessible to-color Value Edition e-textbook, in one easy-to-use product.
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