Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East
 
Chapter 2: Ancient China – Origins to Empire: Prehistory to 220 C.E.
 
Chapter 3: Ancient India: From Origins to 300 C.E.
 
Chapter 4: Greece: Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000–30 B.C.E.
 
Chapter 5: Roman Civilization: The Roman World, c. 900 B.C.E. to 476 C.E.
 
Chapter 6: Byzantium and the Orthodox World: Byzantium, Eastern Europe, and Russia, 325–1500
 
Chapter 7: Islam: From Its Origins to 1300
 
Chapter 8: African Beginnings: African Civilizations to 1500 C.E.
 
Chapter 9: The European Middle Ages: 476–1348 C.E.
 
Chapter 10: Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220–1350
 
Chapter 11: The Americas to 1492
 
Chapter 12: The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, 1300–1650
 
Chapter 13: East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 300–1650
 
Chapter 14: European Cultural and Religious Transformations
 
Chapter 15: The Development of the European State System, 1300–1650
 
Chapter 16: Global Encounters: Europe and the New World Economy, 1400–1650
 
Chapter 17: Politics in the First Age of Capitalism, 1648–1774: Absolutism and Limited Central Power
 
Chapter 18: New Ideas and Their Political Consequences: The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolutions
 
Chapter 19: Africa, 1650–1850
 
Chapter 20: Asian and Middle Eastern Empires and Nations, 1650–1815
 
Chapter 21: The Americas, 1650–1825: From European Dominance to Independence
 
Chapter 22: Industrialization: Social, Political, and Cultural Transformations
 
Chapter 23: Africa and the Middle East During the Age of European Imperialism
 
Chapter 24: Asia, 1815–1914: India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan
 
Chapter 25: Latin America: Independence and Dependence, 1825–1945
 
Chapter 26: Politics and Diplomacy in the West, 1815–1914
 
Chapter 27: World War I and Its Economic and Political Consequences
 
Chapter 28: The USSR, Italy, Germany, and Japan: Democratic Failure and Authoritarian Government in the Interwar Period
 
Chapter 29: Forging New Nations in Asia, 1910–1950
 
Chapter 30: Emerging National Movements in the Middle East and Africa from the 1920s to 1950s
 
Chapter 31: World War II: Origins and Consequences, 1919–1946
 
Chapter 32: The Bipolar World: Cold War and Decolonization, 1945–1991
 
Chapter 33: The United States and Europe Since 1945: Politics in an Age of Conflict and Change
 
Chapter 34: The Middle East, Africa, and Latin America Since 1945: The Struggle for Survival
 
Chapter 35: Asia Since 1945: Political, Economic, and Social Revolutions
 

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