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The Primary Source Edition of Civilization Past and Present weaves the diverse trends of world history into a clear and accessible analysis and includes 2 to 3 primary sources with critical thinking questions per chapter. Civilization Past and Present, well known in the marketplace as a highly readable survey of world history, delivers a strong narrative of world history and a level of detail that is manageable for readers. The book examines all aspects of world history--social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic. With 22 ... MORE

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Documents	p. xvi
Maps	p. xvi
Global Issues	p. xvii
Discovery Through Maps	p. xvii
Chapter Opening Image Descriptions	p. xviii
To the Instructor	p. xix
To the Student	p. xxx
Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East	p. 2
The Origins of Humankind	p. 4
Preliterate Cultures	p. 5
Preliterate Society and Religion	p. 7
Mesopotamia: The First Civilization	p. 10
The Babylonian Empire, c. 2000-1600 B.C.E.	p. 14
Egypt: Gift of the Nile	p. 16
Mesopotamian Successors to Babylon, c. 1600-550 B.C.E.	p. 26
The Persian Empire, 550-331 B.C.E.	p. 33
Discovery Through Maps: The Oldest Known Map: Catul Huyuk	p. 8
Document: "The Great Hymn to the Aton" and Psalm 104	p. 22
Document: The Majesty of Darius the Great: A Persian Royal Inscription	p. 35
Ancient China-Origins to Empire
Prehistory to 220 C.E.	p. 38
The Origins of China, 6500-221 B.C.E.	p. 40
The Qin and Han Empires, 221 B.C.E.-220 C.E.	p. 52
Document: The Wisdom of Confucius	p. 47
Document: Legalism: The Theories of Han Feizi (d. 233 B.C.E.)	p. 51
Document: From The Book of Songs: "A Simple Rustic You Seemed"	p. 60
Ancient India
From Origins to 300 C.E.	p. 64
Early India	p. 66
Dramatic Developments in Religion and Culture, 600-320 B.C.E.	p. 72
The Mauryan Empire and Other Kingdoms, 320 B.C.E.-300 C.E.	p. 79
Emergent Hinduism and Buddhism, 200 B.C.E.-300 C.E.	p. 93
The Meeting of East and West: Networks of Exchange	p. 89
Document: Rig-Veda: Creation and the Kinds of Men	p. 70
Document: The Jains on the Souls in All Things	p. 74
Document: The Ramayana: The Trial of Sita	p. 87
Global Issues: Migration	p. 94
Greece
Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000-30 B.C.E.	p. 96
Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations, c. 2000-1200 B.C.E.	p. 98
The Rise of Hellenic Civilization, c. 1150-500 B.C.E.	p. 102
The Golden Age of Greece, 500-336 B.C.E.	p. 108
The Greek Cultural Achievement	p. 113
The Hellenistic Age, 336-30 B.C.E.	p. 120
Hellenistic Society and Culture	p. 124
Document: Homer-The Iliad: Andromache and Hector	p. 103
Document: Aristophanes on the Shortcomings of Athenian Democracy	p. 111
Discovery Through Maps: The World According to Herodotus, c. 450 B.C.E.	p. 118
Document: Arrian: Alexander the Leader	p. 123
Roman Civilization
The Roman World, c. 900 B.C.E. to 476 C.E.	p. 130
Early Italy and the Origins of Rome, c. 900-509 B.C.E.	p. 132
The Republic and the Roman Conquest of Italy: 509-133 B.C.E.	p. 134
The Late Republic: 133-30 B.C.E.	p. 139
The Roman Empire and the Pax Romana: 30 B.C.E.-476 C.E.	p. 144
The Rise of Christianity	p. 150
The Roman Legacy	p. 158
Document: Columella: Roman Farm Women	p. 140
Document: Plutarch-The Murder of Tiberius Gracchus	p. 142
Byzantium and the Orthodox World
Byzantium, Eastern Europe, and Russia, 325-1500	p. 164
Byzantium: The Latin Phase: 325-610	p. 166
The Age of Consolidation: 610-1071	p. 173
Western and Turkish Invasions: 1071-1453	p. 181
Southeastern Europe to 1500	p. 184
Russia to 1500	p. 188
Document: The Ecumenical Councils and Heresies	p. 169
Discovery Through Maps: A Sixth-Century Map: The Madaba Mosaic	p. 174
Document: Anna Comnena	p. 178
Document: The Acceptance of Christianity	p. 189
Islam
From Its Origins to 1300	p. 194
Arabia Before the Prophet	p. 196
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam	p. 198
Islamic Faith and Law	p. 201
The Expansion of Community and State	p. 206
The Abbasid Era, Zenith of Classical Islamic Civilization	p. 210
Islamic Culture	p. 214
Document: The Qur'an	p. 202
Document: The Early Islamic Conquests	p. 209
Discovery Through Maps: An Islamic Map of the World	p. 216
Document: Ibn Sina's Path to Wisdom	p. 218
Global Issues: Religion and Government	p. 222
African Beginnings
African Civilizations to 1500 C.E.	p. 224
The African Environment	p. 226
African Cultural Patterns	p. 226
Peopling of Africa	p. 229
The Bantu Dispersion	p. 231
Ethiopia and Northeastern Africa	p. 232
Empires of the Western Sudan	p. 236
West African Forest Kingdoms	p. 246
Swahili City-States in East Africa	p. 247
Kingdoms of Central and Southern Africa	p. 252
Document: Emperor Zar'a Ya'kob's Coronation and His Concern for the Church	p. 237
Document: Ghana, as Described by Al-Bakri	p. 241
Discovery Through Maps: Mansa Musa and the Catalan Atlas of 1375	p. 243
The European Middle Ages, 476-1348 C.E.	p. 256
The Church in the Early Middle Ages	p. 258
The Merovingians and Carolingians	p. 260
Feudalism and Manorialism	p. 266
The Revival of Trade and Towns	p. 271
The Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000-1348	p. 272
The Crusades	p. 275
The Development of European States: 1000-1348	p. 278
Document: Charlemagne: A Firsthand Look	p. 263
Document: Muslim and Christian: Two Contemporary Perspectives	p. 277
Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220-1350	p. 286
India in the Classical and Medieval Eras	p. 288
China: Cultural and Political Empires	p. 294
Korea: From Three Kingdoms to One	p. 310
The Emergence of Japan in East Asia	p. 312
Document: Faxian: A Chinese Buddhist Monk in Gupta India	p. 290
Document: Bo Juyi (772-846): "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow"	p. 300
Discovery Through Maps: Gog and Magog in the Ebstorf Mappamundi	p. 309
Document: Sei Shonagon: The Pillow Book	p. 318
The Americas to 1492	p. 322
Origins of Americans and Their Cultures	p. 324
Emerging Civilizations in Mesoamerica	p. 325
Classical Mayan Civilization	p. 327
The Postclassical Era	p. 329
The Amerindians of North America	p. 336
Document: Father Bernabe Cobo, "Pachacuti, the Greatest Inca"	p. 333
Global Issues Location and Identity	p. 344
The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, 1300-1650	p. 346
New Polities in Eurasia	p. 348
The Ottoman Empire	p. 349
The Safavid Empire in Persia	p. 357
The Mughal Empire in South Asia	p. 361
Networks of Trade and Communication	p. 367
Discovery Through Maps: The World Map of Piri Reis	p. 351
Document: Evliya Celebi, "An Ottoman Official's Wedding Night"	p. 355
Document: The Coming of Ismail Safavi Foretold	p. 358
Document: The Idea of Seclusion and Lady Nurjahan	p. 366
East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300-1650	p. 370
China: The Ming Dynasty	p. 373
Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society	p. 381
Japan: The Era of Shoguns and Warring States	p. 385
Southeast Asia: States Within a Region	p. 391
Discovery Through Maps: Map of China's Ancient Heartland, circa 1500 C.E.	p. 375
Document: A Censor Accuses a Eunuch	p. 377
Document: Sotoba Komachi, a Fourteenth-Century Japanese No Play	p. 387
Document: A Traveller's Account of Slam	p. 392
European Cultural and Religious Transformations
The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300-1600	p. 396
Social Upheaval	p. 398
The Italian Renaissance	p. 399
Italian Renaissance Art	p. 404
The Northern Renaissance	p. 408
The Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300-1517	p. 413
Luther and the German Reformation	p. 416
Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation	p. 419
Protestantism from Switzerland to Holland: Zwingli and Calvin	p. 421
Reform in the Catholic Church	p. 426
Discovery Through Maps: The Lagoon of Venice	p. 401
Document: Machiavelli, The Prince: On Cruelty and Mercy	p. 403
Document: Anne Ayscough (Mrs. Thomas Kyme), English Protestant Martyr	p. 422
The Development of the European State System, 1300-1650	p. 432
Politics in an Age of Crisis: 1300-1500	p. 434
The Religious-Political Fusion	p. 442
Wars of Religions: The Spanish Habsburgs' Quest for European Hegemony, 1556-1598	p. 443
Orthodox Europe: Russian Consolidation and Ottoman Expansion	p. 450
The Austrian Habsburgs' Drive for Superiority and the Thirty Years' War	p. 453
Document: The Trial of Joan of Arc	p. 435
Discovery Through Maps: A Pilgrim's Map of Canterbury	p. 436
Document: Simplicissimus on the Horrors of the Thirty Years' War	p. 454
Global Issues Technological Exchange	p. 460
Global Encounters
Europe and the New World Economy, 1400-1650	p. 462
The Iberian Golden Age	p. 464
The Portuguese and Africa	p. 469
The Growth of New Spain	p. 474
Iberian Systems in the New World	p. 477
Beginnings of Northern European Expansion	p. 482
Discovery Through Maps: Savage Pictures: Sebastian Munster's Map of Africa	p. 471
Document: Portuguese Encounters with Africans	p. 473
Document: Disease and the Spanish Conquest	p. 480
Credits	p. C-1
Notes	p. N-1
Index	p. I-1
Primary Source Documents	p. D-1
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