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Civilization Past & Present, Volume I (to 1650)

ISBN: 9780321236272 | 0321236270
Edition: 11th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006

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SummaryTable of Contents
The authors of the Eleventh Edition of Civilization Past and Present specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, Russian, and East European history weave the diverse trends of world history into a clear and accessible analysis for today's students. Civilization Past and Present, well known in the marketplace as a highly readable survey text, delivers a strong narrative of world history and a level of detail that is manageable for students and solid for instructors. Using images and documents that enhance the text's content, the narrative t... MORE
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Documentsxvi
Maps
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Global Issuesxvii
Discovery Through Mapsxvii
Chapter Opening Image Descriptionsxviii
To the Instructorxix
To the Studentxxx
Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East
2(36)
The Origins of Humankind
4(1)
Preliterate Cultures
5(2)
Preliterate Society and Religion
7(3)
Mesopotamia: The First Civilization
10(4)
The Babylonian Empire, c. 2000--1600 B.C.E.
14(2)
Egypt: Gift of the Nile
16(10)
Mesopotamian Successors to Babylon, c. 1600--550 B.C.E.
26(7)
The Persian Empire, 550--331 B.C.E.
33(5)
Ancient China---Origins to Empire: Prehistory to 220 C.E.
38(26)
The Origins of China, 6500--221 B.C.E.
40(12)
The Qin and Han Empires, 221 B.C.E.--220 C.E.
52(12)
Ancient India: From Origins to 300 C.E.
64(32)
Early India
66(6)
Dramatic Developments in Religion and Culture, 600--320 B.C.E.
72(7)
The Mauryan Empire and Other Kingdoms, 320 B.C.E.--300 C.E.
79(14)
Emergent Hinduism and Buddhism, 200 B.C.E.--300 C.E.
93
The Meeting of East and West: Networks of Exchange
89(7)
Global Issues: Migration
94(2)
Greece: Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000--30 B.C.E.
96(34)
Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations, c. 2000--1200 B.C.E.
98(4)
The Rise of Hellenic Civilization, c. 1150--500 B.C.E.
102(6)
The Golden Age of Greece, 500--336 B.C.E.
108(5)
The Greek Cultural Achievement
113(7)
The Hellenistic Age, 336--30 B.C.E.
120(4)
Hellenistic Society and Culture
124(6)
Roman Civilization: The Roman World, c. 900 B.C.E. to 476 C.E.
130(34)
Early Italy and the Origins of Rome, c. 900--509 B.C.E.
132(2)
The Republic and the Roman Conquest of Italy: 509--133 B.C.E.
134(5)
The Late Republic: 133--30 B.C.E.
139(5)
The Roman Empire and the Pax Romana: 30 B.C.E.--476 C.E.
144(6)
The Rise of Christianity
150(8)
The Roman Legacy
158(6)
Byzantium and the Orthodox World: Byzantium, Eastern Europe, and Russia, 325--1500
164(30)
Byzantium: The Latin Phase: 325--610
166(7)
The Age of Consolidation: 610--1071
173(8)
Western and Turkish Invasions: 1071--1453
181(3)
Southeastern Europe to 1500
184(4)
Russia to 1500
188(6)
Islam: From Its Origins to 1300
194(30)
Arabia Before the Prophet
196(2)
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
198(3)
Islamic Faith and Law
201(5)
The Expansion of Community and State
206(4)
The Abbasid Era, Zenith of Classical Islamic Civilization
210(4)
Islamic Culture
214(10)
Global Issues Religion and Government
222(2)
African Beginnings: African Civilizations to 1500 C.E.
224(32)
The African Environment
226(1)
African Cultural Patterns
226(3)
Peopling of Africa
229(2)
The Bantu Dispersion
231(1)
Ethiopia and Northeastern Africa
232(4)
Empires of the Western Sudan
236(10)
West African Forest Kingdoms
246(1)
Swahili City-States in East Africa
247(5)
Kingdoms of Central and Southern Africa
252(4)
The European Middle Ages, 476--1348 C.E.
256(30)
The Church in the Early Middle Ages
258(2)
The Merovingians and Carolingians
260(6)
Feudalism and Manorialism
266(5)
The Revival of Trade and Towns
271(1)
The Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000--1348
272(3)
The Crusades
275(3)
The Development of European States: 1000--1348
278(8)
Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220--1350
286(36)
India in the Classical and Medieval Eras
288(6)
China: Cultural and Political Empires
294(16)
Korea: From Three Kingdoms to One
310(2)
The Emergence of Japan in East Asia
312(10)
The Americas to 1492
322(24)
Origins of Americans and Their Cultures
324(1)
Emerging Civilizations in Mesoamerica
325(2)
Classical Mayan Civilization
327(2)
The Postclassical Era
329(7)
The Amerindians of North America
336(10)
Global Issues Location and Identity
344(2)
The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, 1300--1650
346(24)
New Politics in Eurasia
348(1)
The Ottoman Empire
349(8)
The Safavid Empire in Persia
357(4)
The Mughal Empire in South Asia
361(6)
Networks of Trade and Communication
367(3)
East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300--1650
370(26)
China: The Ming Dynasty
373(8)
Korea: The Making of a Confucian Society
381(3)
Japan: The Era of Shoguns and Warring States
384(7)
Southeast Asia: States Within a Region
391(5)
European Cultural and Religious Transformations: The Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300--1600
396(36)
Social Upheaval
398(1)
The Italian Renaissance
399(5)
Italian Renaissance Art
404(4)
The Northern Renaissance
408(5)
The Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300--1517
413(3)
Luther and the German Reformation
416(3)
Henry VIII and the Anglican Reformation
419(2)
Protestantism from Switzerland to Holland: Zwingli and Calvin
421(5)
Reform in the Catholic Church
426(6)
The Development of the European State System, 1300--1650
432(30)
Politics in an Age of Crisis: 1300--1500
434(8)
The Religious-Political Fusion
442(1)
Wars of Religions: The Spanish Habsburgs' Quest for European Hegemony, 1556--1598
443(7)
Orthodox Europe: Russian Consolidation and Ottoman Expansion
450(3)
The Austrian Habsburgs' Drive for Superiority and the Thirty Years' War
453(9)
Global Issues Technological Exchange
460(2)
Global Encounters: Europe and the New World Economy, 1400--1650
462
The Iberian Golden Age
464(5)
The Portuguese and Africa
469(5)
The Growth of New Spain
474(3)
Iberian Systems in the New World
477(5)
Beginnings of Northern European Expansion
482
Credits1(1)
Notes1(1)
Index1

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