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| From Hunting And Gathering To Civilizations, 2.5 Million-1000 B.C.E.: Origins | |
| The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization | |
| A Hunter | |
| Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers | |
| Document: Tales of the Hunt: Paleolithic Cave Paintings as History | |
| Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization: The Neolithic Revolution | |
| Visualizing the Past Representations of Women in Earl... MORE | |
| In Depth: The Idea of Civilization in World Historical Perspective | |
| The First Towns: Seedbeds of Civilization | |
| Global Connections: The Neolithic Revolution as a Basis for World History | |
| The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa | |
| Women in Mesopotamia and Egypt | |
| Setting the Scene: The Middle East by 4000 b.c.e. | |
| Civilization in Mesopotamia | |
| Visualizing the Past: Mesopotamia in Maps | |
| Document: Hammurabi's Law Code | |
| Ancient Egypt | |
| Egypt and Mesopotamia Compared | |
| In Depth: Women in Patriarchal Societies | |
| Civilization Centers in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean | |
| The Issue of Heritage | |
| Global Connections: The Early Civilizations and the World | |
| Asia's First Civilizations: India and China | |
| The Indus Valley and the Birth of South Asian Civilization | |
| Aryan Incursions and Early Aryan Society in India | |
| Document: Aryan Poetry in Praise of a War-Horse | |
| A Bend in the River and the Beginnings of China | |
| Visualizing the Past: Mapping the Rise of Civilizations | |
| The Decline of the Shang and the Era of Zhou Dominance | |
| In Depth: The Legacy of Asia's First Civilizations | |
| Global Connections: Contrasting Legacies: Indus and Early Chinese Civilizations | |
| The Classical Period, 1000 Bce-500 Ce:Uniting Large Regions | |
| Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China | |
| Philosophical Remedies for the Prolonged Crisis the Later Zhou | |
| Document: Teachings of the Rival Chinese Schools | |
| The Triumph of the Qin and Imperial Unity | |
| In Depth: Sunzi and the Shift from Ritual Combatto "Real" War | |
| The Han Dynasty and the Foundations of China's Classical Age | |
| Visualizing the Past: Capital Designs and Patterns of Political Power | |
| Global Connections: Classical China and the World | |
| Classical Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean: Persia and Greece | |
| The First Marathon | |
| The Persian Empire: Parallel Power in the Middle East | |
| The Political Character of Classical Greece | |
| The Hellenistic Period | |
| Creativity in Greek and Hellenistic Culture | |
| Document: The Power of Greek Drama | |
| Patterns of Greek and Hellenistic Society | |
| In Depth: Defining Social History | |
| Visualizing the Past: Commerce and Society | |
| Global Connections: Greece and the World | |
| Religious Rivalries and India's Golden Age | |
| The Age of Brahman Dominance | |
| In Depth: Inequality as the Social Norm | |
| Religious Ferment and the Rise of Buddhism | |
| Brahmanical Recovery and the Splendors of the Gupta Age | |
| Visualizing the Past: The Pattern of Trade in the Ancient Eurasian World | |
| Document: A Guardian's Farewell Speech to a Young Woman About to Be Married | |
| Global Connections: India and the Wider World | |
| Rome and Its Empire | |
| Roman Legions and Army Life | |
| The Development of Rome's Republic | |
| Roman Culture | |
| Document: Rome and a Values Crisis | |
| The Institutions of Empire | |
| The Evolution of Rome's Economic and Social Structure | |
| Visualizing the Past: Religions in Rome | |
| In Depth: The Classical Civilizations in Comparative Perspective | |
| The Origins of Christianity | |
| The Decline of Rome | |
| Global Connections: Rome and the World | |
| The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas | |
| Origins of American Societies | |
| Spread of Civilization in Mesoamerica | |
| Document: Deciphering the Maya Glyphs | |
| The Peoples to the North | |
| In Depth: Different Times for Different Peoples | |
| The Andean World | |
| Visualizing the Past: Ancient Agriculture | |
| Global Connections: American Civilizations and the World | |
| The Spread of Civilizations and the Movement of Peoples | |
| The Spread of Civilization in Africa | |
| Document: Myths of Origin | |
| In Depth: Language as a Historical Source | |
| Nomadic Societies and Indo-European Migrations | |
| Visualizing the Past: Varieties of Human Adaptation and the Potential for Civilization | |
| The Spread of Chinese Civilization to Japan | |
| The Scattered Societies of Polynesia | |
| Global Connections: The Emerging Cultures | |
| The End of the Classical Era: World History in Transition, 200-700 c.e. | |
| Change in the Indian Ocean | |
| Upheavals in Eastern and Southern Asia | |
| Document: The Popularization of Buddhism | |
| The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | |
| In Depth: The Problem of Decline and Fall | |
| The Development and Spread of World Religions | |
| Visualizing the Past: Religious Geography | |
| Global Connections: The Late Classical Period and the World | |
| The Postclassical Period, 500-1450: New Faith And New Commerce | |
| The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam | |
| Desert and Town: The Arabian World and the Birth of Islam | |
| The Life of Muhammad and the Genesis of Islam | |
| The Arab Empire of the Umayyads | |
| In Depth: Civilization and Gender Relationships | |
| From Arab to Islamic Empire: The Early Abbasid Era | |
| Document: The Thousand and One Nights as a Mirror of Elite Society in the Abbasid Era | |
| Visualizing the Past: The Mosque as a Symbol of Islamic Civilization | |
| Global Connections: Early Islam and the World | |
| Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia | |
| The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle and Late Abbasid Eras | |
| Document:Ibn Khaldun on the Rise and Decline of Empires | |
| An Age of Learning and Artistic Refinements | |
| Visualizing the Past:The Patterns of Islam's Global Expansion | |
| The Coming of Islam to South Asia | |
| The Spread of Islam to Southeast Asia | |
| In Depth:Conversion and Accommodation in the Spread of World Religions | |
| Global Connections:Islam: A Bridge Between Worlds | |
| African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam | |
| African Societies: Diversity and Similarities | |
| Kingdoms of the Grasslands | |
| Document:The Great Oral Tradition and the Epic of Sundiata | |
| The Swahili Coast of East Africa | |
| In Depth:Two Transitions in the History of World Population | |
| Peoples of the Forest and Plains | |
| Global Connections:Internal Development and Global Contacts | |
| Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe | |
| Russia Chooses a Religion | |
| The Byzantine Empire | |
| Visualizing the Past:Women and Power in Byzantium | |
| The Spread of Civilization in Eastern Europe | |
| Document:Russia Turns to Christianity | |
| In Depth:Eastern and Western Europe: The Problem of Boundaries | |
| Global Connections:Eastern Europe and the World | |
| A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe | |
| A Merchant Becomes a Saint | |
| Stages of Postclassical Development | |
| In Depth:Western Civilization | |
| Western Culture in the Postclassical Era | |
| Changing Economic and Social Forms in the Postclassical Centuries | |
| Visualizing the Past:Peasant Labor | |
| Document:Changing Roles for Women | |
| The Decline of the Medieval Synthesis | |
| Global Connections:Medieval Europe and the World | |
| The Americas on the Eve of Invasion | |
| Postclassic Mesoamerica, 1000-1500 c.e. | |
| Aztec Society in Transition | |
| Document:Aztec Women and Men | |
| In Depth:The "Troubling" Civilizations of the Americas | |
| Twantinsuyu: World of the Incas | |
| Visualizing the Past:Archeological Evidence of Political Practices | |
| The Other Indians | |
| Global Connections:The Americas and the World | |
| Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties | |
| Rebuilding the Imperial Edifice in the Sui-Tang Era | |
| Document:Ties That Bind: Paths to Power | |
| Tang Decline and the Rise of the Song | |
| Tang and Song Prosperity: The Basis of a Golden Age | |
| In Depth:Artistic Expression and Social Values | |
| Global Connections:China's World Role | |
| The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam | |
| Japan: The Imperial Age | |
| The Era of Warrior Dominance | |
| In Depth:Comparing Feudalisms | |
| Korea: Between China and Japan | |
| Between China and Southeast Asia: The Making of Vietnam | |
| Visualizing the Past:What Their Portraits Tell Us: Gatekeeper Elites and the Persistence of Civilizations | |
| Document:Literature as a Mirror of the Exchanges Between Civilized Centers | |
| Global Connections:In the Orbit of China: The East Asian Corner of the Global System | |
| The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur | |
| The Mongol Empire of Chinggis Khan | |
| Document: A European Assessment of the Virtues and Vices of the Mongols | |
| The Mongol Drive to the West | |
| Visualizing the Past:The Mongol Empire as a Bridge Between Civilizations | |
| The Mongol Interlude in Chinese History | |
| In Depth:The Eclipse of the Nomadic War Machine | |
| Global Connections:The Mongol Linkages | |
| The West and the Changing World Balance | |
| The Compass: A New Sense of Direction | |
| The Decline of the Old Order | |
| The Rise of the West | |
| Visualizing the Past:Population Trends | |
| Document:Italian Renaissance Culture | |
| Western Expansion: The Experimental Phase | |
| Outside the World Network | |
| In Depth:The Problem of Ethnocentrism | |
| Global Connections:1450 and the World | |
| The Early Modern Period, 1450-1750: The World Shrinks | |
| The World Economy | |
| The West's First Outreach: Maritime Power | |
| In Depth:Causation and the West's Expansion | |
| Toward a World Economy | |
| Visualizing the Past:West Indian Slaveholding | |
| Colonial Expansion | |
| Document:Western Conquerors: Tactics and Motives | |
| Global Connections:The World Economy-and the World | |
| The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750 | |
| Changes in Childhood | |
| The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce, 1450-1650 | |
| Science and Politics: The Next Phase of Change | |
| Visualizing the Past:Versailles | |
| In Depth:Elites and Masses | |
| The West by 1750 | |
| Document:Controversies About Women | |
| Global Connections:Europe and the World | |
| The Rise of Russia | |
| New Tsars and Their Claims | |
| Russia's Expansionist Politics Under the Tsars | |
| Russia's First Westernization, 1690-1790 | |
| Document:The Nature of Westernization | |
| Themes in Early Modern Russian History | |
| Visualizing the Past:Oppressed Peasants | |
| In Depth:Multinational Empires | |
| Global Connections:Russia and the World | |
| Early Latin America | |
| Spaniards and Portuguese: From Reconquest to Conquest | |
| Document:A Vision from the Vanquished | |
| The Destruction and Transformation of American Indian Societies | |
| In Depth:The Great Exchange | |
| Colonial Economies and Governments | |
| Brazil: The First Plantation Colony | |
| Multiracial Societies | |
| Visualizing the Past:Race or Culture? A Changing Society | |
| The 18th-Century Reforms | |
| Global Connections:Latin American Civilization and the World Context | |
| Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade | |
| The Atlantic Slave Trade | |
| African Societies, Slavery, and the Slave Trade | |
| Visualizing the Past:Symbols of African Kingship | |
| White Settlers and Africans in Southern Africa | |
| In Depth:Slavery and Human Society | |
| The African Diaspora | |
| Document:An African's Description of the Middle Passage | |
| Global Connections:Africa and the African Diaspora in World Context | |
| The Muslim Empires | |
| The Ottomans: From Frontier Warriors to Empire Builders | |
| Document:An Islamic Traveler Laments the Muslims' Indifference to Europe | |
| The Shi'a Challenge of the Safavids | |
| In Depth:The Gunpowder Empires and the Shifting Balance of Global Power | |
| The Mughals and the Apex of Muslim Civilization in India | |
| Visualizing the Past:The Basis of Imperial Power in the Rival Muslim Empires | |
| Global Connections:Gunpowder Empires and the Restoration of the Islamic Bridge Between Civilizations | |
| Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change | |
| The Asian Trading World and the Coming of the Europeans | |
| Visualizing the Past:Intruders: The Pattern of Early European Expansion into Asia | |
| Ming China: A Global Mission Refused | |
| Document:Exam Questions as a Mirror of Chinese Values | |
| In Depth:Means and Motives for Overseas Expansion: Europe and China Compared | |
| Fending Off the West: Japan's Reunification and the First Challenge | |
| Global Connections:An Age of Eurasian Closure | |
| The Dawn Of The Industrial Age, 1750-1914 | |
| The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, 1750-1914 | |
| The Age of Revolution | |
| Visualizing the Past: The French Revolution in Cartoons | |
| The Consolidation of the Industrial Order, 1850-1914 | |
| Document: Women in the Industrial Revolution | |
| Cultural Transformations | |
| Western Settler Societies | |
| In Depth: The United States in World History | |
| Diplomatic Tensions and World War I | |
| Global Connections:Industrial Europe and the World | |
| Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order | |
| The Shift to Land Empires in Asia | |
| In Depth:Western Education and the Rise of an African and Asian Middle Class | |
| Industrial Rivalries and the Partition of the World, 1870-1914 | |
| Patterns of Dominance: Continuity and Change | |
| Visualizing the Past:Capitalism and Colonialism | |
| Document:Contrary Images: The Colonizer Versus the Colonized on the "Civilizing Mission" | |
| Global Connections:A European-Dominated World Order | |
| The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920 | |
| From Colonies to Nations | |
| New Nations Confront Old and New Problems | |
| Document:Confronting the Hispanic Heritage: From Independence to Consolidation | |
| Latin American Economies and World Markets, 1820-1870 | |
| Societies in Search of Themselves | |
| In Depth:Explaining Underdevelopment | |
| The Great Boom, 1880-1920 | |
| Global Connections:New Latin American Nations and the World | |
| Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China | |
| From Empire to Nation: Ottoman Retreat and the Birth of Turkey | |
| In Depth:Western Dominance and the Decline of Civilizations | |
| Western Intrusions and the Crisis in the Arab Islamic Heartlands | |
| The Last Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Qing Empire in China | |
| Document:Building a New China | |
| Global Connections:Muslim and Chinese Decline and a Shifting Global Balance | |
| Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West | |
| Reforming Within Tradition: Yukichi Fukuzawa | |
| Signs of Change in Russia and Japan | |
| Russia's Reforms and Industrial Advance | |
| Document:Conditions for Factory Workers in Russia's Industrialization | |
| Protest and Revolution in Russia | |
| Japan: Transformation Without Revolution | |
| In Depth:The Separate Paths of Japan and China | |
| Visualizing the Past:Two Faces of Western Influence | |
| Global Connections:Russia and Japan in the World | |
| The Newest Stage Of World History: 1914 -Present | |
| Descent into the Abyss: World War I and the Crisis of the European Global Order | |
| The Coming of the Great War | |
| A World at War | |
| Visualizing the Past:Trench Warfare | |
| Failed Peace | |
| World War I and the Nationalist Assault on the European Colonial Order | |
| Document:Lessons for the Colonized from the Slaughter in the Trenches | |
| In Depth:Women in Asian and African Nationalist Movements | |
| Global Connections:World War and Global Upheavals | |
| The World Between the Wars: Revolutions, Depression, and Authoritarian Response | |
| A Communist Dilemma | |
| The "Roaring Twenties" | |
| Revolution: The First Waves | |
| In Depth:A Century of Revolutions | |
| The Global Great Depression | |
| The Authoritarian Response | |
| Document:Socialist Realism | |
| Visualizing the Past:Socialist Realism | |
| Global Connections:Depression, Authoritarian Response and Retreat | |
| A Second Global Conflict and the End of the European World Order | |
| Old and New Causes of a Second World War | |
| Unchecked Aggression and the Coming of War in Europe and the Pacific | |
| In Depth: Total War | |
| The Conduct of a Second Global War | |
| Document: Japan and the Loss in World War II | |
| War's End and the Emergence of the Superpower Standoff | |
| Nationalism and Decolonization | |
| Visualizing the Past: On National Leadership | |
| Global Connections: Persisting Trends in a World Transformed by War | |
| Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War | |
| World Opinion and the Bomb | |
| After World War II: A New International Setting for the West | |
| The Resurgence of Western Europe | |
| In Depth:The United States and Western Europe: Convergence and Complexity | |
| Cold War Allies: The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand | |
| Culture and Society in the West | |
| Visualizing the Past:Women at Work in France and the United States | |
| Eastern Europe After World War II: A Soviet Empire | |
| Soviet Culture: Promoting New Beliefs and Institutions | |
| Document:1986: A New Wave of Soviet Reform | |
| Global Connections:The Cold War and the World | |
| Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into the 21st Century | |
| Latin America After World War II | |
| Radical Options in the 1950s | |
| Visualizing the Past:Murals and Posters: Art and Revolution | |
| The Search for Reform and the Military Option | |
| Document:The People Speak | |
| In Depth:Human Rights in the 20th Century | |
| Societies in Search of Change | |
| Global Connections:Struggling Toward the Future in a Global Economy | |
| Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of Independence | |
| The Challenges of Independence | |
| In Depth: Artificial Nations and the Rising Tide of Communal Strife | |
| Document: Cultural Creativity in the Emerging Nations: Some Literary Samples | |
| Paths to Economic Growth and Social Justice | |
| Visualizing the Past:Globalization and Postcolonial Societies | |
| Global Connections:Postcolonial Nations in the Cold War World Order | |
| Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim | |
| East Asia in the Postwar Settlements | |
| Japan, Incorporated | |
| The Pacific Rim: New Japans? | |
| Visualizing the Past:Pacific Rim Growth | |
| In Depth: The Pacific Rim as a U.S. Policy Issue | |
| Mao's China and Beyond | |
| Document:Women in the Revolutionary Struggle | |
| Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam | |
| Global Connections:East Asia and the Pacific Rim in the Contemporary World | |
| The End of the Cold War and the Shape of a New Era: World History 1990-2006 | |
| Democracy and Human Rights | |
| The End of the Cold War | |
| The Spread of Democracy | |
| Document: China and Democracy | |
| The Great Powers and New Disputes | |
| The United States as Superpower | |
| In Depth: Terrorism Then and Now | |
| Global Connections:New Global Standards, New Divisions | |
| Globalization and Resistance: World History 1990-2006 | |
| Combining the Global and the Traditional | |
| Globalization: Causes and Processes | |
| In Depth: How Much Historical Change? | |
| Document: Protests Against Globalization | |
| Resistance and Alternatives | |
| The Global Environment | |
| Toward the Future | |
| Global Connections:Civilizations and Global Forces | |
| Maps | |
| The Spread of Agriculture | |
| The Spread of Human Populations | |
| The International Bronze Age, c. 1600-1100 B.C.E. | |
| Mesopotamia in Maps | |
| China in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties | |
| Mapping the Rise of Civilizations in China, India, and Egypt | |
| China from the Later Zhou to the Early Han | |
| Ancient China | |
| Greek and Phoenician Colonies and Trade | |
| Alexander's Empire | |
| India at the time of the Ashoka and the Gupta Empire | |
| Pattern of Trade in the Ancient Eurasian World | |
| Expansion of the Roman Republic and Empire | |
| The Spread of Christianity | |
| Mesoamerican settlements | |
| Civilizations of Central and South America | |
| Spread of Polynesian Peoples | |
| West African empires (called West African States on website) | |
| Nomad Empires | |
| Religious Geography | |
| Expansion of Islam | |
| Trade Maps in the Medieval Islamic World | |
| Spread of Islam 7th - 8th centuries | |
| Spread of Islam 10th- 16th centuries | |
| Crusades | |
| Empires of the Western Sudan | |
| Swahili Coast and 13.3 Trade Routes in Africa | |
| Byzantine Empire | |
| East European Kingdoms and Slavic Expansion | |
| Christian Reconquest of Muslim Spain | |
| Invasions of Europe, 7th - 11th centuries | |
| Outline Map Quiz for Civilizations of South and Central America | |
| Inca Expansion | |
| China in the Song and Southern Song Dynastic periods | |
| China During the Tang | |
| The Korean Peninsula during the Three Kingdom era | |
| Japan in the Imperial and Warlords period | |
| Outline map Quiz for Mongol empire | |
| Mongol Empire as a Bridge Between Civilizations | |
| Ptolemy map | |
| World Boundaries 1453 and 1700 | |
| Spain and Portugal: Explorations and Colonies ca. 1600 | |
| French, British and Dutch holdings, ca. 1700 | |
| Western Europe during the Renaissance and Reformation, ca. 14th-15th centuries | |
| European Population Density c. 1600 | |
| Russian expansion under the Early Tzars | |
| Russia under Peter the Great | |
| European empires in Latin America | |
| Russia's holdings by 1800 and 24.3 Russian Expansion 1815-1914 | |
| Africa, 1500 -1800 | |
| Portuguese Expansion and Major African Kingdoms | |
| Growth of the Ottoman Empire | |
| Gunpowder Islamic empires | |
| Ming China and Zheng He Expeditions, 1405-1423 | |
| Routes and Products Exchanged in the Asian Trading Network, ca. 1500 | |
| European Empires in 1763 | |
| Napoleon's Empire in 1812 | |
| Growth of British Control in India, 1750's -1858 | |
| The Scramble for Africa | |
| Americas, 1800-1836 | |
| Latin America | |
| Treaty ports and the Boxer Rebellion in China | |
| Decline of the Ottoman Empire | |
| Imperialism in Asia, 1914 | |
| Japanese colonial expansion to 1914 | |
| World War I fronts in Europe and the Middle East | |
| World at War | |
| From Dominions to Nationhood: Formation of Canada, Australia and New Zealand | |
| Eastern Europe iand the Soviet Union 1919-1939 | |
| China in the era of Revolution and Civil War | |
| Farthest Limits of Japanese Conquests | |
| World War II in the Pacific Outline Map | |
| United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine Outline Map | |
| Cold War Europe | |
| Cold War Military Stand-off | |
| Contemporary Latin America | |
| U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean, 1898-1981 | |
| After Empire: Africa and the Middle East | |
| Partition of South Asia: The Formation of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh | |
| Imperialism in Southeast Asia, c. 1914 Outline Map | |
| After Empire: Independent Asia | |
| Post Soviet Union Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia | |
| Contemporary World | |
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