World History: To 1500
ISBN: 9780495569046 | 0495569046
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 12/29/2008
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Noted teachers and scholars William J. Duiker and Jackson J. Spielvogel present a balanced, highly readable overview of world history that explores common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and identify key global patterns over time. Thorough coverage of political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history is integrated into a chronological framework to help students gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures in society. This edition of WORLD HISTORY continues to take a global approach to world history, with an emphasis on analytical comparisons between and among cultures throughout history. This approach helps students link events together in a broad comparative and global framework, thereby placing the contemporary world in a more meaningful historical context.
| The First Civilizations and the Rise of Empires (Prehistory To 500 C.E.) | |
| The First Civilizations: The Peoples of Western Asia and North Africa | |
| Ancient India | |
| China in Antiquity | |
| The Civilization of the Greeks | |
| The First World Civilization: Rome, China, and the Emergence of the Silk Road | |
| New Patterns of Civilization (500-1500 C.E.) | |
| The Americas | ... MORE |
| Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam | |
| Early Civilizations in Africa | |
| The Expansion of Civilization in Southern Asia | |
| The Flowering of Traditional China | |
| The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam | |
| The Making of Europe | |
| Crisis and Recovery: The Byzantine Empire and Cross-Cultural Encounters | |
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