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This is a brief introduction to the civilizations of the world. The text covers such individual civilizations as China, India, and Europe, and provides points of comparison between and among these civilizations. It emphasizes breadth and accessibility, and contains a wealth of primary source documents, beautiful 4-color maps, and useful supplements.The text is available in a comprehensive volume as well as another separate volume: and Volume II (Chapters 14-32), since 1500.

Part I: THE FIRST CIVILIZATIONS AND THE RISE OF EMPIRES
1. The First Civilizations: The Peoples of Western Asia and Europe
2. Ancient India
3. China in Antiquity
4. The Civilization of the Greeks
5. The World of the Romans
Part II: NEW PATTERNS OF CIVILIZATION
6. The New World
7. The World of Islam
8. Early Civilizations in Africa
9. The Expansion of Civilization in Southern Asia
10. From the Tang to the Mongols: The Flowering of Traditional China
11. The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
12. The Making of Europe, 500-1300
13. The Byzantine World and Crisis and Rebirth in Europe
Part III: THE EMERGENCE OF NEW WORLD PATTERNS (1500-1800)
14. New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
15. Religious Reform and State Building in Europe
16. The Muslim Empires
17. The East Asian World
18. Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: An Intellectual Revolution in the West
19. Europe on the Eve of a New World Order
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The Essential World History, Volume I (with InfoTrac)

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