World History, Comprehensive Edition (with

This comprehensive introduction to world civilizations covers individual civilizations such as China, India, and Europe, and provides points of comparison between and among these civilizations. It provides breadth and accessibility and contains a wealth of primary source documents, beautiful 4-color maps, and many useful supplements.

Document Credits

xix

Chronologies

xx

Maps

xxi

Preface

xxiii

Acknowledgments

xxviii

A Note to Students about Languages and the Dating of Time

xxx

Themes for Understanding World History

xxxi

Part I The First Civilizations and the Rise of Empires (Prehistory to 500 C.E.)

1

(165)

The First Civilizations: The Peoples of Western Asia and Egypt

2

(36)

Ancient India

38

(26)

China in Antiquity

64

(30)

The Civilization of the Greeks

94

(34)

The World of the Romans

128

(38)

Part II New Patterns of Civilization

166

(230)

The New World

168

(24)

The World of Islam

192

(24)

Early Civilizations in Africa

216

(24)

The Expansion of Civilization in Southern Asia

240

(26)

From the Tang to the Mongols: The Flowering of Traditional China

266

(28)

The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

294

(24)

The Making of Europe and the World of the Byzantine Empire, 500--1300

318

(38)

Crisis and Rebirth: Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

356

(40)

Part III The Emergence of New World Patterns (1500--1800)

396

(190)

New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market

398

(28)

Religious Reform and State Building in Europe

426

(34)

The Muslim Empires

460

(28)

The East Asian World

488

(28)

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: An Intellectual Revolution in the West

516

(28)

Europe on the Eve of a New World Order

544

(42)

Part IV Modern Patterns of World History (1800--1945)

586

(226)

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism, 1800--1870

588

(38)

The Emergence of Mass Society in the Western World

626

(36)

The High Tide of Imperialism

662

(28)

Shadows over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

690

(26)

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

716

(30)

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Africa, Asia, and Latin America from 1919 to 1939

746

(26)

The Crisis Deepens: World War II

772

(40)

Part V Toward a Global Civilization? The World Since 1945

812

(193)

In the Grip of the Cold War: The Breakdown of the Yalta System

814

(22)

Brave New World: Communism

836

(38)

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

874

(36)

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

910

(32)

A House Divided: The Emergence of Independent States in South and Southeast Asia

942

(30)

Toward the Pacific Century? Japan and the Little Tigers

972

(33)

Glossary

1005

(9)

Pronunciation Guide

1014

(5)

Credits

1019

(14)

Index

1033

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