World History Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500

by Eugene Berger et al.

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This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia.

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Georgia Gwinnett College
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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Prehistory
  7. 1.1: Chronology
  8. 1.2: Key Terms
  9. 1.3: Introduction
  10. 1.4: Human Beginnings in Africa
  11. 1.5: Agriculture and the Neolithic Revolution
  12. 1.6: Primary Sources and Material
  13. 1.7: Summary
  14. 2: Early Middle Eastern and Northeast African Civilizations
  15. 2.1: Chronology
  16. 2.2: Key Terms
  17. 2.3: Introduction - Defining Civilization
  18. 2.4: Ancient Mesopotamia
  19. 2.5: Sumerian City-States
  20. 2.6: Mesopotamian Empires
  21. 2.7: The Significance of Mesopotamia for World History
  22. 2.8: The Israelites and Ancient Israel
  23. 2.9: Early Israelites
  24. 2.10: The United Kingdom of Israel
  25. 2.11: The Importance of the Israelites and Ancient Israel
  26. 2.12: Ancient Egypt
  27. 2.13: Dynastic Egypt
  28. 2.14: Nubia- The Kingdoms of Kerma and Kush
  29. 2.15: Primary Sources and material
  30. 2.16: Summary
  31. 3: Ancient and Medieval India
  32. 3.1: Chronology of Ancient and Medieval India
  33. 3.2: Key Terms
  34. 3.3: Introduction - A Political Overview
  35. 3.4: Regional States, Trade, and Devotional Religion- India 200 BCE-300 CE
  36. 3.5: What is India? The Geography of South Asia
  37. 3.6: India's First Major Civilization - The Indus Valley Civilization ( 2600-1700 BCE)
  38. 3.7: The Long Vedic Age (1700-600 BCE)
  39. 3.8: Transition to Empire - States, Cities, and New Religions (600 to 321 BCE)
  40. 3.9: The Mauryan Empire (321-184 BCE)
  41. 3.10: The Gupta Empire and India's Classical Age (300-600CE)
  42. 3.11: India's Early Medieval Age and the Development of Islamic States in India, 600-1300
  43. 3.12: Links to Primary Sources
  44. 3.13: Conclusion
  45. 3.14: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  46. 3.15: Primary Sources and material
  47. 4: China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty
  48. 4.1: Chronology of China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty
  49. 4.2: Key Terms
  50. 4.3: Introduction to China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty
  51. 4.4: Geography of East Asia
  52. 4.5: China from Neolithic Village Settlements to the Shang Kingdom
  53. 4.6: The Long Zhou Dynasty (1046- 256 BCE)
  54. 4.7: The Qin Dynasty and the Transition from Ancient to Imperial China
  55. 4.8: The Han Dynasty, 202 BCE-220 CE
  56. 4.9: The Period of Division, 220-589CE
  57. 4.10: The Tang Dynasty and the Emergence of East Asia
  58. 4.11: The Song Dynasty
  59. 4.12: The Yuan Dynasty
  60. 4.13: Primary Sources
  61. 4.14: Conclusion
  62. 4.15: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  63. 5: The Persian Empire
  64. 5.1: Persian Expansion
  65. 5.2: The Persian Government
  66. 5.3: Zoroastrianism
  67. 5.4: The Persian War
  68. 5.5: The Peloponnesian War
  69. 5.6: The Aftermath
  70. 6: The Greek World from Bronze Age to Roman Conquest
  71. 6.1: Chronology
  72. 6.2: Key Terms
  73. 6.3: Introduction
  74. 6.4: Geography and Topography
  75. 6.5: Periods of Greek History
  76. 6.6: Methodology- Sources and Problem
  77. 6.7: From Mythology to History
  78. 6.8: Archaic Greece
  79. 6.9: The Classical Period
  80. 6.10: Hellenistic Period
  81. 6.11: Primary Sources
  82. 6.12: Conclusion
  83. 6.13: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  84. 7: The Roman World from 753 BCE to 500 BCE
  85. 7.1: Chronology
  86. 7.2: Key Terms
  87. 7.3: Introduction
  88. 7.4: Geography and Topography of Rome and the Roman Empire
  89. 7.5: Basic Chronology and Periods of Roman History
  90. 7.6: Sources and Problems
  91. 7.7: Early and Middle Republic
  92. 7.8: Fall of the Roman Republic
  93. 7.9: The Early Empire
  94. 7.10: The Third-Century Crisis, and Late Antiquity
  95. 7.11: Primary Sources
  96. 7.12: Conclusion- From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
  97. 7.13: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  98. 8: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 500-1000 CE
  99. 8.1: Chronology
  100. 8.2: Key Terms
  101. 8.3: Introduction to Western Europe and Byzantium circa 500-1000 CE
  102. 8.4: Successor Kingdoms to the Western Roman Empire
  103. 8.5: Byzantium - The Age of Justinian
  104. 8.6: Perspectives- Post-Roman East and West
  105. 8.7: The British Isles - Europe's Periphery
  106. 8.8: Byzantium - Crisis and Recovery
  107. 8.9: Western Europe - The Rise of the Franks
  108. 8.10: Global Context
  109. 8.11: Daily Life in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empires
  110. 8.12: Carolingian Collapse
  111. 8.13: The Tenth-Century Church
  112. 8.14: Byzantine Apogee - The Macedonian Emperors
  113. 8.15: Primary Sources and materials
  114. 8.16: Conclusion and Global Perspectives
  115. 8.17: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  116. 9: Islam to the Mamluks
  117. 9.1: Chronology
  118. 9.2: Key Terms
  119. 9.3: Introduction
  120. 9.4: Geography of the Middle East
  121. 9.5: Rise of Islam
  122. 9.6: The Expansion of Islam
  123. 9.7: The Rashidun Caliphs
  124. 9.8: The Umayyad Caliphate
  125. 9.9: The 'Abbasid Caliphate
  126. 9.10: The Fatimid Caliphate
  127. 9.11: The Crusades
  128. 9.12: The Mamluk Sultanate
  129. 9.13: Primary Sources
  130. 9.14: Conclusion
  131. 9.15: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  132. 10: African History to 1500
  133. 10.1: Chronology
  134. 10.2: Key Terms
  135. 10.3: Introduction
  136. 10.4: Writing the History of Ancient and Medieval Africa
  137. 10.5: Aksum and Ethiopia
  138. 10.6: The Western Sudanic States
  139. 10.7: The Spread of Agriculture and Great Zimbabwe
  140. 10.8: The Swahili City-States (East Africa)
  141. 10.9: Primary Sources and material
  142. 10.10: Conclusion
  143. 10.11: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  144. 11: The Americas
  145. 11.1: Chronology
  146. 11.2: Key Terms
  147. 11.3: Introduction to The Americas
  148. 11.4: Mesoamerica
  149. 11.5: The Maya
  150. 11.6: The Aztec
  151. 11.7: Early Andes
  152. 11.8: Primary Sources
  153. 12: Central Asia
  154. 12.1: Chronology
  155. 12.2: Key Terms
  156. 12.3: Introduction
  157. 12.4: Geography of Central Asia
  158. 12.5: Turkic Migrations
  159. 12.6: Islam
  160. 12.7: The Mongol Era
  161. 12.8: The Khanate of Chagatai
  162. 12.9: The Khanate of the Ilkhans (1265-1335)
  163. 12.10: Timur
  164. 12.11: Primary Sources
  165. 12.12: Conclusion
  166. 12.13: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  167. 13: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 1000-1500 CE
  168. 13.1: Chronology
  169. 13.2: Key Terms
  170. 13.3: Introduction
  171. 13.4: The Emergence of a Feudal Order in Western Europe
  172. 13.5: Growth of Towns and Trade
  173. 13.6: Growth in Agriculture
  174. 13.7: A Roman Empire?
  175. 13.8: The Holy Roman Empire's Peripheries - Secondary State Formation
  176. 13.9: Expansion of Christendom
  177. 13.10: Church Reform in the Eleventh Century
  178. 13.11: The Crusades
  179. 13.12: The Twelfth Century in Western Europe
  180. 13.13: Empires- Recovery and Collapse
  181. 13.14: The Twelfth-Century Renaissance
  182. 13.15: The Third Crusade
  183. 13.16: The Fourth Crusade
  184. 13.17: The States of Thirteenth-Century Europe
  185. 13.18: Later Crusades and Crusading's Ultimate Failure
  186. 13.19: Scholasticism
  187. 13.20: Daily Life at the Medieval Zenith
  188. 13.21: Fourteenth Century Crises
  189. 13.22: War
  190. 13.23: Southeastern Europe in the Late Middle Ages
  191. 13.24: The Late Medieval Papacy
  192. 13.25: The European Renaissance
  193. 13.26: States in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
  194. 13.27: Iberia and the Atlantic- New Worlds
  195. 13.28: Primary Sources
  196. 13.29: Conclusion
  197. 13.30: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  198. Back Matter
  199. Index
  200. Glossary
  201. Detailed Licensing