World Civilizations: The Global Experience Book

	Detailed Contents	vii
	List of Maps	xvii
	Preface	xix
	Supplements	xxv
	Prologue	xxvii
Part 1	The Origins of Civilizations	2
1	The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization	8
2	The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa	28
3	Asia's First Civilizations: India and China	50
Part 2	The Classical Period in World History	74
4	Nomadic Challenges and Sedentary Responses	80
5	Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China	100
6	Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World	124
7	Rome and Its Empire	150
8	Religious Rivalries and India's Golden Age	170
9	The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas	196
10	The Spread of Peoples and Civilizations	222
11	The End of the Classical Era: World History in Transition, 200-700 c.e.	250
Part 3	The Postclassical Era	268
12	The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam	276
13	Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia	304
14	African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam	330
15	Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe	352
16	A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe	372
17	The Americas on the Eve of Invasion	398
18	Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties	422
19	The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam	448
20	The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur	474
21	The West and the Changing World Balance	498
Part 4	The World Shrinks, 1450-1750	514
22	The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750	522
23	The West and the World	542
24	The Rise of Russia	564
25	Early Latin America	580
26	The Muslim Empires	608
27	Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade	636
28	Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change	662
Part 5	Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony, 1750-1914	690
29	The Industrialization of the West, 1760-1914	696
30	Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order	726
31	The Consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920	726
32	Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China	754
33	Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West	806
Part 6	The 20th Century in World History	828
34	International Contacts and Conflicts, 1914-1999	836
35	The West in the 20th Century	866
36	Russia and Eastern Europe	888
37	Japan and the Pacific Rim	912
38	Latin America: Revolution and Reaction in the 20th Century	932
39	Decolonization and the Decline of the European World Order	960
40	Africa and Asia in the Era of Independence	990
41	War and Revolution in China and Vietnam	1018
42	A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects	1046
	Glossary	2
	Credits	2
	Index	1