6Key Terms
107Carolingian Collapse
7Human Beginnings in Africa
108The Tenth-Century Church
8Agriculture and the "Neolithic Revolution"
109Byzantine Apogee: The Macedonian Emperors
9Summary
110Conclusion and Global Perspectives
10Works Consulted and Further Reading
111Works Consulted and Further Reading
11Links to Primary Sources
112Links to Primary Sources
12Chapter Two: Early Middle Eastern and Northeast African Civilizations
113Chapter Eight: Islam to the Mamluks
13Chronology
114Chronology
14Introduction
115Introduction
15Questions to Guide your Reading
116Questions to Guide your Reading
16Key Terms
117Key Terms
17Ancient Mesopotamia
118Geography of the Middle East
18Sumerian City-States
119Rise of Islam
19Mesopotamian Empires
120The Expansion of Islam
20The Significance of Mesopotamia for World History
121The Rashidun Caliphs
21The Israelites and Ancient Israel
122The Umayyad Caliphate
22Early Israelites
123The Abbasid Caliphate
23The United Kingdom of Israel
124The Fatimid Caliphate
24The Importance of the Israelites and Ancient Israel
125The Crusades
25Ancient Egypt
126The Mamluk Sultanate
26Dynastic Egypt
127Conclusion
27Nubia: the Kingdoms of Kerma and Kush
128Works Consulted and Further Reading
28Summary
129Links to Primary Sources
29Works Consulted and Further Reading
130Chapter Nine: African History to 1500
30Links to Primary Sources
131Chronology
31Chapter Three: Ancient and Early Medieval India
132Introduction
32Chronology
133Questions to Guide your Reading
33Introduction
134Key Terms
34Questions to Guide your Reading
135Writing the History of Ancient and Medieval Africa
35Key Terms
136Aksum and Ethiopia
36What is India? The Geography of South Asia
137The Western Sudanic States
37India's First Major Civilization: The Indus Valley Civilization
138The Spread of Agriculture and Great Zimbabwe
38The Long Vedic Age
139The Swahili City-States (East Africa)
39Transition to Empire: States, Cities, and New Religions
140Conclusion
40The Mauryan Empire
141Works Consulted and Further Reading
41Regional States, Trade, and Devotional Religion
142Chapter Ten: The Americas
42The Gupta Empire and India's Classical Age
143Chronology
43India's Early Medieval Age and the Development of Islamic States in India
144Introduction
44Conclusion
145Questions to Guide your Reading
45Works Consulted and Further Reading
146Key Terms
46Links to Primary Sources
147Mesoamerica
47Chapter Four: China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty
148The Maya
48Chronology
149The Aztec
49Introduction
150Early Andes
50Questions to Guide your Reading
151North America
51Key Terms
152Conclusion
52Geography of East Asia
153Works Consulted and Further Reading
53China from Neolithic Village Settlements to the Shang Kingdom
154Links to Primary Sources
54The Long Zhou Dynasty
155Chapter Eleven: Central Asia
55The Qin Dynasty and the Transition from Ancient to Imperial China
156Chronology
56The Han Dynasty
157Introduction
57The Period of Division
158Questions to Guide your Reading
58The Tang Dynasty and the Emergence of East Asia
159Key Terms
59The Song Dynasty
160Geography of Central Asia
60The Yuan Dynasty
161Turkic Migrations
61Conclusion
162Islam
62Works Consulted and Further Reading
163The Mongol Era
63Links to Primary Sources
164The Khanate of Chagatai
64Chapter Five: The Greek World from the Bronze Age to the Roman Conquest
165The Khanate of the Ilkhans
65Chronology
166Timur
66Introduction
167Conclusion
67Questions to Guide your Reading
168Works Consulted and Further Reading
68Key Terms
169Links to Primary Sources
69Geography and Topography
170Chapter Twelve: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 1000 - 1500 CE
70Period of Greek History
171Chronology
71Methodology: Sources and problem
172Introduction
72From Mythology to History
173Questions to Guide your Reading
73Archaic Greece
174Key Terms
74The Classical Period
175The Emergence of a Feudal Order in Western Europe
75Hellenistic Period
176Growth of Towns and Trade
76Conclusion
177Growth in Agriculture
77Works Consulted and Further Reading
178A Roman Empire?
78Links to Primary Sources
179The Holy Roman Empire's Peripheries
79Chapter Six: The Roman World from 753 BCE to 500 CE
180Expansion of Christendom
80Chronology
181Church Reform in the Eleventh Century
81Introduction
182The Crusades
82Questions to Guide your Reading
183The Twelfth Century in Western Europe
83Key Terms
184Empires: Recovery and Collapse
84Geography and Topography of Rome and the Roman Empire
185The Twelfth-Century Renaissance
85Basic Chronology and Periods of Roman History
186The Third Crusade
86Sources and Problems
187The Fourth Crusade
87Early and Middle Republic
188The states of Thirteenth-Century Europe
88Fall of the Roman Republic
189Later Crusades and Crusading's Ultimate Failure
89The Early Empire
190Scholasticism
90The Third-Century Crisis, and Late Antiquity
191Daily Life at the Medieval Zenith
91Conclusion
192Fourteenth Century Crises
92Works Consulted and Further Reading
193War
93Links to Primary Sources
194Southeastern Europe in the Late Middle Ages
94Chapter Seven: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 500 - 1000 CE
195The Late Medieval Papacy
95Chronology
196The European Renaissance
96Introduction
197States in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
97Questions to Guide your Reading
198Iberia and the Atlantic: New Worlds
98Key Terms
199Conclusion
99Successor Kingdoms to the Western Roman Empire
200Works Consulted and Further Reading
100Byzantium: the Age of Justinian
201Links to Primary Sources
101Perspectives: Post-Roman East and West
