World Civilizations. The Global Experience. Fifth Edition.

Atlas edition. Includes 83 additional maps. Contents: Maps; Preface; Supplements; About the Authors; Prologue; From Hunting and Gathering to Civilizations, 2.5 million - 1000 B.C.E.: Origins (The Neolithic revolution and the birth of civilization; The rise of civilization in the Middle East and Africa; Asia's first civilizations: India and China); The Classical Period, 1000 B.C.E. - 500 C.E.: Uniting Large Regions (Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China; Classical Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean: Persia and Greece; Religious Rivalries and India's Golden Age; Rome and Its Empire; The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas; The Spread of Civilizations and the Movement of Peoples; The End of the Classical Era: World History in Transition, 200 - 700 C.E.); The Postclassical Period, 500-1450: New Faith and New Commerce (The first global civilization: The rise and spread of Islam; Abbasid decline and the spread of Islamic civilization to south and southeast Asia; African civilizations and the spread of Islam; Civilization in eastern Europe: Byzantium and orthodox Europe; A new civilization emerges in western Europe; The Americas on the eve of invasion; Reunification and renaissance in Chinese civilization: The era of the Tang and Song dynasties; The Spread of Chinese civilization: Japan, Kora, and Vietnam; The last great nomadic challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur; The west and the changing balance of world power); The Early Modern Period, 1450-1750: The World Shrinks (The world economy; The transformation of the west, 1450-1750; The rise of Russia; Early Latin America; Africa and the Africans in the age of the Atlantic slave trade; The Muslim empires; Asian transitions in an age of global change); The Dawn of the Industrial Age, 1750-1914 (The emergence of industrial society in the west, 1750-1914; Industrialization and imperialism: The making of the European global order; The consolidation of Latin America, 1830-1920; Civilizations in crisis: The Ottoman empire, the Islamic heartlands, and Qing China; Russia and Japan: Industrialization outside the west); The Newest Stage of World History: 1914-Present (Descent into the abyss: World war I and the crisis of the European global order; The world between the wars: Revolutions, depression, and authoritarian response; A second global conflict and the end of the European world order; Western society and Eastern Europe in the decades of the cold war; Latin America: Revolution and reaction into the 21st century; Africa, The Middle East, and Asia in the era of independence; Rebirth and revolution: Nation-building in East Asia and the Pacific rim; The end of the cold war and the shape of a new era: World history 1990-2006; Globalization and resistance); Document Analysis Questions; Glossary; Credits; Index; Atlas Section.