Brief Table of Contents

PART I - 2.5 MILLION-600 B.C.E.: ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT

• 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

PART II - THE CLASSICAL PERIOD, 600 B.C.E.-600 C.E.: UNITING LARGE REGIONS

• Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China
• Classical Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East
• 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, 200-600 c.e.

PART III - THE POSTCLASSICAL PERIOD, 600-1450: 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, Korea, and Vietnam
• The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur
• The World in 1450: Changing Balance of World Power

PART IV - THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD, 1450-1750: THE WORLD SHRINKS

• The World Economy
• The Transformation of the West, 1450-1750
• Early Latin America
• Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
• The Rise of Russia
• The Muslim Empires
• Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change

PART V - THE DAWN OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE, 1750-1900

• The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, 1750-1900
• Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order
• The Consolidation of Latin America, 1810-1920
• Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China
• Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West

PART VI - THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD, 1900-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
• Globalization and Industrial Growth
• Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War
• Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into the Twenty-First Century
• Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of Independence
• Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-Building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim
• Power, Politics, and Conflict in World History, 1990-2019
• Volume 1 includes chapters 1-21; Volume 2 includes chapters 21-41.