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Short chapters, great stories, and tons of study tools! Adler and Pouwels’s WORLD CIVILIZATIONS is a vibrant introduction to world history structured to meet the demands of your study schedule. It’s clearly written, packed with charts and illustrations, and loaded with review features so you’ll be up to date in class and ready for the test. And, because WORLD CIVILIZATIONS offers extensive coverage of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, you’ll have timely historical insights into the issues that make today’s news. Get WORLD CIVILIZATIONS and discover how having all the information you need to know for the test really does equal a better grade.
Table of contents:
PART I
EARLY HUMAN SOCIETIES, 2.5 MILLION—1000 B.C.E.:
ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT 2
CHAPTER 1 The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth
of Civilization 10
Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers 11
DOCUMENT: Tales of the Hunt: Paleolithic Cave Paintings
as History 15
Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization: The Neolithic
Revolution 17
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Representations of Women
in Early Art 21
The First Towns: Seedbeds of Civilization 22
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Idea of Civilization in World
Historical Perspective 24
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Neolithic Revolution
as the Basis for World History 26
Further Readings 26
On the Web 26
CHAPTER 2 The Rise of Civilization in the Middle
East and Africa 28
Early Civilization in Mesopotamia 28
Later Mesopotamian Civilization: A Series of Conquests 33
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Mesopotamia in Maps 34
DOCUMENT: Hammurabi’s Law Code 35
Ancient Egypt 36
THINKING HISTORICALLY:Women in Patriarchal Societies 38
Egypt and Mesopotamia Compared 40
Civilization Centers in Africa and the Eastern
Mediterranean 41
The Issue of Heritage 44
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Early Civilizations
and the World 45
Further Readings 45
On the Web 46
CHAPTER 3 Asia’s First Civilizations: India
and China 48
The Indus Valley and the Birth of South Asian
Civilization 50
Aryan Incursions and Early Aryan Society in India 53
DOCUMENT: Aryan Poetry in Praise of a War Horse 56
A Bend in the River and the Beginnings of China 56
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The Decline of the Shang and the Era of Zhou
Dominance 60
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Nomadic Contacts
and the Endurance of Asia’s First Civilizations 62
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Mapping the Rise
of Civilizations 64
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Contrasting Legacies: Harappan
and Early Chinese Civilizations 66
Further Readings 66
On the Web 66
PART II
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD, 1000 B.C.E.—500 C.E.:
UNITING LARGE REGIONS 72
CHAPTER 4 Unification and the Consolidation
of Civilization in China 80
Philosophical Remedies for the Prolonged Crisis of the
Later Zhou 81
DOCUMENT: Teachings of the Rival Chinese Schools 85
The Triumph of the Qin and Imperial Unity 85
The Han Dynasty and the Foundations of China’s
Classical Age 89
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Xunzi and the Shift from Ritual
Combat to “Real”War 90
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Capital Designs and Patterns
of Political Power 96
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Classical China and the World 100
Further Readings 100
On the Web 101
CHAPTER 5 Classical Civilizations in the Eastern
Mediterranean and Middle East 102
The Persian Empire: A New Perspective
in the Middle East 104
The Political Character of Classical Greece 106
The Hellenistic Period 110
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Political Rituals in Persia 113
Greek and Hellenistic Culture 113
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Defining Social History 114
Patterns of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Society 118
DOCUMENT: The Power of Greek Drama 119
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Persia, Greece, and the World 121
Further Readings 122
On the Web 122
CHAPTER 6 Religious Rivalries and India’s
Golden Age 124
The Age of Brahman Dominance 125
An Era of Widespread Social Change 127
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Inequality as a Social Norm 129
Religious Ferment and the Rise of Buddhism 132
The Rise and Decline of the Mauryas 134
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Brahmanical Recovery and the Splendors
of the Gupta Age 136
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Pattern of Trade in the Ancient
Eurasian World 138
Intensifying Caste and Gender Inequities
and Gupta Decline 141
DOCUMENT: A Guardian’s Farewell Speech to a Young
Woman About to Be Married 142
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: India and the Wider World 143
Further Readings 144
On the Web 144
CHAPTER 7 Rome and Its Empire 146
The Development of Rome’s Republic 147
Roman Culture 151
DOCUMENT: Rome and a Values Crisis 153
How Rome Ruled Its Empire 153
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Religions in Rome 156
The Evolution of Rome’s Economic
and Social Structure 156
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Classical Civilizations
in Comparative Perspective 158
The Origins of Christianity 159
The Decline of Rome 161
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Rome and the World 162
Further Readings 162
On the Web 163
CHAPTER 8 The Peoples and Civilizations
of the Americas 164
Origins of American Societies 166
Spread of Civilization in Mesoamerica 171
DOCUMENT: Deciphering the Maya Glyphs 175
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Different Times for Different
Peoples 176
The Peoples to the North 177
The Andean World 180
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Ancient Agriculture 183
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: American Civilizations
and the World 184
Further Readings 184
On the Web 185
CHAPTER 9 The Spread of Civilizations
and the Movement of Peoples 186
The Spread of Civilization in Africa 188
DOCUMENT: Myths of Origin 194
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Language as a Historical
Source 198
Nomadic Societies and Indo-European Migrations 198
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Varieties of Human Adaptation
and the Potential for Civilization 204
The Spread of Chinese Civilization to Japan 204
Political and Social Change 208
The Scattered Societies of Polynesia 209
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Emerging Cultures 214
Further Readings 214
On the Web 215
CHAPTER 10 The End of the Classical Era:World
History in Transition, 200—700 C.E. 216
Upheavals in Eastern and Southern Asia 217
DOCUMENT: The Popularization of Buddhism 219
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 221
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Problem of Decline
and Fall 225
The Development and Spread of World Religions 226
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Religious Geography 229
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Late Classical Period
and the World 230
Further Readings 230
On the Web 231
PART III
THE POSTCLASSICAL PERIOD, 500—1450:
NEW FAITH AND NEW COMMERCE 236
CHAPTER 11 The First Global Civilization:
The Rise and Spread of Islam 244
Desert and Town: The Pre-Islamic Arabian World 245
The Life of Muhammad and the Genesis of Islam 250
The Arab Empire of the Umayyads 253
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Civilization and Gender
Relationships 260
From Arab to Islamic Empire: The Early Abbasid Era 262
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Mosque as a Symbol of Islamic
Civilization 264
DOCUMENT: The Thousand and One Nights as a Mirror
of Elite Society in the Abbasid Era 266
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Early Islam and the World 267
Further Readings 268
On the Web 268
CHAPTER 12 Abbasid Decline and the Spread
of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast
Asia 270
The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle
and Late Abbasid Eras 271
DOCUMENT: Ibn Khaldun on the Rise and Decline
of Empires 276
An Age of Learning and Artistic Refinements 276
The Coming of Islam to South Asia 280
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Patterns of Islam’s
Global Expansions 281
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Conversion and Accommodation
in the Spread of World Religions 286
The Spread of Islam to Southeast Asia 288
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Islam: A Bridge Between
Worlds 290
Further Readings 290
On the Web 290
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CHAPTER 13 African Civilizations and the Spread
of Islam 292
African Societies: Diversity and Similarities 293
Kingdoms of the Grasslands 297
DOCUMENT: The Great Oral Tradition and the Epic
of Sundiata 300
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Architecture of Faith 303
The Swahili Coast of East Africa 303
Peoples of the Forest and Plains 305
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Two Transitions in the History
of World Population 306
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Internal Development
and Global Contacts 310
Further Readings 310
On the Web 311
CHAPTER 14 Civilization in Eastern Europe:
Byzantium and Orthodox Europe 312
Civilization in Eastern Europe 312
The Byzantine Empire 314
VISUALIZING THE PAST:Women and Power
in Byzantium 317
The Split Between Eastern and Western Christianity 318
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Eastern and Western Europe:
The Problem of Boundaries 321
The Spread of Civilization in Eastern Europe 321
The Emergence of Kievan Rus’ 323
DOCUMENT: Russia Turns to Christianity 324
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Eastern Europe and the World 326
Further Readings 326
On the Web 326
CHAPTER 15 A New Civilization Emerges in Western
Europe 328
Stages of Postclassical Development 329
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Peasant Labor 331
DOCUMENT: European Travel: A Monk Visits Jerusalem 337
THINKING HISTORICALLY:Western Civilization 339
Western Culture in the Postclassical Era 340
Changing Economic and Social Forms in the Postclassical
Centuries 342
The Decline of the Medieval Synthesis 346
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Medieval Europe
and the World 348
Further Readings 349
On the Web 349
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