A History Of World Societies Complete Fifth Edition

Contents Note: Each chapter includes a Summary, Notes, and Suggested Reading. 1. Origin of Civilizations in West Asia and North Africa What Is History and Why? The First Human Beings Mesopotamian Civilization The Spread of Mesopotamian Culture Egypt, The Land of the Pharaohs (3100-1200 B.C.) The Hittite Empire The Fall of Empires and the Survival of Cultures (ca 1200 B.C.) Listening to the Past: A Quest for Immortality 2. Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East Migrations Egypt, a Shattered Kingdom The Children of Israel Assyria, The Military Monarchy Chaldean Babylonia (626-539 B.C.) The Empire of the Persian Kings Listening to the Past: The Covenant Between Yahweh and the Hebrews 3. Building the Foundation of Indian Society to ca 200 B.C. The Land and Its First Tamers (ca 3000-1500 B.C.) The Ascendancy of the Aryans (ca 1500-500 B.C.) India''s Great Religions India and the West (ca 513-298 B.C.) Listening to the Past: Rama and Sita 4. China''s Classical Age to 256 B.C. The Land and Its Challenge China''s Earliest Civilizations to 1050 B.C. The Zhou Dynasty (ca 1050-256 B.C.) The Golden Age of Chinese Philosophy Listening to the Past: The Book of Mencius 5. The Greek Experience Hellas: The Land The Minoans and Mycenaeans (ca 1650-ca 1100 B.C.) Homer, Hesiod, and the Heroic Past (1100-800 B.C.) The Polis The Archaic Age (800-500 B.C.) The Classical Period (500-338 B.C.) The Spread of Hellenism The Economic Scope of the Hellenistic World Religion in the Hellenistic World Hellenistic Thought Listening to the Past: The Greeks Welcome the Egyptian God Serapis 6. The Glory of Rome The Land and the Sea The Etruscans and the Roman Conquest of Italy (750-290 B.C.) The Roman Republic The Pax Romana The Coming of Christianity The Golden Age Life in the Golden Age: Imperial Rome and the Provinces Rome and the East The Empire in Crisis Listening to the Past: Popular Roman Views of Religion and Magic 7. Asian Empires and the Spread of Buddhism, ca 200 B.C.-A.D. 800 The Age of Empire in China Central Asia and the Spread of Buddhism out of India The Second Chinese Empire: Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-907) The East Asian Cultural Sphere Indian and Its Invaders (ca 200 B.C.-A.D. 800) Listening to the Past: Copying Buddhist Sutras 8. The Making of Europe The Growth of the Christian Church Christian Attitudes Toward Classical Culture Christian Monasticism The Migration of the Germanic Peoples Germanic Society The Byzantine East (ca 400-788) Listening to the Past: The Conversion of Clovis 9. The Islamic World, ca 600-1400 The Arabs Before Islam Muhammad and the Faith of Islam The Expansion of Islam Consolidation of the Islamic State Decentralization of the Islamic State The Life of the People Listening to the Past: The Endowment of a Madrasa 10. African Societies and Kingdoms, ca 400-1450 The Land and Peoples of Africa African Kingdoms and Empires (ca 800-1450) Listening to the Past: The Epic of Old Mali 11. Nomads and the New Order in Asia, ca 800-1400 India Under Siege (ca 800-1400) Southeast Asia to 1400 Inner Asia (907-1215) China (800-ca 1400) Korea 780 to 1392 Japan in the Heian and Kamakura Eras (794-1333) The Mongols (1200-1400) Listening to the Past: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon 12. Europe in the Early and Central Middle Ages The Frankish Kingdom Feudalism and Manorialism Great Invasions of the Ninth Century Revival and Recovery Revival and Reform in the Christian Church The Crusades The Expansion of Latin Christendom Medieval Origins of the Modern State Economic Revival Listening to the Past: An Arab View of the Crusades 13. Creativity and Crisis in the Central and Later Middle Ages Medieval Universities From Romanesque Gloom to "Uninterrupted Light" Troubadour Poetry Life in Christian Europe in the Central Middle Ages Crisis of the Later Middle Ages Marriage and the Parish in the Later Middle Ages Peasant Revolts Vernacular Literature Race and Ethnicity on the Frontiers Listening to the Past: Christine de Pisan (1363?-1434?) 14. Civilizations of the Americas, ca 400-1500 The Geography and Peoples of the Americas Mesoamerican Civilizations from the Olmecs to the Toltecs Aztec Society: Religion and War The Incas of Peru Listening to the Past: The Death of Inca Yupangue (Pachacuti) in 1471 15. Europe in the Renaissance and Reformation Economic and Political Origins of the Italian Renaissance Intellectual Hallmarks of the Renaissance Social Change During the Renaissance Politics and the State in the Renaissance (ca 1450-1521) The Condition of the Church (ca 1400-1517) Martin Luther and the Birth of Protestantism The Growth of the Protestant Reformation The Catholic Reformation and the Counter-Reformation Politics, Religion, and War Changing Attitudes Literature, Art, and Music Listening to the Past: Calvin''s Vision for Christian Renewal 16. The Acceleration of Global Contact The World of the Indian Ocean Europe''s Discovery, Reconnaissance, and Expansion Global Trade Networks The Chinese and Japanese Discovery of the West The Impact of Contact Listening to the Past: Columbus Describes His First Voyage 17. Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Europe, ca 1589-1725 France: The Model of Absolute Monarchy The Decline of Absolutist Spain in the Seventeenth Century Absolutism in Eastern Europe: Austria, Prussia, and Russia England: The Triumph of Constitutional Monarchy The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century Listening to the Past: The Court at Versailles 18. Toward a New World-View in the West The Scientific Revolution The Enlightenment The Enlightenment and Absolutism Listening to the Past: Voltaire on Religion 19. The Changing Life of the People in Europe Agriculture and Population Marriage and the Family Children and Education Food and Medical Practice Religion and Popular Culture Listening to the Past: A New Way to Educate Children 20. Africa and the World, ca 1400-1800 Senegambia and Benin The Sudan: Songhay, Kanem-Bornu, and Hausaland Ethiopia The Swahili City-States The Slave Trade Listening to the Past: Duarte Barbosa on the Swahili City-States 21. West and South Asia: The Islamic World Powers, ca 1450-1800 The Ottoman Turkish Empire The Persian Theocratic State India, from Mughal Domination to British Dominion (ca 1498-1805) Listening to the Past: The Weighing of Shah Jahan on His Forty-Second Lunar Birthday 22. Continuity and Change in East Asia, ca 1400-1800 China, from the Ming to the Mid-Qing (ca 1368-1795) Korean (Choson) Japan (ca 1400-1800) Listening to the Past: The Quinlong Emperor Responds to King George III 23. The Revolution in Western Politics, 1775-1815 Liberty and Equality The American Revolution (1775-1789) The French Revolution (1789-1791) World War and Republican France (1791-1799) The Napoleonic Era (1799-1815) Listening to the Past: Revolution and Women''s Rights 24. The Industrial Revolution in Europe The Initial Breakthrough in England Energy and Transportation Industrialization in Continental Europe Capital and Labor Listening to the Past: The Testimony of Young Mining Workers 25. Ideologies and UpheavBennett D. Hill is the author of 'A History Of World Societies Complete Fifth Edition', published 1999 under ISBN 9780395944899 and ISBN 0395944899.