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Civilizations Past and Present, written by specialists in Islamic, African, Asian, Ancient, and East European history- offers a clear and accessible analysis of diverse trends shaping world history. Civilizations Past and Present, now in its Twelfth Edition, is a survey text well known in the marketplace for its readability, offering a strong narrative exploration of world history that examines details at levels appropriate for both students and instructors. The book's narrative-enriched by photographs, maps, primary source documents, timelines, and other pedagogical aids-places great emphasis on the connections between the world's many cultures and regions. The book uses intriguing avenues of historical interpretation and examines all of the major areas of historical study: social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic.
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1. Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near EastThe Origins of Humankind Preliterate CulturesPreliterate Society and ReligionMesopotamia: The First CivilizationThe Babylonian Empire, c. 2000-1600 B.C.E.Egypt: Gift of the NileMesopotamian Successors to Babylon, c. 1600-550 B.C.E.The Persian Empire, 550-331B.C.E.DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSThe Oldest Known Map: Catul Huyuk DOCUMENT"The Great Hymn to the Aton" and Psalm 104 DOCUMENTDining with the Great King: A Persian Royal FeastSEEING CONNECTIONSThe Pyramids of Meroe2. Early Chinese Civilization:From Neolithic Origins to 220 C.E.The Origins of China, 6500-221B.C.E.The Qin and Han Empires, 221 B.C.E.-220 C.E.DOCUMENTThe Wisdom of ConfuciusDOCUMENTLegalism: The Theories of Han Feizi (d. 233 B.C.E.)DOCUMENT"The Mother of Mencius" from Biographies of Heroic Women by Liu XiangSEEING CONNECTIONSWar Chariots3. Early Indian CivilizationsFrom Neolithic Origins to 300 C.E. Early IndiaDramatic Developments in Religion and Culture, 600-320B.C.E.The Mauryan Empire and Other Kingdoms, 320 B.C.E.-300 C.E.Emergent Hinduism and Buddhism, 200 B.C.E.-300 C.E.The Meeting of East and West: Networks of ExchangeDOCUMENTRig-Veda: Creation and the Kinds of MenDOCUMENTThe Jains on the Souls in All ThingsDOCUMENTThe Ramayana: The Trial of SitaSEEING CONNECTIONSThe Goddess Lakshmi in Pompeii 4. GreeceMinoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000-30 B.C.E. Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations, c. 2000-1200 B.C.E.The Development of Hellenic Civilization, c. 1150-500 B.C.E.The Golden Age of Greece, 500-336 B.C.E.The Greek Cultural AchievementThe Hellenistic Age, 336-30 B.C.E. Hellenistic Society and CultureDOCUMENTHomer-The Iliad: Andromache and Hector DOCUMENTPericles' Funeral Oration DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSThe World According to Herodotus, c. 450 B.C.E. DOCUMENTArrian: Alexander the Leader SEEING CONNECTIONSThe Buddha and Heracles5. Roman CivilizationThe Roman World, c. 900 B.C.E. to 476 C.E. Early Italy and the Origins of Rome, c. 900-509 B.C.E.The Republic and the Roman Conquest of Italy: 509-133 B.C.E.The Late Republic: 133-30 B.C.E.The Roman Empire and the Pax Romana: 30 B.C.E.-476 C.E.The Growth of Early ChristianityThe Roman LegacyDOCUMENTColumella: Roman Farm Women DOCUMENTPlutarch-The Murder of Tiberius Gracchus SEEING CONNECTIONSThe Roman Ruins of Nubia6. The Eastern Mediterranean World, 300-750 CEThe Eastern Mediterranean Milieu The Sasanid EmpireByzantium, Constantinople, and ChristianityMuhammad and the Birth of IslamThe Arab-Islamic EmpireDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSA Sixth-Century Map: The Madaba MosaicDOCUMENTThe Ecumenical Councils and HeresiesDOCUMENTThe Qur'anSEEING CONNECTIONSThe Great Mosque of Damascus7. The Islamic World, 800-1300 CEThe Early Abbasid Caliphate, 750-1000The Shaping of Early Islamic Faith and Culture The Fatamid Empire, 909-1171Turkic Peoples and the Islamic Near East, 1000-1200Al-Andalus: Islamic Iberia, 700-1100Resisting the Latin Crusades The Islamic World, 1100-1300: Unity and DiversityDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSAn Islamic Map of the WorldDOCUMENTThe History of Ahmad ibn Abi Ya`qub al-Ya`qubiDOCUMENTIbn Sina's Path to WisdomSEEING CONNECTIONSA Mamluk Incense Burner8. African Beginnings:African Civilizations to 1500 C.E.The African EnvironmentAfrican Cultural PatternsThe Peopling of AfricaThe Bantu DispersionEthiopia and Northeastern AfricaEmpires of the Western SudanSwahili City-States and the Indian Ocean EconomyKingdoms of Central and Southern AfricaDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSMansa Musa and The Catalan Atlas of 1375DOCUMENTOral Traditions and HistoryDOCUMENTEmperor Zar'a Ya'kob's Coronation and His Concern for the ChurchSEEING CONNECTIONSThe Chinese in Africa9. The Formation of Christian Europe, 476-1300 C.E. The Catholic Church in the Early Middle AgesThe Merovingians and CarolingiansFeudalism and ManorialismThe Revival of Trade and TownsThe Catholic Church in the High Middle Ages: 1000-1300The CrusadesThe Development of Western European States: 1000-1300Byzantium In Its Golden Age and DeclineRussia and the Nations of Southeastern EuropeDOCUMENTCharlemagne: A Contemporary Profile DOCUMENTThe First Crusade Takes Jerusalem SEEING CONNECTIONSMuslim and Christian Chess PlayersDOCUMENTVladimir Accepts Orthodox Christianity10. Culture, Power, and Trade in the Era of Asian Hegemony, 220-1350India and Southeast Asia in the Classical and Medieval ErasChina: Cultural and Political EmpiresKorea: From Three Kingdoms to OneThe Emergence of JapanOceaniaDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSGog and Magog in the Ebstorf MappamundiDOCUMENTBo Juyi (772-846): "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow"DOCUMENTFaxian: A Chinese Buddhist Monk in Gupta IndiaDOCUMENTSei Sh-onagon: The Pillow BookSEEING CONNECTIONSBiwa from the Imperial Treasury at Nara11. The Americas to 1500Origins of The First Americans and Their CulturesEmerging Civilizations in MesoamericaClassical Mayan CivilizationThe Postclassical EraThe Amerindians of North AmericaDOCUMENTFather Bernabe Cobo, "Pachacuti, the Greatest Inca"SEEING CONNECTIONSThe Aztec Sun Stone12.The Great Dynastic Empires of Eurasia, 1300-1650New Polities in EurasiaThe Ottoman EmpireThe Safavid Empire in IranThe Mughal Empire in South AsiaNetworks of Trade and CommunicationDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSThe World Map of Piri ReisDOCUMENTThe Coming of Ismail Safavi ForetoldDOCUMENTThe Idea of Seclusion and Lady NurjahanSEEING CONNECTIONSReligious Tolerance Under Akbar13. East Asian Cultural and Political Systems, 1300-1650China: The Ming DynastyKorea: The Making of a Confucian SocietyJapan: The Era of ShMguns and Warring StatesSoutheast Asia: States Within a RegionDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSMap of China's Ancient Heartland, circa 1500 C.E.DOCUMENTZhang Han's Essay on MerchantsDOCUMENTSotoba Komachi, a Fourteenth-Century Japanese NM PlayDOCUMENTA Traveller's Account of SiamSEEING CONNECTIONSA Giraffe in the Ming Court14. European Cultural and Religious TransformationsThe Renaissance and the Reformation, 1300-1600 An Era of General CrisisThe Italian RenaissancenItalian Renaissance ArtThe Northern RenaissanceThe Crisis in the Catholic Church: 1300-1517Luther and the German ReformationHenry VIII and the Anglican ReformationProtestantism from Switzerland to HollandReform in the Catholic ChurchDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSThe Lagoon of Venice DOCUMENTMachiavelli, The Prince: On Cruelty and Mercy SEEING CONNECTIONSMarco Polo's Book of WondersDOCUMENTAnne Ayscough (Mrs. Thomas Kyme), English Protestant Martyr 15. State Development in Europe:Western and Central Europe, Russia, and the Balkans to 1650Western and Central Europe, 1300-1500 Politics, Diplomacy, and the Wars of Religions, 1556-1598The Austrian Hapsburgs and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648Russia: From the Tatar Yoke to the Romanovs The Balkans: Byzantine Collapse and Ottoman RuleDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSThe Battle of KahlenbergDOCUMENTSimplicissimus on the Horrors of the Thirty Years' War SEEING CONNECTIONSThe Fall of Constantinople16. Global Encounters:Europe and the New World Economy, 1400-1650 The Iberian Golden AgeThe Portuguese and AfricaThe Growth of New SpainIberian Systems in the New WorldBeginnings of Northern European ExpansionDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSSavage Pictures: Sebastian Munster's Map of AfricaDOCUMENTPortuguese Encounters with AfricansDOCUMENTDisease and the Spanish Conquest omenSEEING CONNECTIONSThe Portuguese in Benin17. Absolutism and Limited Central Power in Europe, 1650-1774:Politics during the First Age of Capitalism Louis XIV, the Sun King: The Model for European AbsolutismThe Gravitational Pull of French AbsolutismHolland and England: Limited Central PowerBreaking the Bank: Diplomacy and War: 1650-1774The Decline of European Absolutism, the Example of Louis XV: 1715-1774Capitalism and the Forces of ChangeSocial Crises During the Capitalist RevolutionDOCUMENTCatherine II on Life in St. Petersburg in 1750DOCUMENTConditions Among Eighteenth-Century French PeasantsDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSThe Elegant Destruction of Poland SEEING CONNECTIONSA New Product from the New World: Tobacco18. New Ideas and Their Political Consequences:The Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolutions Discovering the Laws of Nature: the Scientific RevolutionThe Age of Reason and the Ancien RegimeThe Failure of Monarchical ReformThe French Revolution: The Domestic Phase, 1789-1799The French Revolution: The Napoleonic Phase, 1799-1815DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSThe Heliocentric Cosmos of CopernicusThe Widening Scope of Scientific DiscoveryDOCUMENTDeclaration of the Rights of Man and CitizenDOCUMENTOlympe de Gouges on the Rights of WomenSEEING CONNECTIONSBenjamin Franklin in Paris19. Africa in the World Economy, 1650-1850The Atlantic Slave TradeThe End of the Slave Trade in West AfricaIslamic AfricaAfricans and European Settlement in Southern AfricaAfrican State Formation in Eastern and Northeastern AfricaDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSThe Myth of the Empty LandDOCUMENTA Slave's MemoirDOCUMENTUsman dan Fodio on Women and Islam SEEING CONNECTIONSMoshoeshoe in European Dress20. Asian and Middle Eastern Empires and Nations, 1650-1815The Ottomans in the Early Modern EraMuslim Politics in PersiaEarly Modern India Under the MughalsThe Qing Dynasty Before the Opium WarKorea in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesEarly Modern Japan: The Tokugawa PeriodSoutheast Asia: Political and Cultural InteractionsEuropeans in the New Pacific FrontiersDOCUMENTLady Montagu, Florence Nightingale, and the Myths of "Orient"DOCUMENTLan Dingyuan, County Magistrate: Depraved Religious Sects Deceive PeopleDOCUMENTIhara Saikaku: "The Umbrella Oracle"SEEING CONNECTIONSJesuits in the Ming Court21. The Americas, 1650-1825: From European Dominance to IndependenceThe Iberian Colonies: 1650-1789The West IndiesBreaking Away: The Creation of the United States of AmericaHaiti: The First Successful Slave RevolutionThe Latin American RevolutionsDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSThe Island of CaliforniaDOCUMENTLetter from Abigail AdamsDOCUMENTSimon Bolivar, Proclamation to the People of VenezuelaSEEING CONNECTIONSGold and Precious Stones in Brazil22. Industrialization:Social, Political, and Cultural Transformations The Industrial Revolution: British PhaseIndustrialization: Continental PhaseThe Workers: The Manchester MicrocosmSocialism and IndustrializationThe Middle ClassesScience, Technology, and the Second Industrial RevolutionCultural Responses to the AgeDOCUMENTChild Labor DOCUMENTMrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management (1861) SEEING CONNECTIONSSinger Sewing Machines in Zululand23. Europe, 1815-1914:Political Change and Diplomatic FailureReassembling Europe, 1815-18501848: The Revolutionary Year Prussia, German Unification, and the Second ReichThe Decline of AustriaItaly to 1914France: The Second Empire and the Third RepublicThe United Kingdom: Reform and StabilityRussia: Reform and RevolutionThe "Eastern Question" and the Failure of European Diplomacy to 1914DOCUMENTBismarck and the Ems DispatchDOCUMENTEmmeline Pankhurst, from "My Own Story..."SEEING CONNECTIONSFrench and German Rivalry24. Africa and the Middle East During the Age of European ImperialismEuropean Conquest of AfricaEuropean Technology and the African Response to ConquestThe Mineral Revolution in South Africa and the Anglo-Boer WarColonial Rule in AfricaThe Growth of Christianity and Islam in AfricaThe Ottoman Empire RefashionedIran and the Great Power StruggleDOCUMENTThat Was No BrotherDOCUMENTGeneral von Trotha's Extermination OrderDOCUMENTA Middle Eastern Vision of the WestSEEING CONNECTIONSThe Suez Canal25. Imperialism and Modernity in Asia and the Pacific, 1815-1914:India, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, and OceaniaIndiaSoutheast AsiaChina: The Long Nineteenth CenturyJapan: Modernity and ImperialismAustralia, New Zealand, and the Pacific IslandsDOCUMENTThe Great Revolt of 1857-1858DOCUMENTLin Zexu on the Opium TradeDOCUMENT"The Beefeater"SEEING CONNECTIONSWestern Houses in Tokyo26. The Americas, 1825-1914;The Challenges of IndependenceChallenges to Latin American States After IndependenceLatin America, 1875-1914The United StatesDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSAn American View of the World in the 1820sDOCUMENTNewspaper Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in BrazilDOCUMENTJose Marti's Observations on the United States and CubaDOCUMENTSusan Anthony, On Women's Right to VoteSEEING CONNECTIONSThe Paris of the Pampas27. World War I and Its Economic and Political ConsequencesWorld War IThe Allied Peace SettlementEconomic DisastersPolitics in the DemocraciesThe Western Tradition in Transition: Changing CertaintiesDOCUMENTThe Western Front: Christmas 1914 DOCUMENTJohn Maynard Keynes on ClemenceauSEEING CONNECTIONSAfrican American recipients of the Croix de Guerre28. The Failure of the Liberal Model and the Rise of Authoritarianism:Japan, Italy, Germany, and the USSR, 1917-1940 Japan: From Budding Democracy to Militarist StateA European Response to Liberal Decline: FascismItaly and MussoliniThe German TragedyRevolutions in Russia: 1917 and 1928-1939DISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSWishful Thinking: A Nazi Tourism MapDOCUMENTThe New German WomanDOCUMENTStalin and State TerrorSEEING CONNECTIONSMussolini and Imperial Destiny29. Forging New Nations in Asia, 1910-1950China: Revolution and RepublicKorea: From Monarchy to ColonyNationalism in Southeast AsiaIndia: The Drive for IndependenceDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSWhat's in a Name? Siam or Thailand?DOCUMENTLu Xun and China's May Fourth GenerationDOCUMENTGandhi and "Truth-Force"SEEING CONNECTIONSGandhi the Civil Rights Leader30. National Movements and the Drive for Independence in the Middle East and Africa from the 1920s to 1950sThe Middle East DividedThe Challenge to Colonial Rule in AfricaPan-AfricanismWorld War II and Its AftermathDecolonizationDOCUMENTWe Have Not Come as Conquerors, But as LiberatorsDOCUMENTThe Color Line Belts the WorldDOCUMENTPass Laws and African Women in South AfricaSEEING CONNECTIONSThe Hashimite Family31. World War II:Origins and Consequences, 1919-1946The Troubled Calm: The West in the 1920sEpoch of the AggressorsWorld War IIPostwar SettlementsDOCUMENTErich Maria Remarque, The Road BackDOCUMENTThe Hossbach MemorandumDOCUMENTThe Nazi Death CampsSEEING CONNECTIONSModern Civilization and Mass Killing32. Europe and the United States Since 1945:The Cold War and AfterThe Cold War: The US and The USSR in Global Competition to 1991The Soviet Union and the Russian RepublicEastern Europe: From Soviet Control to IndependenceWestern EuropeThe United StatesDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSMassive Retaliatory Power, 1954DOCUMENTKhrushchev's Address to the Twentieth Party CongressDOCUMENTMartin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam, A Time to Break Silence"SEEING CONNECTIONSJFK and Khrushchev33. The Middle East and Africa Since 1945: The Struggle for SurvivalThe Middle East: Religion and PoliticsAfrica: The Search for National IdentitiesDISCOVERY THROUGH MAPSBorders and Identities: The UN Partition PlanDOCUMENTThe Village That Has "Eaten Itself Limb by Limb"SEEING CONNECTIONSAyatollah Khomeini34. Latin America Since 1910:Reform, Repression, and RevolutionLatin America: 1910-1945The Perils of the Post-War EraSouth AmericaThe CaribbeanMexicoCentral AmericaDOCUMENTPresident Hugo Chavez's 2006 Address to the U.N. General AssemblyDOCUMENTEvita Speaks SEEING CONNECTIONSLucha Libre35. Asia and the South Pacific since 1945: Political, Economic, and Social RevolutionsThe People's Republic of China and Other Chinese CountriesJapan: From Defeat to Dominance to DoubtKorea: A Nation DividedSoutheast AsiaThe SubcontinentAustralia, New Zealand, and the Pacific IslandsDOCUMENTMao on Communism in ChinaDOCUMENTKora Rumiko, "When the War Ended"DOCUMENTBenazir Bhutto at HarvardSEEING CONNECTIONSThe Transistor36. Into the 21st Century: An Uncertain FutureAn Uncertain FutureEconomics: The Tension Between Dollars and SenseThe Promises and Perils of TechnologyPeople on the Move in a Changing WorldToward a World CultureLooming ChallengesReasons for HopeDOCUMENTMuhammad Yunus's Acceptance Speech for the 2006 Nobel Peace PrizeDOCUMENTSimone de Beauvoir, The Second SexDOCUMENTWangari Maathai, A Matter of Life or DeathSEEING CONNECTIONSThe Earth
