Chapter One: Prehistory
Chapter Two: River Valleys, Cities, and First States
Chapter Three: The Earliest Empires and Territorial States
Chapter Four: Growing Empires and States in Afro-Eurasia
Chapter Five: The Classical Age
Chapter Six: Connecting East and West (8th Century BCE-3rd Century CE)
Chapter Seven: Imperial Anchors–The Roman Empire and Han Dynasty China (300 BCE-300)
Chapter Eight: Religious and Political Transformations (300-600)
Chapter Nine: New Faiths and New States (600-1000)
Chapter Ten: Emerging Spheres of Influence (1000-1300)
Chapter Eleven: Famine, Plague, War, and Rebirth (1300-1500)
Authors
Eugene Berger
Georgia Gwinnett College, eberger@ggc.edu
George Israel
Middle Georgia State University, larry.israel@mga.edu
Charlotte Miller
Middle Georgia State University, charlotte.miller@mga.edu
Brian Parkinson
Georgia Southwestern State University, brian.parkinson@gsw.edu
Andrew Reeves
Middle Georgia State University, andrew.reeves1@mga.edu
With
Nadejda Williams
and additional material by
Aaron Gulyas
Mott Community College, aaron.gulyas@mcc.edu
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About this Version of the Text
For this version of World History: Culture, States, and Societies to 1500, I have reorganized the text in order to provide a more globally integrated narrative. Each chapter invites students to compare and contrast developments across regions during a period of time.
This version of the book retains the text of the original but with updated references to chapters. I verified and, if necessary, updated links to online resources. In cases where the exact illustration used in the original version was not available, I have substituted equivalent ones. I also created and edited segues and other “connective tissue” as well to (hopefully) ensure that this version of the book reads as smoothly as the original.
Additional changes include:
- More concise lists of “key terms” in each chapter
- Expanded coverage of the Persian Empire
- Expanded coverage of the end of the Yuan Dynasty
- Added brief overview of the early Ming Dynasty including the voyages of Zheng He
Work on this adaption was generously sponsored by a grant from Michigan Colleges Online, a project of the Michigan Community College Association.
Aaron Gulyas
Mott Community College