World history in documents a comparative reader

Introduction: Comparative World History

Pt. I River Valley Civilizations, 3500-1000 B.C.E., and the Classical Period, 1000 B.C.E.-450 C.E

1.Creation Stories

2.Comparing Laws: The Importance of the State

3.Political Ideals in China and Greece

4.Social Inequality

5.Conditions of Women in the Classical Civilizations: China and India

6.Military Roles in China and Rome

7.Buddhism and Christianity

Pt. II The Postclassical Period, 450-1450

8.Religion and State in Islam and Christianity

9.Conditions of Women in Islam, Byzantine Christianity

10.Feudalism in Western Europe and Japan

11.The Crusades: Muslim and European Reactions

12.Merchants and Trade

13.The Mongol Era: Conquests and Connections

14.Africa in the Postclassical World

15.Chinese and Portuguese Voyages in the Fifteenth Century

Pt. III The Early Modern Period, 1450-1750

16.Europeans and American Indians: Explorers, Conquerors, and Aztec Reactions

17.The Spread of Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade

18.The Scientific Revolution and Global Impact

19.The Gunpowder Empires

20.Coffee in Early Modern World History

Pt. IV The Long Nineteenth Century

21.The Age of Atlantic Revolutions

22.Nationalism

23.The Opium War: Chinese and English Views

24.The Emancipations and Their Consequences

25.Russian and Japanese Conservatism

26.Business Values in the Industrial Revolution: Western Europe and Japan

27.Women and Education in the Nineteenth Century

Pt. V The Contemporary Period, 1914-Present

28.Twentieth-Century Revolutions

29.Authoritarianism on the Right: Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and Argentine Peronism

30.Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Japan

31.The Spread of Democracy at the End of the Century: China, Africa, and the Middle East

32.Issues of Cultural Identity: Africa and Latin America

33.Women and Global Change

34.Global Consumerism and Its Discontents

35.Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism

36.Global Warming and Global Environmentalism