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History 151: World History to 1500

This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Originally authored by six Georgia Gwinnett College faculty, it has been updated by faculty at Harrisburg Community College and the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College. This textbook covers many diverse cultures, states, and societies.

Humanities
Author
Liana Horovitz
Publisher
University of Hawaii Maui College
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-SA
Language
EN
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Contents· 192 sections
  1. 01: Prehistory
  2. 1.01: Chronology
  3. 1.02: Key Terms
  4. 1.03: Introduction
  5. 1.04: Human Beginnings in Africa
  6. 1.05: Agriculture and the Neolithic Revolution
  7. 1.06: Primary Sources and Material
  8. 1.07: Summary
  9. 02: Early Middle Eastern and Northeast African Civilizations
  10. 2.01: Chronology
  11. 2.02: Key Terms
  12. 2.03: Introduction - Defining Civilization
  13. 2.04: Ancient Mesopotamia
  14. 2.05: Sumerian City-States
  15. 2.06: Mesopotamian Empires
  16. 2.07: The Significance of Mesopotamia for World History
  17. 2.08: The Israelites and Ancient Israel
  18. 2.09: Early Israelites
  19. 2.10: The United Kingdom of Israel
  20. 2.11: The Importance of the Israelites and Ancient Israel
  21. 2.12: Ancient Egypt
  22. 2.13: Dynastic Egypt
  23. 2.14: Nubia- The Kingdoms of Kerma and Kush
  24. 2.15: Primary Sources and material
  25. 2.16: Summary
  26. 03: Ancient and Medieval India
  27. 3.01: Chronology of Ancient and Medieval India
  28. 3.02: Key Terms
  29. 3.03: Introduction - A Political Overview
  30. 3.04: Regional States Trade and Devotional Religion- India 200 BCE-300 CE
  31. 3.05: What is India The Geography of South Asia
  32. 3.06: India's First Major Civilization - The Indus Valley Civilization ( 2600-1700 BCE)
  33. 3.07: The Long Vedic Age (1700-600 BCE)
  34. 3.08: Transition to Empire - States Cities and New Religions (600 to 321 BCE)
  35. 3.09: The Mauryan Empire (321-184 BCE)
  36. 3.10: The Gupta Empire and India's Classical Age (300-600CE)
  37. 3.11: India's Early Medieval Age and the Development of Islamic States in India 600-1300
  38. 3.12: Links to Primary Sources
  39. 3.13: Conclusion
  40. 3.14: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  41. 3.15: Primary Sources and material
  42. 04: China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty
  43. 4.01: Chronology of China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty
  44. 4.02: Key Terms
  45. 4.03: Introduction to China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty
  46. 4.04: Geography of East Asia
  47. 4.05: China from Neolithic Village Settlements to the Shang Kingdom
  48. 4.06: The Long Zhou Dynasty (1046- 256 BCE)
  49. 4.07: The Qin Dynasty and the Transition from Ancient to Imperial China
  50. 4.08: The Han Dynasty 202 BCE-220 CE
  51. 4.09: The Period of Division 220-589CE
  52. 4.10: The Tang Dynasty and the Emergence of East Asia
  53. 4.11: The Song Dynasty
  54. 4.12: The Yuan Dynasty
  55. 4.13: Primary Sources
  56. 4.14: Conclusion
  57. 4.15: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  58. 05: The Persian Empire
  59. 5.01: Persian Expansion
  60. 5.02: The Persian Government
  61. 5.03: Zoroastrianism
  62. 5.04: The Persian War
  63. 5.05: The Peloponnesian War
  64. 5.06: The Aftermath
  65. 06: The Greek World from Bronze Age to Roman Conquest
  66. 6.01: Chronology
  67. 6.02: Key Terms
  68. 6.03: Introduction
  69. 6.04: Geography and Topography
  70. 6.05: Periods of Greek History
  71. 6.06: Methodology- Sources and Problem
  72. 6.07: From Mythology to History
  73. 6.08: Archaic Greece
  74. 6.09: The Classical Period
  75. 6.10: Hellenistic Period
  76. 6.11: Primary Sources
  77. 6.12: Conclusion
  78. 6.13: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  79. 07: The Roman World from 753 BCE to 500 BCE
  80. 7.01: Chronology
  81. 7.02: Key Terms
  82. 7.03: Introduction
  83. 7.04: Geography and Topography of Rome and the Roman Empire
  84. 7.05: Basic Chronology and Periods of Roman History
  85. 7.06: Sources and Problems
  86. 7.07: Early and Middle Republic
  87. 7.08: Fall of the Roman Republic
  88. 7.09: The Early Empire
  89. 7.10: The Third-Century Crisis and Late Antiquity
  90. 7.11: Primary Sources
  91. 7.12: Conclusion- From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
  92. 7.13: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  93. 08: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 500-1000 CE
  94. 8.01: Chronology
  95. 8.02: Key Terms
  96. 8.03: Introduction to Western Europe and Byzantium circa 500-1000 CE
  97. 8.04: Successor Kingdoms to the Western Roman Empire
  98. 8.05: Byzantium - The Age of Justinian
  99. 8.06: Perspectives- Post-Roman East and West
  100. 8.07: The British Isles - Europe's Periphery
  101. 8.08: Byzantium - Crisis and Recovery
  102. 8.09: Western Europe - The Rise of the Franks
  103. 8.10: Global Context
  104. 8.11: Daily Life in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empires
  105. 8.12: Carolingian Collapse
  106. 8.13: The Tenth-Century Church
  107. 8.14: Byzantine Apogee - The Macedonian Emperors
  108. 8.15: Primary Sources and materials
  109. 8.16: Conclusion and Global Perspectives
  110. 8.17: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  111. 09: Islam to the Mamluks
  112. 9.01: Chronology
  113. 9.02: Key Terms
  114. 9.03: Introduction
  115. 9.04: Geography of the Middle East
  116. 9.05: Rise of Islam
  117. 9.06: The Expansion of Islam
  118. 9.07: The Rashidun Caliphs
  119. 9.08: The Umayyad Caliphate
  120. 9.09: The 'Abbasid Caliphate
  121. 9.10: The Fatimid Caliphate
  122. 9.11: The Crusades
  123. 9.12: The Mamluk Sultanate
  124. 9.13: Primary Sources
  125. 9.14: Conclusion
  126. 9.15: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  127. 10: African History to 1500
  128. 10.01: Chronology
  129. 10.02: Key Terms
  130. 10.03: Introduction
  131. 10.04: Writing the History of Ancient and Medieval Africa
  132. 10.05: Aksum and Ethiopia
  133. 10.06: The Western Sudanic States
  134. 10.07: The Spread of Agriculture and Great Zimbabwe
  135. 10.08: The Swahili City-States (East Africa)
  136. 10.09: Primary Sources and material
  137. 10.10: Conclusion
  138. 10.11: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  139. 11: The Americas
  140. 11.01: Chronology
  141. 11.02: Key Terms
  142. 11.03: Introduction to The Americas
  143. 11.04: Mesoamerica
  144. 11.05: The Maya
  145. 11.06: The Aztec
  146. 11.07: Early Andes
  147. 11.08: Primary Sources
  148. 12: Central Asia
  149. 12.01: Chronology
  150. 12.02: Key Terms
  151. 12.03: Introduction
  152. 12.04: Geography of Central Asia
  153. 12.05: Turkic Migrations
  154. 12.06: Islam
  155. 12.07: The Mongol Era
  156. 12.08: The Khanate of Chagatai
  157. 12.09: The Khanate of the Ilkhans (1265-1335)
  158. 12.10: Timur
  159. 12.11: Primary Sources
  160. 12.12: Conclusion
  161. 12.13: Works Consulted and Further Reading
  162. 13: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 1000-1500 CE
  163. 13.01: Chronology
  164. 13.02: Key Terms
  165. 13.03: Introduction
  166. 13.04: The Emergence of a Feudal Order in Western Europe
  167. 13.05: Growth of Towns and Trade
  168. 13.06: Growth in Agriculture
  169. 13.07: A Roman Empire
  170. 13.08: The Holy Roman Empire's Peripheries - Secondary State Formation
  171. 13.09: Expansion of Christendom
  172. 13.10: Church Reform in the Eleventh Century
  173. 13.11: The Crusades
  174. 13.12: The Twelfth Century in Western Europe
  175. 13.13: Empires- Recovery and Collapse
  176. 13.14: The Twelfth-Century Renaissance
  177. 13.15: The Third Crusade
  178. 13.16: The Fourth Crusade
  179. 13.17: The States of Thirteenth-Century Europe
  180. 13.18: Later Crusades and Crusading's Ultimate Failure
  181. 13.19: Scholasticism
  182. 13.20: Daily Life at the Medieval Zenith
  183. 13.21: Fourteenth Century Crises
  184. 13.22: War
  185. 13.23: Southeastern Europe in the Late Middle Ages
  186. 13.24: The Late Medieval Papacy
  187. 13.25: The European Renaissance
  188. 13.26: States in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
  189. 13.27: Iberia and the Atlantic- New Worlds
  190. 13.28: Primary Sources
  191. 13.29: Conclusion
  192. 13.30: Works Consulted and Further Reading