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World History Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia.
- Author
- Eugene Berger et al.
- Publisher
- Georgia Gwinnett College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-SA
- Language
- EN
Contents· 200 sections
- 01: Prehistory
- 1.01: Chronology
- 1.02: Introduction
- 1.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 1.04: Key Terms
- 1.05: Human Beginnings in Africa
- 1.06: Agriculture and the Neolithic Revolution
- 1.07: Summary
- 1.08: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 1.09: Links to Primary Sources
- 02: Early Middle Eastern and Northeast African Civilizations
- 2.01: Chronology
- 2.02: Introduction - Defining Civilization
- 2.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 2.04: Key Terms
- 2.05: Ancient Mesopotamia
- 2.06: Sumerian City-States
- 2.07: Mesopotamian Empires
- 2.08: The Significance of Mesopotamia for World History
- 2.09: The Israelites and Ancient Israel
- 2.10: Early Israelites
- 2.11: The United Kingdom of Israel
- 2.12: The Importance of the Israelites and Ancient Israel
- 2.13: Ancient Egypt
- 2.14: Dynastic Egypt
- 2.15: Nubia- The Kingdoms of Kerma and Kush
- 2.16: Summary
- 2.17: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 2.18: Links to Primary Sources
- 03: Ancient and Medieval India
- 3.01: Chronology of Ancient and Medieval India
- 3.02: Introduction - A Political Overview
- 3.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 3.04: Key Terms
- 3.05: What is India The Geography of South Asia
- 3.06: India's First Major Civilization - The Indus Valley Civilization ( 2600-1700 BCE)
- 3.07: The Long Vedic Age (1700-600 BCE)
- 3.08: Transition to Empire - States Cities and New Religions (600 to 321 BCE)
- 3.09: The Mauryan Empire (321-184 BCE)
- 3.10: Regional States Trade and Devotional Religion- India 200 BCE-300 CE
- 3.11: The Gupta Empire and India's Classical Age (300-600CE)
- 3.12: India's Early Medieval Age and the Development of Islamic States in India 600-1300
- 3.13: Conclusion
- 3.14: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 3.15: Links to Primary Sources
- 04: China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty
- 4.01: Chronology of China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty
- 4.02: Introduction to China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty
- 4.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 4.04: Key Terms
- 4.05: Geography of East Asia
- 4.06: China from Neolithic Village Settlements to the Shang Kingdom
- 4.07: The Long Zhou Dynasty (1046- 256 BCE)
- 4.08: The Qin Dynasty and the Transition from Ancient to Imperial China
- 4.09: The Han Dynasty 202 BCE-220 CE
- 4.10: The Period of Division 220-589CE
- 4.11: The Tang Dynasty and the Emergence of East Asia
- 4.12: The Song Dynasty
- 4.13: The Yuan Dynasty
- 4.14: Conclusion
- 4.15: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 4.16: Links to Primary Sources
- 05: The Greek World from Bronze Age to Roman Conquest
- 5.01: Chronology
- 5.02: Introduction
- 5.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 5.04: Key Terms
- 5.05: Geography and Topography
- 5.06: Periods of Greek History
- 5.07: Methodology- Sources and Problem
- 5.08: From Mythology to History
- 5.09: Archaic Greece
- 5.10: The Classical Period
- 5.11: Hellenistic Period
- 5.12: Conclusion
- 5.13: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 5.14: Links of Primary Sources
- 06: The Roman World from 753 BCE to 500 BCE
- 6.01: Chronology
- 6.02: Introduction
- 6.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 6.04: Key Terms
- 6.05: Geography and Topography of Rome and the Roman Empire
- 6.06: Basic Chronology and Periods of Roman History
- 6.07: Sources and Problems
- 6.08: Early and Middle Republic
- 6.09: Fall of the Roman Republic
- 6.10: The Early Empire
- 6.11: The Third-Century Crisis and Late Antiquity
- 6.12: Conclusion- From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages
- 6.13: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 6.14: Links to Primary Sources
- 07: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 500-1000 CE
- 7.01: Chronology
- 7.02: Introduction to Western Europe and Byzantium circa 500-1000 CE
- 7.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 7.04: Key Terms
- 7.05: Successor Kingdoms to the Western Roman Empire
- 7.06: Byzantium - The Age of Justinian
- 7.07: Perspectives- Post-Roman East and West
- 7.08: The British Isles - Europe's Periphery
- 7.09: Byzantium - Crisis and Recovery
- 7.10: Western Europe - The Rise of the Franks
- 7.11: Global Context
- 7.12: Daily Life in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empires
- 7.13: Carolingian Collapse
- 7.14: The Tenth-Century Church
- 7.15: Byzantine Apogee - The Macedonian Emperors
- 7.16: Conclusion and Global Perspectives
- 7.17: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 7.18: Links to Primary Sources
- 08: Islam to the Mamluks
- 8.01: Chronology
- 8.02: Introduction
- 8.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 8.04: Key Terms
- 8.05: Geography of the Middle East
- 8.06: Rise of Islam
- 8.07: The Expansion of Islam
- 8.08: The Rashidun Caliphs
- 8.09: The Umayyad Caliphate
- 8.10: The 'Abbasid Caliphate
- 8.11: The Fatimid Caliphate
- 8.12: The Crusades
- 8.13: The Mamluk Sultanate
- 8.14: Conclusion
- 8.15: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 8.16: Links to Primary Sources
- 09: African History to 1500
- 9.01: Chronology
- 9.02: Introduction
- 9.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 9.04: Key Terms
- 9.05: Writing the History of Ancient and Medieval Africa
- 9.06: Aksum and Ethiopia
- 9.07: The Western Sudanic States
- 9.08: The Spread of Agriculture and Great Zimbabwe
- 9.09: The Swahili City-States (East Africa)
- 9.10: Conclusion
- 9.11: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 10: The Americas
- 10.01: Chronology
- 10.02: Introduction to The Americas
- 10.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 10.04: Key Terms
- 10.05: Mesoamerica
- 10.06: The Maya
- 10.07: The Aztec
- 10.08: Early Andes
- 10.09: North America
- 10.10: Conclusion
- 10.11: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 10.12: Links to Primary Sources
- 11: Central Asia
- 11.01: Chronology
- 11.02: Introduction
- 11.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 11.04: Key Terms
- 11.05: Geography of Central Asia
- 11.06: Turkic Migrations
- 11.07: Islam
- 11.08: The Mongol Era
- 11.09: The Khanate of Chagatai
- 11.10: The Khanate of the Ilkhans (1265-1335)
- 11.11: Timur
- 11.12: Conclusion
- 11.13: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 11.14: Links to Primary Sources
- 12: Western Europe and Byzantium circa 1000-1500 CE
- 12.01: Chronology
- 12.02: Introduction
- 12.03: Questions to Guide Your Reading
- 12.04: Key Terms
- 12.05: The Emergence of a Feudal Order in Western Europe
- 12.06: Growth of Towns and Trade
- 12.07: Growth in Agriculture
- 12.08: A Roman Empire
- 12.09: The Holy Roman Empire's Peripheries - Secondary State Formation
- 12.10: Expansion of Christendom
- 12.11: Church Reform in the Eleventh Century
- 12.12: The Crusades
- 12.13: The Twelfth Century in Western Europe
- 12.14: Empires- Recovery and Collapse
- 12.15: The Twelfth-Century Renaissance
- 12.16: The Third Crusade
- 12.17: The Fourth Crusade
- 12.18: The States of Thirteenth-Century Europe
- 12.19: Later Crusades and Crusading's Ultimate Failure
- 12.20: Scholasticism
- 12.21: Daily Life at the Medieval Zenith
- 12.22: Fourteenth Century Crises
- 12.23: War
- 12.24: Southeastern Europe in the Late Middle Ages
- 12.25: The Late Medieval Papacy
- 12.26: The European Renaissance
- 12.27: States in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
- 12.28: Iberia and the Atlantic- New Worlds
- 12.29: Conclusion
- 12.30: Works Consulted and Further Reading
- 12.31: Links to Primary Sources