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🌍 World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Combined Volume (8th Edition)

Authors: Peter N. Stearns, Michael B. Adas, Stuart B. Schwartz, Marc Jason Gilbert
ISBN-13: 9780135709771

Explore human history from its origins to the modern globalized world with World Civilizations: The Global Experience, 8th Edition. This comprehensive text covers the rise, interaction, and transformation of global civilizations from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century.

🏺 PART I – 2.5 Million–600 B.C.E.: Origins and Development

1. The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization

2. The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa

3. Asia’s First Civilizations: India and China

Discover the beginnings of human society, the agricultural revolution, and the first urban centers in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China.

⚔️ PART II – The Classical Period, 600 B.C.E.–600 C.E.: Uniting Large Regions

4. Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China

5. Classical Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

6. Religious Rivalries and India’s Golden Age

7. Rome and Its Empire

8. The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas

9. The Spread of Civilizations and the Movement of Peoples

10. The End of the Classical Era: World History in Transition, 200–600 C.E.

Study the classical empires of Rome, China, India, and Mesoamerica, and understand how religion, trade, and conquest shaped global connections.

🕌 PART III – The Postclassical Period, 600–1450: New Faith and New Commerce

11. The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam

12. Abbasid Decline and Islamic Expansion in South and Southeast Asia

13. African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam

14. Byzantium and Orthodox Europe

15. Western Europe’s New Civilization

16. The Americas on the Eve of Invasion

17. Tang and Song China: Reunification and Renaissance

18. The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

19. Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur

20. The World in 1450: Changing Global Power

Explore the Islamic Golden Age, medieval Europe, Africa’s trade networks, and Asian civilizations before the modern era.

🧭 PART IV – The Early Modern Period, 1450–1750: The World Shrinks

21. The World Economy

22. The Transformation of the West

23. Early Latin America

24. Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade

25. The Rise of Russia

26. The Muslim Empires

27. Asian Transitions in a Global Age

Learn about the Age of Exploration, colonial expansion, and the birth of a global economy connecting Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

⚙️ PART V – The Dawn of the Industrial Age, 1750–1900

28. The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West

29. Industrialization and Imperialism

30. Latin America, 1810–1920

31. Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire and Qing China

32. Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West

Trace the Industrial Revolution, imperial expansion, and social transformations that reshaped the modern world.

🌐 PART VI – The Contemporary Period, 1900–Present

33. World War I and the European Crisis

34. The World Between the Wars

35. World War II and the End of Empire

36. Globalization and Industrial Growth

37. Western Society and the Cold War

38. Latin America: Revolution and Reaction

39. Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in Independence

40. Rebirth and Nation-Building in East Asia

41. Power, Politics, and Conflict, 1990–2019

Understand modern global conflicts, decolonization, and the rise of globalization shaping our interconnected world today.

Volume 1: Chapters 1–21
Volume 2: Chapters 21–41

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