{"product_id":"patterns-of-world-history-volume-one-to-1600-9780197517031","title":"Patterns of World History Volume One To 1600","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Patterns of World History is a solid textbook that utilizes patterns of civilization instead of a massive scatter shot of information, which helps students to learn concepts instead of extraneous detailed information.\"--Joshua Shriver, Auburn University \"Patterns of World History is truly a global history. Its overall organization combines both thematic and regional elements flexibly, allowng some chapters to cover broad swaths of cultures in comparison while other chapters delve deeply into only one or two. Each chapter includes multiple supports to student learning, including broad comparative questions, maps, timelines, bold vocabulary terms with definitions in the margins, and a mix of textual and visual primary sources.\"--Lore Kuehnert, Hagerstown Community College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSTUDYING WITH MAPS  PREFACE NOTE ON DATES AND SPELLINGS ABOUT THE AUTHORS  WORLD PERIOD ONE. FROM  HUMAN ORIGINS TO EARLY AGRICULTURAL CENTERS,  PREHISTORY-600 BCE 2  Chapter 1. The African Origins of Humanity, Prehistory-10,000 BCE  The Origins of Humanity  Hominins: No Longer Chimpanzees, but Not Yet Human   Human Adaptations: From Africa to Eurasia and Australia   The African Origins of Human Culture  Migration from South Asia to Australia  Migration from Asia to Europe  The Ice Age Crisis and Human Migration to the Americas   The Ice Age Putting It All Together  Chapter 2. Agrarian-Urban Centers of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, 11,500-600 BCE  Agrarian Origins in the Fertile Crescent, ca. 11,500-1500 BCE  Sedentary Foragers and Foraging Farmers  The Origin of Urban Centers in Mesopotamia and Egypt Interactions among Multiethnic and Multireligious Empires, ca. 1500-600 BCE   The Hittite and Assyrian Empires, 1600-600 BCE  Small Kingdoms on the Imperial Margins, 1600-600 BCE Religious Experience and Cultural Achievements Putting It All Together   Chapter 3. Shifting Agrarian Centers in India, 3000-600 BCE  The Vanished Origins of Harappa, 3000-1500 BCE   The Region and People  Adapting to Urban Life in the Indus Valley  The Collapse of the Cities  Interactions in Northern India, 1500-600 BCE  The Vedic World, 1750-800 BCE  Statecraft and the Ideology of Power, 800-600 BCE  Indian Society, Culture, and Religion, 1500-600 BCE  Society and Family in Ancient India   Cultural Interactions to 600 BCE  Putting It All Together  Chapter 4. Agrarian Centers and the Mandate of Heaven in Ancient China, 5000-481 BCE  The Origins of Yellow River Cultures, 5000-1766 BCE  Geography and Climate  The Origins of Neolithic Cultures  The Age of Myth and the Xia Dynasty, 2852-1766 BCE  The Interactions of Shang and Zhou History and Politics, 1766-481 BCE  The Shang Dynasty, 1766-1122 BCE  The Mandate of Heaven: The Zhou Dynasty to 481 BCE  Economy, Society, and Family Adaptation in Ancient China  Shang Society  Interactions of Zhou Economy and Society  Gender and the Family  Interactions of Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life in Ancient China  Oracle Bones and Early Chinese Writing  Adaptations of Zhou Religion, Technology, and Culture Putting It All Together   Chapter 5. Origins Apart: The Americas and Oceania, 16,000-600 BCE  The Americas: Hunters and Foragers, 16,000-600 BCE The Environment  Human Migrations   Agriculture, Villages, and Urban Life  The Neolithic Revolution in the New World  The Origins of Urban Life   The First Mesoamerican Settlements  The Origins of Pacific Island Migrations  Lapita and Cultural Origins Creating Polynesia  Putting It All Together   WORLD PERIOD TWO. THE AGE OF EMPIRES AND VISIONARIES, 600 BCE-600 CE   Chapter 6. Chiefdoms and Early States in Africa and the Americas, 600 BCE-600 CE  Agriculture and Early African Kingdoms  Saharan Villages, Towns, and Kingdoms   The Kingdom of Aksum   The Spread of Villages in Sub-Saharan Africa   West African Savanna and Rain-Forest Agriculture  The Spread of Village Life to East and South Africa  Patterns of African History, 600 BCE-600 CE  Early States in Mesoamerica: Maya Kingdoms and Teotihuacan  The Maya Kingdoms in Southern Mesoamerica  The Kingdom of Teotihuacan in the Mexican Basin  The Andes: Moche and Nazca The Moche in Northern Peru  Paracas and the Nazca in Southern Peru Putting It All Together   Chapter 7. Interaction and Adaptation in Western Eurasia: Persia, Greece, and Rome, 550 BCE-600 CE  Interactions between Persia and Greece   The Origins of the Achaemenid Persian Empire   Greek City-States in the Persian Shadow Alexander's Empire and Its Successor Kingdoms  Interactions between the Persian and Roman Empires  Parthian Persia and Rome  The Sasanid Persian and Late Roman Empires  Adaptations to Monotheism and Monism in the Middle East  Challenge to Polytheism: The Origins of Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and Greek Philosophy  Toward Religious Communities and Philosophical Schools  The Beginnings of Science and the Cultures of Kings and Citizens  The Sciences at the Library of Alexandria  Royal Persian Culture and Arts  Greek and Roman Civic Culture and Arts  Putting It All Together  Chapter 8. Empires and Visionaries in India, 600 BCE-600 CE  Patterns of State Formation in India: Republics, Kingdoms, and Empires  The Road to Empire: The Mauryas  The Classical Age: The Gupta Empire  The Southern Kingdoms, ca. 300-600 CE   The Vedic Tradition and Its Visionary Reformers  Reforming the Vedic Tradition  The Maturity of Hinduism: From the Abstract to the Devotional  Stability amid Disorder: Economy, Family, and Society   Tax and Spend: Economy and Society  Caste, Family Life, and Gender   Strength in Numbers: Art, Literature, and Science Putting It All Together   Chapter 9. China: Imperial Unification and Perfecting the Moral Order, 722 BCE-618 CE  Visionaries and Empire  Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism   The Qin Dynasty  The Han Dynasty  The Domestic Economy: Society, Family, and Gender  Industry and Commerce  Gender Roles   Intellectual Trends, Aesthetics, Science, and Technology  Confucianism, Education, and History during the Han Buddhism in China  Intellectual Life   Putting It All Together   WORLD PERIOD THREE: THE FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS CIVILIZATIONS, 600-1450 CE  Chapter 10. Islamic Civilization and Byzantium, 600-1300 CE  The Formation of Islamic Religious Civilization  The Beginnings of Islam  Islamic Theology, Law, and Politics  Eastern Christian Civilization in Byzantium   Byzantium's Difficult Beginnings  The Seljuk Invasion and the Crusades  Islamic and Eastern Christian Civilizations at Their Height  State and Society in Mamluk Egypt  Byzantine Provincial and Central Organization Commercial Relations from the Atlantic to the South China Sea  Religion, Sciences, and the Arts in Two Religious Civilizations Islamic Culture: Intellectual and Scientific Expressions Artistic Expressions in Islamic Civilization  Learning and the Arts in Byzantium   Putting It All Together   Chapter 11. Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600-1450 CE  The Formation of Christian Europe, 600-1000  Frankish Gaul and Latin Christianity  Recovery, Reform, and Innovation, 1000-1300  The Political Recovery of Europe  The Economic and Social Recovery of Europe  Religious Reform and Expansion  Intellectual and Cultural Developments  Crisis and Creativity, 1300-1415  The Calamitous Fourteenth Century  Signs of a New Era in the Fifteenth Century  Putting It All Together    Chapter 12. Sultanates, Tang to Ming, and The Mongol Superpower, 600-1600 CE  India: The Clash of Cultures  Buddhist and Hindu India after the Guptas   Islam in India, 711-1398   Toward the Mughal Era, 1398-1450  Interactions and Adaptations: From Buddhism to Neo-Confucian Synthesis in China  Creating a Religious Civilization under the Tang  The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1368  The Ming to 1450: The Quest for Stability  Society, Family, and Gender  Perceptions of Perfection: Intellectual, Scientific, and Cultural Life  Putting It All Together   Chapter 13. Religious Civilizations Interacting: Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, 550-1500 CE  Korea to 1450: Innovation from Above   People and Place: The Korean Environment   Conquest and Competition: History and Politics to 1450   Economy, Society, and Family  Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life   Japan to 1450: Selective Interaction and Adaptation  The Island Refuge  Adaptation at Arm's Length: History and Politics  Economy, Society, and Family  Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life  Vietnam: Human Agency and State Building  The Setting and Neolithic Cultures  Economy, Society, and Family   Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life   Putting It All Together   Chapter 14. Patterns of State Formation in Africa, 600-1450 CE  Christians and Muslims in the Northeast  Nubia in the Middle Nile Valley  Ethiopia in the Eastern Highlands  Adaptation to Islam: City-States and Kingdoms in East and Southern Africa   The Swahili City-States on the East African Coast  Traditional Kingdoms in Southern and Central Africa  Central African Chiefdoms and Kingdoms  Cultural Encounters: West African Traditions and Islam  The Kingdom of Ancient Ghana  The Empire of Mali  Rain-Forest Kingdoms  Putting It All Together   Chapter 15. The Rise of Empires in the Americas, 600-1550 CE   The Legacy of Teotihuacan and the Toltecs in Mesoamerica  Militarism in the Mexican Basin  Late Maya States in Yucatan  The Legacy of Tiwanaku and Wari in the Andes  The Expanding State of Tiwanaku   The Expanding City-State of Wari   American Empires: Aztec and Inca Origins and Dominance  The Aztec Empire of Mesoamerica  The Inca Empire of the Andes   Imperial Society and Culture  Imperial Capitals: Tenochtitlan and Cuzco Power and Its Cultural Expressions  Putting It All Together   WORLD PERIOD FOUR. INTERACTIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE, 1450-1750  Chapter 16. The Western European Overseas Expansion and the Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle, 1450-1650  The Muslim-Christian Competition in the East and West, 1450-1600  Iberian Christian Expansion, 1415-1498  Rise of the Ottomans and Struggle with the Habsburgs for Dominance, 1300-1609   The Centralizing State: Origins and Interactions   State Transformation, Money, and Firearms  Imperial Courts, Urban Festivities, and the Arts   The Ottoman Empire: Palaces, Festivities, and the Arts  The Spanish Habsburg Empire: Popular Festivities and the Arts  Putting It All Together   Chapter 17. The Renaissance, New Sciences, and Religious Wars in Europe, 1450-1750  Cultural Transformations: Renaissance, Baroque, and New Sciences The Renaissance and Baroque Arts  The New Sciences  The New Sciences and Their Social Impact  The New Sciences: Philosophical Interpretations  Centralizing States and Religious Upheavals  The Rise of Centralized Kingdoms  The Protestant Reformation, State Churches, and Independent Congregations  Religious Wars and Political Restoration  Putting It All Together   Chapter 18. New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500-1800  The Colonial Americas: Europe's Warm-Weather Extension  The Conquest of Mexico and Peru  The Establishment of Colonial Institutions  The Making of American Societies: Origins and Transformations  Exploitation of Mineral and Tropical Resources  Social Strata, Castes, and Ethnic Groups  The Adaptation of the Americas to European Culture  Putting It All Together   FURTHER RESOURCES  CREDITS SUBJECT INDEX","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524583629143,"sku":"9780197517031","price":74.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197517031.jpg?v=1731857357","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/patterns-of-world-history-volume-one-to-1600-9780197517031","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}