Global Connections: Volume 1, To 1500 : Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History (Hardcover)

Introduction; Part I. 5000?600 BCE: The Rise of Cities, States and Pastoralism: 1. From human origins to the farming transformation; 2. Cities and states; 3. People on the move; Part II. 600 BCE?600 CE: A World of Regions: 4. Africa and the Americas: making history in challenging environments; 5. East, Central and South Asia: the religious foundations of empires; 6. The Ancient Mediterranean; Part III. 600?900 CE: States, Empires, and Religions: 7. The Middle East and Europe; 8. The heyday of the Silk Road; 9. The rise and fall of states in the Americas and Africa, 600?1200 CE; Part IV. 900?1200 CE: Fragmentation, Feudalism, and Urbanization: 10. Europe and the Muslim World; 11. Paradoxes of plenty in Song China, Byzantium, and Kievan Russia; Part V. 1200?1500 CE: Conquest and Commerce: 12. The Americas and Africa; 13. The Mongol Conquests and their legacies; 14. Europe and the world.