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<p><strong>PART 1: THE DIVERGENT SPECIES: THE BEGINNINGS OF DIVERSITY, CA. 160,000 TO 3,000 YEARS AGO</strong><br>1. Of Ice and Mud: From Africa to the World, from Foraging to Farming<br>2. The Great River Valleys: Accelerating Change and Developing States<br>3. The Multiplication of Civilizations: Ambition and Instability</p> <p><strong>PART 2: THE AGE OF EMPIRES, FROM 1,000 B.C.E. TO 200 C.E.</strong><br>4. Rebuilding the World: Recoveries, New Initiatives, and Their Limits<br>5. The Great Schools: New Thinking in the Age of Sages<br>6. The Great Empires: Cultural Exchange in Big States</p> <p><strong>PART 3: FITFUL TRANSITIONS, FROM THE THIRD CENTURY TO THE TENTH CENTURY</strong><br>7. Post-imperial Worlds: Problems of Empires in Eurasia and Africa<br>8. The Rise of World Religions: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism<br>9. Remaking the World: Innovation and Renewal of Environmental Frontiers in the Late First Millennium</p> <p><strong>PART 4: CONTACTS AND CONFLICTS, 1000 C.E. TO 1200 C.E.</strong><br>10. Contending with Isolation: Initiatives in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries<br>11. The Nomadic Frontiers: The Islamic World, Byzantium, and China</p> <p><strong>PART 5: THE CRUCIBLE: THE EURASIAN CRISES OF THE THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CENTURIES</strong><br>12. The World the Mongols Made: Trans-Eurasian Links<br>13. The Revenge of Nature: Plague and Cold in the Fourteenth Century<br>14. Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries</p> <p><strong>PART 6: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE, TO CA. 1700</strong><br>15. Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries<br>16. The Ecological Revolution: The Global Redistribution of Life-forms<br>17. Mental Revolutions: Religion and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries<br>18. States and Societies: Political and Social Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries</p> <p><strong>PART 7: GLOBAL ENLIGHTENMENTS, 1700--1800</strong><br>19. Driven by Growth: The Global Economy in the Eighteenth Century<br>20. The Age of Global Interaction: Expansion and Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Empires<br>21. The Exchange of Enlightenments: Eighteenth-Century Thought</p> <p><strong>PART 8: THE FRUSTRATIONS OF PROGRESS, TO CA. 1900</strong><br>22. Replacing Muscle: The Energy Revolutions<br>23. The Social Mold: Work and Society in the Nineteenth Century<br>24. Western Dominance in the Nineteenth Century<br>25. The Changing State: Nineteenth Century Politics</p> <p><strong>PART 9: CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY: THE WORLD IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES</strong><br>26. The Twentieth-Century Mind: Western Science and the World<br>27. Order Unraveled: The Trial of Empires, c.1898 -- c.1931<br>28. The Anvil of War: Ideology and Violence, c.1931 -- c.1957<br>29. Paradise Postponed: Cold War between Planned Societies, c.1957 -- c.1980<br>30. World Order and Disorder: Capitalist Convergence and Conflicts of Culture, c.1980 -- c.2010<br>31. The Embattled Biosphere: The Twentieth-Century Environment <br><br></p>