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Contents
Chapter 1
ſ Ɓ3
Creation Narratives 4
vii
viii Contents
Conclusion 35
Chapter 2
Đſ Đſſ ſſ
ĐſĈĊąąĪćąąą BCEƁ45
Settlement and Pastoralism 46
Early Cities along River Basins46
Pastoral Nomadic Communities47
Conclusion 75
Chapter 3
Đſ ſſ
Đſſ Đſ
ćąąąĪĆćąą BCEƁ83
Nomadic Movement and the Emergence of Territorial States 84
Conclusion 111
Chapter 4
ſ ſſ ſ
ſ ſĩ Đſſ
ĆćĊąĪĈćĊ BCEƁ121
Forces of Upheaval and the Rise of Early Empires 122
Climate Change122
Migrations122
New Technologies123
Administrative Innovations126
Conclusion 148
Chapter 5
ſſ ſĐſ
ĆąąąĪĈĊą BCEƁ159
An “Axial Age” 162
Conclusion 187
Chapter 6
ſſĩ ſ
ĐſĈĊąĪĆąą BCEƁ197
Alexander and the Emergence of a Hellenistic World 198
Alexander’s Successors and the Territorial Kingdoms199
Hellenistic Culture202
Plantation Slavery and Money-Based Economies204
Conclusion 224
Chapter 7
ſſ ſſ
ſ ſ Đſſ
Ĉąą BCE ĪĈąą CEƁ233
Globalizing Empires: The Han Dynasty and Imperial
Rome 234
Conclusion 257
Chapter 8
ſ ſſ ſ
ĐſĈąąĪċąą CEƁ267
Religious Change and Empire in Western Afro-Eurasia 268
The Appeal of Christianity268
The “Fall” of Rome in the West274
Continuity of Rome in the East: Byzantium276
Conclusion 295
Chapter 9
ſ ſſ ſ
ĐſċąąĪĆąąą CEƁ303
The Origins and Spread of Islam 304
A Vision, a Text, a New Community305
Muhammad’s Successors and the Expanding Dar Al-Islam305
The Abbasid Revolution308
The Blossoming of Abbasid Culture310
Islam in a Wider World310
Opposition within Islam: Shiism and the Fatimids312
Conclusion 333
xvi Contents
Chapter 10
ſĜſ Đĝſſ
ĆąąąĪĆĈąą CEƁ341
Development of Maritime Trade 342
Conclusion 373
Chapter 11
ſſſ ſſ
ĩ ĐſĆĈąąĪĆĊąąƁ383
Collapse and Consolidation 384
The Black Death384
Rebuilding States389
Conclusion 410
CHAPTER 2 Climate Change at the End of the Third Millennium bce in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus
Valley64
CHAPTER 5 Prophets and the Founding Texts: Comparing Confucius and the Buddha172
CHAPTER 6 Building Roads: Early Highways for Communication, Trade, and Control208
CHAPTER 9 Green Revolutions in the Islamic World and Tang China, 300–600 ce320
xix
Analyzing Global Developments
xxi
Global Themes and Sources
CHAPTER 1
Interpreting Visual Evidence: Bronze-Working . . . 118
Competing Perspectives: Creation
Narratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 ƨɢ '-%ɢƯ)(ưɢ5#22#+
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ƨɢ Ư'#ɢ1#3(.-ɢ.$ɢ3'#ɢ-(5#12#ưɢ$1.,ɢ3'#ɢ4(--9(ɢ
(ca. 1100 bce) CHAPTER 4
ƨɢ ./4+ɢ4'ɢǍ"3#ɢ.$ɢ.1(%(-ɢ4-*-.6-ǎ Competing Perspectives: Consolidating
ƨɢ .14 ɢ1#3(.-ɢ113(5#ɢǍ"3#ɢ.$ɢ.1(%(-ɢ4-*-.6-ǎ Early Empires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Interpreting Visual Evidence: ƨɢ '#ɢ-04#3ɢ3#+#ɢ.$ɢ2241-2(1/+ɢ ɢǍc. 865 bce)
Prehistoric Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 ƨɢ '#ɢ#'(234-ɢ -2!1(/3(.-ɢǍƐƋƉ bce), Darius I
ƨɢ .12#2ɢ$1.,ɢ'45#3ɢ5# ƨɢ '.4ɢ4!!#22(.-ɢ1(2(2ɢǍc. 1043 bce), King Wu
ƨɢ (2.-ɢ$1.,ɢ'45#3ɢ5# ƨɢ -"(-ɢ1',-ɢ1(#23'.."ɢǍ #$.1#ɢƒ3'ɢ!#-3418 bce), from
ƨɢ 5#ɢ/(-3(-%ɢ3ɢ'(, #3* the Upanishads
ƨɢ (++#-".1$ɢ#-42 Interpreting Visual Evidence: Tribute . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
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ƨɢ +!*ɢ. #+(2*ɢ.$ɢ'+,-#2#1ɢ
ƨɢ 1( 43#ɢ2!#-#ɢ$1.,ɢ/+!#ɢ3ɢ#12#/.+(2
CHAPTER 2 ƨɢ .5#-ɢ3#73(+#ɢ$1.,ɢ23#1-ɢ'.4
Competing Perspectives: Early Writing . . . . . . . . . . . .78
ƨɢ 4,#1(-ɢ1(%(-2ɢ.$ɢ1(3(-% CHAPTER 5
ƨɢ %8/3(-ɢ .43'ǃ/#-(-%ɢ(34+ Competing Perspectives: Axial
ƨɢ 11/-ɢ#+ɢ3.-#2 Age Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
ƨɢ '-%ɢ8-238ɢ1!+#ɢ.-#
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(1000–600 bce)
Interpreting Visual Evidence: Burials and ƨɢ '#ɢ-+#!32ɢǍc. 400 bce), Confucius
Long-Distance Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 ƨɢ '#ɢ',,/"ɢǍƌ1"ɢ!#-3418 bce), Buddha
ƨɢ 1!#+#32ɢ.$ɢ4##-ɢ#3#/'#1#2ɢ ƨɢ '#ɢ/.+.%8ɢ.$ɢ.!13#2ɢǍc. 400 bce), Plato
ƨɢ 1/ơɢ.1ɢƯ4##-ƴ2ɢ 81#ơưɢ$1.,ɢ3'#ɢ.8+ɢ., 2ɢ.$ɢ1 Interpreting Visual Evidence: Elsewhere
ƨɢ 1//-ɢ%#,23.-#ɢ-#!*+!#ɢ6(3'ɢ+/(2ɢ+94+(ɢ-"ɢ in the Axial Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
carnelian
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CHAPTER 3 ƨɢ +,#!ɢ)%41
Competing Perspectives: Law Codes of Territorial
States and Pastoral Nomads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 CHAPTER 6
ƨɢ '#ɢ."#ɢ.$ɢ,,41/(ɢ(ca. 18th century bce) Competing Perspectives: Spread of Ideas . . . . . . . . . 228
ƨɢ -2314!3(.-ɢ3.ɢ(9(#1ɢ#*',(1#ɢ(ca. 15th century bce)
ƨɢ Ư'#ɢ-!(#-3ɢ(38ɢ.$ɢ+#7-"1(ưɢǍ#1+8ɢƊ23ɢ!#-3418ɢce), Strabo
ƨɢ '#ɢ#-ɢ.,,-",#-32ơɢ7."42ɢƋƉƣƊDŽƊƒɢ$1.,ɢ3'#ɢ( +#
ƨɢ '#ɢ +(-%ɢ"(!3ɢǍƋƑƊ bce), Aśoka
ƨɢ '#ɢ."#ɢ.$ɢ -4ɢ(ca. 200 bce)
ƨɢ Ư_%+ƣɢ(38ɢ.$ɢ3'#ɢ."2ưɢǍc. 150–130 bce) from The
ƨɢ "5(2.1ɢ(!'-ɢ.$ɢ'#-%ƴ2ɢ.,/(+3(.-ɢ.$ɢ 62ɢ(ca. 6th
Questions of King Menander
century bce)
xxii
Global Themes and Sourcesxxiii
CHAPTER 9
Competing Perspectives: Women, Faith,
and Empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
ƨɢ 41'ɢƎơɢ-ǃ(2ƴɢǍƯ-ɢ.,#-ưǎơɢ$1.,ɢ3'#ɢ41-ɢ
(7th century ce)
ƨɢ 6ɢ.$ɢ",--ɢǍƒƉƉɢce), Adamnan
ƨɢ -+#!32ɢ$.1ɢ.,#-ɢǍƓƉƉɢce) Song Ruoxin and Song Ruozhao
Interpreting Visual Evidence: Transmission of
Religious Knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
ƨɢ '#ɢ (-"(2$1-#ɢ.2/#+ɢǍƒƉƉɢce, with tenth-century-ce
interlinear comments)
ƨɢ '#ɢƯ(,.-"ɢ431ưɢǍƓƑƓɢce)
ƨɢ (-3'ǃ!#-3418ɢ41-
ƨɢ '#ɢ1#2"#-ɢ."#7ɢǍc. 1100)
ƨɢ '#ɢ(5"'1,ɢǍƊƊƌƔǎ
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