World civilizations
Subtitle: to 1700
By: Philip J. Adler, and Randall L. Pouwels
Contributors: Pouwels, Randall Lee, 1944-
Edition: Sixth edition
Publisher: Wadsworth
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780495913016
Subjects: Civilization; History
Table of contents: title: The earliest human societies; title: Mesopotamia; title: Early Africa and Egypt; title: India's beginnings; title: Warriors and Deities in the near east; title: Ancient China to 221 BCE; title: The Agrarian revolution in the Americas; title: The Greek adventure; title: Greek humanism, 800-100 BCE; title: Rome from city- state to empire; title: The Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity in the west, 3 BCE - 600 CE; title: Classical India; title: Imperial China in its golden age; title: The Americas to the fifteenth century; title: Islam; title: Mature Islamic society and the first global civilization; title: Africa from Axum, to 1400; title: The mongols unify Eurasia; title: Japan and southeast Asia; title: The European middle ages; title: The late European middle ages and the renaissance; title: A larger world opens; title: Religious division and political consolidation in Europe; title: Asia in the era of the gunpowder; title: Africa in the era of expansion; title: China from the Ming through the early qing dynasty; title: Japan in the era of European expansion; title: From conquest to colonies in Hispanic America