Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past, Volume 1This groundbreaking world history text offers a fresh approach that takes the global nature of its subject seriously by exploring networks of interaction from the earliest times to the present. By examining the world as a whole and focusing on the links and interactions that have always existed among societies, it presents an alternative to Eurocentric history. For this reason, world history instructors have long been anticipating its arrival. The wait has finally ended. |
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PART | 2 |
THE EARLY COMPLEX SOCIETIES 3500 ТО 500 B C | 7 |
The Evolution of Homo Sapiens | 8 |
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Abbasid Achaemenid administrative Africa Anatolia ancient animals armies Aryans authority became bronze Buddhism built Byzantine empire central Asia century C.E. China Chinese Christianity cities classical societies communities complex societies Confucian cult cultivation cultural traditions early east eastern hemisphere economic Egypt Egyptians elites emperors established Europe faith Greek Han dynasty Harappan Harappan society Hellenistic Hindu human imperial India individuals Indo-European Indus Indus River influence Islam islands kingdom kings labor lands large numbers lived long-distance trade Maya Mediterranean basin merchants Mesoamerica Mesopotamia migrations military millennium B.C.E. modern Mohenjo-daro Mongol Muslim neolithic nomadic Olmec organized paleolithic Persian political popular population priests production prominent regions religion religious rituals Roman empire Rome rule rulers Sasanid scholars Seleucid Shang silk roads slaves social southeast Asia southern spread Sumerian survive Tang temples Teotihuacan textiles thousand throughout tion traveled valley wealth western women Xiongnu Yellow River Zhou dynasty Zoroastrian