Part Five: Contacts and Conflicts, 1000 C.E. to 1200 C.E.
CHAPTER 11 Contending with Isolation: ca. 1000-1200
AMERICAN DEVELOPMENTS: FROM THE aRCTIC TO mESOAMERICA
Greenland and the North
The North American Southwest and the Mississippi Region
Mesoamerica
aROUND THE iNDIAN oCEAN: eTHIOPIA, THE kHMER, AND iNDIA
East Africa: The Ethiopian Empire
Southeast Asia: The Khmer Kingdom
India: Economy and Culture
India: The Chola Kingdom
EURASIAN EXTREMITIES: JAPAN AND WESTERN EUROPE
Japan
Western Europe: Economics and Politics
Western Europe: Religion and Culture
IN PERSPECTIVE: THE PATCHWORK OF EFFECTS
CHAPTER 12 The Nomadic Frontiers: The Islamic World, Byzantium, and China ca. 1000-1200
THE ISLAMIC WORLD AND ITS NEIGHBORS
The Coming of the Steppelanders
The Crusades
The Invaders from the Sahara
The Progress of Sufism
THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE AND ITS NEIGHBORS
Byzantium and the Barbarians
Basil II
The Era of Difficulties
Byzantium and the Crusaders
Byzantine Art and Learning
CHINAAND THE NORTHERN BARBARIANS
The End of the Tang Dynasty
The Rise of the Song and the Barbarian Conquests
Economy and Society Under the Song
Song Art and Learning
IN PERSPECTIVE: CAINS AND ABELS
Part Six: The Crucible: The Eurasian Crises of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
CHAPTER 13 The World the Mongols Made
THE MONGOLS: RESHAPING EURASIA
The Mongol Steppe
THE MONGOL WORLD BEYOND THE STEPPES: THE SILK ROADS, CHINA, PERSIA AND RUSSIA
China
Persia
Russia
THE LIMITS OF CONQUEST: MAMLUK EGYPT AND MUSLIM INDIA
Muslim India: The Dehli Sultanate
EUROPE
IN PERSPECTIVE: THE UNIQUENESS OF THE MONGOLS
CHAPTER 14 The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the LImits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century
CLIMATE CHANGE
THE COMING OF THE AGE OF PLAGUE
The Course and Impact of Plague
Moral and Social Effects
THE LIMITS OF DISASTER: BEYOND THE PLAGUE ZONE
India
Southeast Asia
Japan
Mali
THE PACIFIC: SOCIETIES OF ISOLATION
IN PERSPECTIVE: THE AFTERSHOCK
CHAPTER 15 Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
FRAGILE EMPIRES IN AFRICA
East Africa
West Africa
ECOLOGICAL IMPERIALISM IN THE AMERICAS
The Inca Empire
The Aztec Empire
NEW EURASIAN EMPIRES
The Russian Empire
The Ottoman Empire
THE LIMITATIONS OF CHINESE IMPERIALISM
THE BEGINNINGS OF OCEANIC IMPERIALISM
THE EUROPEAN OUTLOOK: PROBLEMS AND PROMISE
IN PERSPECTIVE: BEYOND EMPIRES
Part Seven: Convergence and Divergence to ca. 1700
CHAPTER 16 Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
MARITIME EMPIRES: PORTUGAL, JAPAN, AND THE DUTCH
The Portuguese Example
Asian Examples
The Dutch Connection
LAND EMPIRES: RUSSIA, CHINA, MUGHAL INDIA, AND THE OTTOMANS
China
The Mughal Example in India
The Ottomans
NEW LAND EMPIRES IN THE AMERICAS
Making the New Empires Work
THE GLOBAL BALANCE OF TRADE
IN PERSPECTIVE: THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICAS
CHAPTER 17 The Ecological Revolution of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
THE ECOLOGICAL EXCHANGE: PLANTS AND ANIMALS
Maize, Sweet Potatoes, and Potatoes
Weeds, Grasses, and Livestock
Cane Sugar
Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate
Patterns of Ecological Exchange
THE MICROBIAL EXCHANGE
Demographic Collapse in the New World
Plague and New Diseases in Eurasia
LABOR: HUMAN TRANSPLANTATIONS
WILD FRONTIERS: ENCROACHING SETTLEMENT
Northern and Central Asia: The Waning of Steppeland Imperialism
Pastoral Imperialism in Africa and the Americas
IMPERIALISM AND SETTLEMENT IN EUROPE AND ASIA
China
India
NEW EXPLOITATION IN THE AMERICAS
The Spanish Empire
Brazil
British North America
HOME FRONTS IN EUROPE AND ASIA
New Energy Sources
Land Reclamation
FRONTIERS OF THE HUNT
IN PERSPECTIVE: EVOLUTION REDIRECTED
CHAPTER 18 Mental Revolutions: Religion and Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
CHRISTIANITY IN CHRISTENDOM
CHRISTIANITY BEYOND CHRISTIANDOM: THE LIMITS OF SUCCESS
THE MISSIONARY WORLDS OF ISLAM AND BUDDHISM
China and Japan
Islam
THE RESULTING MIX: GLOBAL RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY-AMERICAN AND INDIAN EXAMPLES
Black America
White America
India
THE RENAISSANCE "DISCOVERY OF THE WORLD"
THE RISE OF WESTERN SCIENCE
WESTERN SCIENCE IN THE EAST
IN PERSPECTIVE: THE SCALES OF THOUGHT
CHAPTER 19 States and Societies: Political and Social Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
POLITICAL CHANGE IN EUROPE
WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
WESTERN SOCIETY
THE OTTOMANS
MUGHAL INDIA AND SAFAVID PERSIA
CHINESE POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Chinese Politics
Chinese Society
TOKUGAWA JAPAN'
THE NEW WORLD OF THE AMERICAS
AFRICA
IN PERSPECTIVE: CENTURIES OF UPHEAVAL
Part Eight: Global Enlightenments, 1700-1800
CHAPTER 20 Driven by Growth: The Global Economy in the Eighteenth Century
POPULATION TRENDS
Urbanization
Explanations
Medicine
The Ecology of Disease
ECONOMIC TRENDS: CHINA, INDIA, AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
China
India
The Ottoman Empire and Its Environs
THE WEST'S PRODUCTIVE LEAP
The Scientific Background
The British Example
THE EXPANSION OF RESOURCES
Global Gardening
IN PERSPECTIVE: NEW EUROPES, NEW DEPARTURES
CHAPTER 21 The Age of Global Interaction: Expansion and Intersection of Eighteenth-Century Empires
ASIAN IMPERIALISM IN ARREST OR DECLINE: CHINA, PERSIA, AND THE OTTOMANS
China
The Asian Context
Persia and the Ottoman Empire
IMPERIAL REVERSAL IN INDIA: MUGHAL ECLIPSE AND BRITISH RISE TO POWER
THE DUTCH EAST INDIES
THE BLACK ATLANTIC: AFRICA, THE AMERICAS, AND THE SLAVE TRADE
LAND EMPIRES OF THE NEW WORLD
The Araucanos and the Sioux
Portugal in Brazil
Spanish America
Creole Mentalities
Toward Independence
IN PERSPECTIVE: THE RIMS OF EMPIRE
CHAPTER 22 The Exchange of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought
THE CHARACTER OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
The Chinese Example
Japan
India
The Islamic World
THE ENLIGHTENMENT'S EFFECTS IN ASIA
The Enlightenment and China
Western Science in Japan
Korea and Southeast Asia
The Ottomans
THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN EUROPE
The Belief in Progress
New Economic Thought
Social Equality
Anticlericalism
THE CRISIS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT: RELIGION AND ROMATICISM
Religious Revival
The Cult of Nature and Romanticism
Rousseau and the General Will
Pacific Discoveries
Wild Children
The Huron as Noble Savage
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON
Background to the Revolution
Napoleon
Revolutionary Radicalism
IN PERSPECTIVE: THE AFTERGLOW OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT