Special thanks to:

Professor Ed Hanlon
Department of History
John Jay College

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Select a chapter: 1: Birth of Civilization 2: The Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion 3: Greek and Hellenistic Civilization 4: Iran, India, and Inner Asia to 200 C.E. 5: Republican and Imperial Rome 6: Africa: Early History to 1000 C.E. 7: China's First Empire 8: Imperial China (589-1368) 9: Japan: Early History to 1467 10: Iran and India Before Islam 11: The Formation of Islamic Civilization (622-945) 12: The Early Middle Ages in the West to 1000: The Birth of Europe 13: The High Middle Ages (1000-1300) 14: The Islamic Heartlands and India (1000-1500) 15: Ancient Civilizations of the Americas 16: The Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the West (1300-1527) 17: The Age of Reformation and Religious Wars 18: Africa (CA. 1000-1800) 19: Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transatlantic Economy 20: East Asia in the Late Traditional Era 21: European State-Building and Worldwide Conflict 22: European Society Under the Old Regime 23: The Last Great Islamic Empires (1500-1800) 24: The Age of European Enlightenment 25: Revolution in the Transatlantic World 26: Europe and North America 1815-1850: Political Reform, Economic Advance, and Social Unrest. 27: Political Consolidation in Europe and North America 28: The Building of European Supremacy: Society and Politics to World War I 29: The Birth of Contemporary Western Thought 30: Latin America: From Independence to the 1940s 31: India, the Islamic Heartlands, and Africa: The Encounter with the Modern West (1800-1945) 32: Modern East Asia 33: Imperialism and World War I 34: Depression, European Dictators, and the American New Deal 35: World War II 36: The West Since World War II 37: East Asia in the Late Twentieth Century 38: The Emerging Nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America Since 1945