Part I: The Early Complex Societies, 3500 to 500 B.C.E.

1. The Foundation of Complex Societies

2. Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations

3. Early Societies in South and East Asia

4. Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania

Part II: The Formation of Classical Societies, 500 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.

5. The Empires of Persia

6. The Unification of China

7. State, Society, and the Quest for Salvation in India

8. Mediterranean Society under the Greeks and Romans

9. Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads

Part III: The Postclassical Era, 500-1000 C.E.

10. The Commonwealth of Byzantium

11. The Expansive Realm of Islam

12. The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia

13. India and the Indian Ocean Basin

14. The Foundations of Christian Society in Western Europe

Part IV: An Age of Cross-Cultural Interaction, 1000 to 1500 C.E.

15. Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration

16. States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa

17. Western Europe During the High Middle Ages

18. Worlds Apart: Beyond the Eastern Hemisphere

19. Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Interactions

Part V: The Origins of Global Interdependence, 1500-1800

20. Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections

21. The Transformation of Europe

22. New Worlds in the Western Hemisphere

23. Africa and the Atlantic World

24. Tradition and change in East Asia

25. The Islamic Empires

Part VI: An Age of Revolution, Industry, and Empire, 1750-1914

26. Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World

27. The Making of Industrial Society

28. The Americas in the Age of Independence

29. The Building of Global Empires

Part VII: Contemporary Global Realignments

30. The Great War: The World in Upheaval

31. The Age of Anxiety

32. Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

33. New Conflagrations: World War II

34. The Bipolar World

35. The End of Empire and the Emergence of a World without Borders