Looseleaf for Panorama: A World History Volume 1: To 1500

PART ONE: SETTLING THE PLANET Beginnings to the First Millennium B.C.E. Chapter 1 The Peopling of the World: 7,000,000-10,000 B.C.E. Human Ancestors in Africa and Beyond Early Hominin Evolution Well-Traveled Hominins INDIVIDUALS MATTER The Turkana Boy: A Distant Ancestor Other Traveling Hominins Modern Humans in Africa: The First 100,000 Years The Debut of Homo Sapiens The Power of Language Colonizing the World The Roads from Africa South to Australia Colonizers of Europe The American Frontier WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE The Kennewick Man Controversy Why Did Homo Sapiens People the Earth? Homo Sapiens: The Last Surviving Hominin Why People Look Different Global Culture of the Upper Paleolithic Dawn of a Multicultural World Social and Economic Life Technical Wonders A World of Symbols Chapter 2 Farms, Cities, and the New Agrarian Age: 10,000-2000 B.C.E. The Coming of Farmers: A Peculiar Event Early Farming and the Big Thaw The Drift toward Domestication Neolithic Innovations The Spread of Agrarian Societies Sunrise over the Village Super Villages INDIVIDUALS MATTER Ötzi: A Neolithic Traveler Early Complex Societies Irrigation and Complex Society in Mesopotamia Complex Society on the Nile WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE A Pharaoh''s Warning in Stone Harappan Society in the Indus Valley Interregional Communication and Commerce Complex Societies and the Environment Chapter 3 Afroeurasia''s Moving Frontiers: Farmers, Herders, and Charioteers: 3000-1000 B.C.E. Across Afroeurasia: More Farmers, More Cities The Cavalcade of Inventions Complex Society and Commerce in the Mediterranean Basin Developments in Western Europe The Oxus Civilization of Central Asia Complex Society in East Asia Pastoral Peoples Ride into History Horses, Riders, and Wagons Pastoral Nomadic Society Encounters between Agrarian Societies and Migrating Peoples Indo-European-Speakers in Southwest Asia: The Hittite Empire States of Mesopotamia and Syria From Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom in the Nile Valley Rivalry and Diplomacy among Militarized Kingdoms WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE "Here Is the Situation": The King of Alashiya Writes to the Pharaoh of Egypt Early Greeks Indo-Europeans in Iran and South Asia Indo-Europeans and Chariots from the Far West to the Far East INDIVIDUALS MATTER The Beauty of Xiaohe: A Woman of the Steppes Developments in the Tropical Belt Herders and Farmers South of the Sahara Desert Austronesian Farmers in Southeast Asia Chapter 4 Early Odysseys in the Americas, Australia, and Oceania: 8000 - 500 B.C.E. Farmers and Platform-Builders in the Americas American Farmer Power Platform-Builders of Norte Chico Andean Societies in the Second Millennium B.C.E. The Mesoamerican Zone of Intercommunication WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE The Olmec Heads INDIVIDUALS MATTER Harvester Mountain Lord: A Mesoamerican King North of Mexico Change in Australia Change over the Long Term A Continent without Farmers Pioneers on the Pacific Frontier Colonizers of Near Oceania Into Remote Oceania PART TWO: AGRARIAN SOCIETIES AND THEIR INTERCONNECTIONS, 1200 B.C.E-300 C.E. Chapter 5 Afroeurasia: Centers of Power, Trade, and New Ideas: 1200-600 B.C.E. The Clang of Iron The Spread of Iron: The Southwest Asian Epicenter The Spread of Iron: The Tropical African Epicenter Iron''s Benefits and Costs Warfare, Empire-Building, and Trade in Southwest Asia and the Mediterranean Lands Twelfth Century Troubles The Neo-Assyrian Empire INDIVIDUALS MATTER Adad-Guppi: Babylonian Priestess and Queen Mother The Hebrews and the Origins of Judaism Phoenicians and Greeks: Trade and Migration Woodland Europe and the Mediterranean World Nubia on the Nile Corridor South Asia: A New Era of City-Building New Cities and Kingdoms The Development of the South Asian Class System Brahmins and Brahmanism The East Asian Sphere The Era of the Western and Eastern Zhou Destruction and Innovation during the Later Zhou Period WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE The Book of Songs Chapter 6 Empire-Building and Cultural Exchange from India to the Mediterranean: 600-200 B.C.E. Persia Ascending Empire-Building on a New Scale The Achaemenids as "Universal" Rulers The Persian Empire as Communications Hub The Achaemenids and the Teachings of Zoroaster Achaemenid Multiculturalism Inventive Greeks Government and Society in the Greek City-States The Flowering of Athens Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Era Alexander''s Short, Brilliant Career Foundations of the Hellenistic World INDIVIDUALS MATTER Queen Arsinoe II, Ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt Cultural Trends Buddhism and the Maurya Empire in India Foundations of Buddhism The Reign of Ashoka Maurya WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE Rock Edicts of the Emperor Ashoka Cavalry and Caravans in Inner Eurasia Nomad Power Early Times on the Silk Roads Chapter 7 An Age of Giant Empires: 300 B.C.E. - 300 C.E. Rome and Mediterranean Unification Rome the Republic Rome the Empire INDIVIDUALS MATTER Boudicca, British Rebel Leader The Era of the Han Empire in East Asia The Qin Dynasty and the First Emperor The Han State and the Ascendance of Confucianism States between Rome and China The Xiongnu and Their Relations with Han China The Parthian and Kushana Empires The African Kingdoms of Kush and Axum WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE Trade in the African Port of Adulis Bridges across Afroeurasia East-West Interregional Trade The First Missionary Religions Chapter 8 American Complexities: 900 B.C.E - 900 C.E. The Spread of Complex Societies in North America Empire Builders of Teotihuacán Zapotec Civilization in the Oaxaca Valley The Innovative Maya INDIVIDUALS MATTER Lady Xoc, An Aristocrat Woman in Maya Politics WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE A Maya Bible: An Account of Creation in the Popol Vuh Developments in Upper North America South America: Complex Societies along the Andean Spine Andes Urbanization: The Example of Chavín de Huantar Back to the Coast: The Moche Society The Nazca Troubles in the Sixth Century PART THREE: SHIFTING POWER, THICKENING WEBS, 200-1000 C.E. Chapter 9 Turbulent Centuries: 200-600 C.E. The Shifting Map of Empires Turbulence in Inner Eurasia China after the Han Empire: Growth without Unity The Sasanids: A New Power in Persia Crisis and Recovery in the Roman Empire The Huns and the Collapse of the Western Empire The Mediterranean Fractured A New Empire in South Asia Religions for Troubled Times The Buddhist Web The Christian Web INDIVIDUALS MATTER St. Augustine of Hippo: Christian Theologian The Manichean Way Tropical Africa: Farmers, Towns, and Iron The Nok Culture WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE The Sculpture of Nok: What Might It Tell Us? The African East and South Southeast Asian Contributions to African Society Chapter 10 Afroeurasia in the Era of Arab Empire: 500-800 C.E. New Empires of Steppe and Desert Empires along the Silk Roads The Arab State and the Emergence of Islam The Arab Muslim Empire Christian Societies in Europe and Africa The Byzantine Empire Holds Its Own Christian Society in Europe WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE Two Views of the Battle of Tours Dwindling Christian Society in North Africa East Asia: Return to Unity in China The Tang State Migrations to the South Cultural Integration INDIVIDUALS MATTER The Empress Wu: Patron of Buddhism Chapter 11 State Power and Expanding Networks of Exchange: 750-1000 C.E. Muslim Power and Prosperity From Damascus to Baghdad: The Abbasid Empire Rival Centers of Muslim Power The Byzantine Resurgence Islam on New Frontiers A "Green Revolution" in Muslim Lands Muslim Urban Society The Stream of Ideas INDIVIDUALS MATTER Abu Bakr al-Razi, Muslim Physician Cities, Merchants, and Kingdoms along the Chain of Seas Trade of the Arabian Sea The Maritime Empire of Srivijaya Chinese Trade and the Fate of the Tang Dynasty Japan and Korea at the Eastern End of the Chain of Seas The Sahara Rim: A New Zone of Intercommunication Gold and Slaves, Copper and Salt The Empire of Ghana Europe''s Struggle for Stability Muslims and Magyars The Viking Adventure  WEIGHING THE EVIDENCE Bjarni Herjolfsson and the Viking Discovery of America The Chan