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The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History Volume 1 8th Edition Bulliet – Test Bank
Test Bank for The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History Volume 1, 8th Edition, Richard W. Bulliet, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Daniel R. Headrick, Steven W. Hirsch, Lyman L. Johnson, David Northrup, ISBN: 9780357800553
Table of Contents
PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF HUMAN COMMUNITIES, TO 500 BCE
Chapter 1: Nature, Humanity, and History, to 3500 BCE
1-1 African Genesis
Environment & Technology: The Origins of Language and the Spread and Differentiation of Languages
1-2 Technology and Culture in the Ice Age
Diversity & Dominance: Cave Art
Daily Life: The Iceman
1-3 The Agricultural Revolutions
1-4 Life in Neolithic Communities
1-5 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 2: The First River Valley Civilizations, 3500-1500 BCE
2-1 Mesopotamia
Daily Life: Amulets
Diversity & Dominance: Violence and Order in the Babylonian New Year’s Festival
2-2 Egypt
2-3 The Indus Valley Civilization
Environment & Technology: Environmental Stress in the Indus Valley
2-4 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 3: The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000-500 BCE
3-1 The Cosmopolitan Middle East,1700-1100 BCEFocus Question
3-2 The Aegean World, 2000-1100 BCE
3-3 The Assyrian Empire, 911-612 BCE
3-4 Israel, 2000-500 BCE
Diversity & Dominance: Protests Against the Ruling Class in Israel and Babylonia
3-5 Phoenicia and the Mediterranean,1200-500 BCE
Daily Life: Phoenician Purple Dye
Environment & Technology: The West African Voyage of Hanno the Carthaginian
3-6 Failure and Transformation, 750-550 BCE
3-7 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 4: New Civilizations Outside the West Asian Core Area, 2300 BCE-350 CE
4-1 Early China, 2000-221 BCE
Daily Life: Chinese War Chariots
Environment & Technology: Writing Systems, Surfaces, and Survival
Diversity & Dominance: Human Nature and Good Government in the Analects of Confucius and the Legalist Writings of Han Feizi
4-2 Nubia, 2300 BCE-350 CE
4-3 Pastoral Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes, 1000-100 BCE
4-4 Celtic Europe, 1000-50 BCE
4-5 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Material Culture: Wine and Beer in the Ancient World
Issues in World History: Animal Domestication
PART II: THE FORMATION OF NEW CULTURAL COMMUNITIES,1000 BCE-400 CE
Chapter 5: Greece and Iran,1000-30 BCE
5-1 Ancient Iran, 1000-500 BCE
5-2 The Rise of the Greeks, 1000-500 BCE
Diversity & Dominance: Oligarchy in the Ancient World
5-3 The Struggle of Persia and Greece,546-323 BCE
Daily Life: Athenian “Owls”
5-4 The Hellenistic Synthesis, 323-30 BCE
Environment & Technology: Ancient Astronomy
5-5 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 6: An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 BCE-330 CE
6-1 Rome’s Creation of a Mediterranean Empire, 753 BCE-330 CE
Diversity & Dominance: Disability in the Ancient World
Daily Life: Roman Hypocaust
Environment & Technology: Ancient Glass
6-2 The Origins of Imperial China,221 BCE-220 CE
6-3 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 7: India and Southeast Asia, 1500 BCE-1025 CE
7-1 Foundations of Indian Civilization,1500 BCE-300 CE
Daily Life: Image of the Elephant God Ganesha
7-2 Imperial Expansion and Collapse, 324 BCE-650 CE
Environment & Technology: Indian Mathematics
Diversity & Dominance: Relations Between Women and Men in the Kama Sutra and the Arthashastra
7-3 Southeast Asia, 50-1025 CE
7-4 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 8: Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, from 1200 BCE
8-1 Formative Civilizations of the Olmec and Chavín, 1200-200 BCE
Daily Life: Metate
8-2 Classic-Era Culture and Society in Mesoamerica, 200-900
Environment & Technology: The Maya Writing System
8-3 The Postclassic Period in Mesoamerica, 900-1300
8-4 Northern Peoples
8-5 Andean Civilizations, 200-1400
Diversity & Dominance: Burials as Historical Texts
8-6 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Material Culture: Bells, Gongs, and Drums
Issues in World History: Oral Societies and the Consequences of Literacy
PART III: GROWTH AND INTERACTION OF CULTURAL COMMUNITIES, 300 BCE-1200 CE
Chapter 9: Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 BCE-1100 CE
9-1 The Silk Road
Environment & Technology: Nomad Homes
Daily Life: Felt
9-2 The Indian Ocean Maritime System
Diversity & Dominance: Travel Accounts of Africa and India
9-3 Routes Across the Sahara
9-4 Sub-Saharan Africa
9-5 The Spread of Ideas
9-6 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 10: The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam, 200-1200
10-1 The Sasanid Empire, 224-651
10-2 The Origins of Islam
Daily Life: Flatbread
10-3 The Rise and Fall of the Caliphate, 632-1258
10-4 Islamic Civilization
Diversity & Dominance: Becoming Muslim
Environment & Technology: Petroleum
10-5 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 11: Christian Societies Emerge in Europe, 600-1200
11-1 The Byzantine Empire, 600-1200
11-2 Early Medieval Europe, 600-1000
Environment & Technology: Iron Production
11-3 The Western Church
Diversity & Dominance: The Struggle for Christian Morality
11-4 Kievan Russia, 900-1200
11-5 Western Europe Revives, 1000-1200
Daily Life: Chickens
11-6 The Crusades, 1095-1204
11-7 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 12: Central an East Asia, 400-1200
12-1 The Sui and Tang Empires, 581-755
Diversity & Dominance: Law and Society in China and Japan
12-2 China and Its Rivals
Environment & Technology: East Asian Transportation
Daily Life: Chopsticks
12-3 New Kingdoms in East Asia
12-4 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Material Culture: Salt
Issues in World History: Religious Conversion
PART IV: INTERREGIONAL PATTERNS OF CULTURE AND CONTACT, 1200-1550
Chapter 13: Mongol Eurasiaand Its Aftermath,1200-1500
13-1 The Rise of the Mongols, 1200-1260
Diversity & Dominance: The Secret History of the Mongols
Daily Life: Tea
13-2 The Mongols and Islam, 1260-1500
13-3 Regional Responses in Western Eurasia
13-4 Mongol Domination in China, 1271-1368
13-5 The Early Ming Empire, 1368-1500
Environment & Technology: From Gunpowder to Guns
13-6 Centralization and Militarism in East Asia,1200-1500
13-7 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 14: Latin Europe,1200-1500
14-1 Rural Growth and Crisis
Environment & Technology: Dutch Windmills
14-2 Urban Revival
Daily Life: Eyeglasses
Diversity & Dominance: Persecution and Protection of Jews, 1272-1349
14-3 Learning, Literature, and the Renaissance
14-4 Political and Military Transformations
14-5 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 15: Southern Empires, Southern Seas, 1200-1500
15-1 Tropical Africa and Asia
Daily Life: Coconuts
15-2 New Islamic Empires
Diversity & Dominance: The Illusion of Islamic Unity
15-3 Indian Ocean Trade
Environment & Technology: Chinese Sailing Vessels
15-4 Social and Cultural Change
15-5 The Western Hemisphere
15-6 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Chapter 16: The Maritime Revolution, to 1550
16-1 Global Maritime Expansion Before 1450
Environment & Technology: Polynesian Navigation
16-2 European Expansion, 1400-1550
Daily Life: Ship’s Biscuit (Hardtack)
16-3 Encounters with Europe, 1450-1550
Diversity & Dominance: Understanding Cross-Cultural Encounters
16-4 Conclusion
Key Terms
Review Questions
Issues in World History: Climate and Population to 1500
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