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Produktbild: The History of the World

The History of the World The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the Modern Day

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24.09.2024

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512

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23,3/14,9/4,2 cm

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615 g

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Englisch

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978-1-398-84480-3

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

24.09.2024

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512

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23,3/14,9/4,2 cm

Gewicht

615 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-398-84480-3

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  • Produktbild: The History of the World
  • INTRODUCTION............................................................................ 9

    THE PREHISTORIC WORLD: 7,000,000-10,000bc
    Human Origins 7,000,000-2,000,000bc................................................................................ 11
    Peopling the Earth 2,000,000-40,000bc............................................................................... 13
    Human Development 40,000-8000bc................................................................................... 16
    THE ANCIENT WORLD: 10,000-500bc
    From Hunting to Farming 8000-3000bc.............................................................................. 19
    Early Farming Communities 8000-2000bc........................................................................... 22
    The Dawn of Civilization 4500-2000bc................................................................................. 24
    Early Cultures of the Middle East 9000-4300bc................................................................... 27
    Sumer 4300-2334bc............................................................................................................... 30
    The First Empires of Mesopotamia 2334-1595bc................................................................ 32
    Kingdoms and Empires of Mesopotamia 1595-1000bc....................................................... 35
    The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires 1000-539bc............................................................. 37
    The Hebrews 1200-539bc...................................................................................................... 41
    The Achaemenid Empire 559-480bc.................................................................................... 43
    Early Egyptian Civilization 6000-2040bc.............................................................................. 46
    Middle Kingdom Egypt 2040-1532bc................................................................................... 50
    New Kingdom and Late Period Egypt 1532-332bc.............................................................. 52
    The Indus Valley Civilization 3300-1700bc.......................................................................... 55
    Vedic Period India 1700-500bc............................................................................................. 57
    The First Civilizations in East Asia 6000-221bc.................................................................... 60
    Peoples of Central Asia 6000-400bc..................................................................................... 62
    Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe 6500-500bc................................................................... 66
    The Rise of Aegean Civilization 3000-1100bc...................................................................... 68
    The Rise of Greece 1100-480bc............................................................................................ 71
    Phoenicians and Carthaginians 900-480bc.......................................................................... 73
    Peoples of the Americas 4000-200bc.................................................................................... 76
    Peoples of Africa 7000-500bc................................................................................................ 79

    THE CLASSICAL WORLD: 500bc-ad500
    Classical Greece 500-435bc................................................................................................... 83
    Greece and Macedon 435-336bc.......................................................................................... 86
    Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World 336-30bc.................................................. 89
    Parthian and Sasanian Persia 238bc-AD636........................................................................ 92
    The Etruscans and the Rise of Rome 800-290bc................................................................. 95
    The Later Roman Republic 290-27bc.................................................................................. 98
    The Roman Empire 27bc-ad300......................................................................................... 101
    The Fall of the Western Roman Empire ad300-476.......................................................... 104
    The Celts 500bc-ad500........................................................................................................ 107
    Germans and Steppe Peoples 400bc-ad500....................................................................... 110
    The Early Byzantine Empire ad480-629............................................................................. 113
    Mauryan India 500bc-ad50.................................................................................................. 116
    Kushan and Gupta India ad50-550..................................................................................... 118
    The Han Empire 221bc-ad220............................................................................................ 121
    China and Japan ad220-589................................................................................................ 124
    South-east Asia and the Pacific 300bc-ad500..................................................................... 127
    The Maya 200bc-ad900........................................................................................................ 131
    Mexico and South America 200bc-ad700........................................................................... 133
    Africa 500bc-ad500.............................................................................................................. 136
    Advances in Technology 500bc-ad600................................................................................ 138
    Religions of the East 600bc-ad500...................................................................................... 141
    Religions of the West 500bc-ad500..................................................................................... 144

    THE MEDIEVAL WORLD: 500-1500
    The Carolingian Empire 600-814...................................................................................... 147
    Europe in the Age of the Vikings 793-1100....................................................................... 150
    The Holy Roman Empire 962-1806................................................................................... 153
    Christendom 500-1300....................................................................................................... 156
    Feudal Europe 1000-1300................................................................................................... 159
    War and Plague in Medieval Europe 1000-1400............................................................... 161
    The Rise of Europe's Towns and Cities 1000-1500........................................................... 165
    The Birth and Spread of Islam 622-750............................................................................. 167
    The Abbasid Empire 750-1037........................................................................................... 170
    The Byzantine Empire 629-1453........................................................................................ 173
    Turkish Empires 1037-1453................................................................................................ 175
    The Crusades 1095-1291..................................................................................................... 179
    Renaissance Europe 1400-1500.......................................................................................... 182
    Africa 500-1500.................................................................................................................... 185
    India 550-1500..................................................................................................................... 188
    Sui and Tang China 589-907.............................................................................................. 192
    Song China 907-1279.......................................................................................................... 194
    The Mongol Empire 1204-1405......................................................................................... 197
    Japan and Korea 600-1500.................................................................................................. 201
    South-east Asia 500-1500.................................................................................................... 203
    North America and the Pacific 500-1500........................................................................... 206
    Toltecs and Aztecs 800-1520............................................................................................... 208
    South America and the Incas 1000-1533........................................................................... 210
    World Religions 500-1500................................................................................................... 215

    THE EARLY MODERN WORLD: 1500-1783
    Dawn of a New Era 1494-1559............................................................................................ 218
    The Age of European Exploration 1415-1600.................................................................. 221
    The Reformation in Europe 1517-1618............................................................................. 224
    Europe in the Time of the Thirty Years' War 1618-1648 ................................................. 227
    Swedish Expansion in the Baltic 1521-1721...................................................................... 230
    The Expansion of Russia 1492-1783.................................................................................. 232
    Europe in the Age of Absolute Monarchs 1648-1715....................................................... 235
    18th-Century Europe 1715-1783........................................................................................ 238
    The Rise of European Capitalism 1492-1775.................................................................... 240
    The European Enlightenment 1650-1800......................................................................... 243
    The Rise of the Ottoman Empire 1492-1640.................................................................... 245
    The Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1640-1783.............................................................. 248
    Safavid Persia and the Rise of Mughal India 1500-1779................................................... 250
    Mughal India 1605-1765..................................................................................................... 254
    Ming China 1368-1644........................................................................................................ 257
    The Rise of Manchu Qing China 1644-1783..................................................................... 259
    Japan 1500-1800.................................................................................................................. 262
    South-east Asia 1500-1800.................................................................................................. 265
    African Kingdoms 1500-1800............................................................................................. 268
    Spanish Colonization of the Americas 1550-1783............................................................. 271
    European Exploration of North America 1500-1700....................................................... 274
    Colonial North America 1650-1775................................................................................... 276
    The American Revolution 1763-1783................................................................................ 279
    THE 19th-CENTURY WORLD: 1783-1914
    The French Revolution 1789-1799..................................................................................... 282
    Napoleonic Europe 1800-1815........................................................................................... 285
    The Industrial Revolution 1770-1914................................................................................ 288
    Consequences of the Industrial Revolution 1800-1914.................................................... 291
    The Growth of Nationalism in Europe 1815-1849............................................................ 294
    German and Italian Unification 1815-1871....................................................................... 297
    The Russian Empire 1783-1917.......................................................................................... 300
    The European Alliance System 1871-1914........................................................................ 302
    The Demise of the Ottoman Empire 1783-1923............................................................... 305
    The Westward Expansion of the United States 1783-1910............................................... 308
    The American Civil War 1861-1865................................................................................... 310
    The Industrial Expansion of the United States 1800-1914............................................... 314
    The Development of Canada 1763-1914........................................................................... 316
    Independence in Latin America 1783-1830...................................................................... 319
    Latin America Post-independence 1830-1910................................................................... 321
    The British in India 1765-1905.......................................................................................... 325
    The Decline of Manchu Qing China 1783-1911............................................................... 328
    The Modernization of Japan 1800-1914............................................................................ 331
    Colonialism in South-east Asia 1790-1914......................................................................... 334
    Colonialism in Australia and New Zealand 1788-1914..................................................... 337
    Africa 1800-1880.................................................................................................................. 340
    The Scramble for Africa 1880-1914................................................................................... 343
    Science and Technology 1783-1900................................................................................... 345
    Medicine 1783-1900............................................................................................................ 348

    THE MODERN WORLD
    World War I 1914-1918....................................................................................................... 352
    The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union 1917-1939............................................... 355
    Europe Between the Wars 1918-1939................................................................................ 358
    The USA and Canada 1914-1945....................................................................................... 362
    World War II in Europe 1939-1945.................................................................................... 364
    The Holocaust 1942-1945................................................................................................... 367
    Japan 1914-1941.................................................................................................................. 370
    World War II in the Pacific 1941-1945............................................................................... 373
    The Republic of China 1911-1949..................................................................................... 376
    Independence in India 1905-1949..................................................................................... 379
    The Cold War 1945-1989.................................................................................................... 383
    The USA and Canada 1945-1999....................................................................................... 386
    The Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia 1945-1999........................................................ 389
    Europe 1945-1999............................................................................................................... 392
    The People's Republic of China 1949-1999...................................................................... 396
    Japan and Korea 1945-1999................................................................................................ 399
    South-east Asia 1914-1999.................................................................................................. 403
    The Indochina Wars 1954-1979......................................................................................... 406
    Central and South Asia 1948-1999..................................................................................... 408
    Australia and New Zealand 1914-1999............................................................................... 411
    The Middle East 1923-1999................................................................................................ 414
    The Arab-Israeli Conflict 1948-1999.................................................................................. 417
    The Rise of Islamism 1979-1999......................................................................................... 420
    Africa 1914-1999.................................................................................................................. 424
    Latin America 1910-1999.................................................................................................... 427
    Environmental Challenges 1900-1999............................................................................... 430
    Advances in Science and Technology 1900-1999.............................................................. 433
    Advances in Medicine 1900-1999....................................................................................... 436

    THE 21st-CENTURY WORLD
    The USA and Canada 2000 onwards.................................................................................. 440
    Putin's Russia 2000 onwards................................................................................................ 443
    Europe 2000 onwards.......................................................................................................... 446
    China 2000 onwards............................................................................................................ 449
    Japan and Korea 2000 onwards........................................................................................... 452
    South-east Asia 2000 onwards............................................................................................. 454
    Central and South Asia 2000 onwards................................................................................ 459
    The War in Afghanistan 2001-2014.................................................................................... 462
    Australia and New Zealand 2000 onwards.......................................................................... 465
    Islamism 2000 onwards........................................................................................................ 467
    The Middle East, North Africa and the Arab Spring 2000 onwards ................................ 470
    The Arab-Israeli Conflict 2000 onwards............................................................................. 473
    The War in Iraq and the Rise of Islamic State 2000 onwards ........................................... 475
    Sub-Saharan Africa 2000 onwards....................................................................................... 478
    Latin America 2000 onwards............................................................................................... 480
    The Environment 2000 onwards......................................................................................... 483
    Globalization, Population Growth and Movement 2000 onwards.................................... 485
    The Banking Crisis and the Global Recession 2007-2012................................................ 488
    Science and Technology 2000 onwards.............................................................................. 491
    Medicine and Disease 2000 onwards.................................................................................. 494
    Into the Future..................................................................................................................... 497

    Timeline................................................................................... 500
    Index........................................................................................ 507