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Contents
The Other Peoples of the Americas 261
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Americas and the World
Further Readings 264
On the Web 264
AP* Test Prep 265
CHAPTER 15 The World in 1450: Changing Balance
264
CHAPTER 12 Reunification and Renaissance
in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang
and Song Dynasties 266
Rebuilding the Imperial Edifice in the Sui-Tang Era 267
DOCUMENT: Ties That Bind: Paths to Power 272
Tang Decline and the Rise of the Song 274
Tang and Song Prosperity: The Basis of a Golden Age 278
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Footbinding as a Marker of Male
Dominance 282
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Artistic Expression
and Social Values 284
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: China’s World Role 286
Further Readings 286
On the Web 287
AP* Test Prep 288
CHAPTER 13 The Spread of Chinese Civilization:
Japan, Korea, and Vietnam 290
Japan: The Imperial Age 291
The Era of Warrior Dominance 296
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Comparing Feudalisms 298
Korea: Between China and Japan 302
Between China and Southeast Asia: The Making
of Vietnam 305
VISUALIZING THE PAST: What Their Portraits Tell Us:
Gatekeeper Elites and the Persistence of Civilizations 308
DOCUMENT: Literature as a Mirror of the Exchanges
Between Civilized Centers 311
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: In the Orbit of China: The East
Asian Corner of the Global System 311
Further Readings 312
On the Web 312
AP* Test Prep 313
CHAPTER 14 The Last Great Nomadic Challenges:
From Chinggis Khan to Timur
314
The Transcontinental Empire of Chinggis Khan 316
DOCUMENT: A European Assessment of the Virtues
and Vices of the Mongols 320
The Mongol Drive to the West 322
VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Mongol Empire as a Bridge
Between Civilizations 325
The Mongol Interlude in Chinese History 326
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Global Eclipse
of the Nomadic Warrior Culture 330
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The Mongol Linkages 332
Further Readings 333
On the Web 334
AP* Test Prep 335
of World Power 336
Key Changes in the Middle East 337
The Rise of the West 340
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Population Trends 341
DOCUMENT: Bubonic Plague 342
Western Expansion: The Experimental Phase 345
Outside the World Network 346
THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Problem
of Ethnocentrism 348
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: 1450 and the World 349
Further Readings 349
On the Web 350
AP* Test Prep 351
PART IV
THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD, 1450–1750:
THE WORLD SHRINKS 354
CHAPTER 16 The World Economy 360
The West’s First Outreach: Maritime Power 360
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Causation and the West’s
Expansion 365
Toward a World Economy 366
VISUALIZING THE PAST: West Indian Slaveholding 369
Colonial Expansion 371
DOCUMENT: Western Conquerors: Tactics
and Motives 372
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: The World Economy—
And the World 377
Further Readings 378
On the Web 378
AP* Test Prep 379
CHAPTER 17 The Transformation of the West,
1450–1750 380
The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce,
1450–1650 381
The Commercial Revolution 386
The Scientific Revolution: The Next Phase
of Change 389
VISUALIZING THE PAST: Versailles 391
Political Change 391
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Elites and Masses 392
The West by 1750 394
DOCUMENT: Controversies About Women 395
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS: Europe and the World 398
Further Readings 398
On the Web 398
AP* Test Prep 399
CHAPTER 18 The Rise of Russia 400
Russia’s Expansionist Politics Under the Tsars 400
THINKING HISTORICALLY: Multinational Empires 404
Russia’s First Westernization, 1690–1790 405