Produced in collaboration with Dorling Kindersley, the leader in cartographic publishing, this updated 2nd edition of Prentice Hall's "Atlas of Western Civilization" applies the most modern and innovative map-making techniques to present global history in all of its complexity and diversity. It presents both a broad overview and a detailed examination of historical developments.
Table of Contents
Early Hominids Emergence of Modern Humans The World: Prehistory-10,000 BCE Early Peoples of North America Early Peoples of South America The World: 10,000-5000 BCE The Advent of Agriculture The World: 5000-2500 BCE The First East Asian Civilizations Polynesian Migrations The Fertile Crescent Urban Centers and Trade Routes The First Empires The Growth of the City The World: 750-500 BCE The Mediterranean World, 700-300 BCE The Empire of Alexander The World: 500-250 BCE Trade in the Classical World The Roman Empire Han China Religions of the World After 400 CE The World: 500-750 CE Civilizations and Cultures of North America 100-1500 CE The EMpires of the Andes, 350 BCE-1475 CE The Empire of Charlemagne The Abbasid Caliphate The Islamic Imprint African Empires and City-States States and Empires in South Asia 300-1550 The Age of the Crusades The Age of the Mongols Trade in Medieval Europe The Black Death The World: 1300-1400 The Aztec Empire The Inca Empire Global Economies and Technologies, ca 1500 Voyages of European Expansion The World: 1500-1600 The Ming and the Outside WOrld Reunification of Japan The Religious Map of Europe in 1590 The Height of the Ottoman Empire The Mughal Empire Safavid Persia The World: 1600-1700 17th Century Europe Qing China, 1644-1800 The World Slave Trade African Slave Exporting Regions, ca 1750 The Colonization of North America The Enlightenment in Europe: Subscriptions to the Encyclopedia South and Southeast Asia, 1765 An Era of Revolution The Napoleonic Empire Europe After the Congress of Vienna, 1815-1852 Industrial Development in Europe, 1850-1914 Foreign Imperialism in East Asia Imperialism in the Pacific Early European Impact in Australia The World: 1800-1850 North America: 1783-1905 The Scramble for Africa South America 1830-1920 The Economic Revolution The World in 1900 Global Migration Movements Against Colonial Rule, 1880-1920 Japanese Modernization World War I Russian Revolution Europe During the Great Depression World War II The Cold War Decolonization
