History of the world. Map by map

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Contents PREHISTORY 7 MYA–3000 bce 12 From apes to farmers 14 The first humans 16 Out of Africa 18 The first Australians 20 Peopling the Americas 22 The first farmers 24 Origins of agriculture 26 Villages to towns THE ANCIENT WORLD 3000 bce–500 ce 30 The first civilizations 32 The first cities 34 Egypt of the pharaohs 36 The first writing 38 Minoans and Mycenaeans 40 Bronze Age China 42 Bronze Age collapse 44 The ancient Levant 46 The Iron Age 48 Assyria and Babylonia 50 Rise of the Persian Empire 52 First cities in the Americas 54 The Phoenicians 56 The Greek city-states 58 Greece and Persia at war 60 Alexander the Great 62 The Classical Age 64 Etruscans and the rise of Rome 66 Rome builds its power base 68 Roman Empire at its height 70 The roots of Indian history 72 Mauryan India 74 China’s first emperor 76 Terracotta army 78 Ancient American civilizations 80 Age of migrations 82 Han Dynasty 84 The spread of Buddhism 86 The rise of Christianity MIDDLE AGES 500–1450 ce 90 The Middle Ages 92 The Byzantine Empire 94 The ascent of Islam 96 Rule of the caliphs 98 The Vikings 100 The Normans 102 The Silk Road 104 Medieval renaissance 106 The Crusades 108 The inheritors of Rome 110 The Hundred Years’ War 112 Medieval European trade 114 The Black Death 116 The emperor and the pope 118 The Holy Roman Empire 120 Rise of the Ottomans 122 The Reconquista 124 Medieval East Asia 126 Tang and Song China 128 Medieval Korea and Japan 130 The Mongol conquests 132 Yuan China to the early Ming 134 Temple states of Southeast Asia 136 African peoples and empires 138 Mansa Musa 140 The Polynesians 142 North American cultures 144 Aztec and Inca empires THE EARLY MODERN WORLD 1450–1700 148 The early modern world 150 Voyages of exploration 152 Spanish conquests in the Americas 154 The Spanish in America 156 The colonization of North America 158 The age of exchange 160 The Renaissance 162 The colonial spice trade 164 Printing 166 The Reformation 168 The Thirty Years’ War 170 British civil wars 172 Reign of the Ottomans 174 East meets West 176 Mughal India 178 China from the Ming to the Qing 180 Japan unifies under the Tokugawa 182 The Scientific Revolution 184 The Dutch golden age REVOLUTION AND INDUSTRY 1700–1850 188 The age of revolution 190 Battle for North America 192 The Seven Years’ War 194 The Agricultural Revolution 196 The Atlantic slave trade 198 The American Revolution 200 South American independence 202 The Enlightenment 204 The fate of Native Americans 206 The French Revolution 208 Napoleon advances 210 Napoleon’s downfall 212 The Industrial Revolution 214 Industrial Britain 216 Romanticism and Nationalism 218 The revolutions of 1848 220 New Zealand and Australia 222 The abolition of slavery 224 Rise of British power in India 226 The Opium Wars PROGRESS AND EMPIRE 1850–1914 230 Cities and industry 232 Industrialized Europe 234 Socialism and anarchism 236 Transport and communications 238 Mass migrations 240 The age of imperialism 242 The new imperialism 244 Resistance and the Raj 246 Russian Empire expands 248 Africa colonized 250 Foreign powers in China 252 Decline of Qing China 254 Japan transformed 256 The Civil War 258 Science and innovation 260 Expansion of the US 262 Independent Latin America 264 Germany and Italy unified 266 Balkan wars 268 The eve of World War THE MODERN WORLD 1914–PRESENT 272 The modern world 274 World War I 276 The trenches 278 The wider war 280 The Russian Revolution 282 Political extremism 284 Aftermath of the Great War 286 The Great Depression 288 China and nationalism 290 Soviet Union under Stalin 292 The Spanish Civil War 294 World War II 296 Axis powers advance 298 Occupied Europe 300 The war in the Pacific 302 Germany defeated 304 Japan defeated 306 Hiroshima and Nagasaki 308 Partition of India 310 The founding of communist China 312 Superpowers 314 The Cold War 316 Korean War 318 Decolonization of Southeast Asia 320 European unity 322 Decolonization of Africa 324 Rockets and the space race 326 Civil rights and student revolt 328 The Vietnam Wars 330 US interventions in Latin America 332 Israel and the Middle East 334 Economic boom and environmental cost 336 The collapse of communism 338 War in Yugoslavia 340 Globalization 342 Iran and the Gulf Wars 344 The communication revolution 346 Population and energy 348 Timeline 426 Index 439 Acknowledgments