World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Combined Volume

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This global world history text emphasizes the major stages in societies’ different interactions and assesses the development of major societies. Encompassing social, cultural, political and economic history, the authors examine key civilizations in world history. World Civilizations balances the discussion of independent developments in the world's major civilizations with comparative analysis of the results of global contact. Cover......Page 1 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 MyHistoryLab Video Series......Page 18 MyHistoryLab Documents......Page 20 Maps......Page 28 Preface......Page 32 Supplementary Instructional Materials......Page 38 About the Authors......Page 44 Prologue......Page 48 PART I: EARLY HUMAN SOCIETIES, 2.5 MILLION–600 B.C.E.: ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 50 CHAPTER 1 The Neolithic Revolution and the Birth of Civilization......Page 56 Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers......Page 58 DOCUMENT: Tales of the Hunt: Paleolithic Cave Paintings as History......Page 62 Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization: The Neolithic Transformations......Page 63 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Representations of Women in Early Art......Page 67 The First Towns: Seedbeds of Civilization......Page 68 THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Idea of Civilization in World Historical Perspective......Page 70 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 72 CHAPTER 2 The Rise of Civilization in the Middle East and Africa......Page 73 Early Civilization in Mesopotamia 25......Page 74 Later Mesopotamian Civilization: A Series of Conquests 30......Page 79 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Mesopotamia in Maps......Page 80 DOCUMENT: Hammurabi’s Law Code......Page 81 Ancient Egypt......Page 82 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Women in Patriarchal Societies......Page 85 Egypt and Mesopotamia Compared......Page 86 Civilization Centers in Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean......Page 87 The Issue of Heritage......Page 90 Further Readings......Page 91 Critical Thinking Question......Page 92 CHAPTER 3 Asia’s First Civilizations: India and China......Page 93 The Indus Valley and the Birth of South Asian Civilization......Page 95 Indo-European Incursions and Early Vedic Society in India......Page 99 DOCUMENT: Aryan Poetry in Praise of a War Horse......Page 101 A Bend in the River and the Beginnings of China......Page 102 The Decline of the Shang and the Era of Zhou Dominance......Page 106 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Mapping the Rise of Civilizations......Page 108 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Nomadic Contacts and the Endurance of Asia’s First Civilizations......Page 110 Further Readings......Page 112 Critical Thinking Question......Page 113 PART II: THE CLASSICAL PERIOD, 600 B.C.E.–600 C.E.: UNITING LARGE REGIONS......Page 117 CHAPTER 4 Unification and the Consolidation of Civilization in China......Page 123 Philosophical Remedies for the Prolonged Crisis of the Later Zhou......Page 125 DOCUMENT: Teachings of the Rival Chinese Schools......Page 128 The Triumph of the Qin and Imperial Unity......Page 129 The Han Dynasty and the Foundations of China’s Classical Age......Page 133 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Xunzi and the Shift from Ritual Combat to “Real” War......Page 134 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Capital Designs and Patterns of Political Power......Page 140 Further Readings......Page 143 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 144 CHAPTER 5 Classical Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East......Page 145 The Persian Empire: A New Perspective in the Middle East......Page 147 The Political Character of Classical Greece......Page 149 The Hellenistic Period......Page 153 Greek And Hellenistic Culture......Page 156 DOCUMENT: The Power of Greek Drama......Page 158 Patterns of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Society......Page 161 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Defining Social History......Page 163 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 166 CHAPTER 6 Religious Rivalries and India’s Golden Age......Page 167 The Age of Brahman Dominance......Page 168 An Era of Widespread Social Change......Page 171 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Inequality as a Social Norm......Page 172 Religious Ferment and the Rise of Buddhism......Page 175 The Rise and Decline of the Mauryas......Page 177 Brahmanical Recovery and the Splendors of the Gupta Age......Page 180 VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Pattern of Trade in the Ancient Eurasian World......Page 181 Intensifying Caste and Gender Inequities and Gupta Decline......Page 184 DOCUMENT: A Guardian’s Farewell Speech to a Young Woman About to Be Married......Page 185 Further Readings......Page 187 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 188 CHAPTER 7 Rome and Its Empire......Page 189 The Development of Rome’s Republic......Page 191 Roman Culture......Page 195 DOCUMENT: Rome and a Values Crisis......Page 196 How Rome Ruled Its Empire......Page 197 The Evolution of Rome’s Economic and Social Structure......Page 200 THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Classical Civilizations in Comparative Perspective......Page 202 The Origins of Christianity......Page 203 The Decline of Rome......Page 206 Further Readings......Page 207 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 208 CHAPTER 8 The Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas......Page 209 Origins of American Societies......Page 211 Spread of Civilization in Mesoamerica......Page 216 DOCUMENT: Deciphering the Maya Glyphs......Page 221 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Different Times for Different Peoples......Page 222 The Peoples to the North......Page 224 The Andean World......Page 226 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Ancient Agriculture......Page 229 Further Readings......Page 230 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 231 CHAPTER 9 The Spread of Civilizations and the Movement of Peoples......Page 232 The Spread of Civilization in Africa......Page 235 DOCUMENT: Myths of Origin......Page 240 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Language as a Historical Source......Page 243 Nomadic Societies and Indo-European Migrations......Page 244 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Varieties of Human Adaptation and the Potential for Civilization......Page 249 The Spread of Chinese Civilization to Japan......Page 250 The Scattered Societies of Polynesia......Page 254 Further Readings......Page 259 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 260 CHAPTER 10 THE END OF THE CLASSICAL ERA: WORLD HISTORY IN TRANSITION, 200–700 C.E.......Page 261 Upheavals in Eastern and Southern Asia......Page 263 DOCUMENT: The Popularization of Buddhism......Page 265 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire......Page 267 THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Problem of Decline and Fall......Page 271 The Development and Spread of World Religions......Page 272 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Religious Geography......Page 276 Further Readings......Page 278 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 279 PART III: THE POSTCLASSICAL PERIOD, 600–1450: NEW FAITH AND NEW COMMERCE......Page 284 CHAPTER 11 The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam......Page 291 Desert and Town: The Harsh Environment of Pre-Islamic Arabian World......Page 293 The Life of Muhammad and the Genesis of Islam......Page 298 The Arab Empire of the Umayyads......Page 301 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Civilization and Gender Relationships......Page 307 From Arab to Islamic Empire: The Early Abbasid Era 260......Page 309 VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Mosque as a Symbol of Islamic Civilization......Page 311 DOCUMENT: The Thousand and One Nights as a Mirror of Elite Society in the Abbasid Era......Page 313 Further Readings......Page 315 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 316 CHAPTER 12 Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia......Page 317 The Islamic Heartlands in the Middle and Late Abbasid Eras......Page 319 DOCUMENT: Ibn Khaldun on the Rise and Decline of Empires......Page 323 An Age of Learning and Artistic Refinements......Page 324 The Coming of Islam to South Asia......Page 327 VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Pattern of Islam’s Global Expansions......Page 328 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Conversion and Accommodation in the Spread of World Religions......Page 333 The Spread of Islam to Southeast Asia......Page 335 Further Readings......Page 337 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 338 CHAPTER 13 African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam......Page 339 African Societies: Diversity and Similarities......Page 340 Kingdoms of the Grasslands......Page 344 DOCUMENT: The Great Oral Tradition and the Epic of Sundiata......Page 347 The Swahili Coast of East Africa......Page 350 Peoples of the Forest and Plains......Page 352 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Two Transitions in the History of World Population......Page 353 GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND CRITICAL THEMES: Internal Development and Global Contacts......Page 357 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 358 CHAPTER 14 Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe......Page 359 Civilization in Eastern Europe......Page 360 The Byzantine Empire......Page 362 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Women and Power in Byzantium......Page 364 The Split between Eastern and Western Christianity......Page 366 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Eastern and Western Europe: The Problem of Boundaries......Page 369 The Emergence of Kievan Rus’......Page 370 DOCUMENT: Russia Turns to Christianity......Page 372 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 375 CHAPTER 15 A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe......Page 376 Stages of Postclassical Development......Page 378 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Peasant Labor......Page 380 DOCUMENT: European Travel: A Monk Visits Jerusalem......Page 385 Western Culture in the Postclassical Era......Page 388 Changing Economic and Social Forms in the Postclassical Centuries......Page 392 The Decline of the Medieval Synthesis......Page 395 Further Readings......Page 398 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 399 CHAPTER 16 The Americas on the Eve of Invasion......Page 400 Postclassic Mesoamerica, 1000–1500 C.E......Page 402 Aztec Society in Transition......Page 407 DOCUMENT: Aztec Women and Men......Page 409 Twantinsuyu: World of the Incas......Page 411 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Archeological Evidence of Political Practices......Page 412 THINKING HISTORICALLY: The “Troubling” Civilizations of the Americas......Page 414 The Other Peoples of the Americas......Page 417 Further Readings......Page 420 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 421 CHAPTER 17 Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties......Page 422 Rebuilding the Imperial Edifice in the Sui-Tang Era......Page 423 DOCUMENT: Ties That Bind: Paths to Power......Page 428 Tang Decline and the Rise of the Song......Page 430 Tang and Song Prosperity: The Basis of a Golden Age......Page 434 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Footbinding as a Marker of Male Dominance......Page 438 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Artistic Expression and Social Values......Page 440 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 442 CHAPTER 18 The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam......Page 443 Japan: The Imperial Age......Page 445 The Era of Warrior Dominance......Page 449 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Comparing Feudalisms......Page 451 Korea: Between China and Japan......Page 454 Between China and Southeast Asia: The Making of Vietnam......Page 457 VISUALIZING THE PAST: What Their Portraits Tell Us: Gatekeeper Elites and the Persistence of Civilizations......Page 461 DOCUMENT: Literature as a Mirror of the Exchanges among Asian Centers of Civilization......Page 463 Further Readings......Page 464 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 465 CHAPTER 19 The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur......Page 466 The Transcontinental Empire of Chinggis Khan......Page 468 DOCUMENT: A European Assessment of the Virtues and Vices of the Mongols......Page 472 The Mongol Drive to the West......Page 474 VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Mongol Empire as a Bridge between Civilizations......Page 477 The Mongol Interlude in Chinese History......Page 478 THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Global Eclipse of the Nomadic Warrior Culture......Page 482 Further Readings......Page 484 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 485 CHAPTER 20 The World in 1450: Changing Balance of World Power......Page 486 Key Changes in the Middle East......Page 488 The Structure of Transregional Trade......Page 489 The Rise of the West......Page 491 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Population Trends......Page 492 DOCUMENT: Bubonic Plague......Page 493 Outside the World Network......Page 497 THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Problem of Ethnocentrism......Page 499 GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND CRITICAL THEMES: 1450 and the World......Page 500 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 501 PART IV: THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD, 1450–1750: THE WORLD SHRINKS......Page 506 CHAPTER 21 The World Economy......Page 513 The West’s First Outreach: Maritime Power......Page 514 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Causation and the West’s Expansion......Page 519 The Columbian Exchange of Disease and Food......Page 520 Toward a World Economy......Page 522 VISUALIZING THE PAST: West Indian Slaveholding......Page 523 Colonial Expansion......Page 525 DOCUMENT: Western Conquerors: Tactics and Motives......Page 527 Further Readings......Page 532 Critical Questions......Page 533 CHAPTER 22 The Transformation of the West, 1450–1750......Page 534 The First Big Changes: Culture and Commerce, 1450–1650......Page 536 The Commercial Revolution......Page 541 The Scientific Revolution: The Next Phase Change......Page 544 Political Change......Page 546 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Elites and Masses......Page 547 The West by 1750......Page 549 DOCUMENT: Controversies about Women......Page 550 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 553 CHAPTER 23 Early Latin America......Page 554 Spaniards and Portuguese: From Reconquest to Conquest......Page 556 DOCUMENT: A Vision from the Vanquished......Page 562 The Destruction and Transformation of Indigenous Societies......Page 564 Colonial Economies and Governments......Page 565 THINKING HISTORICALLY: An Atlantic History......Page 567 Brazil: The First Plantation Colony......Page 570 Multiracial Societies......Page 572 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Race or Culture? A Changing Society......Page 573 The 18th-Century Reforms......Page 575 Further Readings......Page 580 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 581 CHAPTER 24 Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade......Page 582 Africa and the Creation of an Atlantic System......Page 583 The Atlantic Slave Trade......Page 585 African Societies, Slavery, and the Slave Trade......Page 589 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Slavery and Human Society......Page 591 White Settlers and Africans in Southern Africa......Page 596 The African Diaspora......Page 598 DOCUMENT: An African’s Description of the Middle Passage......Page 600 VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Cloth of Kings in an Atlantic Perspective......Page 602 Further Readings......Page 605 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 606 CHAPTER 25 The Rise of Russia......Page 607 Russia’s Expansionist Politics under the Tsars......Page 608 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Multinational Empires......Page 611 Russia’s First Westernization, 1690–1790......Page 612 DOCUMENT: The Nature of Westernization......Page 614 Themes in Early Modern Russian History......Page 618 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Oppressed Peasants......Page 619 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 621 CHAPTER 26 The Muslim Empires......Page 622 The Ottomans: From Frontier Warriors to Empire Builders......Page 624 DOCUMENT: An Islamic Traveler Laments the Muslims’ Indifference to Europe......Page 632 The Shi’a Challenge of the Safavids......Page 633 THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Gunpowder Empires and the Shifting Balance of Global Power......Page 635 The Mughals and the Apex of Muslim Civilization in India......Page 639 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Art as a Window into the Past: Paintings and History in Mughal, India......Page 642 Further Readings......Page 647 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 648 CHAPTER 27 Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change......Page 649 The Asian Trading World and the Coming of the Europeans......Page 651 Ming China: A Global Mission Refused......Page 658 DOCUMENT: Exam Questions as a Mirror of Chinese Values......Page 660 VISUALIZING THE PAST: The Great Ships of the Ming Expeditions That Crossed the Indian Ocean......Page 665 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Means and Motives for Overseas Expansion: Europe and China Compared......Page 666 Fending Off the West: Japan’s Reunification and the First Challenge......Page 667 Further Readings......Page 671 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 672 PART V: THE DAWN OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE, 1750–1900......Page 677 CHAPTER 28 The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, 1750–1900......Page 684 Context for Revolution......Page 685 The Age of Revolution......Page 687 VISUALIZING THE PAST: The French Revolution in Cartoons......Page 689 The Industrial Revolution: First Phases......Page 692 The Consolidation of the Industrial Order, 1850–1900......Page 694 DOCUMENT: Protesting the Industrial Revolution......Page 696 Cultural Transformations......Page 699 Western Settler Societies......Page 702 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Two Revolutions: Industrial and Atlantic......Page 703 Diplomatic Tensions and World War I......Page 706 Further Readings......Page 708 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 709 CHAPTER 29 Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order......Page 710 The Shift to Land Empires in Asia......Page 713 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Western Education and the Rise of an African and Asian Middle Class......Page 718 Industrial Rivalries and the Partition of the World, 1870–1914......Page 720 Patterns of Dominance: Continuity and Change......Page 724 DOCUMENT: Contrary Images: The Colonizer versus the Colonized on the “Civilizing Mission”......Page 725 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Capitalism and Colonialism......Page 728 Further Readings......Page 733 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 734 CHAPTER 30 The Consolidation of Latin America, 1810–1920......Page 735 From Colonies to Nations......Page 737 New Nations Confront Old and New Problems......Page 741 Latin American Economies and World Markets, 1820–1870......Page 743 DOCUMENT: Confronting the Hispanic Heritage: From Independence to Consolidation......Page 748 Societies in Search of Themselves......Page 751 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Explaining Underdevelopment......Page 754 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Images of the Spanish-American War......Page 757 Further Readings......Page 760 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 761 CHAPTER 31 Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China......Page 762 From Empire to Nation: Ottoman Retreat and the Birth of Turkey......Page 764 Western Intrusions and the Crisis in the Arab Islamic Heartlands......Page 767 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Western Global Dominance and the Dilemmas It Posed for the Peoples and Societies of Africa and Asia......Page 768 The Rise and Fall of the Qing Dynasty......Page 773 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Mapping the Decline of Two Great Empires......Page 774 DOCUMENT: Transforming Imperial China into a Nation......Page 782 Further Readings......Page 783 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 784 CHAPTER 32 Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West......Page 785 Russia’s Reforms and Industrial Advance......Page 787 DOCUMENT: Conditions for Factory Workers in Russia’s Industrialization......Page 791 Protest and Revolution in Russia......Page 793 Japan: Transformation without Revolution......Page 796 THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Separate Paths of Japan and China......Page 798 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Two Faces of Western Influence......Page 801 GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND CRITICAL THEMES: Russia and Japan in the World......Page 804 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 805 PART VI: THE NEWEST STAGE OF WORLD HISTORY: 1900–PRESENT......Page 810 CHAPTER 33 Descent into the Abyss: World War I and the Crisis of the European Global Order......Page 818 The Coming of the Great War......Page 821 A World at War......Page 823 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Trench Warfare......Page 825 Failed Peace and Global Turmoil......Page 830 The Nationalist Assault on the European Colonial Order......Page 831 DOCUMENT: Lessons for the Colonized from the Slaughter in the Trenches......Page 832 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Women in Asian and African Nationalist Movements......Page 840 Further Readings......Page 844 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 845 CHAPTER 34 The World between the Wars: Revolutions, Depression, and Authoritarian Response......Page 846 The Roaring Twenties......Page 847 Revolution: The First Waves......Page 853 THINKING HISTORICALLY: A Century of Revolutions......Page 858 The Global Great Depression......Page 865 The Nazi Response......Page 868 Authoritarianism and New Militarism in Key Regions......Page 870 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Guernica and the Images of War......Page 871 DOCUMENT: Socialist Realism......Page 876 Further Readings......Page 879 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 881 CHAPTER 35 A Second Global Conflict and the End of the European World Order......Page 882 Old and New Causes of a Second World War......Page 884 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Total War, Global Devastation......Page 885 Unchecked Aggression and the Coming of War in Europe and the Pacific......Page 887 The Conduct of a Second Global War......Page 889 DOCUMENT: Japan’s Defeat in a Global War......Page 895 War’s End and the Emergence of the Superpower Standoff in the Cold War......Page 897 Nationalism and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia and Africa......Page 898 VISUALIZING THE PAST: National Leaders for a New Global Order......Page 901 Further Readings......Page 906 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 907 CHAPTER 36 Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War......Page 908 After World War II: A New International Setting for the West......Page 910 The Resurgence of Western Europe......Page 913 THINKING HISTORICALLY: The United States and Western Europe: Convergence and Complexity......Page 917 Cold War Allies: The United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand......Page 919 Culture and Society in the West......Page 921 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Women at Work in France and the United States......Page 923 Eastern Europe after World War II: A Soviet Empire......Page 926 Soviet Culture: Promoting New Beliefs and Institutions......Page 929 DOCUMENT: A Cold War Speech......Page 934 Further Readings......Page 936 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 937 CHAPTER 37 Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into the 21st Century......Page 938 Latin America after World War II......Page 940 Radical Options in the 1950s......Page 942 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Murals and Posters: Art and Revolution......Page 944 DOCUMENT: The People Speak......Page 947 The Search for Reform and the Military Option......Page 948 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Human Rights in the 20th Century......Page 951 Societies in Search of Change......Page 954 GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND CRITICAL THEMES: Struggling Toward the Future in a Global Economy......Page 958 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 959 CHAPTER 38 Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of Independence......Page 960 The Challenges of Independence......Page 962 DOCUMENT: Cultural Creativity in the Emerging Nations: Some Literary Samples......Page 969 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Artificial Nations and the Rising Tide of Communal Strife......Page 971 Postcolonial Options for Achieving Economic Growth and Social Justice......Page 973 Delayed Revolutions: Religious Revivalism and Liberation Movements in Settler Societies......Page 979 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Globalization and Postcolonial Societies......Page 983 GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND CRITICAL THEMES: Postcolonial Nations in the Cold War World Order......Page 984 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 985 CHAPTER 39 Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-Building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim......Page 986 East Asia in the Postwar Settlements......Page 988 The Pacific Rim: More Japans?......Page 994 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Pacific Rim Growth......Page 997 THINKING HISTORICALLY: The Pacific Rim as a U.S. Policy Issue......Page 998 Mao’s China: Vanguard of World Revolution......Page 999 DOCUMENT: Women in the Revolutionary Struggles for Social Justice......Page 1004 Colonialism and Revolution in Vietnam......Page 1006 GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND CRITICAL THEMES: East Asia and the Pacific Rim in the Contemporary World......Page 1011 Further Readings......Page 1012 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 1013 CHAPTER 40 Power, Politics, and Conflict in World History, 1990–2014......Page 1014 The End of the Cold War......Page 1015 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Symbolism in the Breakdown of the Soviet Bloc......Page 1022 The Spread of Democracy......Page 1023 DOCUMENT: Democratic Protest and Repression in China......Page 1024 The Great Powers and New Disputes......Page 1025 The United States as Sole Superpower......Page 1028 THINKING HISTORICALLY: Terrorism, Then and Now......Page 1030 GLOBAL CONNECTIONS AND CRITICAL THEMES: New Global Standards, New Divisions......Page 1032 Further Readings......Page 1033 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 1034 CHAPTER 41 Globalization and Resistance......Page 1035 Global Industrialization......Page 1036 Globalization: Causes and Processes......Page 1039 DOCUMENT: Protests against Globalization......Page 1044 The Global Environment......Page 1046 Resistance and Alternatives......Page 1049 THINKING HISTORICALLY: How Much Historical Change?......Page 1050 VISUALIZING THE PAST: Two Faces of Globalization......Page 1052 Toward the Future......Page 1053 Further Readings......Page 1054 Critical Thinking Questions......Page 1055 A......Page 1058 B......Page 1060 C......Page 1061 D......Page 1063 E......Page 1064 G......Page 1065 H......Page 1066 I......Page 1067 K......Page 1068 L......Page 1069 M......Page 1070 N......Page 1073 P......Page 1074 R......Page 1076 S......Page 1077 T......Page 1079 U......Page 1080 W......Page 1081 Z......Page 1082 Credits......Page 1083 A......Page 1086 C......Page 1088 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