World History Demystified® | DeMystified

World History Demystified®

Authors: Stephanie Muntone

Published: 2012

ISBN: 9780071754521 0071754520

Contents

How to Use This Book

Introduction

Part One Early Civilization: Empires of Asia and the Mediterranean

CHAPTER 1 Early Civilizations

CHAPTER 2 The New Kingdom to the Fall of Babylon, 1550–550 BC

CHAPTER 3 The Ancient Middle East: Israel, Phoenicia, and Persia, 1800–323 BC

CHAPTER 4 Ancient China and India

CHAPTER 5 The Greek Civilization and the Macedonian Empire, 2000–275 BC

CHAPTER 6 The Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity, 900 BC–AD 476

CHAPTER 7 Early Asian Empires, 400 BC–AD 600

PART ONE EXAM

Part Two The Settlement of Europe, the Colonization of the Americas, and the Rise of the Ottoman Empire

CHAPTER 8 Europe and the Byzantine Empire to AD 1000

CHAPTER 9 The Rise of Islam, African Civilizations, and India to AD 1000

CHAPTER 10 East AsianCivilizations to 1000;the Americas to 1500

CHAPTER 11 The Rise of the Turks, 1000–1500

CHAPTER 12 Medieval Europe, 1000–1500

CHAPTER 13 Medieval Asia, 1150–1600

CHAPTER 14 European Reformation and the Age of Absolute Monarchy, 1500–1750

PART TWO EXAM

Part Three World History in the Modern Era

CHAPTER 15 European Exploration and Colonization, 1500–1700

CHAPTER 16 Russia and the Great Muslim Empires, 1500–1858

CHAPTER 17 Western Revolutions in Science, Industry, and Thought, 1550–1900

CHAPTER 18 Political Revolutions in the West, 1688–1815

CHAPTER 19 Asian Empires 1600–1815; Late European Colonization

CHAPTER 20 Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914

CHAPTER 21 The Americas and Asia in the Nineteenth Century, 1815–1914

CHAPTER 22 The Era of World Wars, 1914–1945

CHAPTER 23 The End of the Twentieth Century, 1945–1991

PART THREE EXAM

FINAL EXAM

Afterword: The World Since the Cold War

Answer Key

Bibliography and Sources for Further Reading

Index