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Acropolis 6.2 Ancient Greece
Agrippina the Younger 7.1 The Daily Life of a Roman Family
Akkadian cuneiform 6.1 Early Mediterranean Peoples
Alexandrian Library 6.3 The Hellenistic Era
Almoravid Empire 15.3 The People of the Sahel
Along the River During the Qingming Festival 14.1 Song China and the Steppe Peoples
Ancient Mesopotamia 3.2 Ancient Mesopotamia
Apennine Mountains 6.4 The Roman Republic
Arch of Constantine 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Arch of Titus 7.5 The Regions of Rome
Aristophanes 6.2 Ancient Greece
Arrian of Nicomedia 6.3 The Hellenistic Era
Assembly of Spartiates 6.2 Ancient Greece
Athenian Assembly 6.2 Ancient Greece
B
Babylonian exile 4.4 The Hebrews
Bactrian kingdom 6.3 The Hellenistic Era
Battle of Adrianople 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Battle of Aegospotami 6.2 Ancient Greece
Battle of Cannae 6.4 The Roman Republic
Battle of Chaeronea 6.3 The Hellenistic Era
Battle of Cynoscephalae 6.4 The Roman Republic
Battle of Köse Dağ 17.1 The Ottomans and the Mongols
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa 14.4 Christianity and Islam outside Central Asia
Battle of Leuctra 6.2 Ancient Greece
Battle of Magnesia 6.4 The Roman Republic
Battle of Mantinea 6.2 Ancient Greece
Battle of Manzikert 17.1 The Ottomans and the Mongols
Battle of Marathon 6.2 Ancient Greece
Battle of Megiddo 4.2 Egypt’s New Kingdom
Battle of Milvian Bridge 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Battle of Nicopolis 17.1 The Ottomans and the Mongols
Battle of Pharsalus 6.5 The Age of Augustus
Battle of Philippi 6.5 The Age of Augustus
Battle of Plataea 6.2 Ancient Greece
Battle of Pydna 6.4 The Roman Republic
Battle of Salamis 6.2 Ancient Greece
Battle of the Horns of Hattin 13.4 The Crusading Movement
Battle of Thermopylae 6.2 Ancient Greece
Battle of Tumu Fortress 17.2 From the Mamluks to Ming China
Belt and Road Initiative 5.2 The Steppes
Bernard of Clairvaux 13.4 The Crusading Movement
Byzantine Neoplatonism 17.1 The Ottomans and the Mongols
C
calculated frightfulness 4.1 From Old Babylon to the Medes
caravansary Introduction
chronological approach 1.1 Developing a Global Perspective
Classical Age Greek 6.2 Ancient Greece
Cleisthenes 6.2 Ancient Greece
Colossus of Constantine 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Column of Constantine 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Constantine XI Palaeologus 17.1 The Ottomans and the Mongols
Constantius Chlorus 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Constitution of Medina 11.1 The Rise and Message of Islam
Convent of the Order of Saint John on Rhodes 17.1 The Ottomans and the Mongols
Council of Four Hundred 6.2 Ancient Greece, 6.2 Ancient Greece
Council of Nicaea 10.1 The Eastward Shift
County of Edessa 13.4 The Crusading Movement
County of Tripoli 13.4 The Crusading Movement
Cyrus the Great 6.2 Ancient Greece
D
Day of Infamy 1.2 Primary Sources
Democritus 6.2 Ancient Greece
Diodorus of Sicily 6.3 The Hellenistic Era
E
Edict of Thessalonica 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Egypt’s Middle Kingdom 9.3 The Kingdom of Kush
Empedocles 6.2 Ancient Greece
epidemic diseases 2.3 The Neolithic Revolution
Era of the Thirty Tyrants 6.2 Ancient Greece
Eurasian Steppe 5.2 The Steppes
Euripides 6.2 Ancient Greece
F
feudal system 5.1 Ancient China
First Council of Constantinople 10.1 The Eastward Shift
First Intermediate Period 3.3 Ancient Egypt
First Punic War 6.4 The Roman Republic
First Triumvirate 6.5 The Age of Augustus
Five Pillars of Islam 11.1 The Rise and Message of Islam
Flavian Amphitheater 7.2 Slavery in the Roman Empire
G
Germanic groups 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Great Colonnade 10.4 The Margins of Empire
Great Famine of 1315–1317 16.2 Famine, Climate Change, and Migration
Great Pyramid at Giza 3.3 Ancient Egypt
Great Temple at Abu Simbel 4.2 Egypt’s New Kingdom
Greek Classical period 6.2 Ancient Greece, 6.2 Ancient Greece
Gregory of Nazianzus 10.1 The Eastward Shift
H
Hadrian’s Wall 7.5 The Regions of Rome
Han Chinese 5.1 Ancient China
Han Feizi 5.1 Ancient China
Han Zhao 5.2 The Steppes
Hebrew Bible 4.4 The Hebrews
Hebrews 4.4 The Hebrews
Hellenic League 6.2 Ancient Greece
Hellenistic period 6.3 The Hellenistic Era
Hellespont 6.2 Ancient Greece
Herodian of Antioch 7.4 Religion in the Roman Empire
hieroglyphics 3.3 Ancient Egypt
historical context 1.2 Primary Sources
historiography 1.2 Primary Sources
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 10.1 The Eastward Shift
History of the Peloponnesian Wa 6.2 Ancient Greece
Hundred Schools of Thought 5.1 Ancient China
hunter-gatherer group 2.2 People in the Paleolithic Age
hunting and gathering 2.3 The Neolithic Revolution
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iconography 1.2 Primary Sources
Imad al-Din Zengi 13.4 The Crusading Movement
Indigenous peoples of Australia 2.3 The Neolithic Revolution
Ionian Rebellion 6.2 Ancient Greece
Islam 11.1 The Rise and Message of Islam, 11.1 The Rise and Message of Islam, 11.1 The Rise and Message of Islam, 11.1 The Rise and Message of Islam, 11.2 The Arab-Islamic Conquests and the First Islamic States, 11.2 The Arab-Islamic Conquests and the First Islamic States, 11.2 The Arab-Islamic Conquests and the First Islamic States, 11.2 The Arab-Islamic Conquests and the First Islamic States, 11.3 Islamization and Religious Rule under Islam , 11.3 Islamization and Religious Rule under Islam , 12.1 The Indian Ocean World in the Early Middle Ages, 12.1 The Indian Ocean World in the Early Middle Ages, 12.1 The Indian Ocean World in the Early Middle Ages, 12.2 East-West Interactions in the Early Middle Ages, 12.2 East-West Interactions in the Early Middle Ages, 12.2 East-West Interactions in the Early Middle Ages, 12.2 East-West Interactions in the Early Middle Ages, 12.2 East-West Interactions in the Early Middle Ages, 12.2 East-West Interactions in the Early Middle Ages, 13.3 Patriarch and Papacy: The Church and the Call to Crusade, 13.4 The Crusading Movement, 14.3 The Mongol Empire Fragments, 14.3 The Mongol Empire Fragments, 14.3 The Mongol Empire Fragments, 14.3 The Mongol Empire Fragments, 14.4 Christianity and Islam outside Central Asia, 14.4 Christianity and Islam outside Central Asia, 15.1 Culture and Society in Medieval Africa, 15.1 Culture and Society in Medieval Africa, 15.1 Culture and Society in Medieval Africa, 15.1 Culture and Society in Medieval Africa, 15.2 Medieval Sub-Saharan Africa, 15.3 The People of the Sahel, 15.3 The People of the Sahel, 15.3 The People of the Sahel, 16.1 Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century, 16.1 Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century, 16.4 The Long-Term Effects of Global Transformation, 17.1 The Ottomans and the Mongols
Island of Meroe 9.3 The Kingdom of Kush
J
Johanson Introduction
Journal of Late Antiquity 10.1 The Eastward Shift
K
Kingdom of Jerusalem 13.4 The Crusading Movement
Kingdom of Macedon 6.3 The Hellenistic Era
Krak des Chevaliers 13.4 The Crusading Movement
L
Later Zhao 5.2 The Steppes
lish Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 16.4 The Long-Term Effects of Global Transformation
Liu Yuan 5.2 The Steppes
logographic script 5.1 Ancient China
Lord Shang 5.1 Ancient China
M
Machu Picchu Introduction
Magna Graecia 6.2 Ancient Greece
Memoirs of a Janissary 17.2 From the Mamluks to Ming China
Mentuhotep II 3.3 Ancient Egypt
Middle Kingdom 3.3 Ancient Egypt
Middle Kingdom Period 3.3 Ancient Egypt
Mississippian tradition 8.3 The Age of Empires in the Americas
Mississippian traditions 8.3 The Age of Empires in the Americas
mo sapiens 5.1 Ancient China
Mongolians 5.1 Ancient China
Mount Behistun 4.3 The Persian Empire
Mount Parnassus 6.2 Ancient Greece
multiregional evolution model 2.1 Early Human Evolution and Migration
N
Nabataean Kingdom 10.4 The Margins of Empire
Nanzhuangtou 5.1 Ancient China
Neo-Assyrian War Machine 4.1 From Old Babylon to the Medes
Neo-Babylonian Empire 4.3 The Persian Empire
Neolithic cultures 5.1 Ancient China, 5.1 Ancient China
New Silk Road 5.2 The Steppes
Ngorongoro Conservation Area 9.1 Africa’s Geography and Climate
Northern Wei 5.2 The Steppes
O
Olympic Games 6.2 Ancient Greece
oracle bones 5.1 Ancient China
P
Palatine Hill 6.4 The Roman Republic
Paleolithic period 5.1 Ancient China
Panga ya Saidi cave 2.2 People in the Paleolithic Age
Parthenon 6.2 Ancient Greece
Parthian Kingdom 6.5 The Age of Augustus
pastoralism 5.2 The Steppes
Peace of Nicias 6.2 Ancient Greece
Pearl Harbor 1.2 Primary Sources
Pedro de Cieza de Léon 8.3 The Age of Empires in the Americas
Peking Man 5.1 Ancient China
Peloponnesian League 6.2 Ancient Greece
Pépin le Bref (Pippin the Short) 13.1 The Post-Roman West in the Early Middle Ages
Phoenicia 6.2 Ancient Greece
Pisistratus 6.2 Ancient Greece
primary source 1.2 Primary Sources
Principality of Antioch 13.4 The Crusading Movement
Prophecy of Nefert 3.3 Ancient Egypt
R
Ramesside kings 4.2 Egypt’s New Kingdom
Rubicon River 6.5 The Age of Augustus
S
Sarvastivadin Abhidharma texts 10.4 The Margins of Empire
Schmandt-Besserat 3.2 Ancient Mesopotamia
Scientific Revolution 17.1 The Ottomans and the Mongols
Second Letter to Charles V 1.2 Primary Sources
secondary source 1.2 Primary Sources
Seleucid Empire 6.4 The Roman Republic
Seleucid Kingdom 6.3 The Hellenistic Era
Senusret III 3.3 Ancient Egypt
Septimius Odaenathus 10.4 The Margins of Empire
Serpent Column 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Seventeen Article Constitution 5.3 Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia
Six Dynasties Period 5.1 Ancient China
slash-and-burn agriculture 5.3 Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia
Sobekneferu 3.3 Ancient Egypt
social stratification 3.1 Early Civilizations
Sophocles 6.2 Ancient Greece
specialization 3.1 Early Civilizations
Struggle of the Orders 6.4 The Roman Republic
T
Tarquin dynasty 6.4 The Roman Republic
Tarquin the Proud 6.4 The Roman Republic
Tarquinius Priscus 6.4 The Roman Republic
Temple of Amun 4.2 Egypt’s New Kingdom
Terracotta Army 5.1 Ancient China
The Analects 5.1 Ancient China
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico 1.2 Primary Sources
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea 10.4 The Margins of Empire
Theban kingdom 4.2 Egypt’s New Kingdom
Theodosian Code 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Theodosius 6.2 Ancient Greece
Theodosius II 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Thermopylae 6.2 Ancient Greece
Things Fall Apart 1.2 Primary Sources
Third Dynasty of Ur 4.1 From Old Babylon to the Medes
Third Intermediate Period 9.3 The Kingdom of Kush
Thucydides 6.2 Ancient Greece
Tribal Assembly 6.4 The Roman Republic
Twelve Tables 6.4 The Roman Republic
Twenty-Fifth Dynasty 9.3 The Kingdom of Kush
U
U.S. Postal Service 4.3 The Persian Empire
Upper Egypt 3.3 Ancient Egypt
Usama ibn Munqidh 13.4 The Crusading Movement
V
Venus of Dolní Věstonice 2.1 Early Human Evolution and Migration
W
Wars of the Successors 6.3 The Hellenistic Era
Western Deffufa 9.3 The Kingdom of Kush
Western Zhou 5.1 Ancient China
World of Late Antiquity 10.1 The Eastward Shift
Y
Ying Zheng 5.1 Ancient China
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