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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
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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
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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
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Day of Infamy 1.2 Primary Sources
Democritus 6.2 Ancient Greece
Diodorus of Sicily 6.3 The Hellenistic Era
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Johanson Introduction
Journal of Late Antiquity 10.1 The Eastward Shift
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Kingdom of Jerusalem 13.4 The Crusading Movement
Kingdom of Macedon 6.3 The Hellenistic Era
Krak des Chevaliers 13.4 The Crusading Movement
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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
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Machu Picchu Introduction
Magna Graecia 6.2 Ancient Greece
Mehmed II