World History

Built from Ways of the World. Each chapter has a notes summary, a chapter check with the book's key terms and page numbers, and a test with bigger-picture questions.

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• Chapter 1

  First Peoples; First Farmers

  To 4000 BCE. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 2

  First Civilizations

  3500 to 600 BCE. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 3

  State and Empire in Eurasia/North Africa

  500 BCE to 500 CE. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 4

  Culture and Religion in Eurasia/North Africa

  600 BCE to 600 CE. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 5

  Society and Inequality in Eurasia/North Africa

  600 BCE to 600 CE. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 6

  Commonalities and Variations

  600 BCE to 1200 CE. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 7

  Commerce and Culture

  600 to 1450. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 8

  China and the World

  600 to 1300. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 9

  The Worlds of Islam

  600 to 1450. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 10

  The Worlds of Christendom

  600 to 1300. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 11

  Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage

  1200 to 1450. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 12

  The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century

  The 1400s. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 13

  Political Transformations

  1450 to 1750. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 14

  Economic Transformations

  1450 to 1750. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 15

  Cultural Transformations

  1450 to 1750. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 16

  Atlantic Revolutions, Global Echoes

  1750 to 1900. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 17

  Revolutions of Industrialization

  1750 to 1900. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 18

  Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania

  1750 to 1950. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 19

  Empires in Collision

  1800 to 1900. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 20

  Collapse at the Center

  1900 to the 1970s. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 21

  Revolution, Socialism, and Global Conflict

  1917 to the present. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 22

  The End of Empire

  1900 to the present. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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• Chapter 23

  Capitalism and Culture

  Since 1945. Notes, chapter check, and test.

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