Part 1: Human Origins and Early Civilizations, to 500 B.C.E.
1. The Birth of Civilization
2. Four Great Revolutions in Thought and Religion
Part 2: Empires and Cultures of the Ancient World, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.
3. Greek and Hellenistic Civilization
4. West Asia, Inner Asia, and South Asia to 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.
5. Africa: Early History to 1000 C.E.
6. Republican and Imperial Rome
7. China's First Empire, 221 B.C.E. - 589 C.E.
Part 3: Consolidation and Interaction of World Civilizations, 500 C.E. to 1500 C.E.
8. Imperial China, 589-1368
9. Early Japanese History
10. The Formation of Islamic Civilization, 622-1000
11. The Byzantine Empire and Western Europe to 1000
12. The Islamic World, 1000-1500
13 Ancient Civilizations of the Americas
14. Africa, ca. 1000-1700
15. Europe to the Early 1500s: Revival, Decline, and Renaissance
Part 4: The World in Transition, 1500-1850
16. Europe, 1500-1650: Expansion, Reformation, and Religious Wars
17. Conquest and Exploitation: The Development of the Transatlantic Economy 18. East Asia in the Late Traditional Era
