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The Making of the West
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BEDFORD / ST. MARTIN’S Boston ■ New York
The Making of the West
Lynn Hunt University of California, Los Angeles
Thomas R. Martin College of the Holy Cross
Barbara H. Rosenwein Loyola University Chicago
R. Po-chia Hsia Pennsylvania State University
Bonnie G. Smith Rutgers University
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WHEN A BOOK GOES INTO its third edition, authors feel affirmed but also encouraged to do even better. In- structors who have read and used our book con- firmed that the new synthesis we offered in the first and second editions enabled them to bring the most current conceptualizations of the West into their classroom. From the start, our goal has been to create a text that demonstrates that the history of the West is the story of an ongoing process, not a finished re- sult with only one fixed meaning. We wanted also to make clear that there is no one Western people or culture that has existed from the beginning until now. Instead, the history of the West includes many different peoples and cultures. To convey these ideas, we have written a sustained story of the West’s devel- opment in a broad, global context that reveals the cross-cultural interactions fundamental to the shap- ing of Western politics, societies, cultures, and economies. Indeed, the first chapter opens with a sec- tion on the origins and contested meaning of Western civilization. In this conversation, we emphasize our theme of cultural borrowing between the peoples of Europe and their neighbors that has characterized Western civilization from the beginning. Continu- ing this approach in subsequent chapters, we have insisted on an expanded vision of the West that in- cludes the United States and fully incorporates eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Through the depth and breadth embraced in our narrative, we have been able to offer sustained treatment of crucial topics such as Islam and provide a more thorough treatment of globalization than any competing text. Our aim has been to convey the relevance of Western history throughout the book as essential background to today’s events, from debate over European Union membership to conflict in the Middle East. Instructors have found this synthesis essential for helping students understand the West in today’s ever-globalizing world.
Equally valuable to instructors has been the way our book is organized with a chronological framework to help students understand how polit- ical, social, cultural, and economic histories have influenced each other over time. We know from our own teaching that introductory students need
a solid chronological framework, one with enough familiar benchmarks to make the material easy to grasp. Each chapter treats all the main events, people, and themes of a period in which the West significantly changed; thus, students learn about po- litical events and social and cultural developments as they unfolded. This chronological integration also accords with our belief that it is important, above all else, for students to see the interconnec- tions among varieties of historical experience — between politics and cultures, between public events and private experiences, between wars and diplomacy and everyday life. Our chronological synthesis provides a unique benefit to students: it makes these relationships clear while highlighting the major changes of each age. For teachers, our chronological approach ensures a balanced account and provides the opportunity to present themes within their greater context. But perhaps best of all, this approach provides a text that reveals history as a process that is constantly alive, subject to pressures, and able to surprise us.
Despite gratifying praise from the many re- viewers who helped shape this edition, we felt we could do even more to help students and instruc- tors. First, we have further highlighted thematic coverage to help students discern major develop- ments. The most extensive changes we made to this end appear in the Renaissance and Reforma- tion chapters; we rewrote and reorganized the three chapters of the second edition to create a more meaningful two. Chapter 13 includes new coverage of Renaissance art and architecture and the Ottomans’ influence on the West, while Chap- ter 14 offers new consideration of the European Reformation in the context of global exploration and the spread of print culture. We have worked to make key developments clearer in other chapters as well. We united and expanded the discussion of early Canaanites and Hebrews in Chapter 2, added extended coverage of the first and second crusades in Chapter 10, refocused a section on religious fer- vor and later crusades in Chapter 11, consolidated coverage of the scientific revolution in Chapter 15,
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and combined and strengthened a section on in- dustrialization in Chapter 21.
A second way we have chosen to help students identify and absorb major developments is by adding and refining signposts to guide student reading. Most notably, we have added new chapter- opening focus questions. Posed at the end of the opening vignettes, these single questions encapsulate the essence of the era covered in the chapter and guide students toward the core message of the chapter. To further help students as they read, we have worked hard to ensure that chapter and sec- tion overviews outline the central points of each section in the clearest manner possible. In addi- tion, we have condensed some material to better illuminate key ideas.
A third way we have made this book more useful is by adding a special feature called Seeing History. We know that today’s students are at- tuned to visual sources of information, yet they do not always receive systematic instruction in how to “read” or think critically about such sources. Similarly, we know instructors often wish to use visual evidence as the basis of class discussion but do not have materials appropriate for introduc- tory students readily at hand. We have crafted our Seeing History features to address these needs. Each single-page Seeing History feature contains a pair of images — such as paintings, sculpture, photographs, and artifacts — accompanied by back- ground information and probing questions designed to guide students through the process of reading images as historical evidence and to help them explore different perspectives and significant historical developments.
Finally, as always, we have incorporated the latest scholarly findings throughout the book so that students and instructors alike have a text that they can confidently rely on. In the third edition, we have included new and updated discussions of topics such as the demography of the later Roman republic and its effect on social change, the social and political causes of the Great Famine of the early fourteenth century, the emergence of the plague in Europe, the development of new slave- trading routes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the refugee crisis following World War II, and the enlargement of the European Union, among others.
Aided by a fresh and welcoming design, new pedagogical aids, and new multimedia offerings that give students and instructors interactive tools for study and teaching, we believe we have created a new edition even more suited to today’s Western civilization courses. In writing The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, we have aimed to com-
municate the vitality and excitement as well as the fundamental importance of history. Students should be enthused about history; we hope we have conveyed some of our own enthusiasm and love for the study of history in these pages.
Pedagogy and Features
We know from our own teaching that students need all the help they can get in absorbing and making sense of information, thinking analytically, and understanding that history itself is debated and con- stantly revised.With these goals in mind,we retained the class-tested learning and teaching aids that worked well in the first and second editions, but we have also done more to help students distill the central story of each age and give them more opportunities to develop their own historical skills.
The third edition incorporates more aids to help students sort out what is most important to learn while they read. New chapter focus ques- tions guide them toward the central themes of the era and the most significant information they should take away from their reading. Boldface key terms have been updated to concentrate on likely test items and have been expanded to include people. To help students read and study, the key terms and people are defined in a new running glossary at the bottom of pages and collected in a comprehensive glossary at the end of the book.
The study tools introduced in the previous edition continue to help students check their un- derstanding of the chapters and the periods they cover. Review questions, strategically placed at the end of each major section, help students recall and assimilate core points in digestible increments. The Chapter Review section provides a clear study plan with a table of important events, a list of key terms and people, section review questions re- peated from within the chapter, and “Making Connections” questions that encourage students to analyze chapter material or make comparisons within or beyond the chapter. Vivid chapter- opening anecdotes with overviews and chapter out- lines, timelines, and conclusions further reinforce the central developments covered in the reading.
But like a clear narrative synthesis, strong pedagogical support is not enough on its own to encourage active learning. To reflect the richness of the themes in the text and offer further oppor- tunities for historical investigation, we include a rich assortment of single-source documents (two per chapter). Nothing can give students a more di- rect experience of the past than original voices,
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and we have endeavored to let those voices speak, whether it is Frederick Barbarossa replying to the Romans when they offer him the emperor’s crown, Marie de Sévigné’s description of the French court, or an ordinary person’s account of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution.
Accompanying these primary-source features are our unique features that extend the narrative by revealing the process of interpretation, provid- ing a solid introduction to historical argument and critical thinking, and capturing the excite- ment of historical investigation:
• NEW Seeing History features guide students through the process of reading images as historical evidence. Each of the ten features provides a pair of images with background information and questions that encourage visual analysis. Examples include comparisons of pagan and Christian sarcophagi, Persian and Arabic coins, Romanesque and Gothic naves, pre- and post–French Revolution attire, and Italian propaganda posters from World War I.
• Contrasting Views features provide three or four often conflicting primary-source accounts of a cen- tral event, person, or development, such as Julius Caesar, the First Crusade, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, the English Civil War, and late-nineteenth- century migration.
• New Sources, New Perspectives features show stu- dents how historians continue to develop fresh in- sights using new kinds of evidence about the past, from tree rings to Holocaust museums.
• Terms of History features explain the meanings of some of the most important and contested terms in the history of the West and show how those mean- ings have developed — and changed — over time. For example, the discussion of progress shows how the term took root in the eighteenth century and has been contested in the twentieth.
• Taking Measure features introduce students to the intriguing stories revealed by quantitative analysis. Each feature highlights a chart, table, graph, or map of historical statistics that illuminates an important political, social, or cultural development.
The book’s map program has been widely praised as the most comprehensive and inviting of any competing survey text. In each chapter, we offer three types of maps, each with a distinct role in conveying information to students. Four to five full-size maps show major developments, two to four “spot” maps — small maps positioned within the discussion right where students need them — aid students’ understanding of crucial issues, and “Mapping the West” summary maps at the end of
each chapter provide a snapshot of the West at the close of a transformative period and help students visualize the West’s changing contours over time. For this edition, we have carefully considered each map, simplified where possible to better highlight essential information, and clarified and updated borders and labels where needed.
We have striven to integrate art as fully as pos- sible into the narrative and to show its value for teaching and learning. Over 425 illustrations, care- fully chosen to reflect this edition’s broad topical coverage and geographic inclusion, reinforce the text and show the varieties of visual sources from which historians build their narratives and inter- pretations. All artifacts, illustrations, paintings, and photographs are contemporaneous with the chap- ter; there are no anachronistic illustrations. Fur- thermore, along with the new Seeing History fea- tures, our substantive captions for the maps and art help students learn how to read visuals, and we have frequently included specific questions or sug- gestions for comparisons that might be developed. Specially designed visual exercises in the Online Study Guide supplement this approach. A new page design for the third edition supports our goal of intertwining the art and the narrative, and makes the new study tools readily accessible.
Supplements
As with previous editions, a well-integrated ancillary program supports The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures. Each print and new media resource has been carefully revised to provide a host of practical teaching and learning aids. (Visit the online catalog at bedfordstmartins.com/hunt/catalog for ordering information and special packaging options.)
For Students PRINT RESOURCES
Sources of THE MAKING OF THE WEST, Third Edition—Volumes I (to 1740) and II (since 1500) — by Katharine J. Lualdi, University of Southern Maine. This companion sourcebook provides written and visual sources to accompany each chapter of The Making of the West. Political, social, and cultural documents offer a variety of perspec- tives that complement the textbook and encourage students to make connections between narrative history and primary sources. Short chapter sum- maries and document headnotes contextualize the wide array of sources and perspectives repre- sented, while discussion questions guide students’
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reading and promote historical thinking skills. The third edition features five or more written documents per chapter and one-third more visual sources. Available free when packaged with the text and now available in the e-book (see below).
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NEW The Bedford Glossary for European His- tory. This handy supplement for the survey course gives students historically contextualized definitions for hundreds of terms — from Abbasids to Zionism — that students will encounter in lec- tures, reading, and exams. Available free when packaged with the text.
Bedford Series in History and Culture. Over 100 titles in this highly praised series combine first-rate scholarship, historical narrative, and im- portant primary documents for undergraduate courses. Each book is brief, inexpensive, and focused on a specific topic or period. Package discounts are available.
NEW MEDIA RESOURCES
NEW The Making of the West e-Book. This one-of-a-kind online resource integrates the text of The Making of the West with the written and visual sources of the companion sourcebook Sources of THE MAKING OF THE WEST and the self-testing and activities of the Online Study Guide into one easy- to-use e-book. With search functions stronger than in any competing text, this e-book is an ideal study and reference tool for students. Instructors can eas- ily add their own documents, images, and other class material to customize the text.
Online Study Guide at bedfordstmartins.com/ hunt. The popular Online Study Guide for The Making of the West is a free and uniquely personal- ized learning tool to help students master themes and information presented in the textbook and improve their historical skills. Assessment quizzes let students evaluate their comprehension and provide them with customized plans for further study through a variety of activities. Instructors can monitor students’ progress through the online Quiz Gradebook or receive e-mail updates.
NEW Audio Reviews for The Making of the West at bedfordstmartins.com/audioreviews. Audio
Reviews are a new tool that fits easily into stu- dents’ lifestyles and provides a practical new way for them to study. These 25- to 30-minute sum- maries of each chapter in The Making of the West highlight the major themes of the text and help reinforce student learning.
A Student’s Online Guide to History Reference Sources at bedfordstmartins.com/hunt. This Web site provides links to history-related data- bases, indexes, and journals, plus contact informa- tion for state, provincial, local, and professional history organizations.
The Bedford Research Room at bedfordstmartins .com/hunt. The Research Room, drawn from Mike Palmquist’s The Bedford Researcher, offers a wealth of resources — including interactive tuto- rials, research activities, student writing samples, and links to hundreds of other places online — to support students in courses across the disciplines. The site also offers instructors a library of helpful instructional tools.
The Bedford Bibliographer at bedfordstmartins .com/hunt. The Bedford Bibliographer, a simple but powerful Web-based tool, assists students with the process of collecting sources and generates bibliographies in four commonly used documen- tation styles.
Research and Documentation Online at bedfordstmartins.com/hunt. This Web site provides clear advice on how to integrate primary and secondary sources into research papers, how to cite sources correctly, and how to format in MLA, APA, Chicago, or CBE style.
The St. Martin’s Tutorial on Avoiding Plagiarism at bedfordstmartins.com/hunt. This online tuto- rial reviews the consequences of plagiarism and ex- plains what sources to acknowledge, how to keep good notes, how to organize research, and how to integrate sources appropriately. The tutorial in- cludes exercises to help students practice integrating sources and recognize acceptable summaries.
For Instructors PRINT RESOURCES
Instructor’s Resource Manual. This helpful manual by Malia Formes (Western Kentucky Uni- versity) and Dakota Hamilton (Humboldt State University) offers both first-time and experienced teachers a wealth of tools for structuring and cus- tomizing Western civilization history courses of
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different sizes. For each chapter in the textbook, the Instructor’s Resource Manual includes an out- line of chapter themes; a chapter summary; lecture and discussion topics; film and literature sugges- tions; writing and class-presentation assignments; research topic suggestions; and in-class exercises for working with maps, illustrations, and sources. The new edition includes model answers for the review questions in the book as well as a chapter- by-chapter guide to all the supplements available with The Making of the West.
Transparencies. A set of over 200 full-color acetate transparencies for The Making of the West includes all full-sized maps and many images from the text.
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Using the Bedford Series in History and Culture with The Making of the West at bedfordstmartins .com/usingseries. This online guide gives prac- tical suggestions for using the volumes in the Bedford Series in History and Culture in conjunc- tion with The Making of the West. This reference supplies connections between textbook themes and each series book and provides ideas for class- room discussions.
NEW HistoryClass. Bedford/St. Martin’s online learning space for history gives you the right tools and the rich content to create your course, your way. An interactive e-book and e-reader enable you to easily assign relevant textbook sections and primary documents. Access to the acclaimed con- tent library, Make History, provides unlimited access to thousands of maps, images, documents, and Web links. The tried-and-true content of the Online Study Guide offers a range of activities to help students access their progress, study more effectively, and improve their critical thinking skills. Customize provided content and mix in your own with ease — everything in HistoryClass is integrated to work together in the same space.
Instructor’s Resource CD-ROM. This disc pro- vides PowerPoint presentations built around chapter outlines, maps, figures, and selected im- ages from the textbook, plus jpeg versions of all maps, figures, and selected images.
Computerized Test Bank — by Malia Formes, Western Kentucky University; available on CD- ROM. This fully updated test bank offers over 80 exercises per chapter, including multiple-choice, identification, timelines, map labeling and analysis, source analysis, and full-length essay questions.
Instructors can customize quizzes, edit both ques- tions and answers, as well as export them to a vari- ety of formats, including WebCT and Blackboard. The disc includes answer keys and essay outlines.
Book Companion Site at bedfordstmartins.com/ hunt. The companion Web site gathers all the electronic resources for The Making of the West, in- cluding the Online Study Guide and related Quiz Gradebook, at a single Web address, providing convenient links to lecture, assignment, and research materials such as PowerPoint chapter outlines and the digital libraries at Make History.
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Content for Course Management Systems. A variety of student and instructor resources devel- oped for this textbook is ready for use in course management systems such as Blackboard, WebCT, and other platforms. This e-content includes nearly all of the offerings from the book’s Online Study Guide as well as the book’s test bank.
Videos and Multimedia. A wide assortment of videos and multimedia CD-ROMs on various top- ics in European history is available to qualified adopters.
Acknowledgments
In the vital process of revision, the authors have benefited from repeated critical readings by many tal- ented scholars and teachers. Our sincere thanks go to the following instructors, whose comments often challenged us to rethink or justify our interpretations and who always provided a check on accuracy down to the smallest detail.
Abel Alves, Ball State University
Gene Barnett, Calhoun Community College
Giovanna Benadusi, University of South Florida
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Marjorie K. Berman, Red Rocks Community College
Gregory Bruess, University of Northern Iowa
James M. Burns, Clemson University
Kevin W. Caldwell, Blue Ridge Community College
William R. Caraher, University of North Dakota
Joseph J. Casino, Villanova University, St. Joseph’s University
Sara Chapman, Oakland University
Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Robert Cole, Utah State University
Theodore F. Cook, William Patterson University
Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz, Georgetown University
Luanne Dagley, Pellissippi State Technical Community College
Frederick H. Dotolo III, St. John Fisher College
Mari Firkatian, University of Hartford
David D. Flaten, Tompkins Cortland Community College
Ellen Pratt Fout, The Ohio State University
Rebecca Friedman, Florida International University
Helen Grady, Springside School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Padhraig S. Higgins, Pennsylvania State University
Ronald K. Huch, Eastern Kentucky University
Michael Innis-Jiménez, William Paterson University
Jason M. Kelly, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Nathaniel Knight, Seton Hall University
Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Cleveland State University
Charles Levine, Mesa Community College
Keith P. Luria, North Carolina State University
Kathryn Lynass, Arizona State University
Michael Mackey, Community College of Denver
John McManamon, Loyola University
Anthony Makowski, Delaware County Community College
John W. Mauer, Tri-County Technical College
Lynn Wood Mollenauer, University of North Carolina–Wilmington
Michelle Anne Novak, Houston Community College
Jason M. Osborne, Northern Kentucky University
James A. Ross-Nazzal, Houston Community College–Southeast College
Daniel Sarefield, The Ohio State University
Nancy E. Shockley, New Mexico State University
Dionysios Skentzis, College of DuPage
Daniel Stephen, University of Colorado at Boulder
Charles R. Sullivan, University of Dallas
Emily Sohmer Tai, Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York
David Tengwall, Anne Arundel Community College
Andrew Thomas, Purdue University
Paul A. Townend, University of North Carolina–Wilmington
David Ulbrich, Ball State University
Karen T. Wagner, Pikes Peak Community College
William Welch Jr., Troy University
David K. White, McHenry County College
James Theron Wilson, Ball State University
Many colleagues, friends, and family members have made contributions to this work. They know how grateful we are. We also wish to acknowledge and thank the publishing team at Bedford/St. Martin’s who did so much to bring this revised edition to completion: president Joan Feinberg, editorial director Denise Wydra, publisher for his- tory Mary Dougherty, director of development for history Jane Knetzger, senior editor Heidi Hood, senior editor Louise Townsend, senior editor Sara Wise, freelance editors Betty Slack and Dale Anderson, editorial assistant and production asso- ciate Lindsay DiGianvittorio, executive marketing manager Jenna Bookin Barry, senior production editor Karen Baart, managing editor Elizabeth Schaaf, art researcher Gillian Speeth, text designer Janis Owens, page makeup artist Cia Boynton, cover designer Donna Dennison, and copyeditor Janet Renard.
Our students’ questions and concerns have shaped much of this work, and we welcome all our readers’ suggestions, queries, and criticisms. Please contact us at our respective institutions or via history@bedfordstmartins.com.
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Brief Contents
Prologue: The Beginnings of Human Society, to c. 4000 B.C.E. P-3
1 Early Western Civilization, 4000–1000 B.C.E. 3
2 The Near East and the Emergence of Greece, 1000–500 B.C.E. 33
3 The Greek Golden Age, c. 500–c. 400 B.C.E. 69
4 From the Classical to the Hellenistic World, 400–30 B.C.E. 103
5 The Rise of Rome, 753–44 B.C.E. 133
6 The Roman Empire, 44 B.C.E.–284 C.E. 163
7 The Transformation of the Roman Empire, 284–600 C.E. 195
8 Islam, Byzantium, and the West, 600–750 231
9 Emperors, Caliphs, and Local Lords, 750–1050 261
10 Merchants and Kings, Popes and Crusaders, 1050–1150 295
11 The Flowering of the Middle Ages, 1150–1215 327
12 The Medieval Search for Order, 1215–1340 359
13 Crisis and Renaissance, 1340–1492 387
14 Global Encounters and Religious Reforms, 1492–1560 419
15 Wars of Religion and the Clash of Worldviews, 1560–1648 451
16 State Building and the Search for Order, 1648–1690 483
17 The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1690–1740 519
18 The Promise of Enlightenment, 1740–1789 555
19 The Cataclysm of Revolution, 1789–1799 587
20 Napoleon and the Revolutionary Legacy, 1800–1830 619
21 Industrialization and Social Ferment, 1830–1850 653
22 Politics and Culture of the Nation- State, 1850–1870 689
23 Industry, Empire, and Everyday Life, 1870–1890 725
24 Modernity and the Road to War, 1890–1914 763
25 World War I and Its Aftermath, 1914–1929 799
26 The Great Depression and World War II, 1929–1945 839
27 The Cold War and the Remaking of Europe, 1945–1960s 879
28 Postindustrial Society and the End of the Cold War Order, 1960s–1989 915
29 A New Globalism, 1989 to the Present 951
Appendix: Useful Facts and Figures A-1
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Brief Contents xi
Maps and Figures xxix
Special Features xxxv
To the Student xxxix
Authors’ Note: The B.C.E./C.E. Dating System xlv
About the Authors xlvii
Prologue The Beginnings of Human Society,
to c. 4000 B.C.E.
The Paleolithic Age, 200,000–10,000 B.C.E. P-4 The Life of Hunter-Gatherers P-5 Technology, Trade, Religion, and Hierarchy P-6
The Neolithic Age, 10,000–4000 B.C.E. P-8 The Neolithic Revolution P-8 Neolithic Origins of Modern Life and War P-10 Daily Life in the Neolithic Village of
Çatalhöyük P-10 Gender Inequality in the Neolithic Age P-14
Conclusion P-15 • Chapter Review P-16
NEW SOURCES, NEW PERSPECTIVES: Daily Bread, Damaged Bones, and Cracked Teeth P-12
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Chapter 1 Early Western Civilization,
4000–1000 B.C.E.
Chapter 2 The Near East and the Emergence
of Greece, 1000–500 B.C.E.
The Controversial Concept of Western Civilization 4 Defining Western Civilization 4 Locating Early Western Civilization 6
Mesopotamia, Home of the First Civilization, 4000–1000 B.C.E. 7 Cities and Society, 4000–2350 B.C.E. 7 Metals, the Akkadian Empire, and the Ur III
Dynasty, c. 2350–c. 2000 B.C.E. 12 Assyrian, Babylonian, and Canaanite
Achievements, 2000–1000 B.C.E. 13
Egypt, the First Unified Country, 3050–1000 B.C.E. 16 From Egyptian Unification to the Old Kingdom,
3050–2190 B.C.E. 16 The Middle and New Kingdoms in Egypt,
2061–1081 B.C.E. 20
The Hittites, Minoans, and Mycenaeans, 2200–1000 B.C.E. 23 The Hittites, 1750–1200 B.C.E. 24 The Minoans, 2200–1400 B.C.E. 25 The Mycenaeans, 1800–1000 B.C.E. 27 The Period of Calamities, 1200–1000 B.C.E. 28
Conclusion 29 • Chapter Review 31
TERMS OF HISTORY: Civilization 6 DOCUMENT: Hammurabi’s Laws for Physicians 15 DOCUMENT: Declaring Innocence on Judgment Day in
Ancient Egypt 22
From Dark Age to Empire in the Near East, 1000–500 B.C.E. 34 The New Empire of Assyria, 900–600 B.C.E. 35 The Neo-Babylonian Empire, 600–539 B.C.E. 36 The Persian Empire, 557–500 B.C.E. 37 The Hebrews, Origins to 539 B.C.E. 39
Remaking Greek Civilization, 1000–750 B.C.E. 42 The Greek Dark Age, 1000–750 B.C.E. 42 The Values of the Olympic Games 45 Homer, Hesiod, and Divine Justice
in Greek Myth 46
The Creation of the Greek Polis, 750–500 B.C.E. 47 The Physical Environment of the Greek
City-State 47 Trade and “Colonization,” 800–580 B.C.E. 48 Citizenship and Freedom in the Greek
City-State 51
New Directions for the Polis, 750–500 B.C.E. 57 Oligarchy in Sparta, 700–500 B.C.E. 57 Tyranny in Corinth, 657–585 B.C.E. 60 Democracy in Athens, 632–500 B.C.E. 62 New Ways of Thought and Expression,
630–500 B.C.E. 64
Conclusion 65 • Chapter Review 67
document: Homer’s Vision of Justice in the Polis 46 seeing history: Shifting Sculptural Expression:
From Egypt to Greece 50 document: Cyrene Records Its Foundation as a Greek
Colony 52 taking measure: Greek Family Size and Agricultural
Labor in the Archaic Age 55 contrasting views: Persians Debate Democracy,
Oligarchy, and Monarchy 58
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Chapter 3 The Greek Golden Age,
c. 500–c. 400 B.C.E.
Chapter 4 From the Classical to the Hellenistic
World, 400–30 B.C.E.
Wars between Persia and Greece, 499–479 B.C.E. 71 From the Ionian Revolt to the Battle of
Marathon, 499–490 B.C.E. 71 The Great Persian Invasion, 480–479 B.C.E. 72
Athenian Confidence in the Golden Age, 478–431 B.C.E. 74 The Establishment of the Athenian Empire 74 Radical Democracy and Pericles’ Leadership,
461–431 B.C.E. 75 The Urban Landscape 77
Tradition and Innovation in Athens’s Golden Age 81 Religious Tradition in a Period of Change 81 Women, Slaves, and Metics 82 Innovations in Education and Philosophy 86 The Development of Greek Tragedy 92 The Development of Greek Comedy 95
The End of the Golden Age, 431–403 B.C.E. 96 The Peloponnesian War, 431–404 B.C.E. 97 Athens Humbled: Tyranny and Civil War,
404–403 B.C.E. 99
Conclusion 99 • Chapter Review 101
contrasting views: The Nature of Women and Marriage 84
document: Athenian Regulations for a Rebellious Ally 88 document: Sophists Argue Both Sides of a Case 90 taking measure: Military Forces of Athens and Sparta
at the Beginning of the Peloponnesian War (431 B.C.E.) 98
Classical Greece after the Peloponnesian War, 400–350 B.C.E. 104 Restoring Daily Life in Athens 105 The Execution of Socrates, 399 B.C.E. 106 The Philosophy of Plato 107 Aristotle, Scientist and Philosopher 108 Greek Political Disunity 110
The Rise of Macedonia, 359–323 B.C.E. 110 The Roots of Macedonian Power 110 The Rule of Philip II, 359–336 B.C.E. 111 The Rule of Alexander the Great,
336–323 B.C.E. 112
The Hellenistic Kingdoms, 323–30 B.C.E. 115 Creating New Kingdoms 115 The Structure of Hellenistic Kingdoms 116 The Layers of Hellenistic Society 118 The End of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 120
Hellenistic Culture 120 The Arts under Royal Patronage 120 Philosophy for a New Age 122 Scientific Innovation 126 Cultural and Religious Transformations 127
Conclusion 129 • Chapter Review 131
document: Aristotle on the Nature of the Greek Polis 109 document: Epigrams by Women Poets 122 new sources, new perspectives: Papyrus Discoveries
and Menander’s Comedies 124
69 103
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Chapter 5 The Rise of Rome,
753–44 B.C.E.
Chapter 6 The Roman Empire,
44 B.C.E.–284 C.E.
Roman Social and Religious Traditions 134 Roman Moral Values 134 The Patron-Client System 136 The Roman Family 136 Education for Public Life 138 Public and Private Religion 138
From Monarchy to Republic 139 Roman Society under the Kings,
753–509 B.C.E. 140 The Early Roman Republic, 509–287 B.C.E. 142
Roman Imperialism and Its Consequences 145 Expansion in Italy, 500–220 B.C.E. 145 Wars with Carthage and in the East,
264–121 B.C.E. 146 Greek Influence on Roman Literature and
the Arts 149 Stresses on Republican Society 150
Upheaval in the Late Republic 152 The Gracchus Brothers and Factional Politics,
133–121 B.C.E. 152 Marius and the Origin of Client Armies,
107–100 B.C.E. 153 Sulla and Civil War, 91–78 B.C.E. 153 The Republic’s Downfall, 83–44 B.C.E. 155
Conclusion 159 • Chapter Review 161
document: The Rape and Suicide of Lucretia 144 taking measure: Census Records during the First and
Second Punic Wars 148 document: Polybius on Roman Military Discipline 154 contrasting views: What Was Julius Caesar Like? 156
Creating the Pax Romana 164 From Republic to Principate, 44–27 B.C.E. 165 Augustus’s “Restoration of the Republic,”
27 B.C.E.–14 C.E. 165 Augustan Rome 167 Imperial Education, Literature, and Art 172
Maintaining the Pax Romana 173 Making Monarchy Permanent,
14–180 C.E. 174 Life in the Roman Golden Age,
96–180 C.E. 176
The Emergence of Christianity 181 Jesus and His Teachings 181 Growth of a New Religion 182 Competing Beliefs 185
The Third-Century Crisis 188 Defending the Frontiers 188 The Severan Emperors and Catastrophe 190
Conclusion 191 • Chapter Review 193
document: Augustus, Res Gestae (My Accomplishments) 168
document: The Scene at a Roman Bath 170 contrasting views: Christians in the Empire: Conspirators
or Faithful Subjects? 186 taking measure: The Value of Roman Imperial
Coinage, 27 B.C.E.–300 C.E. 189
133 163
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Chapter 7 The Transformation of the
Roman Empire, 284–600 C.E.
Chapter 8 Islam, Byzantium, and
the West, 600–750
Reorganizing the Empire, 284–395 197 From Reform to Fragmentation 197 The High Cost of Rescuing the Empire 200 The Emperors and Official Religion 202
Christianizing the Empire, 312–c. 540 204 Changing Religious Beliefs 204 Establishing Christian Orthodoxy 209 The Emergence of Christian Monks 212
Non-Roman Kingdoms in the West, c. 370–550s 214 Non-Roman Migrations 215 Mixing Traditions 219
The Roman Empire in the East, c. 500–565 221 Imperial Society in the East 222 The Reign of Justinian, 527–565 223 Preserving Classical Traditions 225
Conclusion 227 • Chapter Review 229
document: Diocletian’s Edict on Maximum Prices and Wages 201
taking measure: Peasants’ Use of Farm Produce in the Roman Empire 202
document: The Edict of Milan on Religious Liberty 203 seeing history: Changing Religious Beliefs: Pagan and
Christian Sarcophagi 206 new sources, new perspectives: Was There a Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire? 218
Islam: A New Religion and a New Empire 232 Nomads and City Dwellers 232 The Prophet Muhammad and the
Faith of Islam 233 Growth of Islam, c. 610–632 234 The Caliphs, Muhammad’s Successors,
632–750 236 Peace and Prosperity in Islamic Lands 237
Byzantium: A Christian Empire under Siege 238 Wars on the Frontiers, c. 570–750 239 From an Urban to a Rural Way of Life 240 New Military and Cultural Forms 242 Religion, Politics, and Iconoclasm 243
Western Europe: A Medley of Kingdoms 245 Frankish Kingdoms with Roman Roots 246 Economic Activity in a Peasant Society 248 The Powerful in Merovingian Society 250 Christianity and Classical Culture in the
British Isles 253 Unity in Spain, Division in Italy 255 Political Tensions and the Power of the Pope 256
Conclusion 257 • Chapter Review 259
terms of history: Medieval 233 document: The Fatihah of the Qur’an 234 seeing history: Who Conquered Whom? A Persian and an
Arabic Coin Compared 239 taking measure: Church Repair, 600–900 243 document: On Holy Images 245 new sources, new perspectives: Anthropology,
Archaeology, and Changing Notions of Ethnicity 249
195 231
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Chapter 9 Emperors, Caliphs, and Local Lords, 750–1050
Chapter 10 Merchants and Kings, Popes and Crusaders, 1050–1150
The Emperor and Local Elites in the Byzantine Empire 262 Imperial Power 262 The Macedonian Renaissance, c. 870–c. 1025 264 The Dynatoi: A New Landowning Elite 266 In Byzantium’s Shadow: Bulgaria, Serbia,
Russia 266
The Caliphate and Its Fragmentation 268 The Abbasid Caliphate, 750–c. 950 268 Regional Diversity in Islamic Lands 269 Unity of Commerce and Language 270 The Islamic Renaissance, c. 790–c. 1050 271
The Creation and Division of a New European Empire 272 The Rise of the Carolingians 272 Charlemagne and His Kingdom, 768–814 273 The Carolingian Renaissance, c. 790–c. 900 275 Charlemagne’s Successors, 814–911 277 Land and Power 278 Viking, Muslim, and Magyar Invasions,
c. 790–955 279
After the Carolingians: The Emergence of Local Rule 282 Public Power and Private Relationships 282 Warriors and Warfare 285 Efforts to Contain Violence 286 Political Communities in Italy, England,
and France 287 Emperors and Kings in Central and Eastern
Europe 289
Conclusion 291 • Chapter Review 293
document: The Book of the Prefect 265 document: When She Approached 272 contrasting views: Charlemagne: Roman Emperor, Father
of Europe, or the Chief Bishop? 276 terms of history: Feudalism 283 taking measure: Sellers, Buyers, and Donors,
800–1000 284
The Commercial Revolution 296 Fairs, Towns, and Cities 296 Organizing Crafts and Commerce 299 Communes: Self-Government for the
Towns 301 The Commercial Revolution in the
Countryside 301
Church Reform 302 Beginnings of Reform 303 The Gregorian Reform and the Investiture
Conflict, 1073–1122 305 The Sweep of Reform 307 New Monastic Orders of Poverty 309
The Crusades 311 Calling the Crusade 311 The First Crusade 313 The Crusader States 316 The Disastrous Second Crusade 317 The Long-Term Impact of the Crusades 317
The Revival of Monarchies 319 Reconstructing the Empire at Byzantium 319 England under Norman Rule 319 Praising the King of France 321 Surviving as Emperor 322
Conclusion 323 • Chapter Review 325
document: A Byzantine View of Papal Primacy 305 contrasting views: The First Crusade 314 new sources, new perspectives: The Cairo Geniza 318 document: Penances for the Invaders (1070) 322 taking measure: Slaves in England in 1086 323
261 295
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Chapter 11 The Flowering of the Middle
Ages, 1150–1215
Chapter 12 The Medieval Search for Order,
1215–1340
New Schools and Churches 328 The New Learning and the Rise of the
University 328 Architectural Style: From Romanesque to
Gothic 332
Governments as Institutions 336 England: Unity through Common Law 336 France: Consolidation and Conquest 340 Germany: The Revived Monarchy of Frederick
Barbarossa 341 Eastern Europe and Byzantium: Fragmenting
Realms 346
The Growth of a Vernacular High Culture 346 The Troubadours: Poets of Love and Play 347 The Literature of Epic and Romance 348
Religious Fervor and Crusade 349 New Religious Orders in the Cities 349 Disastrous Crusades to the Holy Land 351 Victorious Crusades in Europe and on Its
Frontiers 353
Conclusion 355 • Chapter Review 357
seeing history: Romanesque versus Gothic: The View Down the Nave 335
contrasting views: Magna Carta 342 document: Frederick I’s Reply to the Romans 344 document: The Children’s Crusade (1212) 355
The Church’s Mission 360 Innocent III and the Fourth Lateran
Council 360 The Inquisition 362 Lay Piety 362 Jews and Lepers as Outcasts 365
The Medieval Synthesis 367 Scholasticism: Harmonizing Faith and
Reason 367 New Syntheses in Writing and Music 369 Gothic Art 370
The Politics of Control 373 The Weakening of the Empire 373 Louis IX and a New Ideal of Kingship 375 The Birth of Representative Institutions 376 The Weakening of the Papacy 377 The Rise of the Signori 379 The Mongol Takeover 380 The Great Famine 380
Conclusion 382 • Chapter Review 384
taking measure: Sentences Imposed by an Inquisitor, 1308–1323 363
new sources, new perspectives: The Peasants of Montaillou 364
document: The Debate between Reason and the Lover 369 document: Ausculta Fili (Listen, Beloved Son) 379
327 359
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Chapter 13 Crisis and Renaissance,
1340–1492
Chapter 14 Global Encounters and Religious
Reforms, 1492–1560
Crisis: Disease, War, and Schism 388 The Black Death, 1346–1353 388 The Hundred Years’ War, 1337–1453 391 The Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople,
1453 396 The Great Schism, 1378–1417 397
The Renaissance: New Forms of Thought and Expression 401 Renaissance Humanism 401 The Arts 403
Consolidating Power 408 New Political Formations in Eastern
Europe 409 Powerful States in Western Europe 410 Republics 411 The Tools of Power 413
Conclusion 414 • Chapter Review 416
taking measure: Population Losses and the Black Death 389
contrasting views: Joan of Arc: Who Was “the Maid”? 394
document: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion (1381) 398 terms of history: Renaissance 402 document: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the
Dignity of Man 404
Widening Horizons 420 Portuguese Explorations 420 The Voyages of Columbus 421 A New Era in Slavery 423 Conquering the New World 425
The Protestant Reformation 426 The Invention of Printing 426 Popular Piety and Christian Humanism 427 Martin Luther and the Holy Roman Empire 429 Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin 432 The Anglican Church in England 433
Reshaping Society through Religion 434 Protestant Challenges to the Social Order 435 New Forms of Discipline 437 Catholic Renewal 438
A Struggle for Mastery 441 The High Renaissance Court 441 Dynastic Wars 442 Financing War 444 Divided Realms 445
Conclusion 447 • Chapter Review 449
document: Columbus Describes His First Voyage (1493) 423
seeing history: Expanding Geographic Knowledge: World Maps in an Age of Exploration 424
contrasting views: Martin Luther: Holy Man or Heretic? 431
document: Ordinances for Calvinist Churches (1547) 433
387 419
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Chapter 15 Wars of Religion and the Clash of
Worldviews, 1560–1648
Chapter 16 State Building and the Search
for Order, 1648–1690
Religious Conflicts Threaten State Power, 1560–1618 452 French Wars of Religion, 1562–1598 452 Challenges to Spain’s Authority 455 Elizabeth I’s Defense of English
Protestantism 458 The Clash of Faiths and Empires in
Eastern Europe 459
The Thirty Years’ War, 1618–1648 460 Origins and Course of the War 460 The Effects of Constant Fighting 462 The Peace of Westphalia, 1648 463
Economic Crisis and Realignment 465 From Growth to Recession 465 Consequences for Daily Life 467 The Economic Balance of Power 469
The Rise of Secular and Scientific Worldviews 471 The Arts in an Age of Crisis 471 The Natural Laws of Politics 472 The Scientific Revolution 474 Magic and Witchcraft 478
Conclusion 479 • Chapter Review 481
document: The Horrors of the Thirty Years’ War 462 taking measure: The Rise and Fall of Silver Imports to
Spain, 1550–1660 465 new sources, new perspectives: Tree Rings and the
Little Ice Age 466 seeing history: Religious Differences in Painting of the
Baroque Period: Rubens and Rembrandt 473 document: Sentence Pronounced against
Galileo (1633) 477
Louis XIV: Absolutism and Its Limits 484 The Fronde, 1648–1653 485 Court Culture as an Element of Absolutism 486 Enforcing Religious Orthodoxy 489 Extending State Authority at Home and
Abroad 489
Absolutism in Central and Eastern Europe 492 Brandenburg-Prussia: Militaristic
Absolutism 493 An Uneasy Balance: Austrian Habsburgs and
Ottoman Turks 494 Russia: Setting the Foundations of Bureaucratic
Absolutism 496 Poland-Lithuania Overwhelmed 497
Constitutionalism in England 497 England Turned Upside Down, 1642–1660 498 The Glorious Revolution of 1688 502 Social Contract Theory: Hobbes and Locke 504
Outposts of Constitutionalism 505 The Dutch Republic 505 Freedom and Slavery in the New World 508
The Search for Order in Elite and Popular Culture 509 Freedom and Constraint in the Arts and
Sciences 509 Women and Manners 512 Reforming Popular Culture 514
Conclusion 515 • Chapter Review 517
document: Marie de Sévigné, Letter Describing the French Court (1675) 487
taking measure: The Seventeenth-Century Army 493 contrasting views: The English Civil War 500 document: John Milton, Defense of Freedom of the
Press (1644) 511
451 483
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Chapter 17 The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1690–1740
Chapter 18 The Promise of Enlightenment,
1740–1789
The Atlantic System and the World Economy 520 Slavery and the Atlantic System 521 World Trade and Settlement 526 The Birth of Consumer Society 528
New Social and Cultural Patterns 529 Agricultural Revolution 529 Social Life in the Cities 531 New Tastes in the Arts 534 Religious Revivals 536
Consolidation of the European State System 536 French Ambitions Thwarted 536 British Rise and Dutch Decline 538 Russia’s Emergence as a European Power 540 The Power of Diplomacy and the Importance
of Population 544
The Birth of the Enlightenment 545 Popularization of Science and Challenges to
Religion 546 Travel Literature and the Challenge to Custom
and Tradition 549 Raising the Woman Question 549
Conclusion 550 • Chapter Review 552
new sources, new perspectives: Oral History and the Life of Slaves 524
document: The Social Effects of Growing Consumption 530 taking measure: Relationship of Crop Harvested to Seed
Used, 1400–1800 531 terms of history: Progress 547 document: Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English
Nation (1733) 548
The Enlightenment at Its Height 556 Men and Women of the Republic of Letters 556 Conflicts with Church and State 558 The Individual and Society 560 Spreading the Enlightenment 564 The Limits of Reason: Roots of Romanticism
and Religious Revival 566
Society and Culture in an Age of Enlightenment 567 The Nobility’s Reassertion of Privilege 567 The Middle Class and the Making of a
New Elite 568 Life on the Margins 571
State Power in an Era of Reform 573 War and Diplomacy 573 State-Sponsored Reform 576 Limits of Reform 577
Rebellions against State Power 578 Food Riots and Peasant Uprisings 578 Public Opinion and Political Opposition 580 Revolution in North America 581
Conclusion 583 • Chapter Review 585
document: Denis Diderot, “Encyclopedia” (1755) 559 contrasting views: Women and the Enlightenment 562 terms of history: Enlightenment 565 taking measure: World Population Growth,
1700–1800 571 document: Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
(July 4, 1776) 582
519 555
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Chapter 19 The Cataclysm of Revolution,
1789–1799
Chapter 20 Napoleon and the Revolutionary
Legacy, 1800–1830
The Revolutionary Wave, 1787–1789 588 Protesters in the Low Countries and
Poland 589 Origins of the French Revolution,
1787–1789 591
From Monarchy to Republic, 1789–1793 594 The Revolution of Rights and Reason 594 The End of Monarchy 598
Terror and Resistance 600 Robespierre and the Committee of Public
Safety 600 The Republic of Virtue, 1793–1794 602 Resisting the Revolution 604 The Fall of Robespierre and the End of the
Terror 605
Revolution on the March 607 Arms and Conquests 607 European Reactions to Revolutionary
Change 608 Poland Extinguished, 1793–1795 612 Revolution in the Colonies 613
Conclusion 615 • Chapter Review 617
terms of history: Revolution 590 document: The Rights of Minorities 597 contrasting views: Perspectives on the French
Revolution 610 document: Address on Abolishing the Slave Trade
(February 5, 1790) 613
The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte 620 A General Takes Over 620 From Republic to Empire 622 The New Paternalism: The Civil Code 625 Patronage of Science and Intellectual Life 627
“Europe Was at My Feet”: Napoleon’s Conquests 628 The Grand Army and Its Victories,
1800–1807 628 The Impact of French Victories 630 From Russian Winter to Final Defeat,
1812–1815 632
The “Restoration” of Europe 636 The Congress of Vienna, 1814–1815 636 The Emergence of Conservatism 638 The Revival of Religion 639
Challenges to the Conservative Order 640 Romanticism 640 Political Revolts in the 1820s 644 Revolution and Reform, 1830–1832 646
Conclusion 649 • Chapter Review 651
seeing history: The Clothing Revolution: The Social Meaning of Changes in Post-Revolutionary Fashion 624
document: An Ordinary Soldier on Campaign with Napoleon 633
contrasting views: Napoleon: For and Against 634 document: Wordsworth’s Poetry 642
587 619
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Chapter 21 Industrialization and Social
Ferment, 1830–1850
Chapter 22 Politics and Culture of the Nation-State, 1850–1870
The Industrial Revolution 654 Roots of Industrialization 654 Engines of Change 656 Urbanization and Its Consequences 661 Agricultural Perils and Prosperity 663
Reforming the Social Order 664 Cultural Responses to the Social Question 664 The Varieties of Social Reform 667 Abuses and Reforms Overseas 670
Ideologies and Political Movements 671 The Spell of Nationalism 672 Liberalism in Economics and Politics 674 Socialism and the Early Labor Movement 675
The Revolutions of 1848 678 The Hungry Forties 678 Another French Revolution 679 Nationalist Revolution in Italy 680 Revolt and Reaction in Central Europe 681 Aftermath to 1848 684
Conclusion 685 • Chapter Review 687
taking measure: Railroad Lines, 1830–1850 656 new sources, new perspectives: Statistics and the
Standard of Living of the Working Class 660 document: Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto 677 document: Alexis de Tocqueville Describes the June Days
in Paris (1848) 681
The End of the Concert of Europe 690 Napoleon III and the Quest for French
Glory 691 The Crimean War, 1853–1856: Turning
Point in European Affairs 692 Reform in Russia 694
War and Nation Building 696 Cavour, Garibaldi, and the Process of Italian
Unification 696 Bismarck and the Realpolitik of German
Unification 699 Francis Joseph and the Creation of the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 702 Political Stability through Gradual Reform
in Great Britain 703 Nation Building in the United States and
Canada 705
Establishing Social Order 705 Bringing Order to the Cities 706 Expanding the Reach of Government 708 Schooling and Professionalizing Society 709 Spreading Western Order beyond the West 710 Confronting the Nation-State’s Order at
Home 713
The Culture of Social Order 715 The Arts Confront Social Reality 716 Religion and National Order 718 From the Natural Sciences to Social Science 720
Conclusion 721 • Chapter Review 723
document: Mrs. Seacole: The Other Florence Nightingale 694
terms of history: Nationalism 697 document: Bismarck Tricks the Public to Get His War 701 seeing history: Photographing the Nation: Domesticity
and War 704
653 689
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Chapter 23 Industry, Empire, and Everyday
Life, 1870–1890
Chapter 24 Modernity and the Road
to War, 1890–1914
The Advance of Industry in an Age of Empire 727 Industrial Innovation 727 Facing Economic Crisis 729 Revolution in Business Practices 731
The New Imperialism 733 Taming the Mediterranean 733 Scramble for Africa 733 Acquiring Territory in Asia 737 Japan’s Imperial Agenda 738 The Paradoxes of Imperialism 739
Imperial Society and Culture 740 The “Best Circles” and the Expanding
Middle Class 741 Professional Sports and Organized Leisure 742 Working People’s Strategies 743 Reform Efforts for Working-Class People 746 Artistic Responses to Empire and Industry 747
The Birth of Mass Politics 750 Workers, Politics, and Protest 750 Expanding Political Participation in
Western Europe 752 Power Politics in Central and Eastern Europe 754
Conclusion 759 • Chapter Review 761
document: Imperialism’s Popularity among the People 736 contrasting views: Experiences of Migration 744 document: Henrik Ibsen, From A Doll’s House 748 taking measure: The Decline of Illiteracy 755
Public Debate over Private Life 764 Population Pressure 765 Reforming Marriage 766 New Women, New Men, and the Politics of
Sexual Identity 767 Sciences of the Modern Self 768
Modernity and the Revolt in Ideas 771 The Opposition to Positivism 771 Revolutionizing Science 772 Modern Art 773 The Revolt in Music and Dance 775
Growing Tensions in Mass Politics 776 Labor’s Expanding Power 776 Rights for Women and the Battle for Suffrage 777 Liberalism Tested 778 Anti-Semitism, Nationalism, and Zionism in
Mass Politics 779
European Imperialism Challenged 783 The Trials of Empire 784 The Russian Empire Threatened 787 Growing Resistance to Colonial Domination 788
Roads to War 790 Competing Alliances and Clashing
Ambitions 790 The Race to Arms 792 1914: War Erupts 793
Conclusion 795 • Chapter Review 797
terms of history: Modern 766 new sources, new perspectives: Psychohistory and Its
Lessons 770 document: Leon Pinsker Calls for a Jewish State 783 document: A Historian Promotes Militant Nationalism 795
725 763
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Chapter 25 World War I and Its Aftermath,
1914–1929
Chapter 26 The Great Depression
and World War II, 1929–1945
The Great War, 1914–1918 800 Blueprints for War 800 The Battlefronts 803 The Home Front 806
Protest, Revolution, and War’s End, 1917–1918 810 War Protest 810 Revolution in Russia 810 Ending the War, 1918 814
The Search for Peace in an Era of Revolution 815 Europe in Turmoil 815 The Paris Peace Conference, 1919–1920 816 Economic and Diplomatic Consequences of
the Peace 820
The Aftermath of War: Europe in the 1920s 821 Changes in the Political Landscape 822 Reconstructing the Economy 824 Restoring Society 825
Mass Culture and the Rise of Modern Dictators 827 Culture for the Masses 828 Cultural Debates over the Future 828 The Communist Utopia 831 Fascism on the March in Italy 833
Conclusion 835 • Chapter Review 837
seeing history: Demonizing the Enemy: Italian Propaganda Posters from World War I 808
document: Outbreak of the Russian Revolution 813 contrasting views: Arguing with the Victors 818 taking measure: The Growth of Radio, 1924–1929 829 document: Battlefield Tourism 830
The Great Depression 840 Economic Disaster Strikes 840 Social Effects of the Depression 842 The Great Depression beyond the West 843
Totalitarian Triumph 844 The Rise of Stalinism 844 Hitler’s Rise to Power 847 The Nazification of German Politics 848 Nazi Racism 849
Democracies on the Defensive 852 Confronting the Economic Crisis 852 Cultural Visions in Hard Times 854
The Road to Global War 856 A Surge in Global Imperialism 856 The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 859 Hitler’s Conquest of Central Europe,
1938–1939 860
World War II, 1939–1945 862 The German Onslaught 862 War Expands: The Pacific and Beyond 864 The War against Civilians 864 Societies at War 866 From Resistance to Allied Victory 868 An Uneasy Postwar Settlement 873
Conclusion 875 • Chapter Review 877
document: A Family Copes with Unemployment 842 terms of history: Totalitarianism 845 contrasting views: Stalin and Hitler: For and Against 850 document: The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 858 new sources, new perspectives: Museums and
Memory 867
799 839
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Chapter 27 The Cold War and the Remaking
of Europe, 1945–1960s
Chapter 28 Postindustrial Society and the End of
the Cold War Order, 1960s–1989
World Politics Transformed 880 Chaos in Europe 881 New Superpowers: The United States and
the Soviet Union 883 Origins of the Cold War 883 The Division of Germany 886
Political and Economic Recovery in Europe 888 Dealing with Nazism 888 Rebirth of the West 889 The Welfare State: Common Ground East
and West 893 Recovery in the East 894
Decolonization in a Cold War Climate 897 The End of Empire in Asia 897 The Struggle for Identity in the Middle East 899 New Nations in Africa 900 Newcomers Arrive in Europe 901
Daily Life and Culture in the Shadow of Nuclear War 902 Restoring “Western” Values 903 Consumerism and Shifting Gender Norms 905 The Culture of Cold War 908 The Atomic Brink 909
Conclusion 911 • Chapter Review 913
new sources, new perspectives: Government Archives and the Truth about the Cold War 885
taking measure: World Manufacturing Output, 1950–1970 892
document: The Schuman Plan on European Unity (1950) 893
document: Consumerism, Youth, and the Birth of the Generation Gap 905
The Revolution in Technology 916 The Information Age: Television and
Computers 916 The Space Age 918 The Nuclear Age 919 Revolutions in Biology and Reproductive
Technology 919
Postindustrial Society and Culture 921 Multinational Corporations 921 The New Worker 922 The Boom in Education and Research 924 Changing Family Life and the Generation
Gap 924 Art, Ideas, and Religion in a Technocratic
Society 925
Protesting Cold War Conditions 927 Cracks in the Cold War Order 927 The Growth of Citizen Activism 930 1968: Year of Crisis 933
The Testing of Superpower Domination and the End of the Cold War 936 A Changing Balance of World Power 936 The Western Bloc Meets Challenges with
Reform 939 Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Bloc 942
Conclusion 947 • Chapter Review 949
taking measure: Postindustrial Occupational Structure, 1984 923
seeing history: Critiquing the Soviet System: Dissident Art in the 1960s and 1970s 929
contrasting views: Feminist Debates 932 document: Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Vision 941 document: Criticizing Gorbachev 944
879 915
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Chapter 29 A New Globalism,
1989 to the Present
Collapse of the Soviet Union and Its Aftermath 953 The Breakup of Yugoslavia 953 The Soviet Union Comes Apart 956 Toward a Market Economy 958 International Politics and the New Russia 960
The Nation-State in a Global Age 961 Europe Looks beyond the Nation-State 961 Globalizing Cities and Fragmenting Nations 964 Global Organizations 965
Challenges from an Interconnected World 966 The Problems of Pollution 966 Population, Health, and Disease 968 North versus South? 969 Islam Meets the West 969 World Economies on the Rise 973
Global Culture and Society in the Twenty-first Century 974 Redefining the West: The Impact of Global
Migration 974 Global Networks and the Economy 975 A Global Culture? 977
Conclusion 981 • Chapter Review 984
document: Václav Havel, “Czechoslovakia Is Returning to Europe” 963
document: The European Green Party Becomes Transnational (2006) 967
taking measure: World Population Growth, 1950–2010 968
contrasting views: Muslim Immigrants and Turkey in the EU: The Dutch Debate Globalization 976
Appendix: Useful Facts and Figures A-1
Glossary of Key Terms and People G-1
Suggested References SR-1
Index I-1
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Maps and Figures
Maps Prologue map 1 The Development of Agriculture P-9
Chapter 1 map 1.1 The Ancient Near East, 4000–3000 B.C.E. 8
spot map The Akkadian Empire, 2350–2200 B.C.E. 12
spot map The Kingdom of Assyria, 1900 B.C.E. 13
map 1.2 Ancient Egypt 17
map 1.3 Greece and the Aegean Sea, 1500 B.C.E. 23
mapping the west The Period of Calamities,
1200–1000 B.C.E. 30
Chapter 2 map 2.1 Expansion of the Neo-Assyrian Empire,
c. 900–650 B.C.E. 35
map 2.2 Expansion of the Persian Empire,
c. 550–490 B.C.E. 38
spot map Phoenicia and Canaan/Palestine 39
map 2.3 Dark Age Greece 43
map 2.4 Archaic Greece, 750–500 B.C.E. 48
map 2.5 Phoenician and Greek Expansion,
750–500 B.C.E. 49
spot map Sparta and Corinth, 750–500 B.C.E. 57
spot map Athens and Central Greece, 750–500 B.C.E. 62
spot map Ionia and the Aegean, 750–500 B.C.E. 65
mapping the west Mediterranean Civilizations,
c. 500 B.C.E. 66
Chapter 3 map 3.1 The Persian Wars, 499–479 B.C.E. 72
spot map The Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues 74
map 3.2 Fifth-Century B.C.E. Athens 78
spot map Theaters of Classical Greece 95
map 3.3 The Peloponnesian War, 431–404 B.C.E. 97
mapping the west Greece, Europe, and the
Mediterranean, 400 B.C.E. 100
Chapter 4 spot map Athens’s Long Walls as Rebuilt after the
Peloponnesian War 106
spot map Aristotle’s Lyceum, established 335 B.C.E. 108
map 4.1 Expansion of Macedonia under Philip II,
359–336 B.C.E. 112
map 4.2 Conquests of Alexander the Great,
336–323 B.C.E. 114
map 4.3 Hellenistic Kingdoms, 240 B.C.E. 116
mapping the west Roman Takeover of the Hellenistic
World, to 30 B.C.E. 130
Chapter 5 map 5.1 Ancient Italy, 500 B.C.E. 140
map 5.2 The City of Rome during the Republic 143
spot map Rome and Central Italy, Fifth
Century B.C.E. 145
spot map Roman Roads, 110 B.C.E. 145
map 5.3 Roman Expansion, 500–44 B.C.E. 147
spot map The Kingdom of Mithridates VI, 88 B.C.E. 154
mapping the west The Roman World at the End of
the Republic, 44 B.C.E. 160
Chapter 6 map 6.1 The Expansion of the Roman Empire,
30 B.C.E.–117 C.E. 176
map 6.2 Natural Feature and Languages
of the Roman World 178
spot map Palestine in the Time of Jesus, 30 C.E. 181
map 6.3 Christian Populations in the Late Third
Century C.E. 184
mapping the west The Roman Empire in
Crisis, 284 C.E. 192
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Chapter 7 map 7.1 Diocletian’s Reorganization of 293 199
spot map The Empire’s East/West Division, 395 199
map 7.2 The Spread of Christianity, 300–600 209
spot map Original Areas of Christian Splinter
Groups 211
map 7.3 Migrations and Invasions of the Fourth
and Fifth Centuries 216
map 7.4 Peoples and Kingdoms of the Roman
World, 526 220
spot map Constantinople during the Rule of
Justinian 225
mapping the west Western Europe and the Eastern
Roman Empire, 600 228
Chapter 8 map 8.1 Expansion of Islam to 750 236
map 8.2 Byzantine and Sasanid Empires, c. 600 241
map 8.3 Diagram of the City of Ephesus 242
map 8.4 The Merovingian Kingdoms in the
Seventh Century 247
spot map Tours, c. 600 248
spot map The British Isles 253
spot map Lombard Italy, Early Eighth Century 255
mapping the west Europe and the Mediterranean,
c. 750 258
Chapter 9 map 9.1 The Expansion of Byzantium, 860–1025 263
spot map The Balkans, c. 850–950 267
map 9.2 Islamic States, c. 1000 269
map 9.3 Expansion of the Carolingian Empire
under Charlemagne 275
map 9.4 Muslim, Viking, and Magyar Invasions
of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries 281
spot map England in the Age of King Alfred,
871–899 288
spot map The Kingdom of the Franks under Hugh
Capet, 987–996 289
spot map The Ottoman Empire, 936–1002 289
mapping the west Europe and the Mediterranean,
c. 1050 292
Chapter 10 map 10.1 Medieval Trade Routes in the Eleventh
and Twelfth Centuries 298
spot map The World of the Investiture Conflict,
c. 1070–1122 306
map 10.2 The First Crusade, 1096–1099 312
spot map Jewish Communities Attacked during
the First Crusade 313
spot map The Crusader States in 1109 316
spot map Norman Conquest of England, 1066 320
mapping the west Major Religions in the West,
c. 1150 324
Chapter 11 map 11.1 Europe in the Age of Henry II
and Frederick Barbarossa, 1150–1190 338
spot map The Consolidation of France under
Philip Augustus, 1180–1223 340
spot map Eastern Europe and Byzantium, c. 1200 346
map 11.2 Crusades and Anti-Heretic Campaigns,
1150–1204 352
map 11.3 The Reconquista, 1150–1212 354
spot map The Albigensian Crusade, 1209–1229 355
mapping the west Europe and Byzantium, c. 1215 356
Chapter 12 spot map Blood Libel Charges in
Europe, c. 1100–1300 366
spot map Italy at the End of the Thirteenth
Century 373
map 12.1 Europe in the Time of Frederick II,
r. 1212–1250 374
map 12.2 France under Louis IX, r. 1226–1270 376
map 12.3 The Mongol Invasions to 1259 381
mapping the west Europe, c. 1340 383
Chapter 13 map 13.1 The Hundred Years’ War, 1337–1453 393
map 13.2 Ottoman Expansion in the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Centuries 397
spot map The Hussite Revolution, 1415–1436 400
spot map Hanseatic League 409
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spot map Spain before Unification, Late Fifteenth
Century 410
spot map Expansion of Burgundy, 1384–1476 410
spot map Growth of the Swiss Confederation,
1291–1386 411
spot map Italy at the Peace of Lodi, 1454 412
mapping the west Europe, c. 1492 415
Chapter 14 map 14.1 Early Voyages of World Exploration 422
map 14.2 Spanish and Portuguese Colonies in
the Americas, 1492–1560 425
spot map Luther’s World in the Early
Sixteenth Century 430
spot map Calvin’s World in the Mid-Sixteenth
Century 432
map 14.3 The Peasants’ War of 1525 435
map 14.4 Habsburg-Valois-Ottoman Wars,
1494–1559 442
mapping the west Reformation Europe, c. 1560 447
Chapter 15 map 15.1 Protestant Churches in France, 1562 453
map 15.2 The Empire of Philip II, r. 1556–1598 456
spot map The Netherlands during the Revolt,
c. 1580 456
spot map Retreat of the Spanish Armada, 1588 459
spot map Russia, Poland-Lithuania, and Sweden
in the Late 1500s 460
map 15.3 The Thirty Years’ War and the Peace of
Westphalia, 1648 463
map 15.4 European Colonization of the Americas,
c. 1640 470
mapping the west The Religious Divisions of
Europe, c. 1648 480
Chapter 16 spot map The Fronde, 1648–1653 486
map 16.1 Louis XIV’s Acquisitions, 1668–1697 492
map 16.2 State Building in Central and Eastern
Europe, 1648–1699 494
spot map Poland-Lithuania in the Seventeenth
Century 497
spot map England during the Civil War 499
map 16.3 Dutch Commerce in the Seventeenth
Century 506
mapping the west Europe at the End of the
Seventeenth Century 516
Chapter 17 map 17.1 European Trade Patterns, c. 1740 522
map 17.2 Europe, c. 1715 537
map 17.3 Russia and Sweden after the Great
Northern War, 1721 543
spot map Austrian Conquest of Hungary,
1657–1730 544
mapping the west Europe in 1740 551
Chapter 18 map 18.1 War of the Austrian Succession,
1740–1748 574
map 18.2 The Seven Years’ War, 1756–1763 575
spot map The First Partition of Poland, 1772 576
spot map The Pugachev Rebellion, 1773 579
mapping the west Europe and the World, c. 1780 583
Chapter 19 spot map The Low Countries in 1787 589
map 19.1 Revolutionary Paris, 1789 594
spot map The Great Fear, 1789 595
map 19.2 Redrawing the Map of France, 1789–1791 596
spot map The Vendeé Rebellion, 1793 604
map 19.3 French Expansion, 1791–1799 608
map 19.4 The Second and Third Partitions of
Poland, 1793 and 1795 612
spot map St. Domingue on the Eve of the
Revolt, 1791 614
mapping the west Europe in 1799 616
Chapter 20 map 20.1 Napoleon’s Empire at Its Height, 1812 628
spot map France’s Retreat from America 629
spot map Consolidation of German and Italian
States, 1812 630
spot map The Spanish War for Independence,
1807–1813 632
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map 20.2 Europe after the Congress of Vienna,
1815 637
map 20.3 Revolutionary Movements of the 1820s 644
spot map Nationalistic Movements in the Balkans,
1815–1830 645
map 20.4 Latin American Independence, 1804–1830 647
mapping the west Europe in 1830 650
Chapter 21 map 21.1 Industrialization in Europe, c. 1850 657
map 21.2 The Spread of Cholera, 1826–1855 662
spot map The Opium War, 1839–1842 671
map 21.3 Languages of Nineteenth-Century Europe 673
map 21.4 The Revolutions of 1848 679
spot map The Divisions of Italy, 1848 680
mapping the west Europe in 1850 686
Chapter 22 map 22.1 The Crimean War, 1853–1856 692
map 22.2 Unification of Italy, 1859–1870 698
map 22.3 Unification of Germany, 1862–1871 700
spot map The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, 1867 702
map 22.4 U.S. Expansion, 1850–1870 706
spot map Indian Resistance, 1857 711
map 22.5 The Paris Commune, 1871 714
mapping the west Europe and the Mediterranean,
1871 722
Chapter 23 spot map The Suez Canal and British Invasion
of Egypt, 1882 733
map 23.1 Africa, c. 1890 735
spot map British Colonialism in the Malay
Peninsula and Burma, 1826–1890 737
map 23.2 Expansion of Russia in Asia, 1865–1895 738
spot map The Union of Indochina, 1893 738
map 23.3 Expansion of Berlin to 1914 755
map 23.4 The Balkans, c. 1878 757
spot map Russia: The Pale of Settlement in the
Nineteenth Century 758
mapping the west The West and the World, c. 1890 760
Chapter 24 spot map Principal Ethnic Groups in
Austria-Hungary, c. 1900 781
map 24.1 Jewish Migrations in the Late Nineteenth
Century 782
map 24.2 Africa in 1914 784
spot map The Struggle for Ethiopia, 1896 785
map 24.3 Imperialism in Asia, 1894–1914 786
spot map Russian Revolution of 1905 787
map 24.4 The Balkans, 1908–1914 791
mapping the west Europe at the Outbreak of World
War I, August 1914 796
Chapter 25 map 25. 1 The Fronts of World War I, 1914–1918 802
spot map The Schlieffen Plan 803
map 25.2 The Western Front 804
map 25. 3 The Russian Civil War, 1917–1922 814
map 25. 4 Europe and the Middle East after the
Peace Settlements of 1919–1920 817
spot map The Little Entente 821
spot map National Minorities in Postwar Poland 822
spot map The Irish Free State and Ulster, 1921 824
mapping the west Europe and the World in 1929 836
Chapter 26 map 26.1 The Expansion of Japan, 1931–1941 857
spot map The Ethiopian War, 1935–1936 859
map 26.2 The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 860
map 26.3 The Growth of Nazi Germany,
1933–1939 862
spot map The Division of France, 1940 863
map 26.4 Concentration Camps and Extermination
Sites in Europe 865
map 26.5 World War II in Europe and Africa 869
map 26.6 World War II in the Pacific 872
mapping the west Europe at War’s End, 1945 876
Chapter 27 map 27.1 The Impact of World War II on Europe 883
spot map Yugoslavia after the Revolution 886
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map 27.2 Divided Germany and the Berlin Airlift,
1946–1949 887
map 27.3 European NATO Members and the Warsaw
Pact in the 1950s 888
spot map The Korean War, 1950–1953 898
spot map Indochina, 1954 898
map 27.4 The Partition of Palestine and the
Creation of Israel, 1947–1948 899
map 27.5 The Decolonization of Africa, 1951–1990 900
map 27.6 The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 911
mapping the west The Cold War World, c. 1960 912
Chapter 28 map 28.1 The Airbus Production System 922
map 28.2 The Vietnam War, 1954–1975 930
spot map Prague Spring, 1968 935
spot map Israel after the Six-Day War, 1967 937
spot map Nationalist Movements of the 1970s 939
mapping the west The Collapse of Communism
in Europe, 1989–1990 948
Chapter 29 map 29.1 Eastern Europe in the 1990s 954
map 29.2 The Former Yugoslavia, c. 2000 955
map 29.3 Countries of the Former Soviet Union,
c. 2000 957
map 29.4 The European Union in 2007 962
map 29.5 The Middle East in the Twenty-first
Century 971
spot map Tigers of the Pacific Rim, c. 1995 973
mapping the west The World in the New
Millennium 983
Figures figure 1.1 Cuneiform Writing 11
figure 1.2 Egyptian Hieroglyphics 18
figure 3.1 Triremes, the Foremost Classical
Greek Warships 75
figure 3.2 Styles of Greek Capitals 78
figure 6.1 Cutaway Reconstruction of the Forum
of Augustus 167
figure 10.1 Floor Plan of a Cistercian Monastery 310
figure 11.1 Floor Plan of a Romanesque Church 333
figure 11.2 Elements of a Gothic Cathedral 334
figure 11.3 Genealogy of Henry II 337
figure 11.4 Troubadour Song: “I Never Died
for Love” 348
figure 17.1 African Slaves Imported into American
Territories, 1701–1810 521
figure 17.2 Annual Imports in the Atlantic Slave
Trade, 1450–1870 523
figure 23.1 European Emigration, 1870–1890 746
figure 24.1 The Growth in Armaments, 1890–1914 793
figure 25.1 The Rising Cost of Living During
World War I 809
figure 26.1 Weapons Production of the Major
Powers, 1939–1945 868
figure 27.1 Military Spending and the Cold War
Arms Race, 1950–1970 891
figure 27.2 Women in the Workforce, 1950–1960 907
figure 28.1 Fluctuating Oil Prices, 1955–1985 938
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Documents Hammurabi’s Laws for Physicians 15
Declaring Innocence on Judgment Day in Ancient Egypt 22
Homer’s Vision of Justice in the Polis 46
Cyrene Records Its Foundation as a Greek Colony 52
Athenian Regulations for a Rebellious Ally 88
Sophists Argue Both Sides of a Case 90
Aristotle on the Nature of the Greek Polis 109
Epigrams by Women Poets 122
The Rape and Suicide of Lucretia 144
Polybius on Roman Military Discipline 154
Augustus, Res Gestae (My Accomplishments) 168
The Scene at a Roman Bath 170
Diocletian’s Edict on Maximum Prices and Wages 201
The Edict of Milan on Religious Liberty 203
The Fatihah of the Qur’an 234
On Holy Images 245
The Book of the Prefect 265
When She Approached 272
A Byzantine View of Papal Primacy 305
Penances for the Invaders (1070) 322
Frederick I’s Reply to the Romans 344
The Children’s Crusade (1212) 355
The Debate between Reason and the Lover 369
Ausculta Fili (Listen, Beloved Son) 379
Wat Tyler’s Rebellion (1381) 398
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man 404
Columbus Describes His First Voyage (1493) 423
Ordinances for Calvinist Churches (1547) 433
The Horrors of the Thirty Years’ War 462
Sentence Pronounced against Galileo (1633) 477
Marie de Sévigné, Letter Describing the French Court (1675) 487
John Milton, Defense of Freedom of the Press (1644) 511
The Social Effects of Growing Consumption 530
Voltaire, Letters Concerning the English Nation (1733) 548
Denis Diderot, “Encyclopedia” (1755) 559
Special Features
Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) 582
The Rights of Minorities 597
Address on Abolishing the Slave Trade (February 5, 1790) 613
An Ordinary Soldier on Campaign with Napoleon 633
Wordsworth’s Poetry 642
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto 677
Alexis de Tocqueville Describes the June Days in Paris (1848) 681
Mrs. Seacole: The Other Florence Nightingale 694
Bismarck Tricks the Public to Get His War 701
Imperialism’s Popularity among the People 736
Henrik Ibsen, From A Doll’s House 748
Leon Pinsker Calls for a Jewish State 783
A Historian Promotes Militant Nationalism 795
Outbreak of the Russian Revolution 813
Battlefield Tourism 830
A Family Copes with Unemployment 842
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere 858
The Schuman Plan on European Unity, 1950 893
Consumerism, Youth, and the Birth of the Generation Gap 905
Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Vision 941
Criticizing Gorbachev 944
Václav Havel, “Czechoslovakia Is Returning to Europe” 963
The European Green Party Becomes Transnational (2006) 967
Contrasting Views Persians Debate Democracy, Oligarchy, and Monarchy 58
The Nature of Women and Marriage 84
What Was Julius Caesar Like? 156
Christians in the Empire: Conspirators or Faithful Subjects? 186
Charlemagne: Roman Emperor, Father of Europe, or the Chief Bishop? 276
The First Crusade 314
Magna Carta 342
Joan of Arc: Who Was “the Maid”? 394
Martin Luther: Holy Man or Heretic? 431
The English Civil War 500
Women and the Enlightenment 562
Perspectives on the French Revolution 610
Napoleon: For and Against 634
Experiences of Migration 744
Arguing with the Victors 818
Stalin and Hitler: For and Against 850
Feminist Debates 932
Muslim Immigrants and Turkey in the EU: The Dutch Debate Globalization 976
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New Sources, New Perspectives Daily Bread, Damaged Bones, and Cracked Teeth P-12
Papyrus Discoveries and Menander’s Comedies 124
Was There a Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? 218
Anthropology, Archaeology, and Changing Notions of Ethnicity 249
The Cairo Geniza 318
The Peasants of Montaillou 364
Tree Rings and the Little Ice Age 466
Oral History and the Life of Slaves 524
Statistics and the Standard of Living of the Working Class 660
Psychohistory and Its Lessons 770
Museums and Memory 867
Government Archives and the Truth about the Cold War 885
Terms of History Civilization 6
Medieval 233
Feudalism 283
Renaissance 402
Progress 547
Enlightenment 565
Revolution 590
Nationalism 697
Modern 766
Totalitarianism 845
Seeing History Shifting Sculptural Expression: From Egypt to Greece 50
Changing Religious Beliefs: Pagan and Christian Sarcophagi 206
Who Conquered Whom? A Persian and an Arabic Coin Compared 239
Romanesque versus Gothic: The View Down the Nave 335
Expanding Geographic Knowledge: World Maps in an Age of Exploration 424
Religious Differences in Painting of the Baroque Period: Rubens and
Rembrandt 473
The Clothing Revolution: The Social Meaning of Changes in
Post-Revolutionary Fashion 624
Photographing the Nation: Domesticity and War 704
Demonizing the Enemy: Italian Propaganda Posters from World War I 808
Critiquing the Soviet System: Dissident Art in the 1960s and 1970s 929
Taking Measure Greek Family Size and Agricultural Labor in the Archaic Age 55
Military Forces of Athens and Sparta at the Beginning of the
Peloponnesian War (431 B.C.E.) 98
Census Records during the First and Second Punic Wars 148
The Value of Roman Imperial Coinage, 27 B.C.E.–300 C.E. 189
Peasants’ Use of Farm Produce in the Roman Empire 202
Church Repair, 600–900 243
Sellers, Buyers, and Donors, 800–1000 284
Slaves in England in 1086 323
Sentences Imposed by an Inquisitor, 1308–1323 363
Population Losses and the Black Death 389
The Rise and Fall of Silver Imports to Spain, 1550–1660 465
The Seventeenth-Century Army 493
Relationship of Crop Harvested to Seed Used, 1400–1800 531
World Population Growth, 1700–1800 571
Railroad Lines, 1830–1850 656
The Decline of Illiteracy 755
The Growth of Radio, 1924–1929 829
World Manufacturing Output, 1950–1970 892
Postindustrial Occupational Structure, 1984 923
World Population Growth, 1950–2010 968
xxxvii i Special Features
This guide to your textbook introduces the unique features that will help you understand the fascinating story of Western Civilization.
To the Student
Tools to help you focus on what is important
Read the chapter outlines to preview the topics and themes to come.
Consult the running glossary for definitions of the bolded Key Terms and People.
Preview chapter events and keep track of time with chapter timelines.
Use the review questions at the end of each major section to check your understanding of key concepts.
Read the focus questions at the start of each chapter to think about the main ideas you should look for as you read.
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xl To the Student
Special features introduce the way historians work and help you learn to think critically about the past.
Numerous individual primary-source documents offer direct experiences of the past and the opportunity to consider sources historians use.
Contrasting Views provide three or four often conflict- ing eyewitness accounts of a cen- tral event, person, or development to foster critical thinking skills.
Seeing History pairs two visuals with background informa- tion and probing questions to encourage analysis of images as historical evidence.
New Sources, New Perspectives show how new evidence leads historians to fresh insights—and sometimes new interpretations.
Terms of History identify a term central to history writing and reveal how it is hotly debated.
Taking Measure data reveal how individual facts add up to broad trends and introduce quantitative analysis skills.
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Art and maps extend the chapter, and help you analyze images and put events in geographical context.
Full-size maps show major historical developments and carry informative captions.
Web references direct you to visual activities designed to help you analyze images.
Mapping the West summary maps provide a snapshot of the West at the close of each chapter.
“Spot” maps offer geographical de- tails right where you need them.
xli i To the Student
Tools to help you remember the chapter’s main points and do further research
For print and Web resources for papers or further study, consult the For Further Explo- ration boxes at the end of each chapter, which guide you to annotated lists of suggested ref- erences, additional primary-source materials, and related Web resources.
Test your knowledge of the important concepts and historical figures in the Key Terms and People lists, which include page references to the text discussion and running glossary definition. These definitions are also in the glossary at the end of the book.
Answer the Review Questions, which repeat the chapter’s end-of- section comprehension prompts.
Answer the analytical Making Connections questions, which will help you link ideas within or across chapters.
Read the chapter conclusions to review how the chap- ters’ most important themes and topics fit together and learn how they connect to the next chapter.
Visit the free online study guide, which provides quizzes and activities to help you master the chapter material.
Review the Important Events chronologies to make sure you under- stand the relationships between major events in the chapter and their sequence.
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In each chapter of this textbook you will find many primary sources to broaden your understanding of the development of the West. Primary sources refer to firsthand, contemporary accounts or direct evidence about a particular topic. For example, speeches, letters, diaries, song lyrics, and newspaper articles are all primary sources that historians use to construct accounts of the past. Nonwritten materials such as maps, paintings, artifacts, and even architecture and music can also be primary sources. Both types of historical documents in this textbook — written and visual — provide a glimpse into the lives of the men and women who influenced or were influenced by the course of Western history.
To guide your interpretation of any source, you should begin by asking several basic questions, listed below, as starting points for observing, analyzing, and interpreting the past. Your answers should prompt further questions of your own.
1. Who is the author? Who wrote or created the material? What was his or her author- ity? (Personal? institutional?) Did the author have specialized knowledge or experi- ence? If you are reading a written document, how would you describe the author’s tone of voice? (Formal, personal, angry?)
2. Who is the audience? Who were the intended readers, listeners, or viewers? How does the intended audience affect the ways that the author presents ideas?
3. What are the main ideas? What are the main points that the author is trying to con- vey? Can you detect any underlying assumptions of values or attitudes? How does the form or medium affect the meaning of this document?
4. In what context was the document created? From when and where does the docu- ment originate? What was the interval between the initial problem or event and this document, which responded to it? Through what form or medium was the document communicated? (For example, a newspaper, a government record, an illustration.) What contemporary events or conditions might have affected the creation of the doc- ument?
5. What’s missing? What’s missing or cannot be learned from this source, and what might this omission reveal? Are there other sources that might fill in the gaps?
Now consider these questions as you read “Columbus Describes His First Voyage (1493),” the document on the next page. Compare your answers to the sample obser- vations provided.
How to Read Primary Sources
xliv To the Student
1. Who is the author? The title and headnote that precede each document contain in- formation about the authorship and date of its creation. In this case, the Italian ex- plorer Christopher Columbus is the author. His letter describes events in which he was both an eyewitness and a participant.
2. Who is the audience? Columbus sent the letter to Raphael Sanchez, treasurer to Fer- dinand and Isabella — someone who Columbus knew would be keenly interested in the fate of his patrons’ investment. Because the letter was also a public document writ- ten to a crown official, Columbus would have expected a wider audience beyond Sanchez. How might his letter have differed had it been written to a friend?
3. What are the main ideas? In this segment, Columbus describes his encounter with the native people. He speaks of his desire to establish good relations by treating them fairly, and he offers his impressions of their intelligence and naiveté — characteristics he implies will prove useful to Europeans. He also expresses an interest in converting them to Christianity and making them loyal subjects of the crown.
4. In what context was the document created? Columbus wrote the letter in 1493, within six months of his first voyage. He would have been eager to announce the suc- cess of his endeavor.
5. What’s missing? Columbus’s letter provides just one view of the encounter. We do not have a corresponding account from the native Americans’ perspective nor from anyone else travelling with Columbus. With no corroboration evidence, how reliable is this description?
Note: You can use these same questions to analyze visual images. Start by determining who created the image — whether it’s a painting, photograph, sculpture, map, or arti- fact — and when it was made. Then consider the audience for whom the artist might have intended the work and how viewers might have reacted. Consult the text for in- formation about the time period, and look for visual cues such as color, artistic style, and use of space to determine the central idea of the work. As you read, consult the captions in this book to help you evaluate the images and to ask more questions of your own.
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The B.C.E./C.E. Dating System “When were you born?”“What year is it?”We custom- arily answer questions like these with a number, such as “1987” or “2004.” Our replies are usually auto- matic, taking for granted the numerous assumptions Westerners make about how dates indicate chronol- ogy. But to what do numbers such as 1987 and 2004 actually refer? In this book the numbers used to specify dates follow a recent revision of the system most common in the Western secular world. This sys- tem reckons the dates of solar years by counting backward and forward from the traditional date of the birth of Jesus Christ, over two thousand years ago.
Using this method, numbers followed by the abbreviation B.C.E., standing for “before the com- mon era” (or, as some would say, “before the Christian era”), indicate the number of years counting backward from the assumed date of the birth of Jesus Christ. B.C.E. therefore indicates the same chronology marked by the traditional abbre- viation B.C. (“before Christ”). The larger the num- ber following B.C.E. (or B.C.), the earlier in history is the year to which it refers. The date 431 B.C.E., for example, refers to a year 431 years before the birth of Jesus and therefore comes earlier in time than the dates 430 B.C.E., 429 B.C.E., and so on. The same calculation applies to numbering other time intervals calculated on the decimal system: those of ten years (a decade), of one hundred years (a century), and of one thousand years (a millen- nium). For example, the decade of the 440s B.C.E. (449 B.C.E. to 440 B.C.E.) is earlier than the decade of the 430s B.C.E. (439 B.C.E. to 430 B.C.E.). “Fifth century B.C.E.” refers to the fifth period of 100 years reckoning backward from the birth of Jesus and covers the years 500 B.C.E. to 401 B.C.E. It is earlier in history than the fourth century B.C.E. (400 B.C.E. to 301 B.C.E.), which followed the fifth century B.C.E. Because this system has no year “zero,” the first century B.C.E. covers the years 100 B.C.E. to 1 B.C.E. Dating millennia works similarly: the second millennium B.C.E. refers to the years 2000 B.C.E. to 1001 B.C.E., the third millennium to the years 3000 B.C.E. to 2001 B.C.E., and so on.
To indicate years counted forward from the traditional date of Jesus’ birth, numbers are fol- lowed by the abbreviation C.E., standing for “of the common era” (or “of the Christian era”). C.E. therefore indicates the same chronology marked by the traditional abbreviation A.D., which stands for the Latin phrase anno Domini (“in the year of the Lord”). A.D. properly comes before the date be- ing marked. The date A.D. 1492, for example, translates as “in the year of the Lord 1492,” mean- ing 1492 years after the birth of Jesus. Under the B.C.E./C.E. system, this date would be written as 1492 C.E. For dating centuries, the term “first cen- tury C.E.” refers to the period from 1 C.E. to 100 C.E. (which is the same period as A.D. 1 to A.D. 100). For dates C.E., the smaller the number, the earlier the date in history. The fourth century C.E. (301 C.E. to 400 C.E.) comes before the fifth century C.E. (401 C.E. to 500 C.E.). The year 312 C.E. is a date in the early fourth century C.E., while 395 C.E. is a date late in the same century. When numbers are given without either B.C.E. or C.E., they are pre- sumed to be dates C.E. For example, the term eigh- teenth century with no abbreviation accompany- ing it refers to the years 1701 C.E. to 1800 C.E.