Expanded coverageof environmental history, new interactive History Skills Tutorials, a newInteractive Instructor's Guide, and InQuizitive, Norton's award-winningadaptive learning tool, support a state of the art learning experience. Popular Books. Twelve Days of Christmas by Debbie Macomber. Pandemia by Alex Berenson. The Judge's List by John Grisham. Provocative questions like whether ancient Greece was shaped by contact with Egypt provide an entry point into how history professors may sharply disagree on even basic narratives, and how historical interpretations can be influenced by contemporary concerns.
By illuminating these historiographical debates, and linking them to key skills required by historians, World History through Case Studies shows how the study of history is relevant to a new generation of students and teachers.
In the half millennium between and CE, settled empires underwent deep structural changes, while various nomadic peoples of the steppes Huns, Avars, Turks, and others experienced significant interactions and movements that changed their societies, cultures, and economies. This was a transformational era, a time when Roman, Persian, and Chinese monarchs were mutually aware of court practices, and when Christians and Buddhists criss-crossed the Eurasian lands together with merchants and armies.
It was a time of greater circulation of ideas as well as material goods. This volume provides a conceptual frame for locating these developments in the same space and time. Without arguing for uniformity, it illuminates the interconnections and networks that tied countless local cultural expressions to far-reaching inter-regional ones. Pang-White's new translation brings the authors of the Four Books for Women to life as real, living people, and illustrates why they wrote and how their work empowered women.
Becoming human -- 2. Rivers, cities, and first states, BCE -- 3. Nomads, territorial states, and microsocieties, BCE -- 4. Worlds turned inside out, BC -- 6. The rise of universal religions, CE -- 9. New empire and common culture, CE -- Becoming "The world.
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