Correlations

World Civilizations: The Global Experience, 4th Edition, AP* Edition ©2005

Peter N. Stearns, Michael Adas, Stuart B. Schwartz, Marc Jason Gilbert

Correlated with AP* World History, May 2004, May 2005

Foundations (8000 B.C.E.–600 C.E.)

1. Locating World History in the environment and time
Environment	9–10
Time	xviii, 9–11
Diverse interpretations What are the issues involved in using "civilization" as an organizing principle in world history?	xxix–xxx, 13–16, 23–24
What is the most common source of change: connection or diffusion versus independent invention?	28–29
Basic characteristics of economic structures, including technological patterns	45–46, 62, 92
2. Developing agriculture and technology
Agricultural, pastoral, and foraging societies and their demographic characteristics	8–13
3. Basic features of early civilizations in different environments: Culture, state, and social structure	28–29
Mesopotamia	16–20, 24–28
Egypt	20–21
Indus	21
Shang	21–24
Mesoamerican and Andean South America	23, 96–98
4. Classical civilizations
Major political developments in China,	39–40
India,	55–57
and the Mediterranean	74–79
Social and gender structures	44–47, 61–65, 83–87
Major trading patterns	44–47, 61–65, 83–87
Arts, sciences, and technology	35–38, 43, 60–61, 65, 80–83
5. Major belief systems Basic features of major world belief systems prior to 600 and where each belief system applied by 600
Polytheism	18, 57–60, 79–83
Buddhism	51, 57–58, 104–106
Christianity	106–108
Confucianism	40–42, 47–48
Daoism	35, 42–43
Hinduism	57–59
Islam	108–110
Judaism	25, 27–28
6. Late Classical period (200–600 C.E.) Collapse of empires:
Han China	98–99
Western Roman Empire	99–103
Gupta	99
Movements of peoples (Huns, Germans)	98–99
Interregional networks by 600 C.E.	30–33, 47–49, 64–65, 85–88, 94–95

600–1450

1. Questions of periodization
Nature and causes of changes in the world history leading up to 600–1450 as a period Emergence of new empires and political systems Continuities and breaks within the period (e.g. the impact of the Mongols)	112–113
2. The Islamic world
The rise and role of Dar al–Islam	113–114, 120–145
Islamic political structures	122–125, 130–134, 146–150, 157–158, 160, 168
Arts, sciences and technologies	126, 142–145, 153–156
3. Interregional networks and contacts
Development and shifts in interregional trade, technology, and cultural exchange	116–119, 125–126, 134, 139–142, 156–158, 161–169, 170–171, 182–183, 189–190
Trans–Sahara trade, Indian Ocean trade	64, 116–117, 182–183
Silk routes	49
Missionary outreach of major religions, Contacts between major religions	103–110, 115–116, 134, 156–168, 171–176
Impact of the Mongol empires	158, 312–331
4. China's internal and external expansion
The importance of the Tang and Song economic revolution and early Ming	277–279
Chinese influence on surrounding areas and its limits	289–292, 298
5. Developments in Europe
Restructuring of economic, social, and political institutions	212–236, 338–343
The division of Christendom into eastern and western cultures	108, 192–210, 200–201
6. Social, cultural, economic and political patterns in the Amerindian world
Maya	96
Aztec	241–249
Inca	251–257
7. Demographic and environmental changes
Impact of the nomadic migrations on Afro-Eurasia and the Americas	94, 113, 158, 173, 182, 188, 214–215, 219, 241–242, 314–315, 330–333
Consequences of plague pandemics in the fourteenth century	232, 338
Growth and role of cities	218–219, 222, 228–232
8. Diverse interpretations
What are the issues involved in using cultural areas rather than states as units of analysis?	173, 184, 200–201, 209, 327
What are the sources of change: nomadic migrations versus urban growth?	98–100, 139–142, 184–185, 218–219, 313–333
Was there a world economic network in this period?	116–117, 148, 157–158, 321
Were there common patterns in the new opportunities and constraints on elite women in this period?	136–137, 150–151, 198, 231–232, 248, 304–305

1450–1750

1. Questions of periodization
Continuities and breaks, causes of changes from the previous period and within this period	350–357
2. Change in global interactions, trade, and technology	358–378, 405–412, 419–431, 437–440, 444–445, 449–461, 498–508, 514–522
3. Knowledge of major empires and other political units and social systems
Aztec, Ottoman, Inca, Ming, Qing (Manchu), Portugal, Spain, Russia, France, England, Mongol, Tokugawa, Mughal, characteristics of African empires in general but knowing one (Kongo, Benin, Oyo, or Songhay) as illustrative	361–363, 390–394, 402–416, 419–440, 454–464, 473–482, 489–496, 508–521
Territorial and commercial aspects of the above	451–454, 467, 506–510
Gender and empire (including women in households and politics)	393, 396–397, 488, 494–495
Slave systems and slave trade	449–456, 463–470
4. Demographic and environmental changes: diseases, animals, new crops, and comparative population trends	359–378, 386–388, 419–445
5. Cultural and intellectual developments
Scientific Revolution	388–390
The Enlightenment	394–399
Comparative global causes and impacts of cultural change	377–378, 499–508, 514–516, 517–521
Neoconfucianism	273–274, 511, 521
Major developments and exchanges in the arts (e.g., Mughal)	340–342, 489–494
6. Diverse interpretations
What are the debates about the timing and extent of European predominance in the world economy?	365–370

1750–1914

1. Questions of periodization
Continuities and breaks, causes of changes from the previous period and within this period	524–533
2. Changes in global commerce, communications, and technology
Changes in patterns of world trade	530–533, 550–552, 563–583, 610–614
Industrial Revolution (transformative effects on and differential timing in different societies; mutual relation of industrial and scientific developments; commonalities)	527–530, 541–550, 552–560, 563–586, 598–606, 610–614, 620–621, 632–638, 640–660
3. Demographic and environmental changes
(migrations, end of the Atlantic slave trade, new birthrate patterns; food supply)	530–533, 541–547, 576–586
4. Changes in social and gender structure
(Industrial Revolution; commercial and demographic developments; emancipation of serfs/slaves; and tension between work patterns and ideas about gender)	528–533, 535–550, 640–660
5. Political revolutions and independence movements; new political ideas
Latin American independence movements	588–614
Revolutions (United States, France, Haiti, Mexico, China)	535–541, 589, 591, 601–602, 629–638
Rise of nationalism, nation–states, and movements of political reform	541–543, 547–550, 590–593, 619–624, 634–635, 645–649, 655–656
Overlaps between nations and empires	620–621
Rise of democracy and its limitations: reform; women; racism	547–550, 578–586, 594–595, 623–625, 649–651
6. Rise of Western dominance
(economic, political, social, cultural and artistic, patterns of expansion; imperialism and colonialism) and different cultural and political reactions (reform; resistance; rebellion; racism; nationalism)	562–586, 613–614, 620–621, 624–629, 632–634, 653–657
7. Diverse interpretations
What are the debates over the utility of modernization theory as a framework for interpreting events in this period and the next?	620–621
What are the debates about the causes of serf and slave emancipation in this period, and how do these debates fit into broader comparisons of labor systems?	463–464, 469–470, 547, 554, 644–646
What are the debates over the nature of women's roles in this period, and how do these debates apply to industrialized areas, and how do they apply in colonial societies?	547–550, 553–554, 607–610, 658

1914–Present

1. Questions of periodization
Continuities and breaks, causes of changes from the previous period within this period	662–669, 904, 922
2. The World Wars, the Holocaust, the Cold War, nuclear weaponry, international organizations, and their impact on the global framework
(globalization of diplomacy and conflict; global balance of power; reduction of European influence; the League of Nations, the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Nations, etc.)	670–697, 700–724, 750–775, 779–783, 786–788, 790–793, 809–810, 895–902
3. New patterns of nationalism, especially outside of the West
(the interwar years; decolonization; racism, genocide; new nationalisms, including the breakup of the Soviet Union)	684–696, 704–724, 727–747, 760, 766–775, 836–860, 883–887, 893–922
4. Impact of major global economic developments
(the Great Depression; technology; Pacific Rim; multinational corporations)	727–747, 788–790, 803–809, 819, 832, 848–854, 857, 863–883, 889–890, 908–916
5. New forces of revolution and other sources of political innovations	684–696, 704–706, 710–724, 731–736, 747, 819–821, 823–825, 842–843, 849–854, 856–858, 865–868, 877–878, 883–889, 896–902, 905–907
6. Social reform and social revolution
(changing gender roles; family structures; rise of feminism; peasant protest; international Marxism)	678–679, 686–689, 694–695, 704, 722–724, 771–772, 785–786, 793–796, 803–804, 808–809, 822–823, 829–830, 840–846, 880–881, 913–916
7. Globalization of science, technology, and culture
Developments in global and regional cultures, including science and consumer culture	702–704, 708–709, 754–755, 793–799, 857, 868–876, 908–922
Interactions between elite and popular culture and art	702–704, 708, 733–734, 745–746, 796–799, 818
Patterns of resistance including religious responses	684–696, 702, 803, 855–856, 916–917
8. Demographic and environmental changes
(migrations; changes in birthrates and death rates; new forms of urbanization; deforestation; green/environmental movements)	666–667, 773–775, 785–787, 790–794, 803, 830–831, 837–845, 870, 911–912, 918–921
9. Diverse interpretations
Is cultural convergence or diversity the best model for understanding increased intercultural contact in the twentieth century?	662–669, 718, 724, 733–734, 770, 790–793, 827–828, 847, 858–860, 904, 908, 922
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using units of analysis in the twentieth century such as the nation, the world, the West, and the Third World?	662–669, 733–734, 765–766, 770, 779, 787, 790–791, 804, 813–814, 832, 842–843, 857, 865, 870, 899, 903–907, 911–912, 916–917, 920–922