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WORLD CIVILIZATIONS
THE GLOBAL EXPERIENCE
STEARNS et al
6th edition
AP edition

SKILL-BUILDING POSSIBILITIES

TIME PERIOD: 8000 B.C.E.-600 C.E.

Historical Thinking Skill	Topic	Page(s)
1. Use of Evidence	Mesopotamia in Maps Capitol Designs and Patterns of Political Power Patterns of Trade in the Ancient Eurasian World Political Rituals in Persia Religious Geography	20 47 76-77 95 122
2. Comparative	China and India Compared Woman in Patriarchal Societies The Classical Mediterranean in Comparative Perspective	74-75 52-53 89
3. Interpretation	The Idea of Civilization in Historical Perspective Inequality as a Social Norm	26-27 74-75
4. Contextualization	The Early Civilizations and the World India and the Wider World Persia, Greece, Rome and the World Nomads and Cross-Civilization Contacts and Exchanges The Late Classical Period and the World	29 76-77 99-100 108-109 124

TIME PERIOD: 600 C.E.-1450 C.E.

Historical Thinking Skill	Topic	Page(s)
1. Use of Evidence	The Mosque as a Symbol of Islamic Civilization The Patterns of Islam's Global Expansions The Architecture of Faith Women and Power in Byzantium Peasant Labor Archeological Evidence of Political Practices Footbinding as a Marker of Male Dominance Artistic Expression and Social Values What Their Portraits Tell Us: Gatekeeper Elites and the Persistence of Civilizations Population Trends	156-157 173 195 209 223 256 282 284-285 308-309 341
2. Comparative	Civilization and Gender Relationships Comparing Feudalisms	152-153 298-299
3. Interpretation	Ibn Khaldun on the Rise and Decline of Empires Eastern and Western Europe: the Problem of Boundaries Western Civilization The "Troubling" Civilizations of the Americas The Problem of Ethnocentrism	168 212 231 258-259 348
4. Contextualization	Early Islam and the World Islam: A Bridge Between Worlds Internal Development and Global Contacts Eastern Europe and the World Medieval Europe and the World China's World Role In the Orbit of China: The East Asian Corner of the Global System The Mongol Linkages 1450 and the World	159-160 182 202 218 240-241 286 311-312 332-333 349
5. Patterns of Continuity and ........Change over Time	Conversion and Accommodation in the Spread of World Religions Two Transitions in the History of World Population The Global Eclipse of the Nomadic Warrior Culture	178-179 198-199 330-331

TIME PERIOD:1450-1750

Historical Thinking Skill	Topic	Page(s)
1. Use of Evidence	West Indian Slaveholding Versailles Oppressed Peasants Race or Culture? A Changing Society The Cloth of Kings in an Atlantic Perspective The Great Ships of the Ming Expeditions that Crossed the Indian Ocean	369 391 411 435 463 509
2. Comparative	Means and Motives for Overseas Expansions: Europe and China Compared	510-511
3. Interpretation	An Atlantic History? Slavery and Human Society	428-429 452-453
4. Contextualization	The World Economy-and the World Europe and the World Russia and the World Latin American Civilization and the World Context Africa and the African Diaspora in World Context Gunpowder Empires and the Restoration of the Islamic Bridge Between Civilizations An Age of Eurasian Protoglobalization	377-378 398 413 441 465 491-492 515
5. Patterns of Continuity and .... Change over Time	The Gunpowder Empires and the Shifting Balance of Global Power	480-481
6. Historical Causation	Causation and the West's Expansion Elites and Masses Multinational Empires	365 398 404

TIME PERIOD:1750-1914

Historical Thinking Skill	Topic	Page(s)
1. Use of Evidence	The French Revolution in Cartoons Capitalism and Colonialism Images of the Spanish-American War Mapping the Decline of Civilizations Two Faces of Western Influence	530 567 596 614-615 441
2. Comparative	Two Revolutions: Industrial and Atlantic The Separate Paths of Japan and China	543 638
3. Interpretation	Explaining Underdevelopment	594-595
4. Contextualization	Industrial Europe and the World A European-Dominated Early Phase of Globalization New Latin American Nations and the World Muslim and Chinese Decline and the Shifting Global Balance Russia and Japan in the World	547-548 572 598-600 623-624 644
5. Historical Causation	Western Education and the Rise of an African and Asian Middle Class Western Dominance and the Decline of Civilizations	558-559 \| 608-609

TIME PERIOD:1914-

Historical Thinking Skill	Topic	Page(s)
1. Use of Evidence	Trench Warfare Guernica and the Images of War National Leaders for a New Global Order Women at Work in France and the U.S. Murals and Posters: Art and Revolution Pacific Rim Growth Symbolism in the Breakdown of the Soviet Bloc Two Faces of Globalization	664 711 742 766 787 840 868 897
2. Comparative	Women in Asian and African Nationalist Movements The U.S. and Western Europe: Convergence and Complexity	680 760
3. Interpretation	Human Rights in the 20th Century	794
4. Contextualization	World War and Global Upheaval Economic Depression, Authoritarian Response Struggling Toward the Future in a Global Economy Postcolonial Nations in the Cold War World Order East Asia and the Pacific Rim in the Contemporary World	683 718-719 801-802 827-828 855-856
5. Patterns of Continuity and .... Change over Time	Total War, Global Devastation Persisting Trends in a World Transformed by War Terrorism, Then and Now How Much Historical Change?	727 747 876-877 893
6. Historical Causation	A Century of Revolutions Artificial Nations and the Rising Tide of Communal Strife	698 814-815