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Contents
Introduction iv Agriculture, Cities, and Empires: 500 BCE–
1000 CE 29
Beginnings: The Era of Foragers 1 Afro-Eurasia 29
Studying the Era of Foragers 1 The Americas 30
Beginnings of Human History 4 Expansion in Other Areas 31
Out of Africa, into Controversy 4 Agricultural Societies on the Eve of the Modern
What Makes Us Different? 5 Revolution: 1000–1750 31
Foraging Lifeways 6 Creation of Global Networks 32
Kith and Kin 7 Impact of Global Networks 34
Living Standards 8 Agrarian Era in World History 35
Leisurely but Brief 9
Major Changes during the Era of Foragers 9 Our World: The Modern Era 36
Technological Change 10 Major Features and Trends of the Modern Era 37
Migrations from Africa 11 Increases in Population and Productivity 37
Human Impacts on the Environment 11 City Sprawl 38
Picking up the Pace 12 Increasingly Complex and Powerful
Affluent Foragers 12 Governments 38
The Era of Foragers in World History 14 Growing Gap between Rich and Poor 39
Improved Opportunities for Women 40
Acceleration: The Agrarian Era 15 Destruction of Premodern Lifeways 40
Origins of Agriculture 15 Explaining the Modern Revolution 41
Earliest Evidence of Agriculture 16 Accumulated Changes of the Agrarian Era 42
Affluent Foragers 18 Rise of Commercial Societies 42
Full-Blown Agriculture 19 Development of a Single Global Network 42
Seeds of Change 19 Western Europe’s Emergence as a Global Hub 43
General Characteristics and Long Trends 20 Other Factors 43
Village-Based Societies 20 Industrial Revolution: 1750–1914 43
Demographic Dynamism 20 Three Waves of the Industrial Revolution 44
Accelerated Technological Innovation 21 Economic Developments 45
Epidemic Diseases 22 Democratic Revolution 45
Hierarchies of Power 23 Cultural Changes 46
Relations with Nonagrarian Communities 23 Twentieth-Century Crisis: 1914–1945 47
Agrarian Communities before Cities: Global Upheaval 48
8000–3000 BCE 24 Rearmament 49
A World of Villages 24 Buying into Consumerism 49
Emergence of Hierarchy 24 Crisis and Innovation 50
Early Glass Ceiling 25 Contemporary Period: 1945–Present 51
Leaders and Leadership 25 Rockets and Rubles 52
The Earliest Cities and States: 3000 BCE–500 BCE 26 China Adapts 52
Afro-Eurasia and the Americas 26 Coca-Cola Culture and the Backlash 54
Agrarian Civilizations 27 Burning the Candle 55
Imperial States 28 Modern Era in World History 55
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