Test Bank for Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources, Volume I, 3rd Edition, Robert W. Strayer, Eric W. Nelson, ISBN-10: 1319018416, ISBN-13: 9781319018412

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Test Bank for Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources, Volume I, 3rd Edition, Robert W. Strayer, Eric W. Nelson, ISBN-10: 1319018416, ISBN-13: 9781319018412

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Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-12.

Preface
Versions and Supplements
Brief Contents
Contents
Maps
Features
Working with Evidence
Prologue

PART ONE First Things First: Beginnings in History, to 500 B.C.E.
The Big Picture Turning Points in Early World History
The Emergence of Humankind
The Globalization of Humankind
The Revolution of Farming and Herding
The Turning Point of Civilization
Time and World History
Mapping Part One

1. FIRST PEOPLES; FIRST FARMERS: MOST OF HISTORY IN A SINGLE CHAPTER, TO 4000 B.C.E.
Author Preview Video LaunchPad
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Out of Africa: First Migrations
Into Eurasia
Into Australia
Into the Americas
Into the Pacific
The Ways We Were
The First Human Societies
Economy and the Environment
The Realm of the Spirit
Settling Down: The Great Transition
Breakthroughs to Agriculture
Common Patterns
Variations
The Globalization of Agriculture
Triumph and Resistance
The Culture of Agriculture
Social Variation in the Age of Agriculture
Pastoral Societies
Agricultural Village Societies
Chiefdoms
Another Voice Podcast LaunchPad
Reflections: The Uses of the Paleolithic
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Göbekli Tepe: Monumental Construction before Agriculture
Zooming In: Ishi, the Last of His People
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

1. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
Stories of the Australian Dreamtime
Documents
1.1 Understanding Creation: Yhi Brings Life to the World
1.2 Understanding the Signifance of Animals: The Platypus
1.3 Understanding Men and Women: The Man-Eater: The Mutjinga Myth
1.4 Understanding Death: How Death Came: The Purukapali Myth

1. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
History Before Writing: How Do We Know?
Source 1.1: A Gatherer Hunter Woman in the Twentieth Century
Source 1.2: Lascaux Rock Art
Source 1.3: Female Figurine from Çatalhüyük
Source 1.4: Otzi the Ice Man
Source 1.5: Stonehenge

2. FIRST CIVILIZATIONS; CITIES, STATES, AND UNEQUAL SOCIETIES, 3500 B.C.E.–500 B.C.E.
Author Preview Video LaunchPad
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Something New: The Emergence of Civilizations
Introducing the First Civilizations
The Question of Origins
An Urban Revolution
The Erosion of Equality
Hierarchies of Class
Hierarchies of Gender
Patriarchy in Practice
The Rise of the State
Coercion and Consent
Writing and Accounting
The Grandeur of Kings
Comparing Mesopotamia and Egypt
Environment and Culture
Cities and States
Interaction and Exchange
Another Voice Podcast LaunchPad
Reflections: “Civilization”: What’s in a Word?
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Caral, a City of Norte Chico
Zooming In: Paneb, an Egyptian Troublemaker
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

2. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
Indus Valley Civilization
Visual Sources
2.1 A Seal from the Indus Valley
2.2 Man from Mohenjo Daro
2.3 Dancing Girl

2. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
Social Life in the First Civilizations
Source 2.1: Law and Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Source 2.2: The Standard of Ur
Source 2.3: The Occupations of Old Egypt
Source 2.4: The Social Relationships of Egyptian Agriculture
Source 2.5: Social Life in Ancient China
Source 2.6: Socializing with Ancestors

PART TWO Second-Wave Civilizations in World History, 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E.
The Big Picture After the First Civilizations: What Changed and What Didn’t?
Continuities in Civilization
Changes in Civilization
Mapping Part Two

3. STATE AND EMPIRE IN EURASIA / NORTH AFRICA, 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E.
Author Preview Video LaunchPad
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Empires and Civilizations in Collision: The Persians and the Greeks
The Persian Empire
The Greeks
Collision: The Greco-Persian Wars
Collision: Alexander and the Hellenistic Era
Comparing Empires: Roman and Chinese
Rome: From City-State to Empire
China: From Warring States to Empire
Consolidating the Roman and Chinese Empires
The Collapse of Empires
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Intermittent Empire: The Case of India
Reflections: Enduring Legacies of Second-Wave Empires
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Trung Trac: Resisting the Chinese Empire
Zooming In: The Kushan Empire
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

3. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
Perceptions of Outsiders in the Ancient World
Documents
3.1 A Greek Historian on Persia and Egypt: Herodotus, The Histories, Mid-Fifth Century B.C.E.
3.2 A Roman Historian on the Germans: Tacitus, Germania, First Century C.E.
3.3 A Chinese Historian on the Xiongnu: Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian, ca. 100 B.C.E.

3. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
Political Authority in Second-Wave Civilizations
Source 3.1: Behistun Inscription c. 500 BCE
Source 3.2: In Praise of Athenian Democracy Source
Source 3.3: Statue of Augustus
Source 3.4: Governing a Chinese Empire
Source 3.5: Qin Shihuangdi Funerary Complex
Source 3.6: Governing an Indian Empire

4. CULTURE AND RELIGION IN EURASIA / NORTH AFRICA, 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E.
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China and the Search for Order
The Legalist Answer
The Confucian Answer
The Daoist Answer
Cultural Traditions of Classical India
South Asian Religion: From Ritual Sacrifice to Philosophical Speculation
The Buddhist Challenge
Hinduism as a Religion of Duty and Devotion
Toward Monotheism: The Search for God in the Middle East
Zoroastrianism
Judaism
The Cultural Tradition of Classical Greece: The Search for a Rational Order
The Greek Way of Knowing
The Greek Legacy
The Birth of Christianity . . . with Buddhist Comparisons
The Lives of the Founders
The Spread of New Religions
Institutions, Controversies, and Divisions
Another Voice Podcast LaunchPad
Reflections: Religion and Historians
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Nalanda, India’s Buddhist University
Zooming In: Perpetua, Christian Martyr
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

4. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
Representations of the Buddha
Visual Sources
4.1 Footprints of the Buddha
4.2 A Gandhara Buddha
4.3 A Bodhisattva of Compassion: Avalokitesvara with a Thousand Arms
4.4 The Chinese Maitreya Buddha

4. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
The “Good Life” in Asian Cultural Traditions
Source 4.1: Reflections from Confucius
Source 4.2: Filial Piety Illustrated
Source 4.3: A Daoist Perspective on the Good Life
Source 4.4: Reflections from the Hindu Scriptures
Source 4.5: Reflections from Jesus
Source 4.6: Toward “Mature Manhood”

5. SOCIETY AND INEQUALITY IN EURASIA / NORTH AFRICA, 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E.
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Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Society and the State in China
An Elite of Officials
The Landlord Class
Peasants
Merchants
Class and Caste in India
Caste as Varna
Caste as Jati
The Functions of Caste
Slavery: The Case of the Roman Empire
Slavery and Civilization
The Making of Roman Slavery
Another Voice Podcast LaunchPad
Comparing Patriarchies
A Changing Patriarchy: The Case of China
Contrasting Patriarchies: Athens and Sparta
Reflections: What Changes? What Persists?
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Ge Hong, a Chinese Scholar in Troubled Times
Zooming In: The Spartacus Slave Revolt
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

5. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
Pompeii as a Window on the Roman World
Visual Sources
5.1 Terentius Neo and His Wife
5.2 A Pompeii Banquet
5.3 Scenes in a Pompeii Tavern
5.4 A Domestic Shrine
5.5 Mystery Religions: The Cult of Dionysus

5. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
Patriarchy and Women’s Voices
Source 5.1: A Greek Expression of Patriarchy
Source 5.2: An Indian Expression of Patriarchy
Source 5.3: A Chinese Woman’s Instructions to Her Daughters
Source 5.4: An Alternative to Patriarchy in India
Source 5.5: Roman Women in Protest

6. COMMONALITIES AND VARIATIONS: AFRICA, THE AMERICAS, AND PACIFIC OCEANIA 500 B.C.E.–1200 C.E.
Author Preview Video LaunchPad
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Continental Comparisons
Civilizations of Africa
Meroë: Continuing a Nile Valley Civilization
Axum: The Making of a Christian Kingdom
Along the Niger River: Cities without States
Another Voice Podcast LaunchPad
Civilizations of Mesoamerica
The Maya: Writing and Warfare
Teotihuacán: The Americas’ Greatest City
Civilizations of the Andes
Chavín: A Pan-Andean Religious Movement
Moche: A Civilization of the Coast
Wari and Tiwanaku: Empires of the Interior
Alternatives to Civilization
Bantu Africa: Cultural Encounters and Social Variation
North America: Ancestral Pueblo and the Mound Builders
Pacific Oceania: Peoples of the Sea
Reflections: Deciding What’s Important: Balance in World History
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Piye, Kushite Conqueror of Egypt
Zooming In: The Lord of Sipan and the Lady of Cao
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

6. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
Axum and the World
Documents
6.1 A Guidebook to the World of Indian Ocean Commerce: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, First Century C.E.
6.2 The Making of an Axumite Empire: Inscription on a Stone Throne, Second or Third Century C.E.
6.3 The Coming of Christianity to Axum: Rufinus, On the Evangelization of Abyssinia
Late Fourth Century C.E.
6.4 Axum and the Gold Trade: Cosmas, The Christian Topography, Sixth Century C.E.

6. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
Art and the Maya Elite
Source 6.1: Shield Jaguar and Lady Xok, A Royal Couple of Yaxchilan
Source 6.2: The Presentation of Captives
Source 6.3: A Bloodletting Ritual
Source 6.4: The Ball Game
Source 6.5: A Maya Ruler Relaxing

PART THREE An Age of Accelerating Connections, 500–1500
The Big Picture Defining a Millennium
Third-Wave Civilizations: Something New, Something Old, Something Blended
The Ties That Bind: Transregional Interaction in the Third-Wave Era
Mapping Part Three

7. COMMERCE AND CULTURE, 500–1500
Author Preview Video LaunchPad
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Silk Roads: Exchange across Eurasia
The Growth of the Silk Roads
Goods in Transit
Cultures in Transit
Disease in Transit
Another Voice Podcast LaunchPad
Sea Roads: Exchange across the Indian Ocean
Weaving the Web of an Indian Ocean World
Sea Roads as a Catalyst for Change: Southeast Asia
Sea Roads as a Catalyst for Change: East Africa
Sand Roads: Exchange across the Sahara
Commercial Beginnings in West Africa
Gold, Salt, and Slaves: Trade and Empire in West Africa
An American Network: Commerce and Connection in the Western Hemisphere
Reflections: Economic Globalization — Ancient and Modern
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: The Arabian Camel
Zooming In: Thorfinn Karlsefni, Viking Voyager
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

7. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
Travelers’ Tales and Observations
Documents
7.1 A Chinese Buddhist in India, A Biography of the Tripitaka Master, Seventh Century C.E.
7.2 A European Christian in China: Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo, 1299
7.3 A Moroccan Diplomat in West Africa: Leo Africanus, The History and Description of Africa, 1526

7. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
Life and Travel on the Silk Roads
Source 7.1: Dangers and Assistance on the Silk Roads
Source 7.2: Advice for Merchants
Source 7.3: Stopping at a Caravanserai
Source 7.4: Buddhism on the Silk Roads
Source 7.5: Christianity on the Silk Roads
Source 7.6: Letters from the Silk Road

8. CHINA AND THE WORLD: EAST ASIAN CONNECTIONS, 500–1300
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Together Again: The Reemergence of a Unified China
A “Golden Age” of Chinese Achievement
Women in the Song Dynasty
China and the Northern Nomads: A Chinese World Order in the Making
The Tribute System in Theory
The Tribute System in Practice
Cultural Influence across an Ecological Frontier
Coping with China: Comparing Korea, Vietnam, and Japan
Korea and China
Vietnam and China
Japan and China
Another Voice Podcast LaunchPad
China and the Eurasian World Economy
Spillovers: China’s Impact on Eurasia
On the Receiving End: China as Economic Beneficiary
China and Buddhism
Making Buddhism Chinese
Losing State Support: The Crisis of Chinese Buddhism
Reflections: Why Do Things Change?
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Gunpowder
Zooming In: Izumi Shikibu, Japanese Poet and Lover
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

8. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
The Leisure Life of China’s Elites
Visual Sources
8.1 A Banquet with the Emperor
8.2 At Table with the Empress
8.3 A Literary Gathering
8.4 An Elite Night Party

8. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
The Making of Japanese Civilization
Source 8.1: Japanese Political Ideals
Source 8.2: The Uniqueness of Japan
Source 8.3: Social Life at Court
Source 8.4: Japanese Zen Buddhism
Source 8.5: The Way of the Warrior
Source 8.6: Samurai and the “Arts of Peace”

9. THE WORLDS OF ISLAM: AFRO-EURASIAN CONNECTIONS, 600–1500
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Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Birth of a New Religion
The Homeland of Islam
The Messenger and the Message
The Transformation of Arabia
Another Voice Podcast LaunchPad
The Making of an Arab Empire
War, Conquest, and Tolerance
Conversion
Divisions and Controversies
Women and Men in Early Islam
Islam and Cultural Encounter: A Four-Way Comparison
The Case of India
The Case of Anatolia
The Case of West Africa
The Case of Spain
The World of Islam as a New Civilization
Networks of Faith
Networks of Exchange
Reflections: Past and Present: Choosing Our History
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Mullah Nasruddin, the Wise Fool of Islam
Zooming In: Mansa Musa, West African Monarch and Muslim Pilgrim
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

9. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
The Life of the Prophet
Visual Sources
9.1 Muhammad and the Archangel Gabriel
9.2 The Night Journey of Muhammad
9.3 The Battle at Badr
9.4 The Destruction of the Idols

9. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
Voices of Islam
Source 9.1: The Voice of Allah
Source 9.2: The Voice of the Prophet Muhammad
Source 9.3: The Voice of the Law
Source 9.4: The Voice of the Sufis
Source 9.5: Islamic Practice in West Africa
Source 9.6: Men and Women

10. THE WORLDS OF CHRISTENDOM: CONTRACTION, EXPANSION, AND DIVISION, 500–1300
Author Preview Video LaunchPad
Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Christian Contraction in Asia and Africa
Asian Christianity
African Christianity
Byzantine Christendom: Building on the Roman Past
The Byzantine State
The Byzantine Church and Christian Divergence
Byzantium and the World
The Conversion of Russia
Western Christendom: Rebuilding in the Wake of Roman Collapse
Political Life in Western Europe
Society and the Church
Accelerating Change in the West
Europe Outward Bound: The Crusading Tradition
The West in Comparative Perspective
Catching Up
Pluralism in Politics
Reason and Faith
Another Voice Podcast LaunchPad
Reflections: Remembering and Forgetting: Continuity and Surprise in the Worlds of Christendom
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: 988 and the Conversion of Rus
Zooming In: Cecilia Penifader, an English Peasant and Unmarried Woman
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

10. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
The Making of Christian Europe
Documents
10.1 The Conversion of Clovis: Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, Late Sixth Century
10.2 Advice on Dealing with “Pagans”: Pope Gregory, Advice to the English Church, 601
10.3 Charlemagne and the Saxons: Charlemagne, Capitulary on Saxony, 785
10.4 and 10.5 The Persistence of Tradition: Willibald, Life of Boniface, ca. 760 C.E., and Leechbook, Tenth Century

10. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
The Crusades as Cultural Encounter
Source 10.1: A Western Christian Perspective: Pope Urban II
Source 10.2: Jewish Perspectives on the Crusades
Source 10.3: Muslim Perspectives on the Crusades
Source 10.4: Jerusalem and the Crusades
Source 10.5: A Byzantine Perspective on the Crusades
Source 10.6: More than Conflict

11. PASTORAL PEOPLES ON THE GLOBAL STAGE: THE MONGOL MOMENT, 1200–1500
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Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
Looking Back and Looking Around: The Long History of Pastoral Peoples
The World of Pastoral Societies
Before the Mongols: Pastoralists in History
Breakout: The Mongol Empire
From Temujin to Chinggis Khan: The Rise of the Mongol Empire
Explaining the Mongol Moment
Another Voice Podcast LaunchPad
Encountering the Mongols: Comparing Three Cases
China and the Mongols
Persia and the Mongols
Russia and the Mongols
The Mongol Empire as a Eurasian Network
Toward a World Economy
Diplomacy on a Eurasian Scale
Cultural Exchange in the Mongol Realm
The Plague: An Afro-Eurasian Pandemic
Reflections: Changing Images of Pastoral Peoples
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: A Mongol Failure: The Invasion of Japan
Zooming In: Khutulun, a Mongol Wrestler Princess
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

11. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
Perspectives on the Mongols
Documents
11.1 Mongol History from a Mongol Source: The Secret History of the Mongols, ca. 1240
11.2 Chinggis Khan and Changchun: Chinggis Khan, Letter to Changchun, 1219
11.3 The Conquest of Bukhara: A Persian View: Juvaini, The History of the World Conqueror, 1219
11.4 A Russian View of the Mongols: The Chronicle of Novgorod, 1238
11.5 Mongol Women through European Eyes: William of Rubruck, Journey to the Land of the Mongols, ca. 1255

11. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
Living and Dying During the Black Death
Source 11.1: The Black Death in the Islamic World
Source 11.2: The Black Death in Western Europe
Source 11.3: The Black Death in Byzantium
Source 11.4: Religious Responses in the Islamic World
Source 11.5: Religious Responses in the Christian World
Source 11.6: The Black Death and European Jews
Source 11.7: A Government’s Response to the Plague

12. THE WORLDS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
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Guided Reading Exercise LaunchPad
The Shapes of Human Communities
Paleolithic Persistence: Australia and North America
Agricultural Village Societies: The Igbo and the Iroquois
Pastoral Peoples: Central Asia and West Africa
Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: Comparing China and Europe
Ming Dynasty China
European Comparisons: State Building and Cultural Renewal
European Comparisons: Maritime Voyaging
Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: The Islamic World
In the Islamic Heartland: The Ottoman and Safavid Empires
On the Frontiers of Islam: The Songhay and Mughal Empires
Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: The Americas
The Aztec Empire
The Inca Empire
Webs of Connection
A Preview of Coming Attractions: Looking Ahead to the Modern Era, 1500–2015
Another Voice Podcast LaunchPad
Reflections: What If? Chance and Contingency in World History
Second Thoughts
What’s the Significance?
Big Picture Questions
Next Steps: For Further Study
Zooming In: Zheng He, China’s Non-Chinese Admiral
Zooming In: 1453 in Constantinople
Chapter Review [[v]] LearningCurve LaunchPad
Summative Quiz LaunchPad

12. WORKING WITH EVIDENCE
Islam and Renaissance Europe
Visual Sources
12.1 Gentile Bellini, Portrait of Mehmed II
12.2 The Venetian Ambassador Visits Damascus
12.3 Aristotle and Averroes
12.4 Saint George Baptizes the Pagans of Jerusalem
12.5 Giovanni da Modena, Muhammad in Hell

12. THINKING THROUGH SOURCES LaunchPad
Early Encounters; First Impressions
Source 12.1: Cadamosto in a West African Chiefdom
Source 12.2: Vasco da Gama at Calicut, India
Source 12.3: Celebrating de Gama’s arrival in Calicut
Source 12.4: Columbus in the Cari Caribbean
Source 12.5: Columbus Engraved