Volume 1: Chapters 1-15
Volume 2: Chapters 13-30
Volume A: Chapters 1-10
Volume B: Chapters 11-20
Volume C: Chapters 20-30

 

 

In Perspective: Cains and Abels

 

PART 6: the crucible: the eurasian crises of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

 

 

Chapter 13

The World the Mongols Made

 

The Mongols: Reshaping Eurasia

• Genghis Khan
• The Mongol Steppe

The Mongol World Beyond the Steppes: The Silk Roads, China, Persia, and Russia

• China
• Persia
• Russia

The Limits of Conquest: Mamluk Egypt and Muslim India

• Mamluk Egypt
• Muslim India: The Delhi Sultanate

Europe

 

In Perspective: The Uniqueness of the Mongols

 

 

Chapter 14

The Revenge of Nature:  Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century

 

Climate Change

 

The Coming of the Age of Plague

• The Course and Impact of Plague
• Medicine and Morals
• The Jews
• Distribution of Wealth
• Peasant Millenarianism

The Limits of Disaster: Beyond the Plague Zone

• India
• Southeast Asia
• Japan
• Mali

The Pacific: Societies of Isolation

• Easter Island
• New Zealand
• Ozette
• Chan Chan

In Perspective: The Aftershock

 

Chapter 15

Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

 

Fragile Empires in Africa

• East Africa
• West Africa

Ecological Imperialism in the Americas

• The Inca Empire
• The Aztec Empire

New Eurasian Empires

• The Russia Empire
• Timurids and the Ottoman Empire

The Limitations of Chinese Imperialism

 

The Beginnings of Oceanic Imperialism

 

The European Outlook: Problems and Promise

 

In Perspective: Beyond Empires

 

Part 7: Convergence and Divergence to ca. 1700

 

Chapter 16

Imperial Arenas: New Empires in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

 

Maritime Empires: Portugal, Japan, and the Dutch

• The Portuguese Example
• Asian Examples
• The Dutch Connection

Land Empires: Russia, China, Mughal India, and the Ottomans

• China
• The Mughal Example in India
• The Ottomans

New Land Empires in the Americas

• Making the New Empires Work

In Perspective: The Global Balance of Trade

 

Chapter 17

The Ecological Revolution of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

 

The Ecological Exchange: Plants and Animals

• Maize, Sweet Potatoes, and Potatoes
• Weeds, Grasses, and Livestock
• Cane Sugar
• Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate
• Patterns of Ecological Exchange

The Microbial Exchange

• Demographic Collapse in the New World
• Plague and New Diseases in Eurasia

Labor: Human Transplantations

 

Wild Frontiers: Encroaching Settlement

• Northern and Central Asia: The Waning of Steppeland Imperialism
• Pastoral Imperialism in Af