144 pages : 26 cm

The book was designed and produced by Calmann & King, Ltd, London, c2000

Includes index

World before the common era: Paleolithic world, the beginnings of human society -- Last ice age & the colonization of the Pacific -- Rise of agriculture & spread of civilizations, 10,000 BC-500 CE -- Ancient Mesopotamia -- Ancient Egypt 3100-1070 BCE -- Early civilizations in the Indus River Valley & China -- Classical cultures in the Americas, 250-1500 CE -- Ancient Near East, 1550-1250 CE -- Assyrian & Persian Empires c.911-330 BCE -- Ancient Greeks -- Palestine in Biblical times, 930 BCE-30 CE -- Roman Empire -- Rome's successors & the Byzantine Empire -- Common Era, the first fifteen centuries: Christianity & Judaism -- China under the Sui and Tang dynasties 581-906 CE -- Creation of the Islamic world after 622 CE -- Expansion of Islam in South and Southeast Asia -- Mongol world -- World trade before the Global age, 400-1400 CE -- Americas, 1000-1520 -- Africa, 100-1500 CE -- Europe & its world relations, 600-1350 CE -- Europe in the 15th century -- European states in 1526 CE -- Early global age, 1500-1900: World in the Age of European expansion, 1500-1600 -- European trading empires, 1500-1700 -- Early modern Europe, 1550-1750 -- Eurasian Empires,1300-1700 -- African slave trade -- Americas in 1750 -- Europe in the age of the French Revolution -- British Empire in the nineteenth century -- Age of Napoleon -- Europe in the nineteenth century -- Expansion of the United States and the formation of Canada, 1803-1905 -- European Imperialism, 1815-1870 -- Industrial Revolution in Europe -- United States in the nineteenth century -- Qing Dynasty in China, rise and decline, 1618-1900 -- European Imperialism in Africa, 1870-199 -- Expansion of Japan, 1872-1910 -- Twentieth century: Europe and its empires in 1914 -- Africa in 1914 -- World War I, 1914-1918 -- Aftermath of World War I -- World War II in Europe, 1939-1945 -- World War II in the Pacific, 1941-1945 -- After World War II, political changes in East Asia and Europe -- Asia since 1945 -- Southwest Asia and its environs since World War II -- Decolonization of Africa -- Economic development in Africa -- Latin American politics in the 20th century -- Economic development in Latin America -- Cold War and the end of the Soviet Union, 1945-1995 -- United States in the 1990s -- Women of the world in the 1990s -- World population at the end of the twentieth century

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