1. Becoming human -- 2. Rivers, cities, and first states, 3500-2000 BCE -- 3. Nomads, territorial states, and microsocieties, 2000-1200 BCE -- 4. First empires and common cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250-325 BCE -- 5. Worlds turned inside out, 1000-350 BCE -- 6. Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian world, 350-100 BCE -- 7. Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rome, 300 BCE-300 CE -- 8. The rise of universalizing religions, 300-600 CE -- 9. New empires and common cultures, 600-1000 CE -- 10. Becoming "The world," 1000-1300 CE -- 11. Crises and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500.
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