Chapter 1: Nature, Humanity, and History: The First Four Million Years

Chapter 2: The First River-Valley Civilizations, 3500-1500 B.C.E.

Chapter 3: The Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Hemisphere, 2200-500 B.C.E.

Chapter 4: New Civilizations in the Americas and Western Eurasia, 1200-250 B.C.E.

Chapter 5: Greece and Iran, 1000-30 B.C.E.

Chapter 6: An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.- 330 C.E.

Chapter 7: India and Southeast Asia, 1500 B.C.E.-1100 C.E.

Chapter 8: Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 B.C.E.-1100 C.E.

Chapter 9: The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam, 200-1200

Chapter 10: Christian Europe Emerges, 300-1200

Chapter 11: Central and Eastern Asia, 400-1200

Chapter 12: Peoples and Civilizations of the Americas, 200-1500 C.E.

Chapter 13: Western Eurasia, 1200-1500

Chapter 14: Eastern Eurasia, 1200-1500

Chapter 15: Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200-1500

Chapter 16: The Latin West, 1200-1500

Chapter 17: The Maritime Revolution, to 1550

Chapter 18: The Transformation of Europe, 1500-1750

Chapter 19: The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530-1770

Chapter 20: The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800

Chapter 21: Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1750

Chapter 22: Eastern Eurasia, 1500-1800

Chapter 23: Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850

Chapter 24: The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851

Chapter 25: Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1800-1890

Chapter 26: Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750-1870

Chapter 27: The Ottoman Empire and East Asia, 1800-1870

Chapter 28: The New Power Balance, 1850-1900

Chapter 29: The New Imperialism, 1869-1914

Chapter 30: The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900-1929

Chapter 31: The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949

Chapter 32: Striving for Independence: Africa, India, and Latin America, 1900-1949

Chapter 33: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1975

Chapter 34: Crisis, Realignment, and the Dawn of the Post-Cold War World, 1975-1991

Chapter 35: The End of a Global Century, 1991-2000