Chapter 1: Nature, Humanity, and History to 3500 B.C.

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

Chapter 3: New Civilizations in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 2200-250 B.C.E.

Chapter 4: The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000-500 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.-1025 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: Inner and East Asia, 400-1200

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

Chapter 13: Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath, 1200-1500

Chapter 14: Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200-1500

Chapter 15: The Latin West, 1200-1500

Chapter 16: The Maritime Revolution, to 1550

Chapter 17: Transformations in Europe, 1500-1750

Chapter 18: The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530-1770

Chapter 19: The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800

Chapter 20: Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1750

Chapter 21: Northern Eurasia, 1500-1800

Chapter 22: Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1850

Chapter 23: The Early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1851

Chapter 24: Nation Building and Economic Transformation in the Americas, 1800-1890

Chapter 25: Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750-1870

Chapter 26: Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1870

Chapter 27: The New Power Balance, 1850-1900

Chapter 28: The New Imperialism, 1869-1914

Chapter 29: The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900-1929

Chapter 30: The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949

Chapter 31: Striving for Independence: Africa, India, and Latin America, 1900-1949

Chapter 32: The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945-1975

Chapter 33: Crisis, Realignment, and the Dawn of the Post-Cold War World, 1975-1991

Chapter 34: Globalization at the Turn of the Millennium, 1991-2003