World History I to 1500

World History I to 1500: A Milestone Documents E-text is a peer-reviewed textbook originally created for the Milestone Documents course service. The book contains 15 chapters arranged in roughly chronological order. Together, the chapters offer a comprehensive textbook covering the period from the development of early civilizations through the Renaissance. It is suitable for instructors and students from high school through lower undergraduate levels.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copy Right
• Contents
• Reader’s Guide
• Contributors
• Unit 1: Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Fertile Crescent
• Human History before the Domestication of Plants and Animals
• East-West Axis and the Spread of Food Production
• Domestication and Human Diseases
• Unit 1 Review
• Unit 2: Religion and Culture in the Earliest Civilizations in the Ancient Near East
• Sumerian Culture
• Temple Complexes, Religious Ritual, and the Order of Nature
• City-states and Their Gods
• Unit 2 Review
• Unit 3: Earliest Civilizations of Africa
• Carthage
• Nubia
• Egypt
• Unit 3 Review
• Unit 4: India
• Indus Valley Civilization
• The Maurya Empire
• Vedas and Indian Religion
• Unit 4 Review
• Unit 5: China
• The Influence of China on Japan and Korea
• The Qin Empire
• Mandate of Heaven and Dynastic Cycle
• Unit 5 Review
• Unit 6: Revolutions in Human Thought
• Greek Philosophy
• Confucius and Buddha
• The Jewish Prophets
• Unit 6 Review
• Unit 7: Earliest Civilizations of the Americas
• The Aztec
• The Inca
• The Olmec and Maya
• Unit 7 Review
• Unit 8: The Greeks
• Hellenistic Age
• Golden Age of Greece
• Minoan and Mycenaean Greece
• Unit 8 Review
• Unit 9: The Romans
• The Fall of Rome
• The Roman Republic
• The Roman Empire
• Unit 9 Review
• Unit 10: The Rise of Christianity
• Christianity and the Roman Empire
• The Structure of the Christian Church
• Jesus
• Unit 10 Review
• Unit 11: European Peoples
• Benedictine Monks and the Conversion of the European Peoples
• The Vikings
• Cultures of the People
• Unit 11 Review
• Unit 12: Ascendancy of the East
• Expansion of Muslim Culture
• The Rise of Islam
• The Byzantine Empire
• Unit 12 Review
• Unit 13: The Formation of Western Christendom
• Carolingian Renaissance
• Corruption and Renewal in the Church
• The Crusades
• Unit 13 Review
• Unit 14: The Medieval Age
• Medieval Church and State
• Europeans and Mongols
• Reason and Faith in Thomas Aquinas
• Unit 14 Review
• Unit 15: The Renaissance
• Renaissance Art and Science
• Church Corruption
• The Great Plague
• Unit 15 Review