U1, Introduction (p. 2-3)

No cuts

U2, Ancient Near East (p. 43-44)

Akkad (Agade)

Epic of Gilgamesh

Osiris

Neo-Babylonians

Astronomy and Mathematics

U3, Iran, (p. 59-60)

Mithradates

Shapur

Feudal

Taq-I Kisra

Mani/Manichaeism

U4, India (p. 76-77)

Jainism

Mahavira

Kautilya

Indo-Greeks

Menander

Kushans

Kanishka

Guptas

Samudragupta

Feudalism

U5, China (p. 91-92)

feudalism/decentralization

humaneness or virtue

standardization

Three kingdoms

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Eunuch

Dowager

examination system

paper

U6, Classical Greece (p. 111-112)

Athenian Empire

Spartan Empire

Seleucids

Ptolemys

Greek sculpture

Sophocles

Thucydides

pantheon

U7, Rome (p. 125-6)

Greek colonies

Citizenship

Conquest of Hellenistic World

Social effects of Roman Conquest

Good Emperors

Soldier Emperors

Problem of succession to the throne

Cicero

U8, Byzantium (p. 140-1)

Theodora

Heraclius

Basil II

Greek Fire

Christological Controversies

Michael Psellus

University of Constantinople

Poland-Lithuania

Ivan III

Everything under the Huns (but know the Huns!)

U9, Islam (p. 156-7)

Sabeans

Arab civil wars

Fatimids

Ulema

Ibn Battuta

Ibn Khaldun

Fall of Baghdad to Mongols

U10, South Asia (p. 175-6)

Islamic invasion and Battle of Talas

Turkish Sedentary States

Rashtrakuta

Rajputs

Merchant Guilds

Shankara

Muhammad of Ghur

Mongol Wars

Monsoon

Pagan

Srivijaya

Thai Invasions

Ayuthia

Portuguese

U11, Africa (p. 189-90)

Racism

Afrocentrism

Meroe

Amanitere

Gudit (Judith)

warrior societies

al-Jahiz

U12, Precolumbian America (p. 205-6)

Mesa Verde

Poverty Point

Teotihuacan

Maya Astronomy

Toltecs

Chichen Itza

Ball Game

Mochica

U12, Medieval East Asia (p. 224-5)

Empress Wu

Confucian Aristocracy

Expansion of Buddhism

Neo-Confucianism

Shogun

Mongol invasion of Japan

Hideyoshi

All things on Korea

U14, Medieval Europe (p. 243-4)

Clovis

Magyars

Hundred Years War

Frederick II

War of the Roses

Hierarchy

Heresy

Investiture Controversy

Chivalrous Romance