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Peter Haugen
World History For Dummies
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World History For Dummies® To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to
www.dummies.com
and search for “World History For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Guide
Pages
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Tracing a Path to the Present
Firing Up the WABAC Machine
Footpath to Expressway: Building on Humble Beginnings
War! What Is It Good For? Material for History Books, That’s What
Appreciating History’s Tapestry
Threading backward
Crossing threads
Weaving home
Making the Connections
Tracking the Centuries
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Digging Up Reality
Homing In on Homer
The Troy story
Inspiring archaeological finds
Raising Atlantis
Reading the Body Language of the Dead
Frozen in the Alps
Salted away in Asia
Bogged down in northern Europe
Dried and well preserved in the Andes
MUMMIES FOR DUMMIES
Preserved pharaohs in Egypt
Tracking the Centuries
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Putting History into Perspective
Being Human Beings
Nearing the Neanderthal
Talking like no one had before
Making sense of AD, BC, CE, and BCE
Dividing Time into Eras … and Giving Them Names
Sorting ancient from modern
Telling classical from schmassical
Bowing to the queens
Perceiving and avoiding biases
Noticing the Noteworthy and the Notorious
Studying contradictions
Looking at events from different angles
Verifying virtue
Tracking the Centuries
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Getting Civilized
Building Jericho’s Walls for Mutual Defense
Planting Cities along Rivers
Settling between the Tigris and Euphrates
Getting agricultural in Africa
FLOODING ON A MYTHIC SCALE
Assembling Egypt
Going up the river into Kush
Giving way as new civilizations rise
PERILS OF POWER
Heading east to the Indus and Yellow Rivers
Plumbing the mysteries of ancient Indus Valley sites
PULLING PREHISTORY FROM A BRICK PILE
Separating history from myth: China’s oldest dynasties
Coming of Age in the Americas
Keeping Records on the Way to Writing and Reading
Planning pyramids
Laying down laws and love songs
ABCs IN BC
Shaping the World Ever After
Building a Persian Empire
Growing toward Greekness
Adapting to the lay of the Greek land
Finding strength in common culture
Making Alexander great
Extending an empire to the farthest reaches
Leaving a legacy
Developing Cultures Abounding
Tracking the Centuries
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Rising and Falling Empires
Rome’s Ascent and Demise
Forming the Roman Republic
Earning citizenship
Expanding the empire
ROMAN CLASS
Crossing the Rubicon
Empowering the emperor
Roaming eastward
Western empire fades into history
Rome and the Roman Catholic Church
WHATEVER IT’S CALLED, IT’S STILL
THE
CHURCH
Building Empires around the World
Ruling Persia and Parthia
India’s empires
Uniting China: Seven into Qin
Flourishing civilizations in the Americas
Sharing with the Maya
Building in Peru
Remembering Far-Flung Cultures
Tracking the Centuries
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