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 4th Edition Marilynn Hitchens, Ph.D. and Heidi Roupp, M.A. - All books by this author
The authors open this test preparation manual with a general overview of world history, treating it as an academic discipline, and offering general study advice. The 25 study units that follow review the entire scope of human history, starting with the emergence of early human communities, the development of agricultural societies, and the emergence of civilizations. The chronicle of the worlds civilizations is reviewed to the present era. The manual concludes with two full-length model tests with all questions answered and explained.
Table of Contents:
Notes to the Student
Diagnostic Test and Answers
About the Test
How to Prepare for the Test
How to Take the Test
- UNIT I
THE BEGINNINGS OF HUMAN SOCIETY
(ca. 4 MILLION B.C.E.4000 B.C.E.)
The Meaning of Society
The Emergence of Early Human Communities and
the Peopling of the Earth (ca. 4 million B.C.E.10,000
B.C.E.)
The Development of Agricultural Societies
(ca. 10,000 B.C.E.4000 B.C.E.)
Unit Review
- UNIT II
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS TO ca. 500 B.C.E.
The Meaning of Civilization
The Emergence of Civilization (ca. 3000 B.C.E.1500
B.C.E.)
Metallurgy and the
Development of Early
Civilization (ca. 3000
B.C.E.500 B.C.E.)
Regional Interaction (ca. 1000
B.C.E.600 B.C.E.)
Unit Review
- UNIT III
SYSTEMS OF SOCIETY AND CULTURE:
THE CLASSICAL AGE
(ca. 1000 B.C.E.900 C.E.)
The Meaning of Classicism
Classical Greek and Persian
Civilizations (ca. 600
B.C.E.200 B.C.E.)
Classical Roman Civilization
(ca. 500 B.C.E.500 C.E.)
Classical Chinese Imperial
Civilization (ca. 500
B.C.E.500 C.E.)
Classical Indian Civilization
(ca. 300 B.C.E.500 C.E.)
Classical American and
African Civilizations
(ca. 100 C.E.900 C.E.)
Unit Review
- UNIT IV
EXPANDING CLASSICAL SYSTEMS OF
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
(ca. 100 C.E.1600 C.E.)
Historical Processes: Migrations, Rise and Fall,
Diffusion, Interaction, Synthesis, and
Systems of Exchange
Expansion of Systems of
Society and Culture in East
and Southeast Asia (ca.
2500 B.C.E.1200 C.E.)
The Rise of Islamic
Civilization (ca. 600
C.E.1200 C.E.)
The Byzantine Empire and
Kievan State (ca. 500
C.E.1453 C.E.)
The Rise of Feudal States
(ca. 500 C.E.1600 C.E.)
Unit Review
- UNIT V
EMERGENCE OF A GLOBAL AGE
(ca. 1100 C.E.1600 C.E.)
The Importance of Encounter, Exchange, and
Diffusion to the Global Age
The Eurasian Highway
(ca. 1100 C.E.1600 C.E.)
Maritime Trade Complexes
(ca. 1100 C.E.1600 C.E.)
The Americas (ca. 1200
C.E.1600 C.E.)
Unit Review
- UNIT VI
FORCES THAT SHAPED THE MODERN
WORLD EXCHANGE
(ca. 1000 C.E.1750 C.E.)
The Meaning of Modern
The Transformation of
Europe (ca. 1000 C.E.
1750 C.E.)
The World Exchange (ca.
1450 C.E.1750 C.E.)
Unit Review
- UNIT VII
PATTERNS OF MODERNITY IN THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY
(ca. 1750 C.E.1914 C.E.)
Gender in World History
Liberal Democratic
Movements (ca. 1450
C.E.1850 C.E.)
Revolutions in Energy,
Industry, and Transportation
(ca. 1750 C.E.1914 C.E.)
The Spread of Modernization
and the Transformation of
Society (ca. 1800 C.E.
1914 C.E.)
Unit Review
- UNIT VIII
THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY WORLD
Science and Technology in World History 361
The End of European
Hegemony (ca.
1900 C.E.1970 C.E.)
Revolution, Decolonization,
and Wars of National
Liberation (ca. 1917
C.E.2000 C.E.)
The Diffusion of Modern
Systems (ca. 1945 C.E.
Present)
Unit Review
- MODEL TESTS
Model Test 1
Answers to Model Test 1
Model Test 2
Answers to Model Test 2
Index of Study Aids
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