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From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Leading scholars explore the economic, political, social, cultural and intellectual developments that accompanied these developments at global, interregional and regional levels.

Comprehensive new global history of the intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges that took place on an unprecedented scale from 1400 to 1800. Leading scholars examine the environment, disease, technology, cities, migrations, warfare, law, religions, and slavery, along with insightful regional analyses of empires, crossroads areas, and sites of conflict.

Comprehensive new global history of the intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges that took place on an unprecedented scale from 1400 to 1800. Leading scholars examine the environment, disease, technology, cities, migrations, warfare, law, religions, and slavery, along with insightful regional analyses of empires, crossroads areas, and sites of conflict.

Divided between a study of the discipline of world history and an examination of its earliest phases, the volume introduces key frames of analysis that shaped world history across time periods, with essays on overarching approaches, methods and themes, as well as chapters surveying human history up to 10,000 BCE.