2 volumes : 29 cm "The most globally integrated book in its field, World Together, Worlds Apart is not available in a Concise Edition. Drawing even clearer connections and comparisons across time and place, this re-imagined text and companion adaptive learning program provide a wealth of new tools designed to help you master core content and develop critical thinking and history skills. Key pedagogy features include Core Objectives with Comparison Flags, global chronologies, maps with guiding questions, key terms, and review questions. Current trends in World History and Analyzing Global Developments feature current research. Global Themes and Sources sections gather visual and textual primary sources at the end of each chapter. Accompanying the book are rich multimedia supplements to help you review and explore further."--Back cover Volume One: Becoming human -- Rivers, cities, and first states, 3500-2000 BCE -- Nomads, territorial states, and microsocieties, 2000-1200 BCE -- First empires and common cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250-325 BCE -- Worlds turned inside out, 1000-350 BCE -- Shirking the Afro-Eurasian world, 350-100 BCE -- Han dynasty China and imperial Rome, 300 BCE-300 CE -- The rise of universal religions, 300-600 CE -- New empires and common cultures, 600-1000 CE -- Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE -- Crises and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500 Volume Two: Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE -- Crises and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500 -- Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450-1600 --Worlds entangled, 1600-1750 -- Cultures of splendor and power, 1500-1780 -- Reordering the world, 1750-1850 -- Alternative Visions of Nineteenth Century -- Nations and empires, 1850-1914 -- An unsettled world, 1890-1914 -- Of masses and visions of the modern, 1910-1939 -- The Three-World Order, 1940-1975 -- Globalization, 1970-2000 -- 2001-The Present Includes bibliographical references and index