Patterns of World History: Volume One: To 1600, with Sources [Paperback]

Encouraging a broad-based understanding of continuity, change, and innovation in human history,Patterns of World Historypresents the global past in a comprehensive, evenhanded, and open-ended fashionWinner of the Textbook & Academic Authors Association's Textbook Excellence AwardPatterns of World History with Sources, Fifth Edition, offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins, interactions, and adaptations. The authors examine the full range of human ingenuity over time and space in a comprehensive, evenhanded, and critical fashion. They offer a distinct intellectual framework for the role of innovation and historical change through patterns oforigins, interactions, and adaptations. Each chapter ends with four to six primary sources, both textual and visual.MAPSSTUDYING WITH MAPSPREFACENOTE ON DATES AND SPELLINGSABOUT THE AUTHORSWORLD PERIOD ONE. FROM HUMAN ORIGINS TO EARLY AGRICULTURAL CENTERS, PREHISTORY TO 600 BCEChapter 1. The African Origins of Humanity , Prehistory-10,000 BCE1.1 The Origins of HumanityHominins: No Longer Apes, but Not Yet Human1.2 Human Adaptations: From Africa to Eurasia and AustraliaThe African Origins of Human CultureMigration from South Asia to AustraliaMigration from Asia to Europe1.3 The Ice Age Crisis and Human Migration to the AmericasThe Ice AgePutting It All TogetherPATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 11.1 - Shell bead jewelry from the Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco1.2 - Python-shaped ornamented rock found in the Rhino Cave, Botswana1.3 - Pottery's Diverse Origins in East Asia1.4 - Flax fibers found at the Dzudzuana Cave, Republic of Georgia, Caucasus MountainsChapter 2. Agrarian-Urban Centers of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, 11,500-600 BCE2.1 Agrarian Origins in the Fertile Crescent, clc-