Expanding webs of exchange and conflict, 500 CE-1500 CE

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1. Introduction Benjamin Z. Kedar and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Part I. Global Developments: 2. Humans and the environment: tension and co-evolution Joachim Radkau 3. Women, family, gender, and sexuality Susan Stuard 4. Society: hierarchy and solidarity Susan Reynolds 5. Educational institutions Linda Walton 6. Warfare Clifford Rogers Part II. Eurasian Commonalities: 7. Courtly cultures: Western Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic world, India, China, and Japan Patrick Geary, Daud Ali, Paul S. Atkins, Michael Cooperson, Rita Costa Gomes, Paul Dutton, Gert Melville, Claudia Rapp, Karl-Heinz Spiess, Stephen West and Pauline Yu 8. The age of trans-regional reorientations: cultural crystallization and transformation in the tenth to thirteenth centuries Bjoern Wittrock Part III. Growing Interactions: 9. Trade and commerce across Afro-Eurasia Richard Smith 10. European and Mediterranean trade networks Michel Balard 11. Trading partners across the Indian Ocean: the making of maritime communities Himanshu Ray 12. Technology and innovation within expanding webs of exchange Dagmar Schaefer and Marcus Popplow 13. The transmission of science and philosophy Charles Burnett 14. Pastoral nomadic migrations and conquests Anatoly Khazanov Part IV. Expanding Religious Systems: 15. The centrality of Islamic civilization Michael Cook 16. Christendom's regional systems Miri Rubin 17. The spread of Buddhism Tansen Sen Part V. State Formations: 18. State formation and empire building Johann Arnason 19. State formation in China from the Sui through the Song dynasties Richard von Glahn 20. The Mongol empire and inter-civilizational exchange Michal Biran 21. Byzantium Jean-Claude Cheynet 22. Early polities of the Western Sudan David Conrad 23. Mesoamerican state formation in the postclassic period Michael E. Smith 24. State and religion in the Inca empire Sabine MacCormack 25. 'Proto-globalization' and 'proto-glocalizations' in the middle millennium Diego Holstein.

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