Patterns of World History: Volume One: To 1600 with Sources

Encouraging a broad-based understanding of continuity, change, and innovation in human history, Patterns of World History presents the global past in a comprehensive, even-handed, and open-ended fashion

Patterns of World History offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins, interactions, and adaptations. Authors Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers, and George Stow--each specialists in their respective fields--examine the full range of human ingenuity over time and space in a comprehensive, even-handed, and critical fashion.

The book helps students to see and understand patterns through: ORIGINS - INTERACTIONS - ADAPTATIONS

These key features show the O-I-A framework in action:

* Seeing Patterns, a list of key questions at the beginning of each chapter, focuses students on the 3-5 over-arching patterns, which are revisited, considered, and synthesized at the end of the chapter in Thinking Through Patterns

* Each chapter includes a Patterns Up Close case study that brings into sharp relief the O-I-A pattern using a specific idea or thing that has developed in human history (and helped, in turn, develop human history), like the innovation of the Chinese writing system or religious syncretism in India. Each case study clearly shows how an innovation originated either in one geographical center or independently in several different centers. It demonstrates how, as people in the centers interacted with their neighbors, the neighbors adapted to--and in many cases were transformed by--the idea, object, or event. Adaptations include the entire spectrum of human responses, ranging from outright rejection to creative borrowing and, at times, forced acceptance.

• Sources for Patterns of World History: Volume One to 1600
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• Patterns of World History: Volume Two: Since 1400 2nd edition
• A History of the World in 6 Glasses
• Aspects of World Civilization: Problems and Sources in History, Volume 1
• After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
• The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues (Dover Thrift Editions)
• Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350
• Sources of World Societies, Volume I: To 1600
• How to Write Anything with Readings with 2016 MLA Update: A Guide and Reference