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Primary Navigation Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices. Book Contents Navigation Introduction to HUMA 207 and Acknowledgements 1. Teaching Resources for Faculty (password protected) 2. What are the Humanities and why are they relevant? 3. Additional Resources for Students 4. INTRODUCTION 5. WESTERN ASIA 6. CENTRAL ASIA 7. EASTERN ASIA 8. AFRICA 9. EUROPE 10. THE AMERICAS 11. NORTH AMERICA 12. MIDDLE AMERICA 13. SOUTH AMERICA

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• 6 CENTRAL ASIA
• Imperial Chinese history is marked by the rise and fall of many dynasties and oc
• Geography played a vital part in shaping early human societies. Landscape, clima
• Contemporary popular culture regularly presents ancient Greece as an exceptional
• The original inhabitants of the Americas traveled across what is now known as th
• Oceania is a realm like no other. Nowhere else in the world can one find some of
• The site consists of four large groups of stone circles that represent an extrao
• 24 AUSTRALIA and the PACIFIC
• Mosques, tombstones, textiles, and murals are only a few examples of the art and
• When the Tangdynasty (618–907) collapsed, a period of upheaval, rapid succession
• 30 EUROPE
• Prophecies, legends, community crops, pottery, tools, and ecological knowledge p
• GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
• By 1200 CE, the population of Oceania had become a web of far-flung communities.
• In the next chapter, we will turn to the Americas and their discovery by Europea
• The sixteenth century was a time of momentous change in Europe. The Age of Explo
• Introduction to the Spanish Viceroyalties in the Americas
• 46 WESTERN ASIA
• 47 CENTRAL ASIA
• 48 EASTERN ASIA
• The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a growth in the inland exploration o

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