DIVE World History

Prologues 1–2

• Earth — A Journey of 4.6 Billion Years
• Humans — A Journey of 7 Million Years

Chapters 1–4

• The Pyramid — Tomb of a King, House of a God
• Hammurabi — An Eye for an Eye
• Kadesh — The Peace of Two Kings
• Shang and Zhou — The Mandate Changes Hands

Chapters 5–11

• Solomon — The Temple and the Cedar Ships
• Assyria — Iron and Terror
• The Polis — Games and Colonies
• Nineveh — The Glory and Twilight of an Empire
• Cyrus — The Tolerant King
• Herodotus — The Father of History
• Ptolemy — Friend of a King, and King

Chapters 12–19

• Hannibal — Elephants and Exile
• Zhang Qian — To the Western Edge of the World
• Augustus — Peace and the Monsoon
• Gan Ying — The Road to Daqin
• The Envoy of Andun — At the End of the Sea Road
• Palmyra — The Desert Queen and the Emperor’s Sign
• The Germanic Peoples — The Great Migrations
• Justinian — Silk, Law, and Plague

Chapters 20–24

• Xuanzang — Journey to the West
• Abe no Nakamaro — The Moon over Chang’an
• Charlemagne and Harun — Carrying the Elephant
• Varangians — The River Road and the Silver Road
• Seljuk — Birth of the Sultan

Chapters 25–28

• The Crusades — Holy Land and Translation
• The Mongols — The Road of Relay Stations
• Ibn Battuta — Walking Three Continents
• Zheng He — Down to the Western Ocean

Chapters 29–32

• 1492 — A City Falls, an Ocean Opens
• The Century of Silver — From Potosí to Manila
• The East India Company — The Ledger That Bound the World
• Sugar, Cotton, and Tea — The Atlantic Triangle

Chapters 33–35

• Bolívar — The Liberator
• The Overseas Chinese — Coolies, Railroads, and Steamships
• The Correspondent — From Imperialism to World War

Chapters 36–37

• The 38th Parallel — Living the Cold War
• The Night the Wall Fell — And On to Your Own Time