The Ancient Near East   The Spread of Homo sapiens sapiens               The Assyrian and Persian Empires   The Development of Agriculture               Classical Greece   The Expansion of Islam               Ancient Italy   The Abbasid Caliphate at the Height of Its Power               The Byzantine Empire at the Time of Justinian   The Gupta Empire         The Migrations of the Slavs     Ancient Africa             Spread of the Black Death     China Under the Tang             The Mughal Empire     Asia Under the Mongols             The Unification of Italy     Japan, China, and Korea, 600-800             The Unification of Germany     The New Kingdoms of the Old Western Empire             World War I, 1914-1918     Europe in the High Middle Ages             The Northern Expedition     Europe in the Fifteenth Century             World War II in Europe and North Africa     Europe in the Seventeenth Century             World War II in Asia and the Pacific     European Voyages and Possessions in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries                   The Slave Trade                   The Ottoman Empire         India in 1805                   The Qing Empire in the Eighteenth Century                   Tokugawa Japan                   Colonial Southeast Asia                   Africa in 1914                   The Qing Empire in the Early Twentieth Century                   Foreign Possessions and Spheres of Influence About 1900                   Europe in 1914                   Territorial Changes in Europe and the Middle East After World War I                   Territorial Changes in Europe After World War II                   The Modern Middle East                   Modern Southeast Asia