Includes bibliographical references.

Volume 1 -- Becoming human -- Rivers, cities, and first states, 3500-2000 BCE -- Casebook: Humans and the environment in the second millennium -- Nomads, territorial states, and microsocieties, 2000-1200 BCE -- First empires and common cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250-325 BCE -- Worlds turned inside out, 1000-350 BCE -- Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian world, 350 BCE-100 CE -- Han Dynasty China and imperial Rome, 300 BCE-300 CE -- The rise of universal religions, 300-600 CE -- New empires and common cultures, 600-1000 CE -- Becoming "the world," 1000-1300 CE -- Casebook: Mobilizing for war in the age of the Mongols -- Crises and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1500 -- Volume 2 -- Contact, commerce, and colonization, 1450-1600 -- Worlds entangled, 1600-1750 -- Casebook: Coerced labor in the early modern world -- Cultures of splendor and power, 1500-1780 -- Reordering the world, 1750-1850 -- Alternative visions of the nineteenth century -- Nations and empires, 1850-1914 -- An unsettled world, 1890-1914 -- Casebook: Rubber and the world economy -- Of masses and visions of the modern, 1910-1939 -- The three-world order, 1940-1975 -- Globalization, 1970-2000.

"This distinctive primary source reader reflects the same global comparative perspective as the regular and concise editions of its companion survey. New editors Elizabeth Pollard and Clifford Rosenberg draw upon their extensive experience as teachers and researchers to improve accessibility, and include more documents of short and intermediate length. They also include more sources that are directly tied to events and developments discussed in the Worlds Together narrative. With roughly 150 primary source documents and visuals, a new casebook on 'Humans and the Environment in the Second Millennium BCE,' excellent editorial apparatus, and a deeply discounted package price, this reader remains the best value in its market"--Provided by publisher.