v. 1. Inner Eurasia from prehistory to the Mongol Empire
v. 2. Inner Eurasia from the Mongol Empire to today, 1260-2000. v. 1. PART I. THE GEOGRAPHY AND ECOLOGY OF INNER EURASIA. 1. The Geography and Ecology of Inner Eurasia
PART II PREHISTORY: 100,000-1000 BCE
2. First Settlers: The Old Stone Age
3. Hunters and Gatherers after the Ice Age
4. The Neolithic Revolution: Seventh to Third Millennia BCE
5. The Bronze Age: 3000-1000 BCE
PART III THE SCYTHIC AND HUNNIC ERAS: 1000 BCE-500 CE. 6. The 'Scythic' Era: 1000-200 BCE
7. Outer Eurasian Invasions and their Aftermath
8. The Hsiung-nu Empire
9. 'Barbarian' Invasions before 500 CE
PART IV TURKS, MAWARA'N-NAHR AND RUS': 500-1200. 10. Turkic Empires of the East
11. Turkic Empires of Western Inner Eurasia
12. Mawara'n-nahr: Islamic Civilization in Central Asia
13. The Origins of Rus'
14. Before the Mongols: 1000-1220
PART V THE MONGOL EMPIRE: 1200-1260
15. Chinggis Khan
16. The Mongol Empire and a New 'World System'
Conclusion
Chronology. v. 2. Inner Eurasia in the Agrarian Era: 1260-1850. Inner Eurasia in the Late Thirteenth Century: The Mongol Empire at its Height
1260-1350: Unraveling and the Building of New Polities
1350-1500: Central and Eastern Inner Eurasia
1350-1500: Western Inner Eurasia
1500-1600: Pastoralist and Oasis Societies of Inner Eurasia
1500-1600: Agrarian Societies West of the Volga
1600-1750: A Tipping Point: Building a Russian Empire
1600-1750: A Tipping Point: Central and Eastern Inner Eurasia between Russia and China
1750-1850: Evolution and Expansion of the Russian Empire
Inner Eurasia in the Era of Fossil Fuels: 1850-2000. 1850-1914: The Heartland: Continued Expansion and the Shock of Industrialization
1750-1900: Beyond the Heartlands: Inner Eurasian Empires, Russian and Chinese
1914-1921: Unraveling and Rebuilding
1921-1930: New Paths to Modernity
1930-1950: The Stalinist Industrialization Drive and the Test of War
1900-1950: Central and Eastern Inner Eurasia
1950-1991: The Heartland: A Plateau, Decline, and Collapse
1950-1991: Beyond the Heartlands: Central and Eastern Inner Eurasia in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
1991-2000: Building New States: General Trends and the Russian Federation
1991-2000: Building New States: Beyond the Heartlands
Epilogue: After 2000: The End of Inner Eurasia?
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