The Human Odyssey Chapter Mappings

Below are mappings of Past Pages sections for each chapter of The Human Odyssey series. Enjoy extra stories, biographies, activities, and other enrichment to bring each era alive.

Volume 1: Prehistory Through the Middle Ages

Part 1
Chapter 1: How Civilized! From Hunters-Gatherers to City-Builders	Ancient Mesoptamia
Chapter 2: Unearthing Sumer	Ancient Mesoptamia
Chapter 3: Working, Trading, and Building in Sumer	Ancient Mesoptamia
Chapter 4: Honoring the Gods: Religion in Ancient Sumer	Ancient Mesoptamia
Chapter 5: Passing It On: The Written Word in Ancient Sumer	Ancient Mesoptamia
Chapter 6: The Sun Sets on Sumer	Ancient Mesoptamia
Chapter 7: Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon	Babylon
Chapter 8: The Spread of Civilization: Egypt	Ancient Egypt Overview
Chapter 9: Three Pharohs of the New Kingdom	Egypt: New Kingdom and Greek Period
Chapter 10: The Spread of Civilization: India and China	The Indus Valley
Part 2
Chapter 1: The Life and Ideas of Confucius	The Zhou Dynasty
Chapter 2: The Confucian Legacy	The Zhou Dynasty
Chapter 3: The Birth of Hinduism	Aryan India
Chapter 4: The Life of the Buddha	Mauryan Empire India
Chapter 5: The Buddha’s Teaching and Legacy	Mauryan Empire India
Chapter 6: A Chosen People	The Hebrews
Chapter 7: The People of the Law	The Hebrews
Chapter 8: The Greeks and Their View of Nature	Classical Greece
Chapter 9: The Greek Celebration of Man	Classical Greece
Part 3
Chapter 1: Two Greek City-States	Classical Greece
Chapter 2: Defending Greece: The Persian Wars	Classical Greece
Chapter 3: The Age of Pericles	Classical Greece
Chapter 4: A Fall, a Rise, and a Final Burst of Glory	Classical Greece
Chapter 5: The Roman Republic	Life in Ancient Rome
Chapter 6: Rome Rising and the Republic Challenged	The Roman Republic and Roman Empire
Chapter 7: Days of Empire	The Roman Republic and Roman Empire
Chapter 8: Judea and the Rise of Christianity	Judea
Chapter 9: The Spread of Christianity	Early Christianity
Chapter 10: Rome on the Wane	The Roman Republic and Roman Empire
Part 4
Chapter 1: Rome Moved East: The Byzantine Empire	The Byzantine Empire
Chapter 2: The Rise of Islam	Early Islam
Chapter 3: The Spread of Islam	The Abbasid Dynasty
Chapter 4: Ghana and Mali: Two Medieval African Trading Empires	Mali and Ethiopia
Chapter 5: Europe’s Early Middle Ages	The Barbarians
Chapter 6: Thunder from the North: The Viking Age	The Vikings
Chapter 7: Of Land and Loyalty	Knights and Castles in Europe
Chapter 8: An Age of Faith: The Church in Western Europe	The Crusades
Chapter 9: Monarchs on the Rise	The Normans
Chapter 10: China in the Middle Ages	Sui and Tang China
Chapter 11: Mongols on the Move	The Mongol Empire
Chapter 12: Europe’s Calamitous Fourteenth Century

Volume 2: Our Modern World, 1400 to 1914

Part 1
Chapter 1: Europe Reborn: Rediscovering Greece and Rome	Renaissance Italy
Chapter 2: Cities Spur Change	Renaissance Italy; Medieval Venice
Chapter 3: The Flowering of Genius in Florence	Renaissance Italy
Chapter 4: Rome Revived	Renaissance Italy
Chapter 5: Of Couriers and Princes: Politics of the Renaissance	Renaissance Italy
Chapter 6: The Renaissance Beyond Italy
Chapter 7: The Reformation Splits Christendom	The Reformation; Tudor England
Chapter 8: The Counter-Reformation and the New Face of Europe	The Spanish Inquisition; Dutch Independence
Chapter 9: Three Islamic Empires	The Ottoman Empire; India’s Moghul Dynasty
Chapter 10: Ming China and Feudal Japan	China: The Ming Dynasty; Shoguns and Samurai; Edo Period Japan
Chapter 11: Russia Rising
Part 2
Chapter 1: Portugal, Spain, and the Age of Exploration	Age of Exploration
Chapter 2: Still Seeking the Indies and Filling in the Map	Age of Exploration
Chapter 3: Old Civilizations in a New World	Ancient America; The Maya; The Aztecs; The Incas
Chapter 4: Clash of Civilizations: Conquistadors in the New World	The Conquistadores
Chapter 5: The Spanish and Portuguese Build Empires	The Conquistadores
Chapter 6: Songhai, Benin, and the New Slave Trade	Mali and Ethiopia; Benin and Zimbabwe; Transatlantic Slavery
Chapter 7: Elizabethan England and North American Initiatives	Tudor England; Early European Settlers in North America; The Spanish Armada
Chapter 8: England: Civil War and Empire	The Stuarts; English Civil War; Early European Settlers in North America
Chapter 9: The Scientific Revolution	The Enlightenment
Chapter 10: The Enlightenment: An Age of Reason	The Enlightenment
Part 3
Chapter 1: The World Turned Upside Down: The American Revolution	The American Revolution; New American Institutions
Chapter 2: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: The French Revolution	The French Revolution
Chapter 3: Napoleon: Revolution and Empire	The Napoleonic Wars
Chapter 4: Latin American Independence Movements	Revolt in Latin America
Chapter 5: The Russia of the Romanovs	Russian Expansion; Modernizing Russia
Chapter 6: Romantic Art in an Age of Revolution
Chapter 7: Britain Begins the Industrial Revolution	Industrial Revolution
Chapter 8: A Revolution in Transportation and Communication	Inventions, Engineering, and Transportation
Chapter 9: Strife and Struggle: Hard Times and New Ideas During the Industrial Revolution	The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era; Child Labor Reform
Chapter 10: Slavery in a Changing World	Transatlantic Slavery; The End of Slavery
Part 4
Chapter 1: Italy and Germany: Nationalism and a New Map of Europe	1848: Year of Revolution; Germany
Chapter 2: Civil War in the United States: A House Divided and Reunited	American Civil War; The Transcontinental Railroad
Chapter 3: An Age of Innovation	Inventions, Engineering, and Transportation
Chapter 4: The New Imperialism	Scramble for Africa; The British in India
Chapter 5: Organizing for Change: Cities, Workers, and Women	The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era; Child Labor Reform; Turn-of-the-Century Immigration
Chapter 6: Reaching Millions	Inventions, Engineering, and Transportation
Chapter 7: Culture Shocks: Questioning Reason and Reality
Chapter 8: Rising Expectations in Waning Empires	Indian Independence and Partition
Chapter 9: Linking the Seas and Reaching for the Skies	Inventions, Engineering, and Transportation

Volume 3: From Modern Times to Our Contemporary Era

Part 1
Chapter 1: From Modern to Contemporary
Chapter 2: The World Transformed: Two Kinds of Revolutions
Chapter 3: Meeting the Challenge of Change	The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era
Chapter 4: Powerhouse in Europe: Germany Rising	Germany
Chapter 5: A New Powerhouse in Asia: Meiji Japan	Meiji Japan
Chapter 6: Imperialism in Action: The Scramble for Asia	The End of the Qing Dynasty
Part 2
Chapter 1: Igniting the Powder Keg	World War I
Chapter 2: The Great War	World War I
Chapter 3: Revolution in Russia	The Russian Revolution and Stalinist Russia
Chapter 4: War’s End and a Troubled Peace	The Aftermath of World War I
Chapter 5: Terrible Uncertainty: Art and Belief After the War	USA Between the Wars
Chapter 6: Growing Nationalism in the Middle East	Israel and Palestine
Chapter 7: The Great Depression and the Rise of Dictators	The Great Depression; The Rise of Fascism and the Spanish Civil War; Weimar and Hitler; China and Japan at War
Chapter 8: A Second World War Begins
Chapter 9: Allied Victory and the Shape of Evil	World War II; The Holocaust and Other Jewish Experiences
Chapter 10: Securing the Peace, Uniting the Nations	The Aftermath of World War II; Israel and Palestine
Part 3
Chapter 1: The Cold War Begins: Rebuilding Amid Deepening Divisions	Communism and the Cold War; Communist China and Mao Zedong
Chapter 2: A World Divided and on the Brink	Communist China and Mao Zedong; Communism and the Cold War
Chapter 3: Looking Up and Away: Scientific Advances in the Postwar Years	Space Exploration
Chapter 4: The End of Empire: Former Colonies Gain Independence	Indian Independence and Partition; Decolonization and New Nations; Apartheid South Africa
Chapter 5: Conflict in the Middle East	Conflicts in the Middle East
Chapter 6: Hot Spots in the Cold War	Wars in Asia
Chapter 7: The Wall Comes Tumbling Down: The End of the Cold War	Communism and the Cold War
Chapter 8: Terrorism: The New Threat	Conflicts in the Middle East
Chapter 9: An Electronically Charged Information Revolution
Chapter 10: Ongoing Democratic Revolutions	Fight for Rights; Environmental Movements; The New China