Prologue: the geography of the Indian Ocean and the navigation
Part I. The Ancient Routes of Trade and Cultural Exchanges and the First States (6th-2nd Millenia BC): Introduction
1. The birth of the state
2. Early Bronze Age I in Western Asia and in Egypt (ca. 3000–2700 BC)
3. Early Bronze Age II (ca. 2700–1950 BC)
4. The new spaces of the Middle Bronze Age in Asia and in Egypt (ca.2000–1750 BC)
5. The Late Bronze Age (ca. 1600-1100 BC), an Area Unified around the Eastern Mediterranean
6. East Asia. From Villages to States (Ca. 5000–1027 BC)
7. The emergence of intermediary spaces
Conclusion: Were there world-sytems during the Bronze Age?
Part II. The Birth of the Afro-Eurasian World-System (1st Millennium BC-1st Century AD): Introduction
8. The beginnings of the Iron Age
9. The roads to the Orient
10. India. The birth of a new core
11. Southeast Asia, an interface between two oceans
12. China. From kingdoms to unification
13. Arabia. Maritime cultures and the rise of the caravan trade
14. East Africa: the emergence of a pre-Swahili culture on the Azanian coast
15. The Austronesian expansion and the first Malagasy cultures.
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