The depths of time and space. Expanding into universe (13.7 billion-4.6 billion years ago) -- Living earth (4.6 billion-5 million years ago) -- Human emergence: one species (5 million-35,000 years ago) -- Advanced hunting and gathering (35,000-10,000 years ago) -- Ten thousand warm years. Early agriculture (8000-3500 BCE) -- Early cities (3500-800 BCE) -- The Afro-Eurasian network (800 BCE-200 CE) -- Expanding the Afro-Eurasian network (200-1000 CE) -- Emergence of American civilizations (200-1450 CE) -- One Afro-Eurasia (1000-1500 CE) -- Connecting the globe (1450-1800 CE) -- Industrialization (1750-2000 CE) -- What now? What next?
Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274) and index