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The World In The Year 1000
Contents
Regional Maps
Chapter 1 Introduction: World History and the Year 1000
Part I Natural orders, social orders
Chapter 2 Nature and Environment in Europe: Perceiving, Taming, Harnessing
Chapter 3 The Use of Natural Resources in the Islamic World
Chapter 4 Natural Resources and Human Settlements: Perceiving the Environment in India
Chapter 5 Different transitions: The year 1000 in China's environmental history
Chapter 6 Perpetuating Celestial Order in an Earthly Environment: Astronomy in Mesoamerica around 1000
Part II Regimes of production and exchange
Chapter 7 Minting, Silver Routes and Mining in Europe: Economic Expansion and Technical Innovation
Chapter 8 Interdependencies between the Military and the Economy in the Near East and Egypt
Chapter 9 Temple Economy in South Asia
Chapter 10 Trade Under the Sign of the Feathered Serpent: Mesoamerica's Route into the Second Millennium
Part III Ritual centers
Chapter 11 Temple Networks and Royal Power in Southeast Asia
Chapter 12 The Ballgame at the Climax of the Feathered Serpent: A Religious Focus in Mesoamerica
Chapter 13 Gods and Worshippers on South Indian Sacred Ground
Part IV The perception of self and others
Chapter 14 Byzantium and its Neighbors
Chapter 15 Islam: Self and Neighbors
Chapter 16 Chinese Perceptions of Southeast Asia
Chapter 17 Other, or the Others? Varieties of Difference in Indian Society at the Turn of the First Millennium and their Historiographical Implications
About the Contributors
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THE WORLD IN
THE YEAR 1000
Edited by
James Heitzman Wolfgang Schenkluhn
University Press of America,® Inc. Lanham
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The world in the year 1 000 I edited by James Heitzman, Wolfgang Schenkluhn. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. One thousand, A.D. 2. Civilization, Medieval. 3 . Civilization, Western. 4. Civilization, Oriental. 5. Civilization, Islamic. 6. Commerc�History-Medieval, 500- 1 500. I. Heitzman, James, 1 950- II. Schenkluhn, Wolfgang. CB354.3.W67 2003 20030533 1 9 909'. 1 -dc2 1 ISBN 0-76 1 8-256 1 -4 (clothbound : alk. ppr.)
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Contents vi
Regional Maps
Chapter
I
Introduction: World History and the Year 1000
James Heitzman and Wolfgang Schenkluhn
Part I
Chapter 2
Natural orders, social orders
23
Nature and Environment in Europe: Perceiving, Taming, Harnessing
Gerhard Jaritz Chapter 3
25
The Use of Natural Resources in the Islamic World
Heinz Grotzfeld Chapter 4
35
Natural Resources and Human Settlements: Perceiving the Environment in India
Ranabir Chakravarti
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Chapter 5
The World in the Year I 0000 Different transitions: The year t 000 in China's environmental history
Mark Elvin Chapter 6
66
Perpetuating Celestial Order in an Earthly Environment: Astronomy in Mesoamerica around 1000
Ivan Sprajc
87
Part II Regimes of production and exchange
Chapter 7
1 03
M inting, Silver Routes and Mining in Europe: Economic Expansion and Technical Innovation
Heiko Steuer Chapter 8
1 05
Interdependencies between the Military and the Economy in the Near East and Egypt
Gerhard Hoffmann Chapter 9
Temple Economy in South Asia
James Heitzman Chapter IO
1 18 1 33
Trade Under the Sign of the Feathered Serpent: Mesoamerica's Route into the Second M illennium
Part III
Chapter 1 1
Andreas Brockmann
1 54
Ritual centers
181
Temple Networks and Royal Power in Southeast Asia
Kenneth R. Hall Chapter 1 2
1 83
The Ballgame at the Climax o f the Feathered Serpent: A Religious Focus in Mesoamerica
Ulrich Kohler
214
Contents
Chapter 1 3
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Gods and Worshippers on South Indian Sacred Ground
Part IV
Chapter 14
Leslie C. Orr
225
The perception of self and others
255
Byzantium and its Neighbors
Krijnie Ciggaar Chapter 1 5
Islam: Self and Neighbors
Tarif Khalidi Chapter 1 6
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Chinese Perceptions of Southeast Asia
Billy Kee Long So Chapter 1 7
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Other, or the Others? Varieties of Difference in Indian Society at the Turn of the First Millennium and their Historiographical Implications
B. D. Chattopadhyaya About the Contributors
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