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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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New York

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Oxford

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© 2004 by

University Press of America,® Inc.

450 1 Forbes Boulevard Suite 200 Lanham, Maryland 20706 UP A Acquisitions Department (30 1 ) 459-3366 PO Box 3 1 7 Oxford OX2 9RU, UK All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America British Library Cataloging in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

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.)

8111The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1 984

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

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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

277

Chinese Perceptions of Southeast Asia

Billy Kee Long So Chapter 1 7

257

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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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