World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500

by Eugene Berger, George Israel, Charlotte Miller

Prehistory Early Middle Eastern and Northeast African Civilizations Ancient and Early Medieval India China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty The Greek World from the Bronze Age to the Roman Conquest The Roman World from 753 BCE to 500 CE Western Europe and Byzantium circa 500 - 1000 CE Islam to the Mamluks African History to 1500 The Americas Central Asia Western Europe and Byzantium circa 1000 - 1500 CE

Genres: History, Nonfiction, School

998 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 24, 2018

Reviews

[Lewis · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's good information in here, but the book itself needs help. A lot of the maps are extremely low-resolution WikiCommons images, which shouldn't be a problem in and of itself. But many of them are unreadable or missing key information. The text itself has quite a few readability issues as well, either from poor spacing or poor wording. It presents the information needed, but it could be presented much better.

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very impressive for an open textbook. I would have preferred a more cross-regional approach, rather than separate chapters for separate regions.

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a free textbook, it's pretty good. There are some editing errors, a lot of repeating things, and the questions sometimes do not have answers anywhere in the text. Very light on African history, doesn't touch on the south at all. You can tell the authors personal beliefs on the branches of Christianity.

[taylor harrison]

probably one of the worst textbooks I've read.

[emowhofromwhoville · Rating 4 out of 5]

it would be better if a glossary of key terms and definitions are added if they publish another version of the textbook

[Tucansam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Though this was mandatory reading for my world history class I enjoyed reading it.