PART 1. THE ANCIENT WORLD, 2000 BCE-400 CE - CHAPTER 1. Bronze and Chariots: Eurasia, 10,000-600 BCE
The Elements of Military Development to 3500 BCE
Organized Warfare, 3500-600 BCE
Chariots and Kingdoms, 1700-1200 BCE
Infantry and Empires, 1200-600 BCE
CHAPTER 2. Empires, Elephants, and Ideologies: Asia, 800 BCE-200 CE
China: The Qin and Han Empires
CHAPTER 3. Polis and Phalanx: Greece and Macedon, 800-200 BCE
Greece: The Rise of Communal Infantry
Macedon: Kings and Combined Arms
CHAPTER 4. Legion and Empire: Rome, 500 BCE-400 CE
The Expansionist Republic to 167 BCE
Rome in Transition, 218-31 BCE
CHAPTER 5. Oars and Rams: Ancient Naval Warfare to 400 CE
The Emergence of Naval Warfare
City-States and Triremes: The Age of Athens
Kingdoms and Colossi: Hellenistic Arms Races
The Scythians: The Archetypal Steppe Warriors
The Xiongnu and Chinese Civilization
The Kushans: Strategic Empire Between Parthia and China
The Sarmatians: Steppe Warriors on the Roman Frontier
CHAPTER 7. Chiefs and Warbands: Western Europe, 400-1100 - Introduction
Toward Reconstruction, 950-1050
CHAPTER 8. Caliphs and Cataphracts: Islam and Byzantium, 400-1100 - Introduction
The Eastern Roman Empire and Persia to 630
The Byzantine Empire, 630-1081
CHAPTER 9. From Cavalry to Conscripts: China, 400-1100
The Period of Disunion, 220-589
The Era of the Five Dynasties, 907-960
CHAPTER 10. Predators and Police: Naval Warfare, 400-1100
CHAPTER 12. Knights, Castles, and Kings: Western Europe, 1050-1500
The Expansion of Latin Christendom: Frontier Warfare, 900-1300
The Hundred Years War, 1337-1453
CHAPTER 13. Khans and Conquest: The Mongols, 1150-1400
Origins of the Mongol Explosion Mongol Society
Mongol Military Organization Administration and Logistics
The Mongol Empire: The Campaigns of Conquest
CHAPTER 14. Scholars, Samurai, and Sultans: Asia, 1100-1500
Kamakura and Muromachi Japan, 1150-1477
CHAPTER 15. Mariners and Merchants: Naval Warfare, 1100-1571
Who Will Rule the Seas? 1378-1571