Chapter Page Introduction xi Chapter 1 A World of Empires The Holy Roman Empire 1 The Riches of Spain 6 Chapter 2 Protestant Rebellions The Dutch Revolt 13 The Queen Without a Country 17 Chapter 3 James, King of Two Countries James and His Enemies 25 King James's Town 30 Chapter 4 Searching for the Northwest Passage The French in the New World 37 Henry Hudson's Quest 41 Chapter 5 Warlords of Japan Hideyoshi, Japan's Great Leader 49 The First Tokugawa Ruler 53 Chapter 6 New Colonies in the New World Strangers and Saints in Plymouth 59 The Dutch in the New World 63 Chapter 7 The Spread of Slavery Tobacco-and Unwilling Colonists 71 Queen Nzinga of Angola 76 Chapter 8 The Middle of the East The Persian Puzzle 83 The Ottoman Turks 87 Chapter 9 The Western War The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 95 Chapter 10 Far Fast of Europe Japan's Isolation: Closed Doors in the East 105 The "Foreign Conquest" of China: The Rise of the Manchu 108 Chapter 11 The Moghul Emperors of India World Seizer, King of the World, and Conqueror of the World 115 Aurangzeb's Three Decisions 120 Chapter 12 Battle, Fire, and Plague in England Charles Loses His Head 125 Cromwell's Protectorate 131 Plague and Fire 135 Chapter 13 The Sun King The Sun King of France 143 Chapter 14 The Rise of Prussia Frederick, the First Prussian King 151 Chapter 15 A New World in Conflict War Against the Colonies: King Philip's War 157 War Against the Colonies: Louis XIV Saves New France 161 William Penn's Holy Experiment 167 Chapter 16 The West The Universal Laws of Newton and Locke 175 Scientific Farming 180 Chapter 17 Russia Looks West Peter the Great 187 Peter's Port to the West 192 Chapter 18 East and West Collide The Ottomans Look West-Twice 199 Chapter 19 The English in India The Indian Empire Falls Apart 207 The Shopkeepers' Invasion 212 Chapter 20 The Imperial East Emperor Chi'en-lung's Library 219 The Land of the Dragon 223 Chapter 21 Fighting Over North America Three Pointless Wars 229 The Seven-Year War 233 Chapter 22 Revolution! Discontent in the British Colonies 241 The American Revolution 246 Chapter 23 The New Country The American Constitution 253 The First American President (1789-1797) 258 Chapter 24 Sailing South Captain Cook Reaches Botany Bay 265 The Convict Settlement 271 Chapter 25 Revolution Gone Sour The Storming of the Bastille 277 The Reign of Terror 283 Chapter 26 Catherine the Great Princess Catherine Comes to Russia 289 Catherine the Great 294 Chapter 27 A Changing World Steam and Coal in Britain 301 Cotton and Guns in America 305 Chapter 28 China and the Rest of the World The Kingdom at the Center of the World 311 The Rise of the Opium Trade 315 Chapter 29 The Rise of Bonaparte Napoleon Comes to Power 319 The Emperor Napoleon 323 Chapter 30 Freedom in the Caribbean The Haitian Revolt 329 Chapter 31 A Different Kind of Rebellion The World of the Factories 337 The Luddites 342 Chapter 32 The Opened West Lewis and Clark Map the West 347 Tecumseh's Resistance 353 Chapter 33 The End of Napoleon Napoleon's Wars (And 1812, Too) 361 Waterloo! 366 Chapter 34 Freedom for South America Simón Bolívar: The Liberator 375 Freedom, But Not Unity 380 Chapter 35 Mexican Independence The Cry of Dolores 387 The Republic of Mexico 392 Chapter 36 The Slave Trade Ends The Work of the Abolitionists 397 Chapter 37 Troubled Africa The Zulu Kingdom 405 The Boers and the British 410 Chapter 38 American Tragedies The Trail of Tears 415 Nat Turner's Revolt 420 Chapter 39 China Adrift The First Opium War 427 Chapter 40 Mexico and Her Neighbor Remember the Alamo 433 The Mexican-American War 438 Chapter 41 New Zealand and Her Rulers The Treaty of Waitangi 443 The New Zealand Wars 447 Chapter 42 The World of Forty-Nine The Gold Rush 451 A World of Unrest 456 Appendix 1 Chronology of Early Modern Times Dates in Volume 3 459 Appendix 2 A Geography of Early Modern Times A List of Maps in Volume 3 467 Appendix 3 Pronouncing the Names of Early Modern Times A Pronunciation Guide for Reading Aloud 469 Index 479