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INTRODUCTION 9 THE ANCIENT WORLD Antiquity to Alexander the Great 21 THE ROMAN PERIOD Roman Expansion and Collapse 57 BYZANTIUM AND ISLAM The Byzantine Empire, the Crusades, and the Mongol Invasion IOI THE RISE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE The Last Crusades, Mongols and Turks, the War of the Black and White Sheep, the Fall of Constantinople 167 THE OTTOMAN CENTURY AND BEYOND The Fall ofAthens, the Fall of Trebizond, European Retreat, the Moghul Empire, the Decline of the Ottoman Empire 213 INDEX 245