The Cartoon History of the Universe III
From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance

After untold years of research, writing, drawing, inking, and a few short vacations, it's here at last!

W.W. Norton, 320 Pages

Book II ended with Europe's descent into the Dark Ages. Book III begins in Arabia, where a desert prophet launched a movement that spread from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean within a century of his death.

PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

		Volume 14: Rome vs. Persia and Christians vs. Jews, rise and spread of Islam, the Baghdad caliphate and Islamic civilization, arrival of the Turks. [SAMPLE PAGE]
		Volume 15: Africa before 1100, cattle-raising and desertification, Bantu migration, Polynesian immigration, Ethiopian origins, Christianity and Islam in East Africa, Ghana, gold, and slaves, Zanj revolt, Cairo founded, Islam in the Sudan, the Almoravids. [SAMPLE PAGE]
		Volume 16: Central Asian nomads, Turks and China, China's multicultural era, early Japan, Sung China and gunpowder, Turks in Central Asia, Medieval India, Turks in Baghdad, Armenia, and Asia Minor. [SAMPLE PAGE]
		Volume 17: Early Byzantine Empire, Franks and Goths in Gaul and Spain, Muslims in Spain, Iconoclasm, Charlemagne, Jews in Germany, Vikings, Russia founded, Slavs as slaves, Normans in Italy, Greece, and England. [SAMPLE PAGE]
		Volume 18: Crusades, the Medieval Church, revival of learning, tribulations of the Jews, heresy and Inquisition, Islamic reaction, Mongol conquest of Iran and Iraq, Mongols and Christians, Mali founded, gold from Mali in Egypt and Italy. [SAMPLE PAGE]
		Volume 19: Black Death, Mongols ousted from China, Ottoman Turks in Europe, Hundred Years' War, peasant revolts, Tamerlane, Florentine Renaissance, fall of Constantinople, Portugal and Africa, Spain and Columbus. [SAMPLE PAGE]