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| Preface |
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| Introduction |
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| Section One Early Civilizations |
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Mesopotamian Values: A Pessimistic View |
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Babylonian Law: How an Early State Regulated Its Subjects |
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12 | (7) |
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Egypt: Religious Culture and the Afterlife |
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24 | (1) |
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25 | (10) |
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| Section Two The Classical Period, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E. |
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| China |
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Key Chinese Values: Confucianism |
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36 | (7) |
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Legalism: An Alternative System |
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43 | (6) |
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49 | (5) |
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Women in Classical China: Ban Zhao |
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54 | (7) |
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The Role of the State in the Economy |
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61 | (7) |
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The Salt and Iron Debates |
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66 | (2) |
| Classical India |
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``To Fight in a Righteous War'' |
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68 | (6) |
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Varna and Moral Duty in India |
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What the Buddha Taught: The Four Noble Truths |
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from the Buddha's First Sermon |
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79 | (2) |
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Emperor Ashoka and ``Right Conduct'' |
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81 | (6) |
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The State and The Economy in India: The Arthashastra |
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87 | (6) |
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Kautilya: Treatise on Material Gain |
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Gender Relations in India: Four Types of Evidence |
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93 | (8) |
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The Therigatha; Laws of Manu; The Mahabharata |
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99 | (2) |
| Greece and Rome |
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The Greek Political Tradition |
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101 | (4) |
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Athenian Democracy and Culture |
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105 | (5) |
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Pericles' Funeral Oration |
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Mediterranean Social and Family Structure |
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110 | (4) |
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Aristotle, Politics and Economics |
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Principles of Roman Political Virtue: Plutarch |
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114 | (4) |
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Moralia (Precepts of Statecraft) |
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The Roman Military and the Empire |
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118 | (7) |
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Women and the Law in Rome |
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125 | (4) |
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129 | (4) |
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| Global Contacts and World Religions |
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Whistling Arrows and Chinese Emperors |
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133 | (7) |
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Sima Qian; silk statistics |
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Precious Commodities and Cultural Interchange |
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140 | (12) |
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Rome, Arabia, India, and China |
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150 | (2) |
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Monks and Monarchs: Buddhism Spreads to China, Korea, and Japan |
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152 | (14) |
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Suetonius; Strabo; Pliny; Faxian |
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164 | (2) |
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The Spread of Christianity |
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166 | (7) |
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Justin, Anonymous Documents |
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| Section Three The Post-Classical Period, 500-1500 C.E.: Expansions and Contacts |
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| The Islamic Middle East |
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175 | (6) |
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181 | (5) |
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Religious and Political Organization in the Islamic Middle East |
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186 | (7) |
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Al-Mawardi: Ordinance of Government |
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191 | (2) |
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193 | (5) |
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The Thousand and One Nights |
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| China and Japan |
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Peasant Life in Tang and Song China: Evidence from Poetry and Legal Documents |
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198 | (10) |
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DuFu; Bo Zhuyi; Liu Zongyuan; Bi Rixiu |
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206 | (2) |
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``The Noble and Magnificent City of Hangzhou'': Marco Polo in China |
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208 | (5) |
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The Travels of Marco Polo |
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Valor and Fair Treatment: The Rise of the Samurai |
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213 | (6) |
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The Tale of the Heike; Hojo Shigetoki |
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| Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Russia |
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The Early Stages of the Byzantine Empire |
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219 | (6) |
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Russia Converts to Christianity |
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225 | (4) |
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Russian Primary Chronicle |
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| Western Europe |
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Feudalism: Contemporary Descriptions and the Magna Carta |
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229 | (6) |
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Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres on Feudalism; Feudal Contract; the Magna Carta |
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Medieval Theology: Thomas Aquinas Blends Faith and Reason |
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235 | (8) |
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241 | (2) |
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Ideals of Courtly Love: A New Definition of ``Relationships'' |
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243 | (5) |
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Andreas Capellanus: Art of Courtly Love |
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Chaucer and the Literary Traditions of the Middle Ages |
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248 | (8) |
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Merchants and the Rise of Commerce |
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256 | (4) |
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The Gild Merchant of Southampton |
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| Africa |
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260 | (6) |
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African Kingdoms and Islam |
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266 | (7) |
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271 | (2) |
| The Americas |
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273 | (4) |
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277 | (5) |
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Oviedo y Valdes, Historia General y Natural de la Indias |
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280 | (2) |
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The Andean Kingdom of Chuquito in 1567 |
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282 | (3) |
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| Forces of Change |
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Merchants and Trade: Sources and Comparisons |
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285 | (7) |
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Ibn Khaldun; Reginald of Durham on Saint Godric |
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Global Contacts: Travelers to Holy Places Buddhist, Christian, and Muslim Pilgrims |
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292 | (14) |
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Sramana Huili, Xuanzang; Willibald, Anonymous Nun of Heidenheim; Ibn Jubayr; al-Umari |
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304 | (2) |
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Global Contacts: Sailing to Calicut Chinese and Portuguese Voyages |
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306 | (7) |
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Ma Huan; Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama |
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The Crusades: Christian and Muslim Views |
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313 | (8) |
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Ekkeharsi; Count Stephen Bek-el-Oin; Vsamals Ibn-Mungidh |
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| The Mongols |
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Chingis Khan and the Rise of the Mongols |
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321 | (13) |
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Juvaini; Russian Chronicles; Rashid al-Din; William of Rubruck |
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332 | (2) |
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The Mongol Empire Takes Shape |
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334 | (10) |
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Asian and European Sources |
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344 | (1) |
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