Documents in World History: The Great Tradition, Volume 1 (From Ancient Times to 1500)

by Stearns, Peter N.; Grieshaber, Erwin P.; Gosch, Stephen S.

• ISBN13: 9780321330543
• ISBN10: 0321330544
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

Considerably revised, this edition of Documents in World Historygives professors a large variety of primary sources from all areas of the world. The book retains its global emphasis and includes more primary sources that balance social and cultural history with standard selections, political coverage, and fuller coverage of Africa and the Middle East, including Persia. Several individual passages have been replaced or augmented to provide greater richness and interest. Materials on social issues have also been augmented.

Table of Contents

Geographical Contents	x
Topical Contents	xiii
Preface	xvi
Introduction	1	(6)
SECTION ONE Early Civilizations	7	(40)
Mesopotamian Values: Ideas About the Nature of Life and Death	9	(5)
The Gilgamesh Epic
Babylonian Law: How an Early State Regulated Its Subjects	14	(7)
The Code
Egypt: Religious Culture and the Afterlife	21	(7)
Book of the Dead
Visual Source Egyptian Artifacts for the Dead	26	(2)
The Hebrew Bible	28	(10)
From the Hebrew Bible
Herodotus and the Persian Empire	38	(5)
The Histories
Zoroastrianism: The Major Persian Religion	43	(4)
Hymns of Zarathustra, Verse 33
SECTION TWO The Classical Period, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.	47	(140)
China
Key Chinese Values: Confucianism	49	(7)
The Small Analects
Legalism: An Alternative System	56	(6)
Han Feizi
Daoism	62	(5)
Dao de Jing
Women in Classical China: Ban Zhao	67	(7)
Lessons for Women
Visual Source Portrait of Ban Zhao	72	(2)
The Role of the State in the Economy: The Salt and Iron Debates	74	(6)
Economic Debates
Visual Source Chinese Tomb Rubbing
Classical India	79	(1)
``To Fight in a Righteous War'': Varna and Moral Duty in India	80	(8)
Bhagavad Gita
Visual Source Indian Painting of Arjuna and Krishna	86	(2)
What the Buddha Taught	88	(7)
Four Noble Truths
Visual Source Buddhist Cave Painting in India	93	(2)
The State and the Economy in India	95	(6)
The Arthashastra
Emperor Ashoka and ``Right Conduct'': The Doctrine of Dhamma	101	(6)
Ashoka's Edicts
Gender Relations in India: Four Types of Evidence	107	(8)
Indian Gender Culture
Visual Source Gender Imagery in India	113	(2)
Greece and Rome
The Greek Political Tradition	115	(4)
Plutarch on Sparta
Athenian Democracy and Culture	119	(5)
Pericles
Mediterranean Social and Family Structure	124	(4)
Aristotle
Leadership in the Roman Republic	128	(5)
Plutarch on Cato; Plutarch on Crassus; Cicero's Advice
The Roman Military and the Empire	133	(8)
Josephus
Women and the Law in Rome: Legal Codes	141	(4)
Women in Rome
The Fall of Rome	145	(5)
Marcellinus and Rutilius Numantius
Global Contacts and World Religion
Global Contacts: The Rise of the Pastoral Nomads	150	(7)
A Chinese Historian Describes the Nomads
Global Contacts: The Opening of the Silk Road	157	(10)
Chinese and Roman Sources
Visual Source Buddhist Stupa in Sri Lanka Visited by Faxian	165	(2)
Monks and Monarchs: Buddhism Spreads to China, Korea, and Japan	167	(13)
Buddhism in East Asia
Visual Source Buddhist Sculpture in China	178	(2)
The Spread of Christianity: Justin, Anonymous Documents	180	(7)
Christian Records
SECTION THREE The Post Classical Period, 500--1500 C.E.: Expansions and Contacts	187	(172)
The Islamic Middle East
The Koran and the Family	189	(7)
The Koran
The Islamic Religion	196	(5)
The Hadith
Religious and Political Organization in the Islamic Middle East	201	(7)
Al Mawardi
Visual Source Religious Leadership in Islam: The Imam	206	(2)
China and Japan
Peasant Life in Tang and Song China: Evidence from Poetry and Legal Documents	208	(10)
Peasants in Chinese Culture
Visual Source Chinese Woodblock Print	216	(2)
``The Noble and Magnificent City of Hangzhou'': Marco Polo in China	218	(5)
The Travels of Marco Polo
Valor and Fair Treatment: The Rise of the Samurai	223	(5)
Samurai Values
Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Russia
The Early Stages of the Byzantine Empire	228	(8)
Procopius
Visual Source The Greatest Cathedral in Byzantium	234	(2)
Russia Converts to Christianity	236	(4)
Russian Primary Chronicle
Western Europe
Feudalism: Contemporary Descriptions and the Magna Carta	240	(6)
Feudal Documents
Medieval Theology: Anselm of Canterbury Blends Faith and Reason	246	(4)
Anselm of Canterbury, Monologion
Christine de Pizan: Women and Society in the Late Middle Ages	250	(8)
Mirror of Honor
Merchants and the Rise of Commerce	258	(4)
Ordinances of the Guild Merchant of Southampton
Africa
East Africa and Arab Traders	262	(3)
Buzurg ibn Shahriyar
Al-Bakri on West Africa	265	(6)
Al-Bakri
African Kingdoms and Islam	271	(7)
Writings of Ibn Battuta
Visual Source A Major Artistic Tradition: The Sculptures of Benin	276	(2)
Africa Through the Eyes of an European Merchant	278	(4)
Antonius Malfante
The Americas
Mayan and Aztec Creation Stories	282	(6)
The Mayan Story of Human Creation from Popol Vuh; Aztec Creation Story of the God Utzilopochtli
Tribute Under the Aztecs	288	(5)
Observations of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes
Visual Source Aztec Goddess	291	(2)
The Andean Kingdom of Chuquito in 1567	293	(3)
Testimony of Martin Cari, Chief (Cacique Principal) of the Lower Division (Anansaya) of Chuquito
Forces of Change
China ``Discovers'' Africa	296	(3)
Duan Chengshi and Xin Tangshu
Merchants and Trade: Sources and Comparisons	299	(7)
Ibn Khaldun, Reginald of Durham on Saint Godric
Global Contacts: Travelers to Holy Places	306	(14)
Pilgrims' Experiences
Visual Source Muslim Pilgrims in Mecca	318	(2)
Global Contacts: Sailing to Calicut	320	(7)
Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
The Crusades: Christian and Muslim Views	327	(8)
The Crusades
The Mongols
Chingis Khan and the Rise of the Mongols	335	(13)
The Secret History of the Mongols
Visual Source Persian Painting of Chingis Khan Leading the Charge	346	(2)
The Mongol Empire Takes Shape	348	(11)
Asian and European Sources
Mongol Rule in Russia	359	(1)
Chronicles and Other Accounts