Documents in World History: The Great Traditions : From Ancient Times to 1500

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

• ISBN13: 9780321038562
• ISBN10: 0321038568
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

This brief, popular collection offers primary sources on a variety of civilizations, periods and topics in world history that will enhance teaching effectiveness and student learning. As the most concise primary source book on the market,Documents in World History gives professors the opportunity to incorporate primary materials into the classroom in a manageable and affordable way. Filled with reliable as well as less traditional materials, this book will enrich World History courses by providing exposure to original sources, by posing additional analytical issues relating to main world history themes, and by giving students practice in the rewarding capacity to interpret primary documents. A number of documents have been replaced in the Second Edition, with several purposes: increase global emphasis, provide direct comparative experience in each of the periods features, and provide experience in using documents to trace and assess global forces, again in each period.

Table of Contents

Geographical Contents	vii
Topical Contents	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(8)
Section One Early Civilizations	9	(30)
Mesopotamian Values: A Pessimistic View	11	(5)
The Gilgamesh Epic
Babylonian Law: How an Early State Regulated Its Subjects	16	(7)
Code of Hammurabi
Egypt: Religious Culture and the Afterlife	23	(6)
Book of the Dead
The Hebrew Bible	29	(10)
Isaiah; Psalms; Exodus
Section Two The Classical Period, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.	39	(78)
China
Key Chinese Values: Confucianism	41	(6)
The Analects
Legalism: An Alternative System	47	(6)
Han Fei-Tzu
Daoism	53	(5)
Tao Te Ching
Women in Classical China: Pan Chao	58	(6)
Lessons for Women
Classical India
``To Fight in a Righteous War'': Varna and Moral Duty in India	64	(6)
The Bhagavad Gita
Buddhism and the Four Noble Truths	70	(5)
from the Buddha's First Sermon
State, Society, and Economy in India: The Arthashastra	75	(5)
Kautilya: Treatise on Material Gain
Gender Relations in India: Three Types of Evidence	80	(6)
The Therigatha; Laws of Manu; the Mahabharata
Greece and Rome
The Greek Political Tradition	86	(6)
Plutarch on Sparta; Thucydides on Athens
Mediterranean Social and Family Structure	92	(4)
Aristotle, Politics and Economics
Principles of Roman Political Virtue: Plutarch	96	(4)
Moralia (Precepts of Statecraft)
Global Contacts
Global Contacts: Whistling Arrows and Chinese Emperors	100	(7)
Ssu-ma Ch'ien; silk statistics
Global Contacts: Precious Commodities and Cultural Interchange Rome, Arabia, India, and China	107	(10)
Suetonius; Strabo; Pliny; Fa-hsien
Section Three The Postclassical Period, 500 to 1500 C.E.: Expansions and Contacts	117
The Islamic Middle East
The Koran and the Family	119
Koran
The Islamic Religion	125
The Hadith
Religious and Political Organization in the Islamic Middle East	131
Al-Mawardi: Ordinance of Government
China and Japan
``Unfit to Draw the Bow'': Peasants and Poets in Tang China	136
Tu Fu; Po Chu-Yi; Liu Tsung-Yuan; Pi Jih-Hsiu
``The Noble and Magnificent City of Hangzhou'': Marco Polo in China	143
The Travels of Marco Polo
Valor and Fair Treatment: The Rise of the Samurai	148
The Tale of the Heike; Hojo Shigetoki
Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Russia
The Early Stages of the Byzantine Empire	153
Procopius on Justinian
Russia Converts to Christianity	158
Russian Primary Chronicle
Western Europe
Feudalism: Contemporary Descriptions and the Magna Carta	162
Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres on Feudalism; Feudal Contract; the Magna Carta
Medieval Theology: Thomas Aquinas Blends Faith and Reason	168
Summa Theologica
Ideals of Courtly Love: A New Definition of ``Relationships''	175
Andreas Capellanus: Art of Courtly Love
Africa
African Kingdoms and Islam	180
Ibn Battuta
The Americas
The Mayan Creation Story	186
Popol Vuh
Tribute Under the Aztecs	190
Oviedo y Valdes, Historia General y Natural de la Indias
Forces of Change
Merchants and Trade: Sources and Comparisons	194
Ibn Khaldun; Reginald of Durham on Saint Godric
Chinggis Khan and the Rise of the Mongols	201
Juvaini; Russian Chronicles; Rashid al-Din; William of Rubruck
Global Contacts: Travelers to Holy Places	211
Buddhist, Christian, and Muslim Pilgrims
Egeria; Shaman Hwiu-Li; Ibn Jubayr; al-Umari
Global Contacts: Sailing to Calicut	222
Chinese and Portuguese Voyages
Ma Huan; Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama