Global Experience, The: Readings in World History to 1550, Volume I

by Riley, Philip F.; Gerome, Frank A.; Lembright, Robert L.; Myers, Henry A.; Yoon, Chong-Kun

Edition:

4th

ISBN13:

9780130195685

ISBN10:

0130195685

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

1/1/2002

Publisher(s):

Prentice Hall

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New selections in the Fourth Edition of
The Global Experience: Readings in World History, Volume I

The Egyptian Creation Story: "The Creation According to Ra"
The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi
Homer, The Iliad
Pure Land Scripture, Sukhavativyuha
Thucydied on Peloponnesian War and the Plague
Plutarch, "Lycurgus," on the Spartan Way of Life
St. Augustine of Hippo, The Just War
Paulus Orosius, History Against the Pagans
Law Codes of the Salian Franks
Idn Fadlan's Accounts of Vikings in Early Russia
Michael Psellus, Chronographia, "Empress Zoe"
Murasaki Skikibu, The Tale of Genji
Charles Borromeo, Instructions to Confessors
An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico: The Broken Spears
Pope Paul III, "Indians are Men," 1537

Early Civilizations
Global Conceptions of the Cosmos and Creation
The Egyptian Creation Story: “""The Creation According to Ra.”
The Hebrew Creation Story: Genesis
A Japanese Creation Story: Nihongi
A Hindu Creation Story: Rig Veda
A Sumerian Heroic Legend
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Law in the Ancient Near East: Babylonian, Hittite and Hebrew
The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi
Hittite Laws
Hebrew Laws and Their Covenant
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