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 Bernardino de Sahagun, Aztec Festival and the Conquest
- An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico: The Broken Spears
- Pope Paul III, "Indians are Men," 1537