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Primary Sources: How to Read Them and Why They are Important in World History | p. 1 |
The African Origins of Humanity, Prehistory to 10,000 BCE | p. 6 |
Bad Hair Days in the Paleolithic | p. 7 |
Of Lice and Men | p. 8 |
Shamans and Cave Painting | p. 9 |
Not All Hominids Are Human Beings | p. 11 |
Theories of Race and the History of Africa | p. 12 |
Deep History and Convergent Evolution | p. 13 |
Agrarian-Urban Centers of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, 11,500 - 600 B.C.E. | p. 15 |
An Egyptian Creation Myth | p. 16 |
A Mesopotamian Creation Myth | p. 17 |
Law Codes of Hammurabi | p. 21 |
The Descent of Ishtar Into the Underworld | p. 23 |
Hesiod's Theogony | p. 27 |
Cuneiform Tablet from Mesopotamia, ca. 2000 BCE | p. 47 |
Shifting Agrarian Centers in India, 3000 B.C.E. - 606 B.C.E. | p. 48 |
The Mystery of the Harappan Seals | p. 48 |
The Code of Manu | p. 51 |
Hymn to Creation from the Rig Veda | p. 53 |
Agrarian Patterns and the Mandate of Heaven in Ancient China, 5000 - 481 BCE | p. 54 |
Shang Oracle Bones | p. 54 |
Ancestor Worship and Human Sacrifice from the Shi Jing | p. 57 |
Pan Gu: A Chinese Creation Myth | p. 59 |
The Announcement to the Duke of Shao | p. 60 |
Origins Apart: The Americas and Oceania | p. 63 |
The Wealth of La Venta | p. 63 |
The Mound Builder Cultures of North America: Poverty Point | p. 66 |
A Polynesian Creation Myth | p. 69 |
Reed Chart from the Marshall Islands, South Pacific | p. 72 |
Chiefdoms and Early States in Africa and the Americas, 600 BCE-600 CE | p. 73 |
The Gold Mines of Nubia | p. 73 |
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Red Sea and India Ocean | p. 75 |
The Popol Vuh | p. 79 |
"The Creation" by Diego Rivera | p. 81 |
Persia, Greece, and Rome | p. 82 |
Darius I of Persia: the Behistan Inscription | p. 83 |
Herodotus on the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE) | p. 83 |
Anixmander, "On Nature" | p. 91 |
Plutarch on Julius Caesar | p. 92 |
Eusebius on Constantine the Great | p. 97 |
TheTondoofSt. Mamai | p. 99 |
Empires and Visionaries in India | p. 101 |
The Dhammapada | p. 101 |
Kautilya, "The Duties of Government Superintendents" | p. 109 |
Faxien, A Record of Buddhist Countries | p. 111 |
The Status of Women in Ancient India | p. 113 |
Jain Cosmological Map | p. 115 |
China: Imperial Unification and Perfecting the Moral Order 722 B.C.E. - 618 C.E. | p. 116 |
Han Fei-tzu, Selections on Legalism | p. 116 |
Confucius, Selections from the Analects | p. 117 |
Laozi, excerpt from the Daode Jing, "The Unvarying Way" | p. 122 |
Ban Zhao, "Admonitions for Women" | p. 123 |
Islamic Civilization and Byzantium, 600 û 1300 | p. 125 |
The Quran: "The Five Pillars," from Surah 2, ("The Cow") | p. 125 |
Al-Ghazali, excerpt from Confessions | p. 142 |
Al-Farabi on the Perfect Society | p. 144 |
IbnFadlan's Account of the Rus | p. 148 |
John of Damascus, "On Icons" | p. 150 |
Arabic Science | p. 158 |
Innovations and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600 û 1400 | p. 160 |
The Rule of St. Benedict | p. 161 |
Einhard, Life of Charlemagne | p. 164 |
Dante, Canto XIX from the Inferno | p. 170 |
Regulations for the London Spurrier's Guild, 1347 | p. 173 |
Marchione di Coppio Stefani on the Black Death in Florence | p. 174 |
The Medieval World View | p. 178 |
Contrasting Patterns in India and China, 600 -1600 | p. 179 |
Al-Biruni on India | p. 179 |
Tang Taizong on Effective Government | p. 181 |
Two Poems by Li Bo | p. 185 |
Ibn Wahab, An Arab Merchant Visits Tang China | p. 187 |
Marco Polo Describes China under Mongol Rule | p. 187 |
Religious Civilizations Interacting: Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia, 100 C.E. -1400 C.E. | p. 191 |
Nihongi, or The Chronicles of Japan | p. 192 |
The "Taika Reform Edicts" | p. 194 |
A Korean Foundation Myth | p. 202 |
Yi Kyu-bo on Personal Piety | p. 203 |
Patterns of State Formation in Africa, 600 -1450 C.E. | p. 205 |
The Glorious Victories of Amda Seyon, King of Ethiopia | p. 206 |
The Swahili Saga of Liyongo Fumo | p. 207 |
Ibn Battuta on Mali | p. 209 |
The Epic of Sundiata | p. 211 |
The Rise of Empires in the Americas, 600-1550 | p. 215 |
The Founding of Tenochtitlán | p. 215 |
Human Sacrifice by the Aztecs | p. 217 |
Machu Picchu | p. 218 |
The Inca Census | p. 219 |
The Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle and European Overseas Expansion, 1450-1600 | p. 221 |
The Tribute of Children | p. 221 |
A European Ambassador Reports on the Ottomans | p. 223 |
An Ottoman Travel Journal | p. 224 |
The Journal of Christopher Columbus | p. 227 |
Renaissance, Reformation, and the New Science in Europe, 1450-1700 | p. 229 |
Marsilio Ficino, "Letter to Paul of Middelburg" | p. 230 |
Laura Cereta to Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza | p. 230 |
John Calvin, Prayer from Commentary on Hosea | p. 231 |
Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems | p. 233 |
Antony van Leeuwenhoek's "Animalcules" | p. 234 |
Galileo's Views of the Moon | p. 235 |
Peter the Great, "Correspondence with Alexis, 1715" | p. 236 |
New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500-1800 | p. 239 |
Aztecs Recount the Beginning of the War with the Conquistadors | p. 239 |
Letter from Hernando de Soto | p. 240 |
Coronado's Report to Viceroy Mendoza | p. 242 |
Increase Mather on King Philip's Death | p. 244 |
Reasons for Colonizing North America | p. 245 |
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