Sources of World History, Volume I

by Kishlansky, Mark A.

• ISBN13: 9780495913177
• ISBN10: 0495913170
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-31
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

From constitutional documents, political theory, and philosophy, to imaginative literature and social description, you?ll find fascinating primary source material in SOURCES OF WORLD HISTORY VOLUME I. This reader contains works representative of major civilization complexes (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Islamic world, and Western civilization) and each selection is included for its ability to raise a significant issue.

Table of Contents

Preface

Ancient Societies

Origin Stories

The Ancestors of the People Called Indians (The Huarochirí Manuscript) (ca. 1598--1608 C.E.)

The Creation Epic (ca. 2000 B.C.E.)

The Book of Genesis (ca. 10th--6th century B.C.E.)

The Kojiki (712 C.E.)

The Cradle of Civilization

The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.E.)

Code of Hammurabi (early 18th century B.C.E.)

The Book of the Dead (ca. 16th century B.C.E.)

Anonymous, Instructions in Letter Writing by an Egyptian Scribe (ca. 1200 B.C.E.)

The Book of Exodus (ca. 10th--6th century B.C.E.)

Archaic and Classical Greece

Homer, The Iliad (9th--8th century B.C.E.)

Herodotus, Description of Africa (450 B.C.E.)

Plato, The Apology (399 B.C.E.)

Plato, The Republic (ca. 327 B.C.E.)

Aristotle, Politics (4th century B.C.E.)

The Religions of the East

The Upanishads (ca. 600--500 B.C.E.)

The Buddha, Sermons and Teachings (6th century B.C.E.)

Bhagavad-Gita (ca. 200 B.C.E.)

Confucius, Analects (ca. 500 B.C.E.)

Lao-Tzu, Tao-Te Ching (ca. 500 B.C.E.)

China: War and Politics

Sun-Tzu, The Art of War (ca. 500 B.C.E.)

Anonymous, The Book of Songs (ca. 1200--1100 B.C.E.)

Ssu-ma ChÆien, The Records of the Grand Historian of China (110--85 B.C.E.)

Han Fei Tzu, Memorials (ca. 230 B.C.E.)

Ancient Rome

Cicero, On the Laws (ca. 52 B.C.E.)

Virgil, The Aeneid (30--19 B.C.E.)

Suetonius, The Life of Augustus (ca. 122 C.E.)

The Sermon on the Mount (ca. 28--35 C.E.)

Traditional Societies

Africa and the Muslim World

Justinian I, Code (529--565 C.E.)

Procopius, Secret History (ca. 560 C.E.)

The Koran (7th century C.E.)

Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad (after 733 C.E.)

Al-MasÆudi, The Meadows of Gold (10th century C.E.)

Ibn Said, Book of the Maghrib (13th century C.E.)

Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah (1377 C.E.)

Ibn Battuta, Travels in Africa (1364 C.E.)

Joao dos Santos, Ethiopia Oriental (1609 C.E.)

Asian Cultures

Pan Chao, Lessons for Women (ca. 99 C.E.)

Fa-hsien, A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms (394--414 C.E.)

Prince Shotoku, The Seventeen Article Constitution (604 C.E.)

The Examination System During the TÆang Dynasty (8th century C.E.)

The Lotus of the Wonderful Law (806 C.E.)

Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji (ca. 1000 C.E.)

Yüan TsÆai, Precepts for Social Life (1178 C.E.)

The Laws of Manu (before 200 C.E.)

The Fall of Rome and the European Middle Ages

Tacitus, The Germania (98 C.E.)

The Burgundian Code (ca. 474 C.E.)

Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (ca. 829--836 C.E.)

Magna Carta (1215 C.E.)

Anonymous, NjalÆs Saga (13th century C.E.)

The Development of Christianity

Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (413--426 C.E.)

St. Benedict of Nursia, The Rule (ca. 535--540 C.E.)

St. Francis of Assisi, Admonitions (ca. 1220 C.E.)

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1265--1273 C.E.)

Heloise, The Letters (12th century C.E.)

Dynasties and Empires

Cultures in Collision

Anna Comnena, The Alexiad (1097 C.E.)

Odo of Deuil, The Journey of Louis VII to the East (1147 C.E.)

Usama ibn Munqidh, Memoirs (after 1175 C.E.)

Jamal ad-Din ibn Wasil, The Dissipator of Anxieties (1250 C.E.)

The Italian Renaissance

Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family (1435--1444 C.E.)

Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1550 C.E.)

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513 C.E.)

Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1400 C.E.)

China and Japan in the Middle Ages

The Hojo Code (1232 C.E.)

Kitabatake Chikafusa, A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns (1339--1343 C.E.)

Zeami Motokiyo, Kadensho (1440--1442 C.E.)

Shih Nai-an, All Men Are Brothers (14th century C.E.)

Anonymous, The Yangzhou Massacre (1645 C.E.)

European Encounters

Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza, The History of the Great and Mightie Kingdom of China (1585 C.E.)

Matteo Ricci, Journals (1583--1610 C.E.)

Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Chronicle of Guinea (1453 C.E.)

Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama (1497--1499 C.E.)

Christopher Columbus, Letter from the First Voyage (1493 C.E.)

Bernal Díaz, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (1552--1568 C.E.)

An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (1528 C.E.)

Bernabe Cobo, History of the Inca Empire (1653 C.E.)

Bartolomé de las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies (1566 C.E.)

Pedro de León Portocarrero, Description of Lima, Peru (ca. 1600 C.E.)

The Golden Age of Islam

æAbd ul-Haqq al Dihlawi al-Bukhari, The Perfection of Faith (11th century C.E.)

Omar Khayyám, The RubaÆiyat (11th century C.E.)

Kritovoulos, The History of Mehmed the Conqueror (1453 C.E.)

Letters Between Sultan Selîm I and Shah IsmâÆîl (ca. 1514 C.E.)

Leo Africanus, The History and Description of Africa (1550 C.E.)

François Bernier, Travels in the Mughal Empire (1656--1668 C.E.)

The Reform of Christianity

Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (1509 C.E.)

Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian (1520 C.E.) and Of Marriage and Celibacy (1566 C.E.)

John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1534 C.E.)

Francis Xavier, Letter from India (1543 C.E.)

Teresa of Avila, The Life of St. Teresa (1611 C.E.)

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