Civilization Past & Present, Single Volume Edition, Primary Source Edition (Book Alone)

by Brummett, Palmira; Jewsbury, George; Hackett, Neil J; Edgar, Robert; Molony, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780321423320
• ISBN10: 0321423321
• Edition: 11th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The Primary Source Edition of Civilization Past and Present weaves the diverse trends of world history into a clear and accessible analysis and includes 2 to 3 primary sources with critical thinking questions per chapter. Civilization Past and Present, well known in the marketplace as a highly readable survey of world history, delivers a strong narrative of world history and a level of detail that is manageable for readers. The book examines all aspects of world history--social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic. With 52 primary source documents, the Primary Source Edition has everything students need to succeed in the coursea highly readable survey text that examines all aspects of world history plus a wealth of original documents that help make the material come alive. "Document Analysis" questions encourage students to delve deeper into the documents and to explore how they relate to the events of the time. Overview of world history, from beginnings to the present day. Readers interested in an overview of world history.

Table of Contents

Additional Primary Sources are listed at the end of this Table of Contents

Documents

Maps

Global Issues

Discovery Through Maps

Chapter Opener Image Descriptions

To the Instructor

To the Student

Stone Age Societies and the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East?

The Origins of Humankind

Preliterate Cultures

Preliterate Society and Religion

Mesopotamia: The First Civilization?

The Babylonian Empire, c. 2000-1600 b.c.e.

Egypt: Gift of the Nile?

Mesopotamian Successors to Babylon, c. 1600 - 550 B.C.E.

Later Empires of Western Asia, 550 - 331 B.C.E.

Document

The Great Hymn to the Aton and Psalm 104

Document

The Majesty of Darius the Great: A Persian Royal Inscription

Discovery Through Maps

The Oldest Known Map: Catul Huyuk

Ancien?

China: Origins to Empire?

Prehistory to 220 c.e.

The Origins of China, 6500 b.c.e. - 221 b.c.e.

The Qin and Han Empires, 221 b.c.e. -220 c.e.

Document

The Wisdom of Confucius

Document

Legalism: The Theories of Han Feizi (d. 233 b.c.e. )?

Document

From The Book of Songs "A Simple Rustic You Seemed."

Ancient India: From Origins to 300 c.e.

Early India

Dramatic Developments in Religion and Culture, 600-320 b.c.e.

The Mauryan Empire and Other Kingdoms, 320 b.c.e. -300 c.e.

Emergent Hinduism and Buddhism, 200 b.c.e. -300 c.e.

The Meeting of East and West: Networks of Exchange

Document

Rig-Veda: Creation and the Kinds of Men

Document

The Jains on the Souls in All Things

Document

The Ramayana: The Trial of Sita

Global Issues : Migration

Greece: Minoan, Mycenaean, Hellenic, and Hellenistic Civilizations, 2000-30 b.c.e.

Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations, c. 2000-1200 b.c.e.

Hellenic Civilization, c. 1150-500 b.c.e.

The Golden Age of Greece, 500-336 b.c.e.

The Greek Cultural Achievement

The Hellenistic Age, 336-30 b.c.e.

Hellenistic Society and Culture

Document

Homer-The Iliad: Andromache and Hector

Document

Aristophanes on

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