Documents in World History, Volume I From Ancient Times to 1500

by Stearns, Peter N.; Gosch, Stephen S.; Grieshaber, Erwin P.

• ISBN13: 9780321100535
• ISBN10: 0321100530
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-25
• Publisher: Pearson Higher Education

Summary

Dramatically revised, this edition of Documents in World History gives professors a large variety of primary sources from all areas of the world. The book retains its global emphasis and includes more primary sources that balance the social and cultural history with standard selections, political coverage, and fuller coverage of the West.

Table of Contents

Geographical Contents	ix
Topical Contents	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(4)
Section One Early Civilizations	5	(30)
Mesopotamian Values: A Pessimistic View	7	(5)
The Gilgamesh Epic
Babylonian Law: How an Early State Regulated Its Subjects	12	(7)
Code of Hammurabi
Egypt: Religious Culture and the Afterlife	19	(6)
Book of the Dead
Visual Source	24	(1)
The Hebrew Bible	25	(10)
Isaiah; Psalms; Exodus
Section Two The Classical Period, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E.	35	(138)
China
Key Chinese Values: Confucianism	36	(7)
The Analects
Legalism: An Alternative System	43	(6)
Han Feizi
Daoism	49	(5)
Daodejing
Women in Classical China: Ban Zhao	54	(7)
Lessons for Women
The Role of the State in the Economy	61	(7)
The Salt and Iron Debates
Visual Source	66	(2)
Classical India
``To Fight in a Righteous War''	68	(6)
Varna and Moral Duty in India
What the Buddha Taught: The Four Noble Truths	74	(7)
from the Buddha's First Sermon
Visual Source	79	(2)
Emperor Ashoka and ``Right Conduct''	81	(6)
The Doctrine of Dhamma
The State and The Economy in India: The Arthashastra	87	(6)
Kautilya: Treatise on Material Gain
Gender Relations in India: Four Types of Evidence	93	(8)
The Therigatha; Laws of Manu; The Mahabharata
Visual Source	99	(2)
Greece and Rome
The Greek Political Tradition	101	(4)
Plutarch on Sparta
Athenian Democracy and Culture	105	(5)
Pericles' Funeral Oration
Mediterranean Social and Family Structure	110	(4)
Aristotle, Politics and Economics
Principles of Roman Political Virtue: Plutarch	114	(4)
Moralia (Precepts of Statecraft)
The Roman Military and the Empire	118	(7)
Josephus
Women and the Law in Rome	125	(4)
Legal Codes
The Fall of Rome	129	(4)
Marcellinus
Global Contacts and World Religions
Whistling Arrows and Chinese Emperors	133	(7)
Sima Qian; silk statistics
Precious Commodities and Cultural Interchange	140	(12)
Rome, Arabia, India, and China
Visual Source	150	(2)
Monks and Monarchs: Buddhism Spreads to China, Korea, and Japan	152	(14)
Suetonius; Strabo; Pliny; Faxian
Visual Source	164	(2)
The Spread of Christianity	166	(7)
Justin, Anonymous Documents
Section Three The Post-Classical Period, 500-1500 C.E.: Expansions and Contacts	173	(171)
The Islamic Middle East
The Koran and the Family	175	(6)
Koran
The Islamic Religion	181	(5)
The Hadith
Religious and Political Organization in the Islamic Middle East	186	(7)
Al-Mawardi: Ordinance of Government
Visual Source	191	(2)
Arab Literature	193	(5)
The Thousand and One Nights
China and Japan
Peasant Life in Tang and Song China: Evidence from Poetry and Legal Documents	198	(10)
DuFu; Bo Zhuyi; Liu Zongyuan; Bi Rixiu
Visual Source	206	(2)
``The Noble and Magnificent City of Hangzhou'': Marco Polo in China	208	(5)
The Travels of Marco Polo
Valor and Fair Treatment: The Rise of the Samurai	213	(6)
The Tale of the Heike; Hojo Shigetoki
Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Russia
The Early Stages of the Byzantine Empire	219	(6)
Procopius on Justinian
Visual Source
Russia Converts to Christianity	225	(4)
Russian Primary Chronicle
Western Europe
Feudalism: Contemporary Descriptions and the Magna Carta	229	(6)
Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres on Feudalism; Feudal Contract; the Magna Carta
Medieval Theology: Thomas Aquinas Blends Faith and Reason	235	(8)
Summa Theologica
Visual Source	241	(2)
Ideals of Courtly Love: A New Definition of ``Relationships''	243	(5)
Andreas Capellanus: Art of Courtly Love
Chaucer and the Literary Traditions of the Middle Ages	248	(8)
Canterbury Tales
Merchants and the Rise of Commerce	256	(4)
The Gild Merchant of Southampton
Africa
Al-Bakri on West Africa	260	(6)
African Kingdoms and Islam	266	(7)
Ibn Battuta
Visual Source	271	(2)
The Americas
The Mayan Creation Story	273	(4)
Popol Vuh
Tribute under the Aztecs	277	(5)
Oviedo y Valdes, Historia General y Natural de la Indias
Visual Source	280	(2)
The Andean Kingdom of Chuquito in 1567	282	(3)
Waldeman Soriano Visita
Forces of Change
Merchants and Trade: Sources and Comparisons	285	(7)
Ibn Khaldun; Reginald of Durham on Saint Godric
Global Contacts: Travelers to Holy Places Buddhist, Christian, and Muslim Pilgrims	292	(14)
Sramana Huili, Xuanzang; Willibald, Anonymous Nun of Heidenheim; Ibn Jubayr; al-Umari
Visual Source	304	(2)
Global Contacts: Sailing to Calicut Chinese and Portuguese Voyages	306	(7)
Ma Huan; Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
The Crusades: Christian and Muslim Views	313	(8)
Ekkeharsi; Count Stephen Bek-el-Oin; Vsamals Ibn-Mungidh
The Mongols
Chingis Khan and the Rise of the Mongols	321	(13)
Juvaini; Russian Chronicles; Rashid al-Din; William of Rubruck
Visual Source	332	(2)
The Mongol Empire Takes Shape	334	(10)
Asian and European Sources
Mongol Rule in Russia	344	(1)
Chronicles of Time