The Global Experience Readings in World History, Volume 1 (to 1550)

by Riley, Philip F.; Gerome, Frank; Lembright, Robert L.; Myers, Henry; Yoon, Chong-kun

• ISBN13: 9780131178175
• ISBN10: 0131178172
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-08
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This integrated, global collection of primary source documents illustrates the variety of experiences on the part of men and women who have made history; and is designed with introductions and questions, to make main points clear to students. Organized chronologically and focusing on global themes, it includes excerpts from both classic texts and less familiar but equally illustrative material.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
PART I -- EARLY CIVILIZATIONS	1	(68)
Global Conceptions of the Cosmos and Creation	1	(15)
The Egyptian Creation Story: The Creation According to Ra	2	(2)
The Hebrew Creation Story: Genesis	4	(4)
P'an Ku, China's Creation Story	8	(3)
A Hindu Creation Story: Rig Veda	11	(1)
A Greek Creation Story: Hesiod's Theogony	12	(2)
A Mayan Creation Story: Popol Vuh	14	(2)
Culture Heroes in Early Epics	16	(22)
The Epic of Gilgamesh	16	(6)
Homer, The Odyssey	22	(6)
Dialli Kieba Koate, Sunjatta	28	(10)
Law in the Ancient Near East: Babylonian and Hittite	38	(7)
The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi	39	(3)
Hittite Laws	42	(3)
Origins of Writing in West Asia; the Scribal Profession	45	(6)
A Sumerian Schoolboy Text	45	(2)
Papyrus Lansing: A Schoolbook	47	(4)
Challenges to Egyptian and Hebrew Tradition	51	(11)
Hatshepsut: Successful Female Pharaoh	52	(3)
The Hymn to Aton and Psalm 104	55	(5)
Isaiah: Prophet of Doom and Hope	60	(2)
Military Strategy and Tactics: Assyria and China	62	(7)
Assyrian War Tactics	63	(1)
Sun Tzu [Sunzi], The Art of War	64	(5)
PART II -- CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS	69	(97)
The Hindu Tradition in Classical India	69	(15)
The Essence of the Universe	71	(1)
The Laws of Manu	72	(3)
Bhagavad-Gita	75	(3)
Duties of a King, Artha Shastra	78	(2)
Hsuan-tsang [Xuanzang], The Land and People of India	80	(4)
The Buddhist Tradition	84	(8)
Enlightenment of the Buddha	85	(2)
Pure Land Scripture, Sukhavativyuha	87	(3)
Edict of Ashoka	90	(2)
The Golden Age of Chinese Thought	92	(14)
Confucius, Analects	92	(4)
Taoism [Daoism]: Lao Tzu [Lao Zi]	96	(4)
Legalism: The Writings of Han Fei Tzu [Han Fei Zi]	100	(5)
Mencius, ``Humane Government''	105	(1)
Classical Greece	106	(28)
Sappho, Lyric Songs	107	(4)
Herodotus, Persian Dialogue	111	(3)
Sophocles, Antigone	114	(3)
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War	117	(9)
Xenophon, The Government of Sparta	126	(5)
Aristotle, Politics	131	(3)
Roman Contributions to Ideologies of Government and Law	134	(21)
Plutarch, Numa the Lawgiver	135	(10)
Titus Livy, Heroes of the Early Republic	145	(4)
Polybius, ``Why Romans and Not Greeks Govern the World''	149	(4)
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Laws	153	(2)
Science in the Greco-Roman and Chinese Worlds	155	(11)
The Yellow Emperor, Nei-ching [Neijing] (Canon of Medicine)	156	(3)
Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease	159	(3)
Pliny the Elder, The Nature Story	162	(4)
PART III -- CHRISTIANITY TO ISLAM	166	(53)
The Rise of Christianity	166	(6)
The Golden Rule and God's Will	167	(1)
The Writings of Saint Paul on Women	168	(4)
Rome and the Christians	172	(13)
Pliny the Younger, Letters to Emperor Trajan	173	(2)
St. Augustine of Hippo, The Just War	175	(2)
Paulus Orosius, History Against the Pagans	177	(3)
Monastic Life: The Rule of St. Benedict	180	(5)
Fusion of Church and State: Byzantine Beginnings	185	(11)
Eusebius, ``Life of Constantine''	186	(5)
Procopius, History of the Wars and The Secret History	191	(5)
The Rise of Islam	196	(11)
The Qur'an	197	(8)
Sayings (Hadith) Ascribed to the Prophet: Holy War	205	(2)
High Point of Islamic Culture	207	(12)
Harun al Rashid and the Byzantine Empire	208	(1)
Kai Kaus, ``Scientific Physiognomy and the Purchase of Slaves''	209	(5)
One Thousand and One Nights: ``The Tale of the Fisherman''	214	(5)
PART IV -- MEDIEVAL EUROPE, AFRICA, AND THE EAST	219	(124)
The Germanic Tribes Succeed the Romans in the West	219	(8)
Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks	220	(5)
Law Code of the Salian Franks	225	(2)
Feudalism and Chivalry, West and East	227	(22)
The Nibelungenlied	228	(6)
The Book of Emperors and Kings, ``Charlemagne and Pope Leo III''	234	(7)
Bahas al-Din Ibn Shaddad, ``Saladin: The Lion of Islam''	241	(3)
Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure (The Way of the Samurai)	244	(3)
The Forty-Seven Ronin	247	(2)
East-West Images and Realities	249	(11)
Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, A Mission to Constantinople	249	(4)
Memoirs of Usamah Ibn-Munqidh	253	(4)
Sir John Mandeville, ``The Land of Prester John''	257	(3)
Islam and Islam's Enemies	260	(10)
Ibn Battuta in Mali	261	(3)
Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddima	264	(3)
Martin Fernandez de Figueroa, Confronting the Moors in Somalia	267	(3)
Byzantium: The Later Period of Decay	270	(9)
Micahel Psellus, Chronographia, ``Empress Zoe''	270	(3)
Robert of Clari, The Conquest of Constantinople	273	(6)
Scholasticism, Spirituality, and Mysticism	279	(12)
Peter Abelard, The Story of My Misfortunes	281	(3)
St. Hildegard of Bingen, Know the Ways	284	(4)
St. Francis of Assisi, ``The Rule of Saint Francis''	288	(3)
Coping with Deviant Belief: East and West	291	(17)
Pierre de Vaux-de-Cernay, ``What Cathars Believe''	292	(3)
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica: ``Whether Heretics are to be Tolerated''	295	(2)
William Rubruck, Journey to Cathay	297	(8)
The Trial of Joan of Arc	305	(3)
Medieval Domestic Life in Western and Eastern Europe	308	(6)
The Goodman of Paris	308	(3)
The Domostroi, Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible	311	(3)
Medieval Governments and Societies of China and Japan	314	(20)
Emperor T'ai-tsung [Taizong]: ``On the Art of Government''	315	(4)
Sung (Song) China: Imperial Examination System	319	(1)
Chinese Footbinding	320	(3)
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji	323	(5)
John Pian del Carpini, The Tartars	328	(2)
Marco Polo in China	330	(4)
The Black Death: Christian and Muslim Views	334	(9)
The Black Death in Florence	335	(3)
Ibn Al-Ward, An Essay on the Report of the Pestilence	338	(5)
PART V - A WORLD IN CHANGE	343	(59)
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire	343	(12)
Kritovoulos, History of Mehmed the Conqueror	344	(4)
Suleiman the Magnificent and His Courtiers	348	(3)
Vlad Tsepes, ``The Impaler'': The Real Dracula or How the Enemy of the Ottomans Became a Legend	351	(4)
The Rise of Russia	355	(7)
The Russian Primary Chronicle	356	(3)
Heinrich von Staden, The Land and Government of Muscovy	359	(3)
The Renaissance and Reformation	362	(20)
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince and The Discourses on Titus Livy	364	(6)
Erasmus, Julius II Excluded	370	(5)
Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521	375	(3)
St. Charles Borromeo: Instructions to Confessors	378	(4)
Age of Exploration and Expansion	382	(8)
Cheng Ho [Zheng He]: Ming Maritime Expeditions	384	(2)
St. Francis Xavier on the Japanese: ``The Best People Who Have Yet Been Discovered''	386	(4)
Portugal in Asia and Spain in America	390	(5)
The Travels of Mendes Pinto	390	(5)
Spain in America	395	(7)
Christopher Columbus, Journal of First Voyage to America	395	(2)
An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico: The Broken Spears	397	(3)
Pope Paul III, ``Indians are Men'' 1537	400	(2)
Bartolome de las Casas, Destruction of the Indies and ``The Only Method of Converting the Indians''	402