Global Experience : Readings in World History to 1500

by Philip F. Riley; Henry A. Myers; Frank A. Gerome

• ISBN13: 9780133107982
• ISBN10: 0133107981
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS	1	(52)
Global Conceptions of the Cosmos and Creation	1	(12)
1. The Hebrew Creation Story: Genesis	2	(4)
2. A Greek Creation Story: Hesiod's Theogony	6	(2)
3. A Japanese Creation Story: Nihongi	8	(3)
4. A Hindu Creation Story: Rig Veda	11	(2)
A Sumerian Heroic Legend	13	(5)
5. The Epic of Gilgamesh	13	(5)
Law in the Ancient Near East: Hittites and Hebrews	18	(9)
6. Hittite Laws	19	(3)
7. Hebrew Laws and Their Covenant	22	(5)
The Origins of Writing in Egypt and China: Wisdom Literature and Oracles	27	(9)
8. Papyrus Lansing: A Schoolbook	27	(5)
9. The Oracle Bones of Shang	32	(4)
Challenges to Egyptian Tradition	36	(9)
10. Hatshepsut: Successful Female Pharaoh	36	(4)
11. The Hymn to Aton and Psalm 104	40	(5)
Military Strategy and Tactics: Assyria and China	45	(8)
12. Assyrian War Tactics	46	(1)
13. Sun Tzu [Sunzi], The Art of War	47	(6)
CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS	53	(92)
The Early Greeks: Their Gods, Heroes, and Poetry	53	(11)
14. Homer, The Odyssey	53	(6)
15. Sappho, Lyric Songs	59	(5)
The Hindu Tradition	64	(13)
16. The Essence of the Universe	65	(1)
17. The Kama Sutra	66	(5)
18. The Laws of Manu	71	(3)
19. Bhagavad-Gita	74	(3)
The Buddhist Tradition	77	(5)
20. Enlightenment of the Buddha	78	(2)
21. Kuan-yin [Guanyin]: Compassion of the Bodhisattva	80	(2)
The State and Society in Classical India	82	(6)
22. Duties of a King, Artha Shastra	82	(2)
23. Hsuan-tsang [Xuanzang], The Land and People of India	84	(4)
The Golden Age of Chinese Thought	88	(13)
24. Confucius, Analects	88	(4)
25. Taoism [Daoism]: LaoTzu [Lao Zi]	92	(4)
26. Legalism: The Writings of Han Fie Tzu [Han Feizi]	96	(5)
Classical Greece	101	(21)
27. Herodotus, Persian Dialogue	101	(3)
28. Sophocles, Antigone	104	(4)
29. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War	108	(6)
30. Plato, The Republic	114	(5)
31. Aristotle, Politics	119	(3)
Roman Contributions to Ideologies of Government and Law	122	(11)
32. Titus Livy, Early History of Rome	123	(4)
33. Polybius, Why Romans and Not Greeks Govern the World	127	(4)
34. Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Laws	131	(2)
Science in the Greco-Roman and Chinese Worlds	133	(12)
35. Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease	134	(2)
36. Pliny the Elder, The Nature Story	136	(4)
37. The Yellow Emperor, Nei-ching [Neijing] (Canon of Medicine)	140	(5)
CHRISTIANITY TO ISLAM	145	(48)
The Rise of Christianity	145	(6)
38. The Golden Rule and God's Will	146	(1)
39. The Writings of St. Paul on Women	147	(4)
Rome and the Christians	151	(16)
40. Tacitus, The Annals	152	(1)
41. Pliny the Younger, Letters to Emperor Trajan	153	(2)
42. St. Augustine of Hippo, The City of God	155	(4)
43. Paulus Orosius, History Against the Pagans	159	(3)
44. Monastic Life: The Rule of Saint Benedict	162	(5)
The Reign of Emperor Justinian	167	(8)
45. Procopius, History of the Wars	168	(2)
46. Procopius, The Secret History	170	(3)
47. The Institutes of Justinian from the Corpus Iuris Civilis	173	(2)
The Rise of Islam	175	(8)
48. The Koran	176	(5)
49. Sayings (Hadith) Ascribed to the Prophet: Holy War	181	(2)
Commentaries on Islamic Law and Culture	183	(10)
50. Wills, Slave Emancipation, and Clientship	184	(3)
51. Kai Kaus, "Scientific Physiognomy and the Purchase of Slaves"	187	(4)
52. Circumcision of Men and Women	191	(2)
MEDIEVAL EUROPE, AFRICA, AND THE EAST	193	(108)
The Germanic Tribes Succeed the Romans in the West	193	(8)
53. Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks	194	(5)
54. Law Code of the Visigoths	199	(2)
Feudalism and Chivalry, West and East	201	(18)
55. The Nibelungenlied	202	(6)
56. The Book of Emperors and Kings, "Charlemagne and Pope Leo III"	208	(6)
57. Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure (The Way of the Samurai)	214	(3)
58. The Forty-Seven Ronin	217	(2)
East-West Images and Realities	219	(18)
59. Ibn Fadlan's Account of Vikings in Early Russia	220	(3)
60. Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, A Mission to Constantinople	223	(3)
61. Memoirs of Usamah Ibn-Munqidh	226	(4)
62. Sir John Mandeville, "The Land of Prester John"	230	(3)
63. Marco Polo in China	233	(4)
Perceptions of Africa	237	(6)
64. Ibn Battuta in Mali	238	(2)
65. Martin Fernandez de Figueroa, Confronting the Moors in Somalia	240	(3)
Byzantium: The Later Period of Triumph and Tragedy	243	(10)
66. Anna Comnena, The Alexiad	243	(4)
67. Robert of Clari, The Conquest of Constantinople	247	(6)
Scholasticism, Spirituality, and Mysticism	253	(19)
68. Peter Abelard, The Story of My Misfortunes	255	(3)
69. St. Hildegard of Bingen, Know the Ways	258	(3)
70. St. Francis of Assisi, "The Rule of St. Francis"	261	(4)
71. St. Thomas Aquinas, "The Existence of God"	265	(4)
72. Julian(a) of Norwich, Showings	269	(3)
Medieval Domestic Life in Western and Eastern Europe	272	(5)
73. The Good Man of Paris	272	(3)
74. The Domostroi, Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible	275	(2)
Chinese Culture Under the T'ang and Sung [Song] Dynasties	277	(8)
75. Imperial Examination System	278	(2)
76. Emperor T'ai-tsung [Taizong]: "On the Art of Government"	280	(3)
77. Chinese Footbinding	283	(2)
Mongols and the West	285	(8)
78. John Pian del Carpini, The Tartars	286	(2)
79. Kuyuk Khan, Letter to Pope Innocent IV	288	(1)
80. The Yuan Code: Homicide	289	(4)
The Black Death: Christian and Muslim Views	293	(8)
81. The Chronicle of Jean de Venette	294	(2)
82. Ibn Al-WardI, An Essay on the Report of the Pestilence	296	(5)
A WORLD IN CHANGE	301
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire	301	(13)
83. Konstantin Mihailovic, Memoirs of a Janissary	301	(4)
84. Kritovoulos, History of Mehmed the Conqueror	305	(4)
85. Vlad Tsepes, "The Impaler": The Real Dracula or How the Enemy of the Ottomons Became a Legend	309	(5)
The Rise of Russia	314	(7)
86. The Russian Primary Chronicle	314	(3)
87. A Letter of Monk Philotheos to Grand Prince Vasily III	317	(1)
88. Heinrich von Staden, The Land and Government of Muscovy	318	(3)
The Renaissance and Reformation	321	(15)
89. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince and The Discourses on Titus Livy	322	(6)
90. Erasmus, Julius II Excluded	328	(5)
91. Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521	333	(3)
Age of Exploration and Expansion	336	(7)
92. Cheng Ho [Zheng He]: Ming Maritime Expeditions	337	(3)
93. St. Francis Xavier on the Japanese: "The Best People Who Have Yet Been Discovered"	340	(3)
The Portuguese in Africa, Asia, and Brazil	343	(8)
94. The Chronicle of Gomes Eannes de Azurara	343	(2)
95. Pero Vaz de Caminha and the Brazilian Indians	345	(2)
96. The Travels of Mendes Pinto	347	(4)
Spain in America	351
97. Christopher Columbus, Journal of First Voyage to America	352	(2)
98. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Conquest of Mexico	354	(2)
99. Antonio de Montesinos: Sermon to Colonists, 1511	356	(1)
100. Bartolome de la Casas, Destruction of the Indies and The Only Method of Converting the Indians	357