Patterns of World History Volume One: To 1600, with Sources

by Sivers, Peter von; Desnoyers, Charles A.; Stow, George B.

• ISBN13: 9780197778746
• ISBN10: 0197778747
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-01-31
• Publisher: Oxford

Summary

Patterns of World History with Sources, Fifth Edition, offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins, interactions, and adaptations. The authors examine the full range of human ingenuity over time and space in a comprehensive, evenhanded, and critical fashion. They offer a distinct intellectual framework for the role of innovation and historical change through patterns of origins, interactions, and adaptations. Each chapter ends with four to six primary sources, both textual and visual.

Author Biography

Peter von Sivers is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Utah.

Charles A. Desnoyers is Professor of History at La Salle University.

George B. Stow was Professor of History and Director of the Graduate Program in History at La Salle University.

Table of Contents

MAPS
STUDYING WITH MAPS
PREFACE
NOTE ON DATES AND SPELLINGS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS

WORLD PERIOD ONE. FROM HUMAN ORIGINS TO EARLY AGRICULTURAL CENTERS, PREHISTORY TO 600 BCE
Chapter 1. The African Origins of Humanity , Prehistory-10,000 BCE
1.1 The Origins of Humanity
Hominins: No Longer Apes, but Not Yet Human
1.2 Human Adaptations: From Africa to Eurasia and Australia
The African Origins of Human Culture
Migration from South Asia to Australia
Migration from Asia to Europe
1.3 The Ice Age Crisis and Human Migration to the Americas
The Ice Age
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 1
1.1 - Shell bead jewelry from the Grotte des Pigeons, Taforalt, Morocco
1.2 - Python-shaped ornamented rock found in the Rhino Cave, Botswana
1.3 - Pottery's Diverse Origins in East Asia
1.4 - Flax fibers found at the Dzudzuana Cave, Republic of Georgia, Caucasus Mountains

Chapter 2. Agrarian-Urban Centers of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, 11,500-600 BCE
2.1 Agrarian Origins in the Fertile Crescent, ca. 11,500-1500 BCE
Sedentary Foragers and Foraging Farmers
The Origin of Urban Centers in Mesopotamia and Egypt
2.2 Interactions among Multiethnic and Multireligious Empires, ca. 1500-600 BCE
The Hittite and Assyrian Empires, 1600-600 BCE
Small Kingdoms on the Imperial Margins, 1600-600 BCE
2.3 Religious Experience and Cultural Achievements
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 2
2.1 - Law Code of Hammurabi
2.2 - Three Spinal Injury Cases Documented in the Edwin Smith Papyrus
2.3 - Advice from a royal scribe to his apprentice, Middle Kingdom Egypt, Twelfth Dynasty
2.4 - Kingdom of Akkad: A Governor's Order to a Landowner
2.5 - The Great Hymn to the Aten

Chapter 3. Shifting Agrarian Centers in India, 3000-600 BCE
3.1 The Vanished Origins of Harappa, 3000-1500 BCE
The Region and People
Adapting to Urban Life in the Indus Valley
The Collapse of the Cities
3.2 Interactions in Northern India, 1500-600 BCE
The Vedic World, 1750-800 BCE
Statecraft and the Ideology of Power, 800-600 BCE
3.3 Indian Society, Culture, and Religion, 1500-600 BCE
Society and Family in Ancient India
Cultural Interactions to 600 BCE
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 3
3.1 - The Bhagavad Gita
3.2 - Prayer to Varuna
3.3 - The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
3.4 - The Code of Manu

Chapter 4. Agrarian Centers and the Mandate of Heaven in Ancient China, 5000-481 BCE
4.1 The Origins of Yellow River Cultures, 5000-1766 BCE
Geography and Climate
The Origins of Neolithic Cultures
The Age of Myth and the Xia Dynasty, 2852-1766 BCE
4.2 The Interactions of Shang and Zhou History and Politics, 1766-481 BCE
The Shang Dynasty, 1766-1122 BCE
The Mandate of Heaven: The Zhou Dynasty to 481 BCE
4.3 Economy, Society, and Family Adaptation in Ancient China
Shang Society
Interactions of Zhou Economy and Society
Gender and the Family
4.4 Interactions of Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life in Ancient China
Oracle Bones and Early Chinese Writing
Adaptations of Zhou Religion, Technology, and Culture
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 4
4.1 - Excerpts from The Book of Odes (Shijing)
4.2 - The Announcement of the Duke of Shao
4.3 - The Book of Lord Shang (Shangjun Shu)
4.4 - Iron sword with jade handle, earliest cast-iron object (Western Zhou), from Henan Museum, Guo state, Sanmenxia city

Chapter 5. Origins Apart: The Americas and Oceania, 14,500-600 BCE
5.1 Adapting to the Americas
The Environment
Foragers
5.2 Agriculture, Villages, and Urban Life
The Neolithic Revolution in the New World
The Origins of Urban Centers
The First Mesoamerican Settlements
5.3 The Origins of Pacific Island Migrations
Lapita and Cultural Expansion
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 5
5.1 - Quipu from the Caral-Supe culture, Peru
5.2 - Textile fragment from Chavín de Huántar, Peru
5.3 - New DNA Results Show Kennewick Man Was Native American
5.4 - Lapita pot shards, found in Vanuatu, western Pacific

WORLD PERIOD TWO. THE AGE OF EMPIRES AND VISIONARIES, 600 BCE TO 600 CE
Chapter 6. Chiefdoms and Early States in Africa and the Americas, 600 BCE-600 CE
6.1 Agriculture and Early African Kingdoms
Saharan Villages, Towns, and Kingdoms
The Kingdom of Aksum
6.2 The Spread of Villages in Sub-Saharan Africa
West African Savanna and Rain-Forest Agriculture
The Spread of Village Life to East and South Africa
Patterns of African History, 600 BCE-600 CE
6.3 Early States in Mesoamerica: Maya Kingdoms and Teotihuacán
The Maya Kingdoms in Southern Mesoamerica
The Kingdom of Teotihuacán in the Mexican Basin
6.4 The Andes: Moche
The Moche in Northern Peru
6.5 Paracas and the Nasca in Southern Peru
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 6
6.1 - Africa's Earliest Bananas
6.2 - Relief sculpture from Meroë, Sudan
6.3 - The Inland Niger Delta
6.4 - LADY K'ATUN-QUEEN OF PIEDRAS NEGRAS
6.5 - Cosmas Indicopleustes (Cosmas the India-Voyager), Christian Topography

Chapter 7. Interaction and Adaptation in Western Eurasia, Persia, Greece, and Rome, 550 BCE-600 CE
7.1 Ealy Persia and Greece
The Origins of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Greek City-States in the Persian Shadow
Alexander's Empire and Its Successor Kingdoms
7.2 Interactions between the Persian and Roman Empires
Parthian Persia and Rome
The Sasanid Persian and Late Roman Empires
7.3 Adaptations to Monotheism and Monism in the Middle East
Challenge to Polytheism: The Origins of Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and Greek Philosophy
Toward Religious Communities and Philosophical Schools
7.4 The Beginnings of Science and the Cultures of Kings and Citizens
The Sciences at the Library of Alexandria
Royal Persian Culture and Arts
Greek and Roman Civic Culture and Arts
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 7
7.1 - The Cyrus Cylinder
7.2 - Herodotus, Histories
7.3 - Babatha, a Wealthy Landowner in Roman Palaestina Petraea, ca. 100-135
7.4 - 1 Maccabees
7.5 - Graffiti from the walls of Pompeii
7.6 - The murder of the philosopher Hypatia, Alexandria, Egypt

Chapter 8. Empires and Visionaries in India, 600 BCE-600 CE
8.1 Patterns of State Formation in India: Republics, Kingdoms, and Empires
The Road to Empire: The Mauryas
The Classical Age: The Gupta Empire
The Southern Kingdoms, ca. 300-600 CE
8.2 The Vedic Tradition and Its Visionary Reformers
Reforming the Vedic Tradition
The Maturity of Hinduism: From the Abstract to the Devotional
8.3 Stability amid Disorder: Economy, Family, and Society
Tax and Spend: Economy and Society
Caste, Family Life, and Gender
8.4 Strength in Numbers: Art, Literature, and Science
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 8
8.1 - The Seven Pillar Edicts of King Ashoka
8.2 - The Questions of King Milinda (The Milindapanha)
8.3 - Fa Xian, Excerpt from A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms
8.4 - Kalidasa, The Cloud Messenger

Chapter 9. China, Imperial Unification and Perfecting the Moral Order, 722 BCE-618 CE
9.1 Visionaries and Empire
Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism
The Qin Dynasty
The Han Dynasty
9.2 The Domestic Economy: Society, Family, and Gender
Industry and Commerce
Gender Roles
9.3 Intellectual Trends, Aesthetics, Science, and Technology
Confucianism, Education, and History during the Han
Buddhism in China
Intellectual Life
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 9
9.1 - Analects (Lunyu) of Confucius
9.2 - Book of Mencius (Mengzi)
9.3 - Li Si, "Memorial on the Burning of Books," from the Shiji
9.4 - Ban Zhao, Admonitions for Women (Nüjie)
9.5 - Sources of Chinese Tradition

WORLD PERIOD THREE. THE FORMATION OF RELIGIOUS CIVILIZATIONS, 600-1450 CE
Chapter 10. Islamic Civilization and Byzantium, 600-1300 CE
10.1 The Formation of Islamic Religious Civilization
The Beginnings of Islam
Islamic Theology, Law, and Politics
Eastern Christian Civilization in Byzantium
Byzantium's Difficult Beginnings
The Seljuk Invasion and the Crusades
10.2 Islamic and Eastern Christian Civilizations at Their Height
State and Society in Mamluk Egypt
Byzantine Provincial and Central Organization
Commercial Relations from the Atlantic to the South China Sea
10.3 Religion, Sciences, and the Arts in Two Religious Civilizations
Islamic Culture: Intellectual and Scientific Expressions
Artistic Expressions in Islamic Civilization
Learning and the Arts in Byzantium
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 10
10.1 - Al-Jahiz: The Story of the Judge and the Fly
10.2 - Documents related to the iconoclasm controversy
10.3 - Memoirs of Usama Ibn Munqidh
10.4 - A Jewish engagement contract from Fustat (Old Cairo)
10.5 - An Islamic Mystic's Highest Meditative State

Chapter 11. Innovation and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600-1450 CE
11.1 The Formation of Christian Europe, 600-1000
Frankish Gaul and Latin Christianity
11.2 Recovery, Reform, and Innovation, 1000-1300
The Political Recovery of Europe
The Economic and Social Recovery of Europe
Religious Reform and Expansion
Intellectual and Cultural Developments
11.3 Crisis and Creativity, 1300-1415
The Calamitous Fourteenth Century
Signs of a New Era in the Fifteenth Century
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 11
11.1 - Einhard's Life of Charlemagne
11.2 - Adelard of Bath, Questiones naturales
11.3 - Feudal contracts and the swearing of fealty
11.4 - Peter Abelard, The Story of My Misfortunes
11.5 - The Response to Richard de Fournival’s Bestiary of Love (Li Bestiaire d'Amour: c. 1250)
11.6 - Flagellants attempt to ward off the Black Death in Germany and in England

Chapter 12. Contrasting Patterns in Eurasia, 600-1600 CE
12.1 India: The Clash of Cultures
Buddhist and Hindu India after the Guptas
Islam in India, 711-1398
Toward the Mughal Era, 1398-1450
12.2 Interactions and Adaptations: From Buddhism to Neo-Confucian Synthesis in China
Creating a Religious Civilization under the Tang
The Song and Yuan Dynasties, 960-1368
The Ming to 1450: The Quest for Stability
Society, Family, and Gender
Perceptions of Perfection: Intellectual, Scientific, and Cultural Life
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 12
12.1 - The Chachnamah
12.2 - Poetry of the Tang Dynasty
12.3 - Model of a Ming ship in the flotilla of Zheng He
12.4 - Genghis Khan Strikes West

Chapter 13. Religious Civilizations Interacting, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, 550-1500 CE
13.1 Korea to 1450: Innovation from Above
People and Place: The Korean Environment
Conquest and Competition: History and Politics to 1450
Economy, Society, and Family
Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
13.2 Japan to 1450: Selective Interaction and Adaptation
The Island Refuge
Adaptation at Arm's Length: History and Politics
Economy, Society, and Family
Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
13.3 Vietnam: Human Agency and State Building
The Setting and Neolithic Cultures
Economy, Society, and Family
Religion, Culture, and Intellectual Life
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 13
13.1 - Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji
13.2 - Nihongi (Chronicles of Japan)
13.3 - Haedong kosung chon, on Buddhism in Korea
13.4 - Copper head of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Vietnam

Chapter 14. Patterns of State Formation in Africa, 600-1450 CE
14.1 Christians and Muslims in the Northeast
Nubia in the Middle Nile Valley
Ethiopia in the Eastern Highlands
14.2 Adaptation to Islam: City-States and Kingdoms in East and Southern Africa
The Swahili City-States on the East African Coast
Traditional Kingdoms in Southern and Central Africa
Central African Chiefdoms and Kingdoms
14.3 Cultural Encounters: West African Traditions and Islam
The Kingdom of Ancient Ghana
The Empire of Mali
Rain-Forest Kingdoms
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 14
14.1 - The Fetha Nagast, Ethiopia
14.2 - Ibn Battuta: Journey to the East African Coast
14.3 - 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Bakri, Description of West Africa
14.4 - Walls and moats at Sungbo's Eredo, Nigeria

Chapter 15. The Rise of Empires in the Americas, 600-1550 CE
15.1 The Legacy of Teotihuacán and the Toltecs in Mesoamerica
Militarism in the Mexican Basin
Late Maya States in Yucatán
15.2 The Legacy of Tiwanaku and Wari in the Andes
The Expanding State of Tiwanaku
The Expanding City-State of Wari
15.3 American Empires: Aztec and Inca Origins and Dominance
The Aztec Empire of Mesoamerica
The Inca Empire of the Andes
15.4 Imperial Society and Culture
Imperial Capitals: Tenochtitlán and Cuzco
Power and Its Cultural Expressions
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 15
15.1 - Skeletons in a Wari royal tomb site, El Castillo de Huarmey, Peru
15.2 - Ahuitzotl, Eighth King (Tlatloani) of the Aztec Empire
15.3 - Bernal Díaz, The Conquest of New Spain
15.4 - Pedro Cieza de León on Incan roads

WORLD PERIOD FOUR. INTERACTIONS ACROSS THE GLOBE, 1450-1750
Chapter 16. Western Christian Overseas Expansion and the Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle, 1450-1650
16.1 The Muslim-Christian Competition in the East and West, 1450-1600
Iberian Christian Expansion, 1415-1498
Rise of the Ottomans and Struggle with the Habsburgs for Dominance, 1300-1609
16.2 The Centralizing State: Origins and Interactions
State Transformation, Money, and Firearms
16.3 Imperial Courts, Urban Festivities, and the Arts
The Ottoman Empire: Palaces, Festivities, and the Arts
The Spanish Habsburg Empire: Popular Festivities and the Arts
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 16
16.1 - Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493
16.2 - Christopher Columbus, The Book of Prophecies
16.3 - Thomas the Eparch and Joshua Diplovatatzes, "The Fall of Constantinople"
16.4 -Evliya Çelebi, "A Procession of Artisans at Istanbul"
16.5 -Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, "The Court of Suleiman the Magnificent"

Chapter 17. The Renaissance, New Sciences, and Religious Wars in Europe, 1450-1750
17.1 Cultural Transformations: Renaissance, Baroque, and New Sciences
The Renaissance and Baroque Arts
The New Sciences
The New Sciences and Their Social Impact
The New Sciences: Philosophical Interpretations
17.2 Centralizing States and Religious Upheavals
The Rise of Centralized Kingdoms
The Protestant Reformation, State Churches, and Independent Congregations
Religious Wars and Political Restoration
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 17
17.1 - Examination of Lady Jane Grey, London
17.2 - Emilie du Châtelet, Discourse on Happiness
17.3 - Sebastian Castellio, Concerning Whether Heretics Should Be Persecuted
17.4 - Duc de Saint-Simon, "The Daily Habits of Louis XIV at Versailles"
17.5 - Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
17.6- Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina de' Medici

Chapter 18. New Patterns in New Worlds, Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500-1800
18.1 The Colonial Americas: Europe's Warm-Weather Extension
The Conquest of Mexico and Peru
The Establishment of Colonial Institutions
18.2 The Making of American Societies: Origins and Transformations
Exploitation of Mineral and Tropical Resources
Social Strata, Castes, and Ethnic Groups
The Adaptation of the Americas to European Culture
Putting It All Together
PATTERNS OF EVIDENCE: Sources for Chapter 18
18.1 - Scandal at the Church: José de Álfaro Accuses Doña Theresa Bravo and Others of Insulting and Beating His Castiza Wife, Joséfa Cadena (Mexico, 1782)
18.2 - Marina de San Miguel's Confessions before the Inquisition, Mexico City
18.3 - Nahuatl Land Sale Documents, Mexico
18.4 - The Jesuit Relations, French North America