Sources in Patterns of World History: Volume One To 1600

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

• ISBN13: 9780199846177
• ISBN10: 0199846170
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Each volume of Sources for Patterns of World History includes approximately 200 text and visual sources in world history, organized to match the chapter organization of Patterns of World History. Each source is accompanied by a headnote and reading questions. FREE in a bundle, contact your Oxford University Press representative for details, or call 800-280-0280.

Table of Contents

Primary Sources: How to Read Them and Why They are Important in World History	p. 1
The African Origins of Humanity, Prehistory to 10,000 BCE	p. 6
Bad Hair Days in the Paleolithic	p. 7
Of Lice and Men	p. 8
Shamans and Cave Painting	p. 9
Not All Hominids Are Human Beings	p. 11
Theories of Race and the History of Africa	p. 12
Deep History and Convergent Evolution	p. 13
Agrarian-Urban Centers of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, 11,500 - 600 B.C.E.	p. 15
An Egyptian Creation Myth	p. 16
A Mesopotamian Creation Myth	p. 17
Law Codes of Hammurabi	p. 21
The Descent of Ishtar Into the Underworld	p. 23
Hesiod's Theogony	p. 27
Cuneiform Tablet from Mesopotamia, ca. 2000 BCE	p. 47
Shifting Agrarian Centers in India, 3000 B.C.E. - 606 B.C.E.	p. 48
The Mystery of the Harappan Seals	p. 48
The Code of Manu	p. 51
Hymn to Creation from the Rig Veda	p. 53
Agrarian Patterns and the Mandate of Heaven in Ancient China, 5000 - 481 BCE	p. 54
Shang Oracle Bones	p. 54
Ancestor Worship and Human Sacrifice from the Shi Jing	p. 57
Pan Gu: A Chinese Creation Myth	p. 59
The Announcement to the Duke of Shao	p. 60
Origins Apart: The Americas and Oceania	p. 63
The Wealth of La Venta	p. 63
The Mound Builder Cultures of North America: Poverty Point	p. 66
A Polynesian Creation Myth	p. 69
Reed Chart from the Marshall Islands, South Pacific	p. 72
Chiefdoms and Early States in Africa and the Americas, 600 BCE-600 CE	p. 73
The Gold Mines of Nubia	p. 73
Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Red Sea and India Ocean	p. 75
The Popol Vuh	p. 79
"The Creation" by Diego Rivera	p. 81
Persia, Greece, and Rome	p. 82
Darius I of Persia: the Behistan Inscription	p. 83
Herodotus on the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE)	p. 83
Anixmander, "On Nature"	p. 91
Plutarch on Julius Caesar	p. 92
Eusebius on Constantine the Great	p. 97
TheTondoofSt. Mamai	p. 99
Empires and Visionaries in India	p. 101
The Dhammapada	p. 101
Kautilya, "The Duties of Government Superintendents"	p. 109
Faxien, A Record of Buddhist Countries	p. 111
The Status of Women in Ancient India	p. 113
Jain Cosmological Map	p. 115
China: Imperial Unification and Perfecting the Moral Order 722 B.C.E. - 618 C.E.	p. 116
Han Fei-tzu, Selections on Legalism	p. 116
Confucius, Selections from the Analects	p. 117
Laozi, excerpt from the Daode Jing, "The Unvarying Way"	p. 122
Ban Zhao, "Admonitions for Women"	p. 123
Islamic Civilization and Byzantium, 600 û 1300	p. 125
The Quran: "The Five Pillars," from Surah 2, ("The Cow")	p. 125
Al-Ghazali, excerpt from Confessions	p. 142
Al-Farabi on the Perfect Society	p. 144
IbnFadlan's Account of the Rus	p. 148
John of Damascus, "On Icons"	p. 150
Arabic Science	p. 158
Innovations and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600 û 1400	p. 160
The Rule of St. Benedict	p. 161
Einhard, Life of Charlemagne	p. 164
Dante, Canto XIX from the Inferno	p. 170
Regulations for the London Spurrier's Guild, 1347	p. 173
Marchione di Coppio Stefani on the Black Death in Florence	p. 174
The Medieval World View	p. 178
Contrasting Patterns in India and China, 600 -1600	p. 179
Al-Biruni on India	p. 179
Tang Taizong on Effective Government	p. 181
Two Poems by Li Bo	p. 185
Ibn Wahab, An Arab Merchant Visits Tang China	p. 187
Marco Polo Describes China under Mongol Rule	p. 187
Religious Civilizations Interacting: Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia, 100 C.E. -1400 C.E.	p. 191
Nihongi, or The Chronicles of Japan	p. 192
The "Taika Reform Edicts"	p. 194
A Korean Foundation Myth	p. 202
Yi Kyu-bo on Personal Piety	p. 203
Patterns of State Formation in Africa, 600 -1450 C.E.	p. 205
The Glorious Victories of Amda Seyon, King of Ethiopia	p. 206
The Swahili Saga of Liyongo Fumo	p. 207
Ibn Battuta on Mali	p. 209
The Epic of Sundiata	p. 211
The Rise of Empires in the Americas, 600-1550	p. 215
The Founding of Tenochtitlán	p. 215
Human Sacrifice by the Aztecs	p. 217
Machu Picchu	p. 218
The Inca Census	p. 219
The Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle and European Overseas Expansion, 1450-1600	p. 221
The Tribute of Children	p. 221
A European Ambassador Reports on the Ottomans	p. 223
An Ottoman Travel Journal	p. 224
The Journal of Christopher Columbus	p. 227
Renaissance, Reformation, and the New Science in Europe, 1450-1700	p. 229
Marsilio Ficino, "Letter to Paul of Middelburg"	p. 230
Laura Cereta to Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza	p. 230
John Calvin, Prayer from Commentary on Hosea	p. 231
Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems	p. 233
Antony van Leeuwenhoek's "Animalcules"	p. 234
Galileo's Views of the Moon	p. 235
Peter the Great, "Correspondence with Alexis, 1715"	p. 236
New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500-1800	p. 239
Aztecs Recount the Beginning of the War with the Conquistadors	p. 239
Letter from Hernando de Soto	p. 240
Coronado's Report to Viceroy Mendoza	p. 242
Increase Mather on King Philip's Death	p. 244
Reasons for Colonizing North America	p. 245
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