Documents in World History Vol. 1 : The Great Traditions: from Ancient Times to 1500
ISBN: 9780205617890 | 0205617891
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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Considerably revised, the fifth edition of "Documents in World History" provides a larger variety of firsthand historical accounts from all areas of the world, thus creating a greater balance between social and cultural history. The latest" Documents in World History" retains its global emphasis while improving its standard selections, political coverage, and general coverage of Africa and the Middle East, including Persia.
| Geographical Contents Topical | |
| Preface to the New Edition | |
| Preface Introduction | |
| Early Civilizations | |
| Introduction | |
| Mesopotamian Values: Ideas About the Nature of Life and Death The Gilgamesh Epic | |
| Babylonian Law: How an Early State Regulated its Subjects | |
| The Code | |
| Hymn to the Nile | |
| The Hebrew Bible | ... MORE |
| From the Hebrew Bible | |
| Herodotus and the Persian Empire The Histories | |
| Zoroastrianism: The Major Persian ReligionHymns of Zarathustra | |
| The Classical Period, 1000 B.C.E. to 500 C.E. | |
| Introduction | |
| China | |
| Key Chinese Values: Confucianism and its Legacy | |
| The Small Analects | |
| Daoism Dao de Jing | |
| Legalism: An Alternate System Han Feizi | |
| Women in Classical China: Ban Zhao Lessons for Women Visual Source | |
| Portrait of Ban Zhao | |
| How to Organize Economic Life | |
| The Salt and Iron Debates | |
| A Respectful Clash of Views Visual Source: Agriculture in Northern China | |
| Greece and Rome | |
| The Greek Political Tradition Plutarch on Sparta | |
| Athenian Democracy and Culture Pericles | |
| Mediterranean Social and Family Structure Aristotle | |
| Polybius on Roman Political Institutions Polybius | |
| Women and the Law in Rome: Legal Codes Women in Rome | |
| The Fall of RomeMarcellinus Global Contacts | |
| The Opening of the Silk Road Chinese and Roman Sources Visual Source | |
| Making and Wearing Silk | |
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