New selections in the Fourth Edition of
The Global Experience: Readings in World History, Volume I

• The Egyptian Creation Story: "The Creation According to Ra"
• The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi
• Homer, The Iliad
• Pure Land Scripture, Sukhavativyuha
• Thucydied on Peloponnesian War and the Plague
• Plutarch, "Lycurgus," on the Spartan Way of Life
• St. Augustine of Hippo, The Just War
• Paulus Orosius, History Against the Pagans
• Law Codes of the Salian Franks
• Idn Fadlan's Accounts of Vikings in Early Russia
• Michael Psellus, Chronographia, "Empress Zoe"
• Murasaki Skikibu, The Tale of Genji
• Charles Borromeo, Instructions to Confessors
Bernardino de Sahagun, Aztec Festival and the Conquest
• An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico: The Broken Spears
• Pope Paul III, "Indians are Men," 1537