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Global Experience : Readings in World History to 1500

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

Global Experience : Readings in World History to 1500

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

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Edition: 3rd
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Copyright: 09/01/1997
Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
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Preface

xiii

EARLY CIVILIZATIONS

(52)

Global Conceptions of the Cosmos and Creation

(12)

1. The Hebrew Creation Story: Genesis

(4)

2. A Greek Creation Story: Hesiod's Theogony

(2)

3. A Japanese Creation Story: Nihongi

(3)

4. A Hindu Creation Story: Rig Veda

(2)

A Sumerian Heroic Legend

(5)

5. The Epic of Gilgamesh

(5)

Law in the Ancient Near East: Hittites and Hebrews

(9)

6. Hittite Laws

(3)

7. Hebrew Laws and Their Covenant

(5)

The Origins of Writing in Egypt and China: Wisdom Literature and Oracles

(9)

8. Papyrus Lansing: A Schoolbook

(5)

9. The Oracle Bones of Shang

(4)

Challenges to Egyptian Tradition

(9)

10. Hatshepsut: Successful Female Pharaoh

(4)

11. The Hymn to Aton and Psalm 104

(5)

Military Strategy and Tactics: Assyria and China

(8)

12. Assyrian War Tactics

(1)

13. Sun Tzu [Sunzi], The Art of War

(6)

CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS

(92)

The Early Greeks: Their Gods, Heroes, and Poetry

(11)

14. Homer, The Odyssey

(6)

15. Sappho, Lyric Songs

(5)

The Hindu Tradition

(13)

16. The Essence of the Universe

(1)

17. The Kama Sutra

(5)

18. The Laws of Manu

(3)

19. Bhagavad-Gita

(3)

The Buddhist Tradition

(5)

20. Enlightenment of the Buddha

(2)

21. Kuan-yin [Guanyin]: Compassion of the Bodhisattva

(2)

The State and Society in Classical India

(6)

22. Duties of a King, Artha Shastra

(2)

23. Hsuan-tsang [Xuanzang], The Land and People of India

(4)

The Golden Age of Chinese Thought

(13)

24. Confucius, Analects

(4)

25. Taoism [Daoism]: LaoTzu [Lao Zi]

(4)

26. Legalism: The Writings of Han Fie Tzu [Han Feizi]

(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

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