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The Global Experience Readings in World History, Volume 1

by: Schwartz, Stuart B.; Wimmer, Linda; Wolff, Robert S.

The Global Experience Readings in World History, Volume 1

by: Schwartz, Stuart B.; Wimmer, Linda; Wolff, Robert S.

ISBN 13:
9780673993809
ISBN 10:
0673993809
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/10/1997
Publisher: Pearson

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Summary

The Global Experience provides students with up-to-date, global, and high interest readings with a social history focus. Offering a global perspective of world history, this collection provides a concise, easy-to-read selection of documents and secondary readings.

VOLUME I

Preface

(4)

Introduction

Themes in World History

xvi

(2)

Reading Historical Sources

xviii

PART ONE FROM HUMAN ORIGINS TO THE GREAT RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS

(48)

Chapter 1 In the Beginning

(12)

1 Australia: The Beginning of Life Stadbroke Dreamtime

(1)

Oodgeroo Nunukul

2 Japan: Izanagi and Izanami Japanese Mythology

(1)

Juliet Piggott

3 West Asia: Monotheism The Book of Genesis

(2)

4 North America: The Woman Who Fell from the Sky Huron Folklore

(2)

Horatio Hale

5 West Africa: Yoruba Creation A Treasury of African Folklore

(5)

Harold Courlander

Chapter 2 The Archaeology of Early Peoples

(17)

6. Human Origins The Dawn of Humans

(3)

Maeve Leakey

7. The First Boat People Archaeology of the Dreamtime

(3)

Josephine Flood

8. The City of Catal Huyuk Catal Huyuk: A Neolithic Town in Anatolia

(2)

James Mellaart

9. Ancient Walls The Shang City at Chen-chou

(2)

An Chin-huai

10. The First Americans 50,000 Year Old Americans of Pedra Furada

(2)

Paul G. Bahn

11. Olorgesailie Olorgesailie

(4)

Glynn Ll. Isaac

Chapter 3 River Valley Civilizations

(17)

12. Oracle Bone Divinations Chinese Civilization and Society

(2)

Patricia Ebrey

13. Indian Philosophy and Religion Vedic Hymns

(3)

14. Mesopotamian Law The Code of Hammurabi

(5)

15. A Tale of Ancient Egypt The Tale of Sinuhe

(6)

PART TWO THE CLASSICAL ERA AND BEYOND: 1000 BCE TO 500 CE

(70)

Chapter 4 Nomads and City Dwellers

(15)

16. China and Northern Nomads The Hsiung-nu Imperial Confederacy

(3)

Thomas J. Barfield

17. The Fall of Jericho The Book of Joshua

(1)

18. The Khoikhoi in Southern Africa Farmers, Kings, and Traders

(3)

Martin Hall

19. The Mayan Way of Life The Maya

(2)

Michael Coe

20. The Chinese Agricultural Calendar The Book of Songs

(1)

21. Life in the Pacific Northwest The Emergence of Cultural Complexity

(4)

Herbert D.G. Maschner

Chapter 5 Empires in the Classical World

(18)

22. The Aryan Conquests of India The Ramayana

(3)

23. War Between City-States The Iliad

(2)

24. The Kingdom of Meroe Africa in History

(2)

Basil Davidson

25. The Second Punic War History of Rome

(3)

Livy

26. The Fall of the Xin (Ch'in) Dynasty The History of the Former Han Dynasty

(1)

Han shu

27. Imperial Rule in Northern China The Chronicle of Fu Chien

(3)

28. Andean Civilization and Empire Prehistory of the Americas

(3)

Stuart J. Fiedel

Chapter 6 Religions and Cultures

(19)

29. Duties of Mayan Lords Popol Vuh

(2)

30. Religious Thought in India The Upanishads

(2)

31. The Origins of Buddhism The Buddha: His Life Retold

(5)

Robert Allen Mitchell

32. Confucian Thought Analects of Confucius

(4)

33. Judeo-Christian Thought Exodus, Job, and Ecclesiastes

(5)

Chapter 7 The Spread of Peoples and Cultures

103

(16)

34. The Spread of Indo-European Languages Archaeology and Language

104

(2)

Colin Renfrew

35. Bantu Language and Migrations African History

106

(3)

Philip Curtin et al

36. Bantu Oral Tradition The Drunken King

109

(2)

Luc de Heusch

37. The Polynesian Migrations Migrations in Prehistory

111

(2)

Irving Rouse

38. Taino Migrations in the Caribbean Migrations in Prehistory

113

(1)

Irving Rouse

39. Germans on the Roman Frontier The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus

114

(5)

PART THREE CONVERGENCE AND COMPLEXITY: 500 CE TO 1450 CE

119

(118)

Chapter 8 Societies Linked by Trade and Exchange

121

(20)

40. Medieval Mediterranean Trade Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World

122

(2)

Robert Lopez

Irving W. Raymond

41. Advice to a Norwegian Merchant The King's Mirror

124

(2)

42. The Inca State and Tribute Royal Commentaries of the Incas

126

(2)

Garcilaso de la Vega

43. Medieval Jewish Traders in West Asia Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders

128

(5)

S.D. Goitein

44. The Arabian Slave Trade Kitab al jaib al-Hind

133

(3)

Buzurg Ibn Shahriyar

45. Chinese Observations of Trade Chau Ju-kua: His Work on Chinese and Arab Trade

136

(3)

46. Visual Document: The Map of Abraham de Cresques

139

(2)

Chapter 9 Regulating Behavior

141

(20)

47. A Chinese Explorer in Asia and the Mediterranean The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores

142

(2)

Ma Huan

48. Islamic Law The Quran

49. Christian Mores in England Piers the ploughman

147

(3)

William Langland

50. The European Inquisition The Chronicle of William Pehison

150

(2)

51. Courtly Manners in Japan The Tale of Genji

152

(2)

Murasaki Shikibu

52. An Inca Census Letter to a King

154

(4)

Guaman Poma

53. Visual Document: Codex Mendoza

158

(3)

Chapter 10 The Spread of Religions and Cultures

161

(16)

54. The Spread of Buddhism to Japan Nihongi, Chronicles of Japan

162

(1)

55. The Spread of Buddhism in South Asia The Mahavamsa

163

(2)

56. Religious Ritual in the Central Valley of Mexico The Florentine Codex

165

(1)

57. The Beginning of the Crusades Historia Hierosolimitana

166

(2)

Robert the Monk

58. Saladin Conquers Jerusalem Kamil at-Tawarikh

168

(3)

Ibn al-Athir

59. The Pilgrimage of Mansa Musa Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar

171

(3)

Al-`Umari

60. Visual Document: A Portrayal of the Buddha

174

(3)

Chapter 11 Labor in the World

177

(18)

61. Labor in Medieval Russia Medieval Russian Laws

178

(4)

George Vernadsky

62. Crafts in the Islamic World The Muqaddimah

182

(3)

Ibn Khaldun

63. An Aztec Tribute List Codex Mendoza

185

(1)

64. Chinese Agricultural Labor Daily Life in China

186

(2)

Jacques Gernet

65. A Chinese Weaver What the Weaver Said

188

(1)

Hsu I'kuei

66. Controlling the English Peasantry Statute of Laborers of 1351

189

(3)

67. Visual Document: Plowing and Weaving in China

192

(3)

Chapter 12 Disasters and Society

195

(17)

68. A North African View of Disasters The Muqaddimah

195

(2)

Ibn Khaldun

69. Whirlwinds and Aboriginal Society Wise Women of the Dreamtime

197

(2)

Johanna Lambert

70. Disasters in the Aztec Worldview L'Univers des Azteques

199

(2)

Jacques Soustelle

71. The Black Death in Europe The Decameron

201

(3)

Giovanni Boccaccio

72. Disaster and Response in the Mongol Empire The Travels of an Alchemist

204

(3)

Li Chih-Ch'ang

73. Famine Investigation in China Ballad on the Investigation of a Disaster

207

(1)

Yao Chen

74. The Black Death in Syria Travels in Asia and Africa

208

(1)

Ibn Battuta

75. Visual Document: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

209

(3)

Chapter 13 The World in 1450

212

(25)

76. Life in the Aztec Empire The Florentine Codex

213

(3)

77. The Iroquois Confederacy The Ordeal of the Longhouse

216

(3)

Daniel K. Richter

78. Life and Labor in Japan The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto

219

(2)

Mary Elizabeth Berry

79. Great Zimbabwe Great Zimbabwe

221

(3)

P.S. Garlake

80. The Ottoman Empire Captures Constantinople History of Mehmed the Conqueror

224

(3)

Kritovoulos

81. The Early Atlantic World Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World

227

(4)

John Thornton

82. The Portuguese on the West African Coast The Voyages of Cadamosto

231

(3)

83. Visual Document: Theodore de Bry's Secota (Virginia)

234

(3)

PART FOUR THE WORLD SHRINKS: 1450 CE TO 1750 CE

237

Chapter 14 The Changing World Balance

239

84. Letters from the Kings of the Kongo to the King of Portugal Monumenta Missionaria Africana

240

(3)

85. The Portuguese Arrival in the Indian Ocean A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama

243

(2)

86. The Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs. The Conquest of New Spain

245

(3)

Bernal Diaz

87. Indigenous Accounts of the Fall of the Aztec Empire The Broken Spears

248

(4)

Miguel Leon-Portilla

88. The First Voyage of Columbus The Journal of Christopher Columbus

252

(2)

89. The Impact of Disease on American Societies Conquistador y Pestilencia

254

(2)

Alfred W. Crosby, Jr.

90. Visual Document: An Afro-Portuguese Salt-Cellar

256

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