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| Primary Sources: How to Read Them and Why They Are Important in World History | p. 1 |
| The Rise of Empires in the Americas, 600-1550 | p. 6 |
| The Founding of Tenochtitlán | p. 6 |
| Human Sacrifice by the Aztecs | p. 8 |
| Machu Picchu | p. 9 |
| The Inca Census | p. 10 |
| The Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle and European Overseas Expansion, 1450-1600 | p. 12 |
| The Tribute of Children | p. 12 | ... MORE
| A European Ambassador Reports on the Ottomans | p. 14 |
| An Ottoman Travel Journal | p. 15 |
| The Journal of Christopher Columbus | p. 18 |
| Renaissance, Reformation, and the New Science in Europe, 1450-1700 | p. 20 |
| Marsilio Ficino, "Letter to Paul of Middelburg" | p. 21 |
| Laura Cereta to Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza | p. 21 |
| John Calvin, Prayer from Commentary on Hosea | p. 22 |
| Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems | p. 24 |
| Antony van Leeuwenhoek's "Animalcules" | p. 25 |
| Galileo's Views of the Moon | p. 26 |
| Peter the Great, "Correspondence with Alexis, 1715 | p. 27 |
| New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500-1800 | p. 30 |
| Aztecs Recount the Beginning of the War with the Conquistadors | p. 30 |
| Letter from Hernando de Soto | p. 31 |
| Coronado's Report to Viceroy Mendoza | p. 33 |
| Increase Mather on King Philip's Death | p. 35 |
| Reasons for Colonizing North America | p. 36 |
| African Kingdoms, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the Origins of Black America, 1450-1800 | p. 38 |
| Leo Africanus on Timbuktu | p. 38 |
| "Krotoa" from the Journal of Jan van Riebeeck | p. 40 |
| The Arab Slave Trade | p. 41 |
| An Account of the Atlantic Slave Trade | p. 42 |
| Phillis Wheatly, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth…" | p. 43 |
| Slave Market, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1824 | p. 44 |
| The Mughal Empire: Muslim Rulers and Hindu Subjects, 1400-1750 | p. 45 |
| The Ain-i-Akbari | p. 46 |
| The Journey to the Court of Akbar | p. 47 |
| Jahangir Debates with the Hindus | p. 48 |
| Summary of the Reasons Which Led Akbar to Renounce Islam | p. 49 |
| Akbar on Proper Behavior | p. 50 |
| The Habits and Manners of Aurangzeb | p. 51 |
| Regulating the "Inner" and the "Outer" Domains of China and Japan, 1500-1800 | p. 53 |
| Buddhist World Map, 1710 | p. 53 |
| The Seclusion of Japan | p. 55 |
| The Philosophy of Wang Yang-Ming | p. 56 |
| Qianlong, Letter to George III | p. 57 |
| Nation-States and Patterns of Culture in Europe and North America, 1750-1871 | p. 61 |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract | p. 61 |
| Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen | p. 63 |
| Charles Maurice Talleyrand to Louis XVIII | p. 68 |
| Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address | p. 70 |
| Proclamation of the German Empire | p. 72 |
| Victor Emmanuel and the Catholic Church | p. 73 |
| Industrialization and its Discontents, 1750-1914 | p. 75 |
| Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations | p. 75 |
| John Stuart Mill, On Liberty | p. 76 |
| Frederich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England | p. 76 |
| Charles Dickens, David Copperfield | p. 77 |
| Parliamentary Report on English Female Miners, 1842 | p. 78 |
| Advertisment for a Vitascope, 1896 | p. 80 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche, from Beyond Good and Evil | p. 83 |
| The Challenge of Modernity: East Asia, 1750-1910 | p. 85 |
| The Nanjing Treaty | p. 85 |
| A Chinese Traveler on the Marvels of Western Technology | p. 87 |
| Jesuits in China | p. 87 |
| The "Opening" of Japan | p. 88 |
| The King of Siam to President Buchanan | p. 90 |
| The Challenge of Modernity: The Ottoman and Russian Empires, 1683-1908 | p. 92 |
| Peter the Great's Decree on Western Dress | p. 93 |
| Petyr Chaadaev, "Philosophical Letters" | p. 94 |
| A British Diplomat Comments on the Ottoman Army | p. 95 |
| The Gulhane Decree | p. 95 |
| "Mr. Sansonov" | p. 96 |
| The Iranian and Turkish Constitutional Revolutions of 1906 and 1908 | p. 97 |
| The New Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century | p. 100 |
| Dadabhai Naoroji on the Benefits Detriments of British Rule in India | p. 100 |
| The Diamond Fields of South Africa, 1872 | p. 102 |
| Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" | p. 103 |
| Edward D. Morel, The Black Man's Burden | p. 104 |
| Raden Ayu Kartini, Letters of a Javanese Princess | p. 107 |
| Teapickers, northern India | p. 110 |
| Creoles and Caudillos: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century | p. 111 |
| Alexander Von Humboldt on New Spain | p. 112 |
| Simón de Bolivar, His Message to the Congress of Angostura | p. 113 |
| Pope Leo XIII, In Plurimis | p. 114 |
| Jose Marti, "Our America" | p. 115 |
| United States Recognition of Cuban Independence | p. 118 |
| World War and Competing Visions of Modernity to 1945 | p. 119 |
| Theodore Roosevelt, "War for Righteousness" | p. 119 |
| Joseph Stalin on Liquidating the Kulaks | p. 121 |
| Critics of Industrialization: The Southern Agrarians | p. 122 |
| Mohandas Gandhi and the Quit India Movement | p. 124 |
| Mussolini Repudiates on Political Liberalism, 1923 | p. 125 |
| Adolf Hitler, German Economic Goals and the Jewish Question | p. 126 |
| Korean "Comfort Girls" | p. 127 |
| Reconstruction, the Cold War, and Decolonization, 1945-1962 | p. 130 |
| The Marshall Plan | p. 131 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower on the Suez Crisis | p. 133 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | p. 134 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru, "Why India is Non-Aligned" | p. 137 |
| Juan Perón, excerpt from The Voice of Perón | p. 139 |
| Jomo Kenyatta, from Facing ML Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu | p. 141 |
| Babies Being Weighed, North Korea, 1955 | p. 144 |
| The End of the Cold War, Western Social Transformation, and the Developing World, 1963-1991 | p. 145 |
| The US Civil Rights Act of 1964 | p. 145 |
| National Organization for Women, Statement of Purpose | p. 146 |
| The Yom Kippur/Ramadan War | p. 149 |
| Postcolonialism in Africa | p. 150 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev on the Arms Race Between the USSR and the US | p. 151 |
| The Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989: a Poet Remembers | p. 153 |
| A Fragile Democratic-Capitalist World Order, 1991-Present | p. 157 |
| Tim Berners Lee, "Enquire Within Upon Everything" | p. 158 |
| "Death by Government" | p. 159 |
| Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring | p. 161 |
| The Sovereign Debt Crisis | p. 161 |
| James Tooley, from The Beautiful Tree | p. 163 |
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