Geographical Contents.
Topical Contents.
Preface.
Introduction.
I. EARLY CIVILIZATIONS.
1. Mesopotamian Values: Ideas about the Nature of Life and Death.
The Gilgamesh Epic.
2. Babylonian Law: How an Early State Regulated Its Subjects.
Code of Hammurabi.
3. Egypt: Religious Culture and the Afterlife.
Book of the Dead.
4. The Hebrew Bible.
Isaiah; Psalms; Exodus.
5. Herodotus and the Persian Empire.*
6.Zoroastrianism: The Major Persian Religion.*
Hymns of Zarathustra.
II. THE CLASSICAL PERIOD, 1000 B.C.E. TO 500 C.E .
China.
7. Key Chinese Values: Confucianism.
The Analects.
8. Legalism: An Alternative System.
Han Feizi.
9. Daoism.
Dao de Jing.
10.Women in Classical China: Ban Zhao.
Lessons for Women.
11. The Role of the State in the Economy: The Salt and Iron Debates.
Discourses on Salt and Iron.
Classical India.
12. To Fight in a Righteous War: Varnaand Moral Duty in India.
The Bhagavad Gita.
13. What the Buddha Taught: The Four Noble Truths.
The Buddha's First Sermon.
14. The State and The Economy in India: The Arthashastra.
Kautilya: Treatise on Material Gain.
15. Emperor Ashoka and Right Conduct: The Doctrine of Dhamma.
Rock Edicts; PillarEdict.
16. Gender Relations in India: Four Types of Evidence.
The Therigatha; Laws of Manu; The Mahabharata.
17. The Greek Political Tradition.
Plutarch on Sparta.
18. Athenian Democracy and Culture.
Pericles' Funeral Oration.
19. Mediterranean Social and Family Structure.
Aristotle, Politics and Economics.
20. Leadership in the RomanRepublic.*
Plutarch and Cicero.
21. The Roman Military and the Empire.
Josephus.
22. Women and the Law in Rome.
Legal Codes.
23. The Fall of Rome.*
Marcellinus and Rutilius Numantius.
Global Contacts and World Religions.
24. Global Contacts: The Rise of the Pastoral Nomads.
Sima Qian: silk statistics.
25. Global Contacts: The Opening of the Silk Road.
Chinese and Roman Sources.
26. Monks and Monarchs: Buddhism Spreads to China, Korea, and Japan.*
Fotudeng: A Biography; Lives of Eminent Korean Monks; the Nihongi;
Additional Japanese Documents.
27. The Spread of Christianity.
Justin, Anonymous Documents.
III. THE POST-CLASSICAL PERIOD, 500-1500 C.E. : EXPANSIONS AND CONTACTS.
The Islamic Middle East.
28. The Koran and the Family.
Koran.
29. The Islamic Religion.
The Hadith.
30. Religious and Political Organization in the Islamic Middle East.
Al-Mawardi: Ordinance of Government.
Chinaand Japan.
31. Peasant Life in Tang and Song China: Evidence from Poetry and Legal Documents.
Tang Poems by Dufu, Bo Zhuyi, Liu Zongyuan, Bi Rixiu; Loan Contracts;
Song Poems by Sushi, Zhengda, Yang Wanli.
32. The Noble and Magnificent City of Hangzhou: Marco Polo in China.
The Travels of Marco Polo.
33. Valor and Fair Treatment: The Rise of the Samurai.
The Tale of the Heike; Hojo Shigetoki.
Eastern Europe: Byzantiumand Russia.
34. The Early Stages of the Byzantine Empire.*
Procopius on Justinian.
Visual Source:
35. RussiaConverts to Christianity.
Russian Primary Chronicle.
Western Europe.
36. Feudalism: Contemporary Descriptions and the Magna Carta.
Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres on Feudalism; Feudal Contract; the Magna Carta.
37. Medieval Theology: Anselm of Cantebury Blends Faith and Reason.*
Monologion.
38. Christine de Pizan: Women and Society in the late Middle Ages.*
Christine de Pizan's Mirror of Honor.
39. Merchants and the Rise of Commerce.
The Gild Merchant of Southampton.
Africa.
40. East Africaand Arab Traders.*
Buzurg ibn Shahriyar.
41. Al-Bakri on West Africa.*
42. AfricanKingdomsand Islam.
Ibn Battuta.
43. AfricaThrough the Eyes of a European Merchant.
Antonius Malfante.
The Americas
44. Mayan and Aztec Creation Stories.*
Popol Vuh and the Aztecs on the God Utzilopochtli.
45. Tribute under the Aztecs.
Oviedo y Valdes, Historia General y Natural de la Indias.
46. The AndeanKingdomof Chuquito in 1567.
Waldeman Soriano Visita.
Forces of Change.
47. ChinaDiscovers Africa.*
Tuan Ch'eng-shih and Ou-yang Hsiu.
48. Merchants and Trade: Sources and Comparisons.
Ibn Khaldun; Reginald of Durham on Saint Godric.
49. Global Contacts: Travelers to Holy Places.
Buddhist, Muslim, And Christian Pilgrims.
Sramana Huili on Xuanzang; Ibn Jubayr; al-Umari; Felix Fabri.
50. Global Contacts: Sailing to Calicut.
Chinese and Portuguese Voyages.
Ma Huan; Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama.
51. The Crusades: Christian and Muslim Views.
Ekkeharsi; Count Stephen Bek-el-Oin; Vsamals Ibn-Mungidh.
The Mongols.
52. Chingis Khan and the Rise of the Mongols
Juvaini;Russian Chronicles; Rashid Al-Din; William Of Rubruck.
53. The Mongol Empire Takes Shape.
Asian and European Sources.
54. Mongol Rule in Russia.
