Documents in world history, volume 1, the great tradition: from ancient times to 1500 (4th ed )

Considerably revised, this edition of Documents in World History gives professors a large variety of primary sources from all areas of the world.

The book retains its global emphasis and includes more primary sources that balance social and cultural history with standard selections, political coverage, and greater coverage of Africa and the Middle East, including Persia. Several individual selections have been replaced and others augmented to provide increased richness and interest. Materials on social issues have also been enhanced.

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...