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| Early Human Societies, to 600 BCE | |
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| Doing History: Using Evidence to Unlock the Human Past | |
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| The Human Toolkit Upper Paleolithic Stone Tools and Habitation | |
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| The Emergence of Art and Ritual Settlement, Trade, and Agriculture | |
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| Creation-Origin | |
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| Myths and the Mythic Mode of Thought | |
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| A Creation Myth from Ancient Mesopotamia Reading | |
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| The Epic of Gilgamesh Hindu Creation Myths Reading | |
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| The Rig Veda and The Law of Manu | |
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| Kingship and Authority in the Ancient World | |
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| Kingship in Ancient Mesopotamia Reading | |
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| Code of Hammurabi Kingship in Ancient Assyria Reading | |
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| Assyrian Advice to a Prince Kingship in Israel Reading | |
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| 1 Samuel Kingship in India Reading | |
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| The Ramayana Kingship in China Reading | |
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| The Instructions of Yi (The Mandate of Heaven) | |
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| Foundation Cultures; 600 BCE to 300 CE | |
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| Individual Ethics and Social Repsonsibility | |
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| The Chinese Tradition | |
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| The Confucian Tradition Reading | |
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| Confucius, Analects Lao Tzu and Taosim Reading | |
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| Lao Tzu, Tao te ching Han Fei Tzu and Legalism Reading | |
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| Han Fei Tzu, The Five Vermins The Greek Tradition Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War Reading | |
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| Pericles' Funeral Oration Sophocles, Antigone Reading | |
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| Sophocles, Antigone The Indian Tradition The Bhagavad Gita Reading | |
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| The Bhagavad Gita Buddhism Reading | |
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| The Teachings of the Buddha Southwest Asian Traditions Persia | |
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| Zarathustra, Sayings of the Prophet Reading | |
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| Zarathustra, Yasnas The Hebrews | |
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| Second Isaiah Reading | |
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| The Book of Isaiah | |
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| Empires, War, and Order | |
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| The Chinese Tradition Conducting Warfare Reading | |
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| Sun Tzu, The Art of Warfare Interpreting Warfare Reading | |
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| Sima Qian, Records of the Grand Historian The Greek Tradition Reading | |
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| Tyrtaeus, Praise of the Virtuosity of the Citizen Soldier Reading | |
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| Archilochus, Elegy The Roman Tradition The Benefits of Warfare Reading | |
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| Res Gestae Divi Augusti (The Achievements of the Divine Augustus) Maintaining Imperial Rule Reading | |
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| Josephus, The Jewish Wars The Indian Tradition Reading | |
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| Asoka, Rock and Pillar Edicts | |
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| Women in the Ancient World Women in The Homeric World | |
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| The Odyssey Reading | |
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| Homer, The Odyssey A Public Protest Demonstration by Elite Roman Women Reading | |
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| Livy, History of Rome, BOOK XXXIV I-H Women and Confucian Values in China Reading | |
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| Ban Zhao, Lessons for Women A Martyred Christian Woman in Roman North Africa Reading | |
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| The Martyrdom of Perpetua, A Christian Woman in Roman North Africa Women in Classical Hindu Culture Reading | |
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| Code of Manu | |
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| The Traditional World, 300 CE to 1100 CE | |
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| Encounters with the "Other" | |
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| Nomads and Sedentary Folk Describing the Other Reading | |
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| Han Chinese Descriptions of the Xiongnu A Roman View of the Huns Reading | |
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| Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae Byzantium and Barbarians Reading | |
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| Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio Islam and the Mongol Scourge Reading | |
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| Ibn al-Athir, Description of Mongol Conquests A Venetian Visits the Mongols Reading | |
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| Marco Polo, Travels | |
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| Encountering Transcendent Reality | |
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| The Rise of the Salvation Religions Mahayana Buddhism Reading | |
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| The Lotus Sutra Devotional Hinduism Reading | |
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| The Vishnu Purana Christianity Reading | |
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| The New Testament Islam Reading | |
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| Qu'ran Chapt | |