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Global Experience Readings in World History to 1550

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ISBN-10: 0131178172

ISBN-13: 9780131178175

Edition: 5th 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Philip F. Riley, Robert L. Lembright, Chong-Kun Yoon, Frank A. Gerome, Henry A. Myers

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List price: $66.65
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 9/8/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Early Civilizations
Global Conceptions of the Cosmos and Creation
The Egyptian Creation Story: The Creation According to Ra
The Hebrew Creation Story: Genesis
Pan Ku, China's Creation Mythology
A Hindu Creation Story: Rig Veda
Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days
Mayan Creation Story: Popol Vuh
Culture Heroes in Early Epics
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Homer, The Odyssey
The Epic of Sunjata
Law in the Ancient Near East: Babylonian, Hittites and Hebrews
The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi
Hittite Laws
Origins of Writing in West Asia; the Scribal Profession
Sumerian Schoolboy
Papyrus Lansing: A Schoolbook
Challenges to Egyptian Tradition
Hatshepsut: Successful Female Pharaoh
The Hymn to Aton and Psalm 104
Isaiah: Prophet of Doom and Hope
Military Strategy and Tactics: Assyria and China
Assyrian War Tactics
Sun Tzu [Sunzi], The Art of War
Classical Civilizations
The Hindu Tradition in Classical India
The Essence of the Universe
The Laws of Manu
Bhagavad-Gita
Duties of a King, Artha Shastra
Hsuan-tsang (Xuanzang), The Land and People of India
The Buddhist Tradition
Enlightenment of the Buddha
Pure Land Scripture, Sukhavativyuha
Asoka: The Edict of Asoka
The Golden Age of Chinese Thought
Confucius, Analects
Taoism [Daoism]: LaoTzu [Lao Zi]
Legalism: The Writings of Han Fei Tzu [Han Pei Zi]
Mencius, "Humane Government."
Classical Greece
Sappho, Lyric Songs
Herodotus, Persian Dialogue
Sophocles, Antigone
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
Xenophon, The Spartan Constitution
Aristotle, Politics
Plutarch, Numa, the Lawgiver
Titus Livy, Heroes of the Early Republic
Polybius, "Why Romans and Not Greeks Govern the World
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Laws
Science in the Greco-Roman and Chinese Worlds
The Yellow Emperor, Nei-ching [Neijing] (Canon of Medicine)
Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease
Pliny the Elder, The Nature Story
Christianity to Islam
The Rise of Christianity
The Golden Rule and God's Will
The Writings of St
Rome and the Christians
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St. Augustine of Hippo, The Just War
Paulus Orosius, History Against the Pagans
Monastic Life: The Rule of Saint Benedict
Fusion of Church and State: Byzantine Beginnings
Eusebius, "Life of Constantine."
Procopius, History of the Wars and The Secret History
The Rise of Islam
The Qur'an
Sayings (Hadiths) Ascribed to the Prophet: Holy War
High Point of Islamic Culture
Harun al Rashid and the Byzantine Empire
Kai Kaus, "Scientific Physiognomy and the Purchase of Slaves."
One Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of the Fisherman
Medieval Europe, Africa, and the East
The Germanic Tribes Succeed the Romans in the West
Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks
Law Code of the Salian Franks
Feudalism and Chivalry, West and East
The Nibelungenlied
The Book of Emperors and Kings, "Charlemagne and Pope Leo III."
Bahas al-Din Ibn Shaddad, "Saladin: The Lion of Islam"
Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure (The Way of the Samurai)
The Forty-Seven Ronin
Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, A Mission to Constantinople
Memoirs of Usamah Ibn-Munqidh
Sir John Mandeville, "The Land of Prester John."
Islam and Islam's Enemies
Ibn Battuta in Mali
Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddima (The Course of History)
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