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| Preface | |
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| Ancient Societies | |
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| Origin Stories | |
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| The Ancestors of the People Called Indians (The Huarochir� Manuscript) (ca. 1598--1608 C.E.) | |
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| The Creation Epic (ca. 2000 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Book of Genesis (ca. 10th--6th century B.C.E.) | |
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| The Kojiki (712 C.E.) | |
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| The Cradle of Civilization | |
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| The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.E.) | |
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| Code of Hammurabi (early 18th century B.C.E.) | |
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| The Book of the Dead (ca. 16th century B.C.E.) | |
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| Anonymous, Instructions in Letter Writing by an Egyptian Scribe (ca. 1200 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Book of Exodus (ca. 10th--6th century B.C.E.) | |
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| Archaic and Classical Greece | |
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| Homer, The Iliad (9th--8th century B.C.E.) | |
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| Herodotus, Description of Africa (450 B.C.E.) | |
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| Plato, The Apology (399 B.C.E.) | |
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| Plato, The Republic (ca. 327 B.C.E.) | |
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| Aristotle, Politics (4th century B.C.E.) | |
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| The Religions of the East | |
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| The Upanishads (ca. 600--500 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Buddha, Sermons and Teachings (6th century B.C.E.) | |
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| Bhagavad-Gita (ca. 200 B.C.E.) | |
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| Confucius, Analects (ca. 500 B.C.E.) | |
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| Lao-Tzu, Tao-Te Ching (ca. 500 B.C.E.) | |
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| China: War and Politics | |
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| Sun-Tzu, The Art of War (ca. 500 B.C.E.) | |
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| Anonymous, The Book of Songs (ca. 1200--1100 B.C.E.) | |
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| Ssu-ma Ch�ien, The Records of the Grand Historian of China (110--85 B.C.E.) | |
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| Han Fei Tzu, Memorials (ca. 230 B.C.E.) | |
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| Ancient Rome | |
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| Cicero, On the Laws (ca. 52 B.C.E.) | |
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| Virgil, The Aeneid (30--19 B.C.E.) | |
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| Suetonius, The Life of Augustus (ca. 122 C.E.) | |
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| The Sermon on the Mount (ca. 28--35 C.E.) | |
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| Traditional Societies | |
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| Africa and the Muslim World | |
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| Justinian I, Code (529--565 C.E.) | |
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| Procopius, Secret History (ca. 560 C.E.) | |
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| The Koran (7th century C.E.) | |
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| Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad (after 733 C.E.) | |
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| Al-Mas�udi, The Meadows of Gold (10th century C.E.) | |
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| Ibn Said, Book of the Maghrib (13th century C.E.) | |
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| Ibn Khald�n, The Muqaddimah (1377 C.E.) | |
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| Ibn Battuta, Travels in Africa (1364 C.E.) | |
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| Joao dos Santos, Ethiopia Oriental (1609 C.E.) | |
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| Asian Cultures | |
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| Pan Chao, Lessons for Women (ca. 99 C.E.) | |
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| Fa-hsien, A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms (394--414 C.E.) | |
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| Prince Shotoku, The Seventeen Article Constitution (604 C.E.) | |
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| The Examination System During the T�ang Dynasty (8th century C.E.) | |
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| The Lotus of the Wonderful Law (806 C.E.) | |
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| Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji (ca. 1000 C.E.) | |
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| Y�an Ts�ai, Precepts for Social Life (1178 C.E.) | |
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| The Laws of Manu (before 200 C.E.) | |
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| The Fall of Rome and the European Middle Ages | |
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| Tacitus, The Germania (98 C.E.) | |
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| The Burgundian Code (ca. 474 C.E.) | |
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| Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (ca. 829--836 C.E.) | |
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| Magna Carta (1215 C.E.) | |
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| Anonymous, Njal�s Saga (13th century C.E.) | |
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| The Development of Christianity | |
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| Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (413--426 C.E.) | |
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| St. Benedict of Nursia, The Rule (ca. 535--540 C.E.) | |
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| St. Francis of Assisi, Admonitions (ca. 1220 C.E.) | |
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| St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1265--1273 C.E.) | |
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| Heloise, The Letters (12th century C.E.) | |
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| Dynasties and Empires | |
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| Cultures in Collision | |
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| Anna Comnena, The Alexiad (1097 C.E.) | |
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| Odo of Deuil, The Journey of Louis VII to the East (1147 C.E.) | |
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| Usama ibn Munqidh, Memoirs (after 1175 C.E.) | |
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| Jamal ad-Din ibn Wasil, The Dissipator of Anxieties (1250 C.E.) | |
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| The Italian Renaissance | |
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| Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family (1435--1444 C.E.) | |
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| Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1550 C.E.) | |
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| Niccol� Machiavelli, The Prince (1513 C.E.) | |
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| Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1400 C.E.) | |
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| China and Japan in the Middle Ages | |
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| The Hojo Code (1232 C.E.) | |
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| Kitabatake Chikafusa, A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns (1339--1343 C.E.) | |
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| Zeami Motokiyo, Kadensho (1440--1442 C.E.) | |
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| Shih Nai-an, All Men Are Brothers (14th century C.E.) | |
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| Anonymous, The Yangzhou Massacre (1645 C.E.) | |
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| European Encounters | |
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| Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza, The History of the Great and Mightie Kingdom of China (1585 C.E.) | |
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| Matteo Ricci, Journals (1583--1610 C.E.) | |
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| Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Chronicle of Guinea (1453 C.E.) | |
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| Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama (1497--1499 C.E.) | |
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| Christopher Columbus, Letter from the First Voyage (1493 C.E.) | |
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| Bernal D�az, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (1552--1568 C.E.) | |
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| An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (1528 C.E.) | |
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| Bernabe Cobo, History of the Inca Empire (1653 C.E.) | |
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| Bartolom� de las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies (1566 C.E.) | |
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| Pedro de Le�n Portocarrero, Description of Lima, Peru (ca. 1600 C.E.) | |
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| The Golden Age of Islam | |
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| �Abd ul-Haqq al Dihlawi al-Bukhari, The Perfection of Faith (11th century C.E.) | |
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| Omar Khayy�m, The Ruba�iyat (11th century C.E.) | |
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| Kritovoulos, The History of Mehmed the Conqueror (1453 C.E.) | |
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| Letters Between Sultan Sel�m I and Shah Ism���l (ca. 1514 C.E.) | |
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| Leo Africanus, The History and Description of Africa (1550 C.E.) | |
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| Fran�ois Bernier, Travels in the Mughal Empire (1656--1668 C.E.) | |
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| The Reform of Christianity | |
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| Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (1509 C.E.) | |
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| Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian (1520 C.E.) and Of Marriage and Celibacy (1566 C.E.) | |
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| John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1534 C.E.) | |
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| Francis Xavier, Letter from India (1543 C.E.) | |
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| Teresa of Avila, The Life of St. Teresa (1611 C.E.) | |