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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 | |