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| Primary Sources: How to Read Them and Why They are Important in World History | |
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| The African Origins of Humanity, Prehistory to 10,000 BCE | |
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| Bad Hair Days in the Paleolithic | |
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| Of Lice and Men | |
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| Shamans and Cave Painting | |
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| Not All Hominids Are Human Beings | |
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| Theories of Race and the History of Africa | |
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| Deep History and Convergent Evolution | |
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| Agrarian-Urban Centers of the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean, 11,500 - 600 B.C.E. | |
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| An Egyptian Creation Myth | |
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| A Mesopotamian Creation Myth | |
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| Law Codes of Hammurabi | |
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| The Descent of Ishtar Into the Underworld | |
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| Hesiod's Theogony | |
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| Cuneiform Tablet from Mesopotamia, ca. 2000 BCE | |
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| Shifting Agrarian Centers in India, 3000 B.C.E. - 606 B.C.E. | |
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| The Mystery of the Harappan Seals | |
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| The Code of Manu | |
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| Hymn to Creation from the Rig Veda | |
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| Agrarian Patterns and the Mandate of Heaven in Ancient China, 5000 - 481 BCE | |
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| Shang Oracle Bones | |
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| Ancestor Worship and Human Sacrifice from the Shi Jing | |
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| Pan Gu: A Chinese Creation Myth | |
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| The Announcement to the Duke of Shao | |
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| Origins Apart: The Americas and Oceania | |
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| The Wealth of La Venta | |
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| The Mound Builder Cultures of North America: Poverty Point | |
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| A Polynesian Creation Myth | |
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| Reed Chart from the Marshall Islands, South Pacific | |
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| Chiefdoms and Early States in Africa and the Americas, 600 BCE-600 CE | |
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| The Gold Mines of Nubia | |
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| Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Red Sea and India Ocean | |
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| The Popol Vuh | |
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| "The Creation" by Diego Rivera | |
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| Persia, Greece, and Rome | |
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| Darius I of Persia: the Behistan Inscription | |
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| Herodotus on the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE) | |
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| Anixmander, "On Nature" | |
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| Plutarch on Julius Caesar | |
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| Eusebius on Constantine the Great | |
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| TheTondoofSt. Mamai | |
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| Empires and Visionaries in India | |
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| The Dhammapada | |
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| Kautilya, "The Duties of Government Superintendents" | |
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| Faxien, A Record of Buddhist Countries | |
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| The Status of Women in Ancient India | |
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| Jain Cosmological Map | |
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| China: Imperial Unification and Perfecting the Moral Order 722 B.C.E. - 618 C.E. | |
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| Han Fei-tzu, Selections on Legalism | |
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| Confucius, Selections from the Analects | |
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| Laozi, excerpt from the Daode Jing, "The Unvarying Way" | |
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| Ban Zhao, "Admonitions for Women" | |
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| Islamic Civilization and Byzantium, 600 � 1300 | |
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| The Quran: "The Five Pillars," from Surah 2, ("The Cow") | |
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| Al-Ghazali, excerpt from Confessions | |
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| Al-Farabi on the Perfect Society | |
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| IbnFadlan's Account of the Rus | |
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| John of Damascus, "On Icons" | |
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| Arabic Science | |
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| Innovations and Adaptation in the Western Christian World, 600 � 1400 | |
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| The Rule of St. Benedict | |
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| Einhard, Life of Charlemagne | |
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| Dante, Canto XIX from the Inferno | |
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| Regulations for the London Spurrier's Guild, 1347 | |
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| Marchione di Coppio Stefani on the Black Death in Florence | |
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| The Medieval World View | |
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| Contrasting Patterns in India and China, 600 -1600 | |
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| Al-Biruni on India | |
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| Tang Taizong on Effective Government | |
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| Two Poems by Li Bo | |
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| Ibn Wahab, An Arab Merchant Visits Tang China | |
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| Marco Polo Describes China under Mongol Rule | |
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| Religious Civilizations Interacting: Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia, 100 C.E. -1400 C.E. | |
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| Nihongi, or The Chronicles of Japan | |
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| The "Taika Reform Edicts" | |
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| A Korean Foundation Myth | |
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| Yi Kyu-bo on Personal Piety | |
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| Patterns of State Formation in Africa, 600 -1450 C.E. | |
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| The Glorious Victories of Amda Seyon, King of Ethiopia | |
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| The Swahili Saga of Liyongo Fumo | |
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| Ibn Battuta on Mali | |
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| The Epic of Sundiata | |
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| The Rise of Empires in the Americas, 600-1550 | |
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| The Founding of Tenochtitl�n | |
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| Human Sacrifice by the Aztecs | |
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| Machu Picchu | |
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| The Inca Census | |
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| The Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle and European Overseas Expansion, 1450-1600 | |
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| The Tribute of Children | |
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| A European Ambassador Reports on the Ottomans | |
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| An Ottoman Travel Journal | |
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| The Journal of Christopher Columbus | |
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| Renaissance, Reformation, and the New Science in Europe, 1450-1700 | |
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| Marsilio Ficino, "Letter to Paul of Middelburg" | |
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| Laura Cereta to Cardinal Ascanio Maria Sforza | |
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| John Calvin, Prayer from Commentary on Hosea | |
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| Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems | |
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| Antony van Leeuwenhoek's "Animalcules" | |
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| Galileo's Views of the Moon | |
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| Peter the Great, "Correspondence with Alexis, 1715" | |
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| New Patterns in New Worlds: Colonialism and Indigenous Responses in the Americas, 1500-1800 | |
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| Aztecs Recount the Beginning of the War with the Conquistadors | |
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| Letter from Hernando de Soto | |
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| Coronado's Report to Viceroy Mendoza | |
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| Increase Mather on King Philip's Death | |
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| Reasons for Colonizing North America | |