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Index
About this Book
Cover Page
Inside Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Introduction for Students
Contents
List of Maps
Geographic Contents
Chapter 1. Prehistory and the Origins of Patriarchy: Gathering, Agricultural, and Urban Societies, 40,000–1000 B.C.E.
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Virginia Hughes, Were the First Artists Mostly Women? 2013
2. Olga Soffer, James M. Adovasio, and David C. Hyland, The “Venus” Figurines: Textiles, Basketry, Gender, and Status in the Upper Paleolithic, 2000
3. Paleolithic and Neolithic Art from Europe, Africa, and Asia, C. 15,000–1000 B.C.E.
4. Margaret Ehrenberg, Women in Prehistory, 1989
5. Catherine Clay, Chandrika Paul, and Christine Senecal: Women in the First Urban Communities, 2009
Reflections
Chapter 2. The Urban Revolution and “Civilization”: Ancient City Societies in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Peru, 3500–1000 B.C.E.
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Kevin Reilly, Cities and Civilization, 1989
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 2700 B.C.E.
3. Three Statues from Mesopotamia, 2475–2300 B.C.E.
4. Enheduanna, The Exaltation of Inana, c. 2250 B.C.E.
5. Hammurabi’s Code, c. 1800 B.C.E.
6. Be a Scribe: Egyptian Writing Lessons, c. 1100 B.C.E.
7. Images from Hunefer’s Book of the Dead, c. 1275 B.C.E.
8. An Assyrian Law and a Palace Decree, c. 1100 B.C.E.
9. Smithsonian Magazine, First City in the New World? 2002
Reflections
Chapter 3. Identity in Caste and Territorial Societies: Greece and India, 1000–300 B.C.E.
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. William H. McNeill, Greek and Indian Civilization, 1971
2. The Rig Veda: Sacrifice as Creation, c. 1500–500 B.C.E.
3. The Upanishads: Karma and Reincarnation, c. 800–400 B.C.E.
4. The Upanishads: Brahman and Atman, c. 800–400 B.C.E.
5. The Bhagavad Gita: Caste and Self, c. 400 B.C.E.
6. Aristotle, The Athenian Constitution: Territorial Sovereignty, c. 330 B.C.E.
7. Thucydides, The Funeral Oration of Pericles, 431 B.C.E.
8. Plato, The Republic, c. 360 B.C.E.
Reflections
Chapter 4. Empire and Government: China and Rome, 300 B.C.E.–300 C.E.
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Confucius, The Analects, c. 479–221 B.C.E.
2. Laozi, Daoism: The Way and the Power, c. 400 B.C.E.
3. Han Fei, Legalism, c. 230 B.C.E.
4. A Record of the Debate on Salt and Iron, 81 B.C.E.
5. Nicholas Purcell, Rome: The Arts of Government, 1988
6. Cicero, Letter to His Brother Quintus, 60 B.C.E.
7. Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan, c. 112 C.E.
8. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, c. 167 C.E.
Reflections
Chapter 5. Gender, Sex, and Love in Classical Societies: India, China, and the Mediterranean, 500 B.C.E.–700 C.E.
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Sarah Shaver Hughes and Brady Hughes, Women in the Classical Era, 2005
2. Ban Zhao, Lessons for Women, c. 100 C.E.
3. Vatsyana, On the Conduct of Wives, Husbands, and Women of the Harem, c. 280–400 C.E.
4. Plato, The Symposium, c. 385 B.C.E.
5. Ovid, The Art of Love, 1 B.C.E.
6. Sex, Gods, and Goddesses, c. 500 B.C.E.–700 C.E.
Reflections
Chapter 6. From Tribal to Universal Religion: Hindu-Buddhist and Judeo-Christian Traditions, 1000 B.C.E.–100 C.E.
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Hinduism: Svetasvatara Upanishad, c. 400 B.C.E.
2. Buddhism: Gotama’s Discovery, c. 500–100 B.C.E.
3. Buddhism and Caste, c. 500–100 B.C.E.
4. Mahayana Buddhism: The Lotus Sutra, c. 100 C.E.
5. Judaism and the Bible: History, Laws, and Psalms, c. 850–600 B.C.E.
6. Judaism and the Bible: Prophecy and the Apocalypse, c. 600–165 B.C.E.
7. The Christian Bible: Jesus According to Matthew, c. 70 C.E.
8. Paul, Letters, c. 50 C.E.
Reflections
Chapter 7. The Spread of Universal Religions: Afro-Eurasia, 100–1300 C.E.
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People, 2009
2. Eusebius, Life of Constantine, c. 339
3. Christianity in China: The Nestorian Monument, 781
4. Buddhism in China: The Disposition of Error, Fifth or Sixth Century
5. Selections from the Quran, Seventh Century
6. Richard C. Foltz, The Islamization of the Silk Road, 1999
7. Peace Terms with Jerusalem, 636
8. Epic of Sundiata, Thirteenth Century
Reflections
Chapter 8. Migrations, Trade, and Travel: The Movement of People, Goods, and Ideas in Eurasia, Africa, and the Pacific, 3000 B.C.E.–1350 C.E.
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Patrick Manning, Austronesian, Indo-European, and Bantu Migrations, 2005
2. Lynda Norene Shaffer, Southernization, 1994
3. Faxian, Travel on the Silk Road and Seas, c. 400
4. Ibn Battuta, Travels, 1354
5. Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, Merchant Handbook, 1343
Reflections
Chapter 9. Love, Sex, and Marriage: Medieval Europe and Asia, 400–1400
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Kevin Reilly, Love in Medieval Europe, India, and Japan, 1997
2. Ulrich von Liechtenstein, The Service of Ladies, 1255
3. Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love, 1184–1186
4. Locales of Love: Tournament and Temple, Eleventh and Fourteenth Centuries
5. Ilyon, Chosin, the Lovesick Monk, 1250–1512
6. Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, c. 1000
7. Zhou Daguan, Sex in the City of Angkor, 1297
8. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405
Reflections
Chapter 10. Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Encounters: Afro-Eurasia, 1000–1300
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Shelomo Dov Goitein, Interfaith Relations in Muslim North Africa (1000–1300), 1969
2. Bishop of Speyer, Grant to the Jews, 1084
3. Fulcher of Chartres, The First Crusade: Pope Urban’s Speech at Clermont, c. 1095–1127
4. Chronicle of Solomon bar Simson, c. 1140
5. Ibn Al-Athir, A Muslim History of the First Crusade, 1231
6. Ibn Al-Athir, The Conquest of Jerusalem, 1231
7. Letter from a Jewish Pilgrim in Egypt, 1100
8. Ecclesia and Synagoga, c. 1230
Reflections
Chapter 11. Raiders of Steppe and Sea: Vikings and Mongols: Eurasia and the Atlantic, 900–1350
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Gregory Guzman, Were the Barbarians a Negative or Positive Factor in Ancient and Medieval History? 1988
2. Ibn Fadlan, The Viking Rus, 922
3. Saxo Gramaticus, Erik the Evergood’s Pilgrimage in 1103, c. 1208
4. Yvo of Narbona, The Mongols, 1243
5. Igor de Rachewiltz, The Secret History of the Mongols, c. 1240
6. Ibn Al-Athir, The Mongols, c. 1231
7. John of Plano Carpini, History of the Mongols, 1245–1250
Reflections
Chapter 12. The Black Death: Afro-Eurasia, 1346–1350
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Mark Wheelis, Biological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa, 2002
2. Gabriele de’ Mussis, Origins of the Black Death, c. 1348
3. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Plague in Florence: From the Decameron, c. 1350
4. Causes According to College of Physicians, Paris, c. 1348
5. Images of the Black Death, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
6. Ahmad Al–Maqrizi, The Plague in Cairo, Fifteenth Century
Reflections
Chapter 13. The Smell of the Past, The Long Past
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, The Andaman Islanders, 1922
2. Lauren Ristvet, The Scent of Decay, 2018
3. Saint Ephrem of Syria, Hymn to Paradise, Fourth Century
4. Edward H. Schafer, Aromas of Tang China, 1963
5. Walter Bernan, Artificial Climates of Europe, 1845
6. Public Baths in Medieval Europe
7. Constance Classen, The Breath of God, 2006
Reflections
Chapter 14. Environment, Culture, and Technology: Europe, Asia, and Oceania, 500–1500
Historical Context
Thinking Historically
1. Lynn White Jr., The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis, 1967
2. Image from a Cistercian Manuscript, Twelfth Century
3. Image from a French Calendar, Fifteenth Century
4. Image of a Chinese Feng-Shui Master, Nineteenth Century
5. Image of European Surveying Instruments, c. 1600
6. Jared Diamond, Easter Island’s End, 1995
7. Terry Hunt, Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island, 2006
8. J. R. McNeill, Sustainable Survival, 2010
Reflections
Acknowledgments, Volume One
About the Author
Inside Back Cover
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