VOLUME 1
1. Prehistory and the Origins of Patriarchy: Gathering, Agricultural, and Urban Societies, 40,000-1000 B.C.E.
Historical Context
Thinking Historically: Thinking about History in Stages
1. Natalie Angier, Furs for Evening, But Cloth Was the Stone Age Standby, 1999
*2. Paleolithic and Neolithic Art from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, c. 15,000-2,000 B.C.E.
Cave drawing from Lascaux, France, c. 15,000 B.C.E.
Rock carving from Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria, c. 10,000 B.C.E.
Plaster head from Ain Ghazal, Jordan, c. 7000 B.C.E.
Neolithic vase from Gansu Province, China, c. 2000 B.C.E.
3. Marjorie Shostak, Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, 1981
4. Margaret Ehrenberg, Women in Prehistory, 1989
5. Catherine Clay, Chandrika Paul, and Christine Senecal, Women in the First Urban Communities, 2009
Reflections
NOTE: Historical Context and Reflections sections appear in every chapter but have been omitted below for brevity.
2. The Urban Revolution and "Civilization": Ancient City Societies in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Peru, 3500-1000 B.C.E.
Thinking Historically: Distinguishing Primary and Secondary Sources
1. Kevin Reilly, Cities and Civilization, 1989
2. The Epic of Gilgamesh, c. 2700 B.C.E.
3. Hammurabi’s Code, c. 1800 B.C.E.
*4. The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, c. 1850 B.C.E.
5. Images from Hunefer’s Book of the Dead, c. 1275 B.C.E.
Entering the Afterlife
The Hall of Ma’at
6 An Assyrian Law and a Palace Decree, c. 1100 B.C.E.
*7. Smithsonian, First City in the New World, 2003
3. Identity in Caste and Territorial Societies: Greece and India, 1000-300 B.C.E.
Thinking Historically: Interpreting Primary Sources in Light of a Secondary Source
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. 1500 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.
*4. Empire and Government: China and Rome, 300 B.C.E.–300 C.E.
*Thinking Historically: Making Comparisons
*1. Michael Loewe, The Government of the Qin and Han Empires, 2006
*2. Sima Qian, Biographies of Harsh Officials, 104-92 B.C.E.
3. Confucius, The Analects, c. 479-221 B.C.E.
4. Han Fei, Legalism, c. 230 B.C.E.
*5 A Record of the Debates on Salt and Iron, 81 B.E.E.
*6. Nicholas Purcell, Rome: The Arts of Government, 1988
*7. Cicero, Letter to His Brother Quintus, 60 B.C.E.
8.Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan, c. 112 C.E.
9. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, c. 167 C.E.
5. Gender, Sex, and Love in Classical Societies: India, China, and the Mediterranean, 500 B.C.E.–200 C.E.
Thinking Historically: Asking about Author, Audience, and Agenda
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. 280-550 B.C.E.
4. Plato, The Symposium, c. 385 B.C.E.
5. Ovid, The Art of Love, 1 B.C.E.
*6. Depictions of Gender in Classical Societies, c. 500 B.C.E.-150 C.E.
Base of funerary kouros with six athletes, c. 500 B.C.E.
Pottery warrior from tomb of Chi’in Shih Hunag-Ti, 210 B.C.E.
Sundaranada helping Sundai dress, Kushan Period, Fifth Century B.C.E.
Portrait of a Fayum Woman with Large Gold Necklace, c. 150 C.E.
6. From Tribal to Universal Religion: Hindu-Buddhist and Judeo-Christian Traditions, 600 B.C.E.–100 C.E.
Thinking Historically: Detecting Change in Primary Sources
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. 1000 B.C.E.
6. Judaism and the Bible: Prophecy and Apocalypse, c. 1000 B.C.E.
7. The Christian Bible: Jesus According to Matthew, c. 70 C.E.
8. Paul, Letters, c. 50 B.C.E.
7. The Spread of Universal Religions: Afro-Eurasia, 100–1000 C.E.
Thinking Historically: Understanding Continuity and Change
*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 Qu’ran, Seventh Century
*6. Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad: Missions to Kings, Eighth Century
7. Peace Terms with Jerusalem, 636
8. The Epic of Sundiata, Thirteenth Century
*8. Trade, Travel, and Migrations: Eurasia, Africa, and the Pacific, 3000 BCE–1350 CE
*Thinking Historically: Sifting Factors
*1. Patrick Manning, Bantu, Aryan, and Polynesian Migrations, 2005
2. Lynda Norene Shaffer, Southernization, 1994
*3. Faxian, Travel on the Silk Road and Seas, ca. 400
* 4. Ibn Battuta, Travels, 1354
*5. Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, Merchant Handbook, 1343
9. Love, Sex, and Marriage: Medieval Europe and Asia, 400–1350
Thinking Historically: Analyzing Cultural Differences
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
* Procopius, The Secret History, c. 550
4. Kalidasa, Shakuntala , c. 400
5. Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, c. 1000
6. Zhou Daguan, Sex in the City of Angkor, 1297
10. The First Crusade: Muslims, Christians, and Jews during the First Crusade, 1095–1099
Thinking Historically: Understanding Narrative and Different Points of View
1. Fulcher of Chartres, An Account of Pope Urban’s Speech at Clermont, c. 1100-1127
2. Chronicle of Solomon bar Simson, c. 1140
*3, Ibn al-Athir, Origins of the Crusade, c. 1231
4. Anna Comnena, The Alexiad, c. 1148
5. Fulcher of Chartres, The Siege of Antioch, c. 1100-1127
6. Ibn Al-Qalanisi, The Damascus Chronicle, 1159
7. Raymond of St. Giles, Count of Toulouse, The Capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, 1099
8. Ibn al-Athir, The Conquest of Jerusalem, c. 1231
9. Letter from a Jewish Pilgrim in Egypt, 1100
11. Raiders of Steppe and Sea: Vikings and Mongols, Eurasia and the Atlantic, 900–1350
Thinking Historically: Distinguishing Historical Understanding from Moral Judgments
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. Barry Cunliffe, The Western Vikings, 2001
4. Eirik’s Saga, c. 1260
5. Yvo of Narbona, The Mongols, 1243
6. The Secret History of the Mongols, c. 1240
*7. Ibn al-Athir, The Mongols, c. 1231
8. John of Plano Carpini, History of the Mongols, 1245-1250
12. The Black Death: Afro-Eurasia, 1346–1350
Thinking Historically: Considering Cause and Effect
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. Images of the Black Death, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century
The Black Death, 1348
Flagellants, from a Fifteenth-Century Chronicle from Constance, Switzerland
The Burning of Jews in an Early Printed Woodcut
Francois de la Sarra, Tomb at La Sarraz, Switzerland, c.1390
5. Ahmad al-Maqrizi, The Plague in Cairo, Fifteenth Century
6. Michael W. Dols, The Comparative Communal Responses to the Black Death in Muslim and Christian Societies, 1974
13. On Cities: European, Chinese, Islamic, and Mexican Cities, 1000–1550
Thinking Historically: Evaluating a Comparative Thesis
1. Fernand Braudel, Towns and Cities, 1983
* 2. Organizing Self-Government in Ipswich, 1200
3. Gregorio Dati, Corporations and Community in Florence, Fourteenth Century
4. Marco Polo, On the City of Hangzhou, 1299
5. S. D. Goitein, Cairo: An Islamic City in Light of the Geniza, 1969
6. Bernal Diaz, Cities of Mexico, c. 1568
*7. Map of Aztec Capital and Gulf of Mexico, 1524
8. Images of Medieval Cities, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
City View of Florence, 1482
Cairo, 1549
A Chinese City Along the River During the Qingming Festival
Siena in Effects of Good Government
14. Environment, Culture, and Technology: Europe, Asia, Oceania, and South America, 500–1500
Thinking Historically: Evaluating Grand Theories
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 L. Hunt, Rethinking the Fall of Easter, 2006
*8. J.R. McNeill, Sustainable Survival, 2010
*9. Simon Romero, Once Hidden by Forest, Carvings in Land Attest to Amazon’s Lost World, 2012
*New to this edition