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Tables of Contents for The Global Experience
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Preface
xiii
EARLY CIVILIZATIONS
1
52
Global Conceptions of the Cosmos and Creation
1
12
1. The Hebrew Creation Story: Genesis
2
4
2. A Greek Creation Story: Hesiod's Theogony
6
2
3. A Japanese Creation Story: Nihongi
8
3
4. A Hindu Creation Story: Rig Veda
11
2
A Sumerian Heroic Legend
13
5
5. The Epic of Gilgamesh
13
5
Law in the Ancient Near East: Hittites and Hebrews
18
9
6. Hittite Laws
19
3
7. Hebrew Laws and Their Covenant
22
5
The Origins of Writing in Egypt and China: Wisdom Literature and Oracles
27
9
8. Papyrus Lansing: A Schoolbook
27
5
9. The Oracle Bones of Shang
32
4
Challenges to Egyptian Tradition
36
9
10. Hatshepsut: Successful Female Pharaoh
36
4
11. The Hymn to Aton and Psalm 104
40
5
Military Strategy and Tactics: Assyria and China
45
8
12. Assyrian War Tactics
46
1
13. Sun Tzu [Sunzi], The Art of War
47
6
CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS
53
92
The Early Greeks: Their Gods, Heroes, and Poetry
53
11
14. Homer, The Odyssey
53
6
15. Sappho, Lyric Songs
59
5
The Hindu Tradition
64
13
16. The Essence of the Universe
65
1
17. The Kama Sutra
66
5
18. The Laws of Manu
71
3
19. Bhagavad-Gita
74
3
The Buddhist Tradition
77
5
20. Enlightenment of the Buddha
78
2
21. Kuan-yin [Guanyin]: Compassion of the Bodhisattva
80
2
The State and Society in Classical India
82
6
22. Duties of a King, Artha Shastra
82
2
23. Hsuan-tsang [Xuanzang], The Land and People of India
84
4
The Golden Age of Chinese Thought
88
13
24. Confucius, Analects
88
4
25. Taoism [Daoism]: LaoTzu [Lao Zi]
92
4
26. Legalism: The Writings of Han Fie Tzu [Han Feizi]
96
5
Classical Greece
101
21
27. Herodotus, Persian Dialogue
101
3
28. Sophocles, Antigone
104
4
29. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
108
6
30. Plato, The Republic
114
5
31. Aristotle, Politics
119
3
Roman Contributions to Ideologies of Government and Law
122
11
32. Titus Livy, Early History of Rome
123
4
33. Polybius, Why Romans and Not Greeks Govern the World
127
4
34. Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Laws
131
2
Science in the Greco-Roman and Chinese Worlds
133
12
35. Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease
134
2
36. Pliny the Elder, The Nature Story
136
4
37. The Yellow Emperor, Nei-ching [Neijing] (Canon of Medicine)
140
5
CHRISTIANITY TO ISLAM
145
48
The Rise of Christianity
145
6
38. The Golden Rule and God's Will
146
1
39. The Writings of St. Paul on Women
147
4
Rome and the Christians
151
16
40. Tacitus, The Annals
152
1
41. Pliny the Younger, Letters to Emperor Trajan
153
2
42. St. Augustine of Hippo, The City of God
155
4
43. Paulus Orosius, History Against the Pagans
159
3
44. Monastic Life: The Rule of Saint Benedict
162
5
The Reign of Emperor Justinian
167
8
45. Procopius, History of the Wars
168
2
46. Procopius, The Secret History
170
3
47. The Institutes of Justinian from the Corpus Iuris Civilis
173
2
The Rise of Islam
175
8
48. The Koran
176
5
49. Sayings (Hadith) Ascribed to the Prophet: Holy War
181
2
Commentaries on Islamic Law and Culture
183
10
50. Wills, Slave Emancipation, and Clientship
184
3
51. Kai Kaus, "Scientific Physiognomy and the Purchase of Slaves"
187
4
52. Circumcision of Men and Women
191
2
MEDIEVAL EUROPE, AFRICA, AND THE EAST
193
108
The Germanic Tribes Succeed the Romans in the West
193
8
53. Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks
194
5
54. Law Code of the Visigoths
199
2
Feudalism and Chivalry, West and East
201
18
55. The Nibelungenlied
202
6
56. The Book of Emperors and Kings, "Charlemagne and Pope Leo III"
208
6
57. Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure (The Way of the Samurai)
214
3
58. The Forty-Seven Ronin
217
2
East-West Images and Realities
219
18
59. Ibn Fadlan's Account of Vikings in Early Russia
220
3
60. Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, A Mission to Constantinople
223
3
61. Memoirs of Usamah Ibn-Munqidh
226
4
62. Sir John Mandeville, "The Land of Prester John"
230
3
63. Marco Polo in China
233
4
Perceptions of Africa
237
6
64. Ibn Battuta in Mali
238
2
65. Martin Fernandez de Figueroa, Confronting the Moors in Somalia
240
3
Byzantium: The Later Period of Triumph and Tragedy
243
10
66. Anna Comnena, The Alexiad
243
4
67. Robert of Clari, The Conquest of Constantinople
247
6
Scholasticism, Spirituality, and Mysticism
253
19
68. Peter Abelard, The Story of My Misfortunes
255
3
69. St. Hildegard of Bingen, Know the Ways
258
3
70. St. Francis of Assisi, "The Rule of St. Francis"
261
4
71. St. Thomas Aquinas, "The Existence of God"
265
4
72. Julian(a) of Norwich, Showings
269
3
Medieval Domestic Life in Western and Eastern Europe
272
5
73. The Good Man of Paris
272
3
74. The Domostroi, Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
275
2
Chinese Culture Under the T'ang and Sung [Song] Dynasties
277
8
75. Imperial Examination System
278
2
76. Emperor T'ai-tsung [Taizong]: "On the Art of Government"
280
3
77. Chinese Footbinding
283
2
Mongols and the West
285
8
78. John Pian del Carpini, The Tartars
286
2
79. Kuyuk Khan, Letter to Pope Innocent IV
288
1
80. The Yuan Code: Homicide
289
4
The Black Death: Christian and Muslim Views
293
8
81. The Chronicle of Jean de Venette
294
2
82. Ibn Al-WardI, An Essay on the Report of the Pestilence
296
5
A WORLD IN CHANGE
301
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
301
13
83. Konstantin Mihailovic, Memoirs of a Janissary
301
4
84. Kritovoulos, History of Mehmed the Conqueror
305
4
85. Vlad Tsepes, "The Impaler": The Real Dracula or How the Enemy of the Ottomons Became a Legend
309
5
The Rise of Russia
314
7
86. The Russian Primary Chronicle
314
3
87. A Letter of Monk Philotheos to Grand Prince Vasily III
317
1
88. Heinrich von Staden, The Land and Government of Muscovy
318
3
The Renaissance and Reformation
321
15
89. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince and The Discourses on Titus Livy
322
6
90. Erasmus, Julius II Excluded
328
5
91. Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521
333
3
Age of Exploration and Expansion
336
7
92. Cheng Ho [Zheng He]: Ming Maritime Expeditions
337
3
93. St. Francis Xavier on the Japanese: "The Best People Who Have Yet Been Discovered"
340
3
The Portuguese in Africa, Asia, and Brazil
343
8
94. The Chronicle of Gomes Eannes de Azurara
343
2
95. Pero Vaz de Caminha and the Brazilian Indians
345
2
96. The Travels of Mendes Pinto
347
4
Spain in America
351
97. Christopher Columbus, Journal of First Voyage to America
352
2
98. Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The Conquest of Mexico
354
2
99. Antonio de Montesinos: Sermon to Colonists, 1511
356
1
100. Bartolome de la Casas, Destruction of the Indies and The Only Method of Converting the Indians
357