Global Experience, The: Readings in World History, Volume 1 (to 1550), 5th Edition

This integrated, global collection of primary source documents illustrates the variety of experiences on the part of men and women who have made history; and is designed with introductions and questions, to make main points clear to students. Organized chronologically and focusing on global themes, it includes excerpts from both classic texts and less familiar but equally illustrative material.

I. EARLY CIVILIZATIONS.

 1. The Egyptian Creation Story: The Creation According to Ra. 2. The Hebrew Creation Story: Genesis.  3. Pan Ku, China's Creation Mythology.  4. A Hindu Creation Story: Rig Veda. 5.Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days.  6. Mayan Creation Story: Popol Vuh.
 7. The Epic of Gilgamesh.  8. Homer, The Odyssey.  9. The Epic of Sunjata.
10. The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi. 11. Hittite Laws.
12. Sumerian Schoolboy. 13. Papyrus Lansing: A Schoolbook.
14. Hatshepsut: Successful Female Pharaoh. 15. The Hymn to Aton and Psalm 104. 16. Isaiah: Prophet of Doom and Hope.
17. Assyrian War Tactics. 18. Sun Tzu [Sunzi], The Art of War.

II. CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS.

19. The Essence of the Universe. 20. The Laws of Manu.21. Bhagavad-Gita.22. Duties of a King, Artha Shastra.23. Hsuan-tsang (Xuanzang), The Land and People of India.
24. Enlightenment of the Buddha. 25. Pure Land Scripture, Sukhavativyuha. 26. Asoka: The Edict of Asoka.
27. Confucius, Analects.28. Taoism [Daoism]: LaoTzu [Lao Zi]. 29. Legalism: The Writings of Han Fei Tzu [Han Pei Zi]. 30. Mencius, “Humane Government.”
31. Sappho, Lyric Songs.32. Herodotus, Persian Dialogue.33. Sophocles, Antigone.34. Thucydides, Peloponnesian War.35. Xenophon, The Spartan Constitution.36. Aristotle, Politics.
37. Plutarch, Numa, the Lawgiver.38. Titus Livy, Heroes of the Early Republic. 39. Polybius, “Why Romans and Not Greeks Govern the World.”40. Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Laws.
41. The Yellow Emperor, Nei-ching [Neijing] (Canon of Medicine). 42. Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease. 43. Pliny the Elder, The Nature Story.

III. CHRISTIANITY TO ISLAM.

44. The Golden Rule and God's Will. 45. The Writings of St. Paul on Women.
46. Pliny the Younger, Letters to Emperor Trajan.47. St. Augustine of Hippo, The Just War. 48. Paulus Orosius, History Against the Pagans.49. Monastic Life: The Rule of Saint Benedict. 50. Eusebius, "Life of Constantine." 51. Procopius, History of the Wars and The Secret History.
52. The Qur'an. 53. Sayings (Hadiths) Ascribed to the Prophet: Holy War.
54. Harun al Rashid and the Byzantine Empire. 55. Kai Kaus, “Scientific Physiognomy and the Purchase of Slaves.”56. One Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of the Fisherman.

IV. MEDIEVAL EUROPE, AFRICA, AND THE EAST.

57. Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks.58. Law Code of the Salian Franks.
59. The Nibelungenlied.60. The Book of Emperors and Kings, “Charlemagne and Pope Leo III.”61. Bahas al-Din Ibn Shaddad, "Saladin: The Lion of Islam".62. Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure (The Way of the Samurai). 63. The Forty-Seven Ronin.
64. Liutprand, Bishop of Cremona, A Mission to Constantinople.65. Memoirs of Usamah Ibn-Munqidh. 66. Sir John Mandeville, “The Land of Prester John.”
67. Ibn Battuta in Mali. 68. Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddima (The Course of History).69. Martín Fernández de Figueroa, Confronting the Moors in Somalia.
70. Micahel Psellus, Chronographia, “Empress Zoe.”71. Robert of Clari, The Conquest of Constantinople.
72. Peter Abelard, The Story of My Misfortunes.73. St. Hildegard of Bingen, Know the Ways.74. St. Francis of Assisi, “The Rule of Saint Francis.”
75. Pierre de Vaux-de-Cernay, “What Cathars Believe.”76. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica: “Where Heretics are to be Tolerated.”77 William Rubruck, Journey to Cathay 78. Joan of Arc, The Trial of Joan of Arc.
79. The Good Man of Paris. 80. The Domostroi, Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible.
81. Emperor T'ai-tsung [Taizong]: “On the Art of Government.”82. Sung (Song) China: Imperial Examination System. 83. Chinese Footbinding 84. Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji. 85. John Pian del Carpini, The Tartars. 86. Marco Polo in China.
87. The Black Death in Florence. 88. Ibn Al-Wardi, An Essay on the Report of the Pestilence. 

V. A WORLD IN CHANGE.

89. Kritovoulos, History of Mehmed the Conqueror.90. Suleiman the Magnificent and His Courtiers. 91. Vlad Tsepes, “The Impaler”: The Real Dracula or How the Enemy of the Ottomans Became a Legend.
92. The Russian Primary Chronicle.93. Heinrich von Staden, The Land and Government of Muscovy.
94. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince and The Discourses on Titus Livy.95. Erasmus, Julius II Excluded.96. Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms, 1521. 97. St. Charles Borromeo: Instructions to Confessors.
98. Cheng Ho [Zheng He]: Ming Maritime Expeditions. 99. St. Francis Xavier on the Japanese: “The Best People Who Have Yet Been Discovered.”

100. The Travels of Mendes Pinto.

Spain in America

101. Christopher Columbus, Journal of First Voyage to America. 102.An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico: The Broken Spears. 103. Pope Paul III, “Indians Are Men.”

104. Bartolomé de las Casas, Destruction of the Indies and “The Only Method of Converting the Indians.”