Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 1
Viewpoints: Origin Stories
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 2
Document 2-1: From The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2700–2500
Document 2-2: Hammurabi, Hammurabi’s Code: Laws On Society and Family Life (ca. 1800
Document 2-3: Book of Exodus (ca. 950–450
Viewpoints: Imperial Propaganda in the Ancient Near East
Document 2-4: Ashur-Nasir-Pal Ii, Inscription (ca. 875
Document 2-5: Cyrus of Persia, Righteous Rule (ca. 530
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 3
Document 3-1: A Residential Street in Mohenjo-daro (ca. 2500-2000 B.C.E.)
Viewpoints: The Path to Enlightenment
Document 3-2: The Buddha, The Buddha Obtains Enlightenment (ca. 530-29 B.C.E.)
Document 3-3: From the Upanishads: On the Nature of the Soul (ca. 450 B.C.E.)
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Document 3-4: From The Laws of Manu (ca. 100 B.C.E.-200 C.E.)
Document 3-5: Ashoka, From Thirteenth Rock Edict (256 B.C.E.)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 4
Document 4-1: Detail of Ritual Vase Known as the Tigress (ca. 1200 B.C.E.)
Document 4-2: From Book of Documents (ca. 900-100 B.C.E.)
Viewpoints: Philosophical Responses to Social and Political Disorder
Document 4-3: Confucius, From Analects (ca. 500 B.C.E.-50 C.E.)
Document 4-4: Laozi, From Dao De Jing: Administering The Empire (ca. 500-400 B.C.E.)
Document 4-5: Han Fei, The Five Vermin (ca. 250-25 B.C.E.)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 5
Document 5-1: Homer, From The Iliad: Achilles's Anger and Its Consequences (ca. 750 B.C.E.)
Document 5-2: Plato, From Apologia (ca. 399 B.C.E.)
Document 5-3: Plutarch, From Life of Cleomenes Iii (First Century C.E.)
Viewpoints: Depicting the Human Form
Document 5-4: Zeus from Artemisium (ca. 460 B.C.E.)
Document 5-5: The Dying Gaul (ca. 230-220 B.C.E.)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 6
Document 6-1: The Twelve Tables (ca. 450 B.C.E.)
Document 6-2: Plutarch, On Julius Caesar, a Man of Unlimited Ambition (ca. 44 C.E.)
Document 6-3: Initiation into the Cult of Dionysus (ca. 60-50 B.C.E.)
Viewpoints: Christianity and the Roman State
Document 6-4: Pliny The Younger, Letters To and From The Emperor Trajan On Christians (111-113 C.E.)
Document 6-5: Tertullian, From Apologia (ca. 197 C.E.)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 7
Document 7-1: Sima Qian, From The Records of The Historian: On The Xiongnu (ca. 109-86 B.C.E.)
Document 7-2: Ban Zhao, From Lessons For Women (ca. 80 C.E.)
Document 7-3: Hachiman, Shinto God of War, in the Guise of a Buddhist Monk (ca. 1100-1300 C.E.)
Viewpoints: Buddhism in China
Document 7-4: Han Yu, From Lives of The Eminent Monks: Zhu Seng Du (ca. 550 C.E.)
Document 7-5: Emperor Wuzong, Edict On The Suppression of Buddhism (845 C.E.)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 8
Document 8-1: Saint Benedict of Nursia, From The Rule of Saint Benedict: Work and Pray (529)
Document 8-2: The Law of the Salian Franks (ca. 500â600)
Viewpoints: Justinianâs Deeds and His Critics
Document 8-3: Procopius, From The Secret History (ca. 550â562)
Document 8-4: Hagia Sophia (537)
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Document 8-5: Einhard, From The Life of Charlemagne (829â836)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 9
Viewpoints: Islam and the People of the Book
Document 9-1: Muhammad, Qur'An (ca. 650)
Document 9-2: Muhammad, The Constitution of Medina (ca. 625)
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Document 9-3: Benjamin Ben Jonah of Tudela, From Book of Travels (ca. 1159-1172)
Document 9-4: Great Mosque of Córdoba, Spain, and Gate of Al Hakam II, Detail (987)
Document 9-5: Ibn KhaldŪN, From Prolegomenon To History: On Shi-Ite Succession (1377)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 10
Viewpoints: Outsiders' Views of Sub-Saharan Africa
Document 10-1: Abu Ubaydallah Al-Bakri, From The Book of Routes and Realms (ca. 1067-1068)
Document 10-2: Fact and Fiction in an Account of Sub-Saharan Africa
Document 10-3: Leo Africanus Describes Timbuktu to a European Audience
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Document 10-4: From Epic of Sundiata (ca. 1250)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 11
Document 11-1: Moundville (ca. 1000-1450 C.E.)
Document 11-2: Document 11-2: Pedro De Cieza De LeÓN, From Chronicles: On The Inca (ca. 1535)
Document 11-3: Diego DuráN, From Book of The Gods and Rites (ca. 1576-1579)
Viewpoints: The Importance of the Ball Game in Maya Society
Document 11-4: Antonio De Herrera Y Tordesillas, On The Maya Ball Game Tlachtli (ca. 1598)
Document 11-5: Father Francisco XimÉNez, From Popol Vuh (ca. 1701-1703)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 12
Viewpoints: The Mongols and Their Conquests
Document 12-1: Epitaph for the Honorable Menggu (ca. 1272)
Document 12-2: Rashid-Al-Din, Chinggis Khan Fighting The Tartars (ca. 1300)
Document 12-3: Marco Polo, From Travels: Description of The World (ca. 1298)
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Document 12-4: Vatsyayana, From The Kamasutra: About a Wife (ca. 150-1200)
Document 12-5: Maulana BurhĀN Ud-DĪN MarghĪNĀNĪ, From Guidance: Alms, Marriage, and Testimony (ca. 1197)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 13
Viewpoints: Elite Values in Feudal Japan
Document 13-1: Murasaki Shikibu, From The Tale of Genji (ca. 1021)
Document 13-2: From The Tale of the Heike (ca. 1250)
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Document 13-3: Figure of a Lohan, Yuan Dynasty (1260-1368)
Document 13-4: Chau Ju-Kua, On The Arab People of Quanzhou (ca. 1250)
Document 13-5: Widows Loyal unto Death (ca. 1754)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 14
Viewpoints: The Crusades
Document 14-1: Fulcher of Chartres, From a History of The Expedition To Jerusalem: The Call For Crusade (ca. 1100-1127)
Document 14-2: Zakariya Al-Qazwini, From Monuments of The Lands: An Islamic View of The West (1275-1276)
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Document 14-3: Jacques De Vitry, The Virgin Mary Saves a Monk and His Lover (ca. 1200)
Document 14-4: King John of England, From Magna Carta: The Great Charter of Liberties (1215)
Document 14-5: Thomas Aquinas, From Summa Theologica: Can It Be Demonstrated That God Exists? (1268)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 15
VieViewpoints: The Intellectual Foundations of the Renaissance
Document 15-1: Petrarch, Letters (ca. 1354, 1360)
Document 15-2: Pico Della Mirandola, From On The Dignity of Man (1486)
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Document 15-3: Artemisia Gentileschi, Susannah and The Elders (1610)
Document 15-4: Martin Luther, From Address To The Christian Nobility of The German Nation (1520)
Document 15-5: John Calvin, From Instruction In Faith (1537)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 16
Document 16-1: World Map (1502)
Viewpoints: The Motives of Columbus and His Patrons
Document 16-2: Christopher Columbus, Letter From The Third Voyage (1493)
Document 16-3: Theodore De Bry, Columbus At Hispaniola (ca. 1590)
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Document 16-4: Bernal DÃAz Del Castillo, From The True History of The Conquest of New Spain (1568)
Document 16-5: From The Florentine Codex (ca. 1577-1580)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 17
Document 17-1: Sultan Selim I, From a Letter To Shah Ismail of Persia (1514)
Document 17-2: Antonio Monserrate, From The Commentary of Father Monserrate: On Mughal India (ca. 1580)
Viewpoints: Building an Islamic Palace
Document 17-3: Babur and His Architect Plan the Bagh-i-Wafu (ca. 1590)
Document 17-4: Tulsi The Elder and Madhu The Younger, Akbar Inspects The Construction of Fatehpur-Sikri (ca. 1590-1598)
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Document 17-5: Nuruddin Salim Jahangir, From The Memoirs of Jahangir (ca. 1580-1600)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 18
Viewpoints: The Sources of Government Authority
Document 18-1: Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, On Divine Right (ca. 1675-1680)
Document 18-2: John Locke, From Two Treatises of Government: of The Ends of Political Society and Government (1690)
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Document 18-3: The Bill of Rights (1689)
Document 18-4: Duc De Saint-Simon, From The Memoirs of Louis Xiv: On The Early Life of Louis Xiv (ca. 1730-1755)
Document 18-5: Catherine Ii of Russia, Two Decrees (1762, 1765)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 19
Viewpoints: Changing Ideas of Science
Document 19-1: Francis Bacon, From The Great Restoration: History of Life and Death (1623)
Document 19-2: Peter The Great and Gottfried Leibniz, On The Improvement of Arts and Sciences In Russia (ca. 1712-1718)
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Document 19-3: Takyuddin and Other Astronomers at the Galata Observatory (ca. 1581)
Document 19-4: Voltaire, From Dictionnaire Philosophique: Theist (1764)
Document 19-5: Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment? (1784)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 20
Document 20-1: Olfert Dapper, King Alvaro I of Kongo Receiving The Dutch Ambassadors (1668)
Document 20-2: Osei Bonsu, An Asante King Questions British Motives In Ending The Slave Trade (1820)
Viewpoints: Debating the Slave Trade
Document 20-3: Anna Maria Falconbridge, From Narrative of Two Voyages To The River Sierra Leone (1794)
Document 20-4: Olaudah Equiano, From The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
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Document 20-5: Transportation of Slaves in Africa (ca. 1800-1900)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 21
Document 21-1: The Viceroy of Canton Giving an Audience to Commodore Anson (1748)
Document 21-2: Engelbert Kaempfer, From History of Japan (1727)
Viewpoints: Gender in East Asia
Document 21-3: Kaibara Ekiken and Kaibara TÅKen, Common Sense Teachings For Japanese Children and Greater Learning For Women (ca. 1700)
Document 21-4: Torii Kiyonaga, Women of The Gay Quarters (Late Eighteenth Century)
Document 21-5: Li Ruzhen (Li Ju-Chen), From Flowers In The Mirror (1827)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 22
Viewpoints: Defining the Citizen
Document 22-1: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
Document 22-2: Olympe De Gouges, From The Declaration of The Rights of Woman (1791)
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Document 22-3: Maximilien Robespierre, Revolutionary Speech (February 5, 1794)
Document 22-4: FranÇois Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture, Letter To The French National Assembly (1797)
Document 22-5: The Haitian Declaration of Independence (1804)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 23
Document 23-1: Thomas Robert Malthus, From “An Essay On The Principle of Population (1798)
Viewpoints: The Realities of Manufacturing
Document 23-2: Robert Owen, From Observations On The Effect of The Manufacturing System” (1815)
Document 23-3: Sadler Committee and Ashley Commission, Testimonies Before Parliamentary Committees On Working Conditions In England (1832, 1842)
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Document 23-4: An Incident During the Sikh Wars (ca. 1850)
Document 23-5: The Treaty of Balta-Liman (August 16, 1838)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 24
Document 24-1: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, From The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Viewpoints: Peoples Without Nations
Document 24-2: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Address To The German Nation (1808)
Document 24-3: Max Nordau, On Zionism (1905)
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Document 24-4: EugÃNe Delacroix, Liberty Leading The People (1830)
Document 24-5: Beatrice Webb, From My Apprenticeship: Why I Became a Socialist (1926)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 25
Document 25-1: Sultan Abdul Mejid, Imperial Rescript (1856)
Viewpoints: The Colonial Encounter in Africa
Document 25-2: Cecil Rhodes, From Confession of Faith (ca. 1877)
Document 25-3: Ndansi Kumalo, On The British Incursion In Zimbabwe (1932)
Document 25-4: John Mensah Sarbah, Fanti Customary Law (1897)
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Document 25-5: Roger Casement and David Engohahe, Victims of Belgian Congo Atrocities (ca. 1904-1905)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 26
Viewpoints: Reactions to Imperialism and Modernity
Document 26-1: Lin Zexu, From a Letter To Queen Victoria (1839)
Document 26-2: Two Proclamations of the Boxer Rebellion (1898, 1900)
Document 26-3: Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Home Rule (1909)
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Document 26-4: Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, Letter To Lieutenant-Governor J. Colvin (June 13, 1857)
Document 26-5: Sun Yatsen, On The Three People's Principles and The Future of The Chinese People (1906)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 27
Document 27-1: SimÃN BolÃVar, Jamaica Letter (1815)
Document 27-2: Alexis De Tocqueville, From Democracy In America (1840)
Viewpoints: Female Abolitionists Make the Case Against Slavery
Document 27-3: Angelina Grimke, Letters To Catherine E. Beecher (1838)
Document 27-4: Harriet Beecher Stowe, From Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
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Document 27-5: Advertisement for Rail Travel to Canada (1900)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 28
Document 28-1: Correspondence of Evelyn and Fred Albright (1917)
Document 28-2: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, All Power To The Soviets! (1917)
Viewpoints: Competing Perspectives on the Treaty of Versailles
Document 28-3: Les Trois Grands Ouvriers du Monde Nouveau (February 1, 1919)
Document 28-4: German Delegation To The Paris Peace Conference, On The Conditions of Peace (October 1919)
Document 28-5: Konoe Fumimaro, Against a Pacifism Centered On England and America (1918)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 29
Document 29-1: Mary L. Graffam, An Account of Turkish Violence Against Armenians (1915)
Document 29-2: Arthur James Balfour, Debating The Balfour Declaration (1917)
Document 29-3: Sarojini Naidu, The Agony and Shame of The Punjab (1920)
Viewpoints: Prescriptions for National Improvement in China and Siam
Document 29-4: Jiang Jieshi, The New Life Movement (1934)
Document 29-5: King Vajiravudh, On The Siamese Nation (1914, 1917, 1920)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 30
Document 30-1: Field Office of the Works Progress Administration (ca. 1935)
Document 30-2: The Nuremberg Laws: The Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation (1935)
Document 30-3: Letters to Izvestiya: On the Issue of Abortion (1936)
Viewpoints: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Document 30-4: Harry S. Truman, White House Press Release On Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
Document 30-5: Toshiko Saeki, Interview With a Survivor of Hiroshima (1986)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 31
Viewpoints: Decolonization and Dependence
Document 31-1: United Nations General Assembly, Declaration On The Granting of Independence To Colonial Countries and Peoples (December 14, 1960)
Document 31-2: Pablo Neruda, From Canto General: “Standard Oil Co.” and “United Fruit Co.” (1950)
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Document 31-3: Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947)
Document 31-4: Nikita Khrushchev, On The Personality Cult and Its Consequences (1956)
Document 31-5: Erich Honecker and Fidel Castro (1974)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 32
Document 32-1: Museo de la Memoria, Córdoba, Argentina (ca. 2000)
Viewpoints: Race and Power in South Africa
Document 32-2: National Party of South Africa, The National Party's Color Policy (March 29, 1948)
Document 32-3: Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial Speech To The Court (April 20, 1964)
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Document 32-4: Deng Xiaoping, Build Socialism With Chinese Characteristics (June 30, 1984)
Document 32-5: Male Japanese Citizens, “Ikigai” (2003)
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Introduction to the Documents, Chapter 33
Document 33-1: John Yoo, Memoranda Regarding U.S. Military Interrogations (2002, 2003)
Viewpoints: Immigration and Assimilation in Postwar Germany
Document 33-2: Giacomo Maturi, The Integration of The Southern Labor Force and Its Specific Adaptation Problems (1961)
Document 33-3: Heidelberg Manifesto (1982)
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Document 33-4: Betty Friedan, Statement of Purpose of The National Organization For Women (1966)
Document 33-5: Jonas Bendiksen, “New Settlement”: a Slum In Caracas, Venezuela (ca. 2007)
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Acknowledgments