Chapter 1: Origins, To 1200 B.C.E.

1. Hatshepsut: Depicting a Goddess-King

DOCUMENT 1.1: Hatshepsut"s Early Life as Described in Inscriptions at Deir el-Bahri, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E.

DOCUMENT 1.2: Three Statues of Hatshepsut from Deir el-Bahri, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E.

DOCUMENT 1.3: Lecture on the Deir el-Bahri Excavations, 2006

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Chapter 2: Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East, 1200-510 B.C.E.

2. Cyrus The Great: Building on a Ruler"s Greatness

DOCUMENT 2.1:The Tomb of Darius the Great, ca. 500 B.C.E.

DOCUMENT 2.2: Portrait of a King, ca. 475 B.C.E.

Persepolis: A Capital of All Countries, ca. 550–330 B.C.E.

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Chapter 3: The Development of Greek Society and Culture, ca. 3000–3388 B.C.E.

Online Document Assignment 3: Aspasia: Gender Roles in Classical Athens

DOCUMENT 3.1: Artistic Depictions of Women in Classical Greece

DOCUMENT 3.2: Greek Men"s Commentary on Greek Women

DOCUMENT 3.3: Plato"s Republic: On the Education of Women, ca. 380 B.C.E.

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Chapter 4: Life in the Hellenistic World, 336–30 B.C.E.

Online Document Assignment 4: Alexander The Great: Motives and Consequences of Conquest

DOCUMENT 4.1: Mass Weddings at Susa: From Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, Second Century C.E.

DOCUMENT 4.2: Polybius on Historical Causes, ca. 140 B.C.E.

DOCUMENT 4.3: Demetrius of Phalerum on the Fall of the Persian Empire, ca. 140 B.C.E.

DOCUMENT 4.4: Plutarch on the Early Years of Alexander"s Reign, ca. 100 C.E.

DOCUMENT 4.5: Alexander"s Conquests from a Jewish Perspective, ca. 125 B.C.E.

DOCUMENT 4.6: The Alexander Mosaic, ca. 100 B.C.E.

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Chapter 5: The Rise of Rome, ca. 1000–-27 B.C.E.

Online Document Assignment 5: Queen Cleopatra: Depicting the Queen and the Politics of the Late Republic

DOCUMENT 5.1: Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth, 2001

DOCUMENT 5.2: Plutarch: Life of Antony, ca. 100 C.E.

DOCUMENT 5.3: Octavian Vilifies Antony and Cleopatra, ca. 200 C.E.

DOCUMENT 5.4: Strabo: Geography, ca. 7–24 C.E.

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Chapter 6: The Roman Empire, 27 B.C.E.–284 C.E.

Online Document Assignment 6: Bithus, a Soldier in the Roman Army: Army and Empire

DOCUMENT 6.1: Julius Caesar, The Gallic War, 50 B.C.E.

DOCUMENT 6.2: Titus Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, ca. 75 C.E.

DOCUMENT 6.3: Vegetius, Epitome of Military Science, ca. 380–390 C.E.

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Chapter 7: Late Antiquity, 250–600

Online Document Assignment 7: Theodora Of Constantinople: The Demonization of an Empress

DOCUMENT 7.1: Procopius, The Moral Decline of Byzantine Women, ca. 550

DOCUMENT 7.2: Procopius, The Marriage of Justinian and Theodora, ca. 550

DOCUMENT 7.3: Contrasting Views on Corruption in the Provinces, 535

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Chapter 8: Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 600–1000

Online Document Assignment 8: Assignment The Venerable Bede: Renaissance Men of the Early Middle Ages

DOCUMENT 8.1: Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, ca. 731

DOCUMENT 8.2: Alcuin, The Bishops, Kings, and Saints of York, ca. 817–836

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Chapter 9: State and Church in the High Middle Ages, 1000–1300

Online Document Assignment 9: Hildegard of Bingen: The Voice of the Living Light

DOCUMENT 9.1: Hildegard to Bernard of Clairvaux, ca. 1146–1147

DOCUMENT 9.2: Hildegard to Pope Eugenius III, ca. 1146–1147

DOCUMENT 9.3: Hildegard to the Prelates at Mainz, 1178

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Chapter 10: Life in Villages and Cities of the High Middle Ages, 1000–1300

Online Document Assignment 10: Life in Medieval Towns: Merchant and Craft Guilds

DOCUMENT 10.1: Museum of London, Medieval London Gallery

DOCUMENT 10.2: Dispute Between the Master Saddlers of London and Their Journeymen, 1399

DOCUMENT 10.3: Guild Seals and Banners, ca. 1250–1350

DOCUMENT 10.4: Ordinances of the Dyers of Bristol, 1407

DOCUMENT 10.5: A Contract of Apprenticeship, 1248

DOCUMENT 10.6: Woodcuts Showing Merchants and Craftsmen, ca. 1200

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Chapter 11: The Later Middle Ages, 1300–1450

Online Document Assignment 11: Meister Eckhart: Anticlericalism and Popular Religion in the Late Middle Ages

DOCUMENT 11.1: Meister Eckhart on 1 John 4:9, ca. 1310–1320

DOCUMENT 11.2: Meister Eckhart"s Defense, 1327

DOCUMENT 11.3: Pope John XXII Condemns Eckhart"s Teachings, 1329

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Chapter 12: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350–1550

Online Document Assignment 12: Leonardo da Vinci: A Genius and His Patrons

DOCUMENT 12.1: Leonardo to Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, ca. 1483

DOCUMENT 12.2: Leonardo to the Works Department of the Cathedral of Milan, 1487

DOCUMENT 12.3: Leonardo"s Portraits: Portrait of a Lady from the Court of Milan, ca. 1490–1495

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Chapter 13: Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500–1600

Online Document Assignment 13: Anna Jansz Of Rotterdam: Religious Revolutionaries

DOCUMENT 13.1: Depictions of Anabaptist Martyrs, 1544 and ca. 1536

DOCUMENT 13.2: Anna Jansz, "Trumpet Song," ca. 1535

DOCUMENT 13.3: Ausbund, The Eighteenth Hymn, 1564

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Chapter 14: European Exploration and Conquest, 1450–1650

Online Document Assignment 14: Juan de Pareja: Race and Slavery in the Early Modern Era

DOCUMENT 14.1: Excerpts from the Laws of Virginia, 1662–1669

DOCUMENT 14.2: William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1, Scene 1, ca. 1603–1604

DOCUMENT 14.3: The Mulatto Gentlemen of Esmeraldas

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Chapter 15: Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589–1725

Online Document Assignment 15: A Habsburg Ambassador"s Perspective

DOCUMENT 15.1: Busbecq Describes the Murder of Mustafa, 1581

DOCUMENT 15.2: Busbecq Describes the Morality of Turkish Women, 1581

DOCUMENT 15.3: Hürrem Intervenes on Behalf of Her Son Bajazet, 1581

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Chapter 16: Toward a New Worldview, 1540–1789

Online Document Assignment 16: Moses Mendelssohn: The Enlightenment Debate on Religious Tolerance

DOCUMENT 16.1: Moses Mendelssohn, "Reply to Lavater," 1769

DOCUMENT 16.2: Voltaire, "The Jean Calas Affair," 1763

DOCUMENT 16.3: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise, 1779

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Chapter 17: The Expansion of Europe, 1650–1800

Online Document Assignment 17: REBECCA PROTTEN: The Souls of Slaves

DOCUMENT 17.1: James Ramsay, An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies, 1784

DOCUMENT 17.2: Wilson Armistead, A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Coloured Portion of Mankind, 1848

DOCUMENT 17.3: James Tobin, Cursory Remarks upon the Reverend Mr. Ramsay"s Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies, 1785

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Chapter 18: Life in the Era of Expansion, 1650–1800

Online Document Assignment 18: Imagining the Inner Life of the Individual: Paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Seméon Chardin

DOCUMENT 18.1: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Children at Play: The House of Cards, ca. 1737, and Portrait of Augustus Gabriel Godefroy, 1741

DOCUMENT 18.2: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon: Chardin Education: The Governess, 1739, and The Good Education, 1753

DOCUMENT 18.3: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Mother-Daughter Bonds: The Grace, 1740, and The Laborious Mother, ca. 1740

DOCUMENT 18.4: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin Servants at Work: Woman Drawing Water from a Copper Cistern, 1733, and The Cellar Boy, 1738

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Chapter 19: Revolutions in Politics, 1775–1815

Online Document Assignment 19: TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE: The Rights of Which Men?

DOCUMENT 19.1: Letter from the Slaves of Martinique, August 29, 1789

DOCUMENT 19.2: Address to the National Assembly, October 22, 1789

DOCUMENT 19.3: Abbé Grégoire, Letter to Those Who Love Mankind, 1790

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Chapter 20: The Revolution in Energy and Industry, ca. 1780–1850

Online Document Assignment 20: Josiah Wedgwood: Inventing a New Workforce

DOCUMENT 20.1: Peter Gaskell, The Manufacturing Population of England: Its Moral, Social, and Physical Conditions, and the Changes Which Have Arisen from the Use of Steam Machinery, 1833

DOCUMENT 20.2; Richard Guest, A Compendious History of the Cotton-Manufacture, 1823

DOCUMENT 20.3: Robert Owen, A New View of Society, 1831

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Chapter 21: Ideologies and Upheavals, 1815–1850

Online Document Assignment 21: GERMAINE DE STAËL: An Ambassador of Romanticism

DOCUMENT 21.1: "Of the Aspect of Germany," 1810

DOCUMENT 21.2: "Of the Influence of Enthusiasm on Learning," 1810

DOCUMENT 21.3: Ruins of the Oybin Monastery, ca. 1835, and The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, 1818

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Chapter 22: Life in the Emerging Urban Society, 1840-1914

Online Document Assignment 22: LIFE IN THE MODERN CITY ON FILM: Addressing the Challenges of Urbanization

DOCUMENT 22.1: Mass Transportation

DOCUMENT 22.2: Building a New City

DOCUMENT 22.3: Waste Disposal

DOCUMENT 22.4: Municipal Services

DOCUMENT 22.5: Modes of Consumption

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Chapter 23: The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914

Online Document Assignment 23: THEODOR HERZL: The "Jewish Question"

DOCUMENT 23.1: "Jews in the French Army," 1892

DOCUMENT 23.2: "Speech Before the Reichstag," 1895

DOCUMENT 23.3: The Jewish State, 1896

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Chapter 24: The West and the World, 1815–1914

Online Document Assignment 24: CECIL RHODES: The "Greatness" of an Imperialist

DOCUMENT 24.1: "Confession of Faith," 1877

DOCUMENT 24.2: Rhodes on a Pile of Skulls, ca. 1890–1900

DOCUMENT 24.3: The Life of the Right Honorable Cecil John Rhodes, 1910

DOCUMENT 24.4: Introduction to John Flint"s Cecil Rhodes, 1974

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Chapter 25: War and Revolution, 1914–1919

Online Document Assignment 25: VERA BRITTAIN: Calling Young Women to War

DOCUMENT 25.1: Third Red Cross Roll Call, ca. 1917–1918

DOCUMENT 25.2: The Spirit of America, Join, ca. 1917–1918

DOCUMENT 25.3: The Prettiest Fashion, 1915

DOCUMENT 25.4: Red Cross or Iron Cross? ca. 1914–1918

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Chapter 26: The Age of Anxiety, 1880–1940

Online Document Assignment 26: GUSTAV STRESEMANN: Competing Visions of Germany

DOCUMENT 26.1: German Center Party Program, 1922

DOCUMENT 26.2: Social Democratic Party Program, 1925

DOCUMENT 26.3: German People"s Party, 1931

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Chapter 27: Dictatorships and the Second World War, 1919–1945

Online Document Assignment 27: PRIMO LEVI: Remembering the Holocaust

DOCUMENT 27.1: Abraham Bomba Interview, 1990

DOCUMENT 27.2: Dorotka Goldstein Roth Interview, 1989

DOCUMENT 27.3: Leo Schneiderman Interview, 1990

DOCUMENT 27.4: Ruth Webber Interview, 1992

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Chapter 28: Cold War Conflict and Consensus, 1945–1965

Online Document Assignment 28: ARMANDO RODRIGUES: Postwar Rebuilding and the Creation of a Multicultural Germany

DOCUMENT 28.1: "The Integration of the Southern Labor Force and Its Specific Adaptation Problems," 1961

DOCUMENT 28.2: "How the Turkish Worker Should Behave and Defend His Character in a Foreign Country," 1961

DOCUMENT 28.3: Heidelberg Manifesto, 1982

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Chapter 29: Challenging the Postwar Order, 1960–1991

Online Document Assignment 29: MARGARET THATCHER: Rebranding the Conservative Message for a Changing World

DOCUMENT 29.1: Labour Isn"t Working, 1979

DOCUMENT 29.2: Labour Says He"s Black. Tories Say He"s British. 1978

DOCUMENT 29.3: It Was a Conservative . . . , 1978

DOCUMENT 29.4: Even Labour"s Better with the Tories, 1978

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Chapter 30: Life in an Age of Globalization, 1990 to the Present

Online Document Assignment 30: CONTESTING GLOBALIZATION: Global Organizations, Movements, and Antiglobal Protest

DOCUMENT 30.1: The World Trade Organization and Its Critics, 2009–2013

DOCUMENT 30.2: Occupy Wall Street, 2013

DOCUMENT 30.3: North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): "Myths vs. Reality," 2013

DOCUMENT 30.4: Environmental Organizations, 2012–2013

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