1. Working with Evidence: Representations of the Buddha

Working with Evidence: Representations of the Buddha

1.1 Understanding Creation

1.2 Understanding the Significance of Animals

1.3 Understanding Men and Women

1.4 Understanding Death

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2. Working with Evidence: Indus Valley Civilization

Working with Evidence: Indus Valley Civilization

2.1 A Seal from the Indus Valley

2.2 Man from Mohenjo Daro

2.3 Dancing Girl

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3. Working with Evidence: Perceptions of Outsiders in the Ancient World

Working with Evidence: Perceptions of Outsiders in the Ancient World

3.1 A Greek Historian on Persia and Egypt

3.2 A Roman Historian on the Germans

3.3 A Chinese Historian on the Xiongnu

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4. Working with Evidence: Representations of the Buddha

Working with Evidence: Representations of the Buddha

4.1 Footprints of the Buddha

4.2 A Gandhara Buddha

4.3 A Bodhisattva of Compassion: Avalokitesvara with a Thousand Arms

4.4 The Chinese Maitreya Buddha

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5. Working with Evidence: Pompeii as a Window on the Roman World

Working with Evidence: Pompeii as a Window on the Roman World

5.1 Terentius Neo and His Wife

5.2 A Pompeii Banquet

5.3 Scenes in a Pompeii Tavern

5.4 A Domestic Shrine

5.5 Mystery Religions: The Cult of Dionysus

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6. Working with Evidence: Axum and the World

Working with Evidence: Axum and the World

6.1 A Guidebook to the World of Indian Ocean Commerce: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, First Century C.E.

6.2 The Making of an Axumite Empire: Inscription on a Stone Throne, Second or Third Century C.E.

6.3 The Coming of Christianity to Axum: Rufinus, On the Evangelization of Abyssinia Late Fourth Century C.E.

6.4 Axum and the Gold Trade: Cosmas, The Christian Topography, Sixth Century C.E.

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7. Working with Evidence: Travelers’ Tales and Observations

Working with Evidence: Travelers’ Tales and Observations

7.1 A Chinese Buddhist in India, A Biography of the Tripitaka Master, Seventh Century C.E.

7.2 A European Christian in China: Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo, 1299

7.3 A Moroccan Diplomat in West Africa: Leo Africanus, The History and Description of Africa, 1526

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8. Working with Evidence: The Leisure Life of China’s Elites

Working with Evidence: The Leisure Life of China’s Elites

8.1 A Banquet with the Emperor

8.2 At Table with the Empress

8.3 A Literary Gathering

8.4 An Elite Night Party

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9. Working with Evidence: The Life of the Prophet

Working with Evidence: The Life of the Prophet

9.1 Muhammad and the Archangel Gabriel

9.2 The Night Journey of Muhammad

9.3 The Battle at Badr

9.4 The Destruction of the Idols

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10. Working with Evidence: The Making of Christian Europe

Working with Evidence: The Making of Christian Europe

10.1 The Conversion of Clovis: Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, Late Sixth Century

10.2 Advice on Dealing with “Pagans”: Pope Gregory, Advice to the English Church, 601

10.3 Charlemagne and the Saxons: Charlemagne, Capitulary on Saxony, 785

10.4 and 10.5 The Persistence of Tradition: Willibald, Life of Boniface, ca. 760 c.e., and Leechbook, Tenth Century

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11. Working with Evidence: Perspectives on the Mongols

Working with Evidence: Perspectives on the Mongols

11.1 Mongol History from a Mongol Source: The Secret History of the Mongols, ca. 1240

11.2 Chinggis Khan and Changchun: Chinggis Khan, Letter to Changchun, 1219

11.3 The Conquest of Bukhara: A Persian View: Juvaini, The History of the World Conqueror, 1219

11.4 A Russian View of the Mongols: The Chronicle of Novgorod, 1238

11.5 Mongol Women through European Eyes: William of Rubruck, Journey to the Land of the Mongols, ca. 1255

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12. Working with Evidence: Islam and Renaissance Europe

Working with Evidence: Islam and Renaissance Europe

12.1 Gentile Bellini, Portrait of Mehmed II

12.2 The Venetian Ambassador Visits Damascus

12.3 Aristotle and Averroes

12.4 Saint George Baptizes the Pagans of Jerusalem

12.5 Giovanni da Modena, Muhammad in Hell

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13. Working with Evidence: State Building in the Early Modern Era

Working with Evidence: State Building in the Early Modern Era

13.1 The Memoirs of Emperor Jahangir: Jahangir, Memoirs, 1605–1627

13.2 An Outsider’s View of the Ottoman Empire: Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, The Turkish Letters, 1555–1562

13.3 French State Building and Louis XIV: Louis XIV, Memoirs, 1670

13.4 An Outsider’s View of the Inca Empire: Pedro de Cieza de León, Chronicles of the Incas, ca. 1550

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14. Working with Sources: Exchange and Status in the Early Modern World

Working with Sources: Exchange and Status in the Early Modern World

14.1 Tea and Porcelain in Europe

14.2 A Chocolate Party in Spain

14.3 An Ottoman Coffeehouse

14.4 Clothing and Status in Colonial Mexico

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15. Working with Evidence: Global Christianity in the Early Modern Era

Working with Evidence: Global Christianity in the Early Modern Era

15.1 Interior of a Dutch Reformed Church

15.2 Catholic Baroque, Interior of Pilgrimage Church, Mariazell, Austria

15.3 Cultural Blending in Andean Christianity

15.4 Making Christianity Chinese

15.5 Christian Art at the Mughal Court

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16. Working with Evidence: Representing the French Revolution

Working with Evidence: Representing the French Revolution

16.1 The Patriotic Snack, Reunion of the Three Estates, August 4, 1789

16.2 A Reversal of Roles: The Three Estates of Revolutionary France

16.3 Revolution and Religion: “Patience, Monsignor, your turn will come.”

16.4 An English Response to Revolution: “Hell Broke Loose or The Murder of Louis”

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17. Working with Evidence: Voices of European Socialism

Working with Evidence: Voices of European Socialism

17.1 Socialism According to Marx: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848

17.2 Socialism without Revolution: Eduard Bernstein, Evolutionary Socialism, 1899

17.3 Socialism and Women: Clara Zetkin, The German Socialist Women’s Movement, 1909

17.4 Lenin and Russian Socialism: Lenin, What Is to Be Done?, 1902

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18. Working with Evidence: The Scramble for Africa

Working with Evidence: The Scramble for Africa

18.1 Prelude to the Scramble

18.2 Conquest and Competition

18.3 From the Cape to Cairo

18.4 British and French in North Africa

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19. Working with Evidence: Changing China

Working with Evidence: Changing China

19.1 Toward a Constitutional Monarchy: Kang Youwei, An Appeal to Emperor Guangxu, 1898

19.2 Education and Examination: Anonymous, Editorial on China’s Examination System, 1898, and Emperor Guangxu, Edict on Education, 1898

19.3 Gender, Reform, and Revolution: Qiu Jin, Address to Two Hundred Million Fellow Countrywomen, 1904

19.4 Prescriptions for a Revolutionary China: Sun Yat-sen, The Three People’s Principles and the Future of the Chinese People, 1906

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20. Working with Evidence: Ideologies of the Axis Powers

Working with Evidence: Ideologies of the Axis Powers

20.1 Hitler on Nazism: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), 1925–1926

20.2 The Japanese Way: Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan, 1937

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21. Working with Evidence: Poster Art in Mao’s China

Working with Evidence: Poster Art in Mao’s China

21.1 Smashing the Old Society

21.2 Building the New Society: The People’s Commune

21.3 Women, Nature, and Industrialization

21.4 The Cult of Mao

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22. Working with Evidence: Contending for Islam

Working with Evidence: Contending for Islam

22.1 A Secular State for an Islamic Society: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Speech to the General Congress of the Republican Party, 1927

22.2 Toward an Islamic Society: The Muslim Brotherhood, Toward the Light, 1936

22.3 Progressive Islam: Kabir Helminski, Islam and Human Values, 2009

22.4 Islam and Women’s Dress: Emaan, Hijab: The Beauty of Muslim Women, 2010, and Saira Khan, Why I, as a British Muslim Woman, Want the Burkha Banned from Our Streets, 2009

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23. Working with Evidence: Faces of Globalization

Working with Evidence: Faces of Globalization

23.1 Globalization and Work

23.2 Globalization and Consumerism

23.3 Globalization and Protest

23.4 Globalization and Social Media

23.5 Globalization and Culture

23.6 Globalization: One World or Many

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