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Table of Contents
Unit 1: Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Fertile Crescent
Unit 2: Religion and Culture in the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East
Code of Hammurabi (1752 BCE)
Enuma Elish (ca. 1500 BCE)
Bible: Genesis (ca. 1400 – 400 BCE)
Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 1300 BCE)
Unit 3: Earliest Civilizations of Africa
Hymn to the Nile (ca. 1990 – 1950 BCE)
Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty (1259 BCE)
Unit 4: India
Rig Veda (ca. 1700 – 1200 BCE)
Valmiki: Ramayana (400 BCE)
Rock and Pillar Edicts of Asoka (257 – 240 BCE)
Unit 5: China, Japan, and Korea
Classic of Poetry: Chinese Agricultural Calendar (ca. 800 – 600 BCE)
Mandate of Heaven (ca. 475 – 221 BCE)
Canon of Filial Piety (ca. 300 – 239 BCE)
Han Feizi (ca. 230 BCE)
Huan Kuan: Discourses on Salt and Iron (74 – 49 BCE)
Wang Kon: Ten Injunctions (943)
Unit 6: Revolutions in Human Thought
Bible: Jeremiah (ca. 600 BCE)
Noble Eightfold Path (ca. 528 BCE)
Upanishads (ca. 700? BCE – 300 CE)
Analects of Confucius (ca. 479 – 249 BCE)
Bible: Deuteronomy (ca. 475 BCE)
Plato: “Of Wealth Justice Moderation and Their Opposites” (ca. 380 BCE)
Unit 7: Earliest Civilizations of the Americas
Popol Vuh (ca. 250 – 925)
Hernán Cortés: Second Letter to Charles V (1520)
Rig Veda Americanus (ca. 1540 – 1585)
Unit 8: The Greeks
Funeral Oration of Pericles (431 BCE)
Hippocratic Oath (ca. 400 BCE)
Aristotle: “The Nature End and Origin of the States” (ca. 335 – 323 BCE)
Aristotle: Athenian Constitution (320 BCE)
Unit 9: The Romans
Marcus Cato (the Elder): On Agriculture (ca. 160 BCE)
Law of Caesar on Municipalities (44 BCE)
Deeds of the Divine Augustus (14 CE)
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations (ca. 170 – 180 CE)
Unit 10: The Rise of Christianity
Bible: Letter of Paul to the Galatians (ca. 48 – 52)
Bible: Gospel of John (ca. 96)
Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan: Letters on Treatment of the Christians (112)
Letter of the Smyrnaeans on the Martyrdom of Polycarp (156)
Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire (311 and 313)
Nicene Creed (325)
Augustine of Hippo: City of God (413-426)
Unit 11: European Peoples
Tacitus: Germania (ca. 98)
Holy Rule of Saint Benedict (ca. 525)
The Voyage of Bran (ca. 700 – 800)
Bishop Daniel of Winchester: Letter to Boniface on Conversion (723 – 724)
Boniface: Letter to Pope Zacharias on the Foundation of the Monastery at Fulda (751)
Song of Hildebrand (830)
Unit 12: Ascendancy of the East
Code of Justinian (534)
Qur’an (Koran) (ca. 610 – 632)
Covenant of Umar I (637)
Sahih al-Bukhari (870)
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: Confessions (ca. 1100)
Unit 13: Formation of Western Christendom
Charlemagne: Great Capitulary (802)
Annals of Xanten (832 – 873)
Pope Urban II: Call to Crusade (1095)
Anna Comnena: Alexiad (ca. 1148)
Usama ibn Munqidh: “A Muslim View of the Crusaders” (1185)
Unit 14: The Medieval Age
Henry IV of Germany and Pope Gregory VII: Letter and Ban (1076)
Bernard Atton Viscount of Carcassonne: Charter of Homage and Fealty (1110)
Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris (1215)
Magna Carta (1215)
Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae (1266 – 1273)
Marco Polo: Description of Hangzhou (1298)
Unit 15: The Renaissance
Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peace (1324)
Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron (ca. 1350 – 1353)
Marchionne di Coppo Stefani: Florentine Chronicle (ca. 1375 – 1385)
Leon Alberti: On Painting (1435)
