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The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History
, Second Edition
Richard W. Bulliet, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Daniel R. Headrick, Steven W. Hirsch, Lyman L. Johnson, David Northrup
Primary Sources
Title
Details
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Great Flood
Chapter:
2
Date:
2700-2500 B.C.E.
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
Epic
Type:
Text
The Mandate of Heaven:
The Classic of History
Chapter:
3
Date:
c. 1700 B.C.E.
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
Socio-political Philosophy
Type:
Text
The Analects
Chapter:
3, 6
Date:
c. 500 B.C.E.
Author:
Confucius
Description:
Moral Teachings
Type:
Text
A Dead Sea Scroll: The Essenes' Manual of Discipline
Chapter:
4
Date:
50 B.C.E.- A.D.100
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
Religious Teaching
Type:
Text
A Geocentric Explanation: The Earth Must Be Stationary Existence
Chapter:
5
Date:
A.D. 120 - A.D. 140
Author:
Ptolemy
Description:
Astronomical Study
Type:
Text
Hindu Search for Divine Reality:
The Upanishads
Chapter:
7
Date:
c. 800 B.C.E
Author:
Anonymous
Description:
Religious Teachings
Type:
Text
Two Lessons
Chapter:
7
Date:
c. 200 B.C.E
Author:
The Buddha
Description:
Religious Teachings
Type:
Text
Description of India
Chapter:
7
Date:
1030
Author:
Abu'l Raihan al-Biruni
Description:
Sociological Observations
Type:
Text
Ecclesiastical History
Chapter:
8, 10
Date:
c. 300
Author:
Eusebius of Caesarea
Description:
Historical Account
Type:
Text
The Qur'an: Call for Jihad
Chapter:
9
Date:
c. 650
Author:
The Prophet Mohammad
Description:
Religious Teaching
Type:
Text
Frank-land: An Islamic View of the West
Chapter:
9, 10
Date:
1275-1276
Author:
Al-Qazwini
Description:
Sociological Observations
Type:
Text
The Life of Charlemagne: The Emperor Himself
Chapter:
10
Date:
c. 835
Author:
Einhard
Description:
Biography
Type:
Text
Diary
Chapter:
11
Date:
1000
Author:
Murasaki Shikibu
Description:
Diary/Sociological Observations
Type:
Text
The Book Of Descriptions Of Countries
Chapter:
17
Date:
1340
Author:
Francesco Pegolotti
Description:
Merchant Handbook
Type:
Text
Fifteenth-Century Slave Trade: The Portuguese in West Africa
Chapter:
17
Date:
1455-1456
Author:
Alvise da Cadamosto
Description:
Account
Type:
Text
Columbus Announces His Discovery
Chapter:
17
Date:
1493
Author:
Christopher Columbus
Description:
Letter/Sociological Observations
Type:
Text
Cortés on the Aztecs: Two Letters to Charles V
Chapter:
17
Date:
1521
Author:
Hernando Cortés
Description:
Letters/Sociological Observations
Type:
Text
History and Description of Africa
Chapter:
17
Date:
1526
Author:
Leo Africanus
Description:
Sociological Observations
Type:
Text
The Council of Trent and Catholic Reformation
Chapter:
18
Date:
1563
Author:
Acts of the Council of Trent
Description:
Church Decrees
Type:
Text
Galileo Discovers the Moons of Jupiter
Chapter:
18
Date:
1610
Author:
Galileo Galilei
Description:
Astromomical Study
Type:
Text
An Eyewitness Describes the Slave Trade in Guinea
Chapter:
20
Date:
c. 1700
Author:
Captain Willem Bosman
Description:
First-hand Account
Type:
Text
An African Slave Relates His First Impressions Upon Boarding a Slave Ship
Chapter:
20
Date:
1793
Author:
Olaudah Equiano
Description:
Memoir/First-hand Account
Type:
Text
Declaration of Independence
Chapter:
23
Date:
1776
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
Description:
Political Declaration
Type:
Text
What Is the Third Estate?
Chapter:
23
Date:
1789
Author:
Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
Description:
Polemical Pamphlet
Type:
Text
A Black Revolutionary Leader in Haiti: Toussaint L'Ouverture
Chapter:
23
Date:
1797
Author:
François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture
Description:
Political Declaration
Type:
Text
Czech Nationalism Finds a Literary Outlet
Chapter:
23
Date:
1855
Author:
Bozena Nemcova
Description:
Fiction
Type:
Text
The Wealth of Nations
Chapter:
24
Date:
1776
Author:
Adam Smith
Description:
Economic Theory
Type:
Text
The 'Poet Laureate of Empire' Issues a Word of Warning
Chapter:
26, 29
Date:
1897
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
Description:
Poem
Type:
Text
An Indian Nationalist Condemns the British Empire
Chapter:
26, 29, 32
Date:
1920
Author:
Sarojini Naidu
Description:
Speech
Type:
Text
The Mexican View of the War
Chapter:
29
Date:
1850
Author:
Ramon Alvarez et al.
Description:
Historical Account
Type:
Text
The Fourteen Points
Chapter:
30
Date:
1918
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
Description:
Diplomatic Guidelines
Type:
Text
The Centerpiece of Nazi Racial Legislation: The Nuremberg Laws
Chapter:
31
Date:
1935
Author:
Nazi German Government
Description:
Law
Type:
Text
Third World Advocate Decries Colonized Peoples' Loss of Identity
Chapter:
32
Date:
1952
Author:
Frantz Fanon
Description:
Socio-political Commentary
Type:
Text
The Helsinki Final Act: Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Enunciated
Chapter:
35
Date:
1975
Author:
Helsinki Conference on European Security
Description:
International Accord
Type:
Text
The Gulf War
Chapter:
35
Date:
1990
Author:
George Bush
Description:
Political Speech/Policy
Type:
Text
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