List of Primary Documents

[More will be added so that there are at least two in each chapter from 6 to 31.]

6. A Sumerian Schoolboy; Ibn Khaldun; The Art of War

7. Code of Hammurabi; Advice from an Egyptian Scribal Teacher

8. Creation Stories (several from different societies); Hymn to the Nile

9. Cyrus Cylinder; Ashoka’s Edicts; The Four Elements

10. Quotes from Cicero; Confucian Quotations

11. Happiness of the Dhammapada; The Parable of the "Pearl-borer"

12. The 1001 Nights; An Anonymous Account of Baghdad around 1000 ce

13. An Arab Impression of the Slavic Slave Trade; Ibn Khaldun’s Theory of History; Cast off the Yoke of Bondage

14. Excerpt from Tale of Genji; Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta

15. Anonymous in Wurzburg in 1147 disdains motives for Crusades; The Divine Comedy; Zhu Xi

16. Mansa Musa Visits Cairo

17. Visiting the Mongols

18. Religious Reform in Many Lands; Papal Bull of Innocent VIII on Witchcraft

19. The Conquest of Tenochtitlan; Vasco da Gama on the natives of South Africa

20. Excerpt from Shaikh Hasan Al Kafrawi; Babur’s Autobiography

21. Excerpt from Muhammad Iqbal; Giuseppe Mazzini on Nationalism

22. Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations; Galileo’s Recantation of Heresy

23. In Defence of Colonialism

24. [Petition] To the Merchants, Clothiers…; Transport and Industrialization

25. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens; Haitian Declaration of independence

26. African Slavery in America

27. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

28. Treaty of Versailles

29. The Depression Experience

30. A Plea for African Unity

31. The Dawn of Restrictions on Immigration