Meridians: Sources in World History Recommended Readings for The World: A History  

by Felipe Fernández‐Armesto Volume I 

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Chapter 2 — Out of the Mud: Farming and Herding After the Ice Age Secondary Sources

Susan Keech McIntosh & Roderick J. McIntosh

West African Prehistory WHS005-1 23 pp.

Chapter 3 — The Great River Valleys: Accelerating Change Primary Sources

Ancient Mesopotamian Chronicles WH872 6 pp. The Epic of Gilgamesh WH856 6 pp. The Creation Epic WH511 9 pp. Hammurabi Code of Hammurabi WH512 6 pp. Deciphering Shang Oracle Bones WH2358 5 pp.

Chapter 4 — A Succession of Civilizations Primary Sources

Rg Veda WH911 23 pp. Birth of the King WH054 2 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction Who Were the Indo-Aryans? WHS025 2 pp. Bridget Allchin and

Raymond Allchin The Arrival of Civilization in India and Pakistan

WHS025-1 15 pp.

Thomas R. Trautmann Aryans and British India WHS025-2 38 pp. Chapter 5 — Rebuilding the World: Recoveries, New Initiatives, and Their Limits

Primary Sources Herodotus Circumnavigating Africa WH402 3 pp. Anonymous Periplus of the Erythraean Sea WH029 3 pp. Aristophanes The Women Go On Strike WH409 7 pp. Upanisads WH912 14 pp.

Secondary Sources Christopher Ehret An African Classical Age WHS005-2 14 pp. Chapter Introduction The “Black Athena Controversy” WHS032 2 pp. Martin Bernal from the Introduction to Black Athena:

The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical CivilizationWHS032-1 31 pp.

Mary R. Lefkowitz Ancient History, Modern Myths WHS032-2 26 pp.

Chapter 6 — The Great Schools Primary Sources

The Bible The Six Days of Creation WH407 4 pp. The Bible The Sermon on the Mount WH408 8 pp. Confucius The Wisdom of Confucius WH193 11 pp. Mencius The Teachings of Mencius WH162 8 pp. Zhuangzi The Philosophy of Zhuangzi WH163 6 pp. Xunzi The Confucianism of Xunzi WH191 6 pp. Han Feizi Han Feizi and Legalism WH192 8 pp. Laozi The Dao De Jing WH161 5 pp. Herodotus The Three Forms of Government WH401 4 pp. Thucydides The Burdens of Empire WH404 7 pp. Aristophanes The Women Go On Strike WH409 7 pp. Plato Equality for Women WH405 12 pp. Plato Soul, Prisoner of the Body WH406 6 pp. Aristotle The Types of Political Constitution WH413 11 pp. Aristotle The Golden Mean WH412 11 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction How Democratic was Athenian

Democracy? WHS033 2 pp.

Martin Ostwald Shares and Rights: "Citizenship" Greek Style and American Style

WHS033-2 16 pp.

Mogens Herman Hansen The Ancient Athenian and The Modern Liberal View of Liberty as a Democratic Ideal

WHS033-3 17 pp.

Kurt A. Raaflaub Equalities and Inequalities in Athenian Democracy

WHS033-4 23 pp.

Chapter 7 — The Great Empires Primary Sources

The Avesta Ancient Iranian Psalms WH861 6 pp. The Nihongi The Origins of Japan WH199 3 pp. Thucydides The Burdens of Empire WH404 7 pp. Cicero Fear and the Spread of Roman Tyranny WH410 5 pp. Tacitus German Democracy and Justice WH403 3 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction The Motives Behind Roman Expansion WHS034 2 pp. Ernst Badian The “Economic Motive” WHS034-1 14 pp. William V. Harris From War and Imperialism in Republican

Rome WHS034-2 20 pp.

Erich S. Gruen Material Rewards and the Drive for Empire

WHS034-4 23 pp.

Chapter 8 — Postimperial Worlds: Problems of Empires in Eurasia and Africa, ca. 200 C.E. to ca. 700 C.E.

Primary Sources

The Qur’an Excerpt from Sura 3, “The Family of Imran”

WH862 8 pp.

The Qur’an Excerpt from Sura 4, “Women” WH863 7 pp. The Qur’an Excerpt from Sura 5, “The Table” WH864 6 pp. The Qur’an Excerpt from Sura 9, “Repentance” WH865 6 pp. The Qur’an Excerpt from Sura 19, “Mary” WH866 7 pp. The Qur’an Excerpt from Sura 47, “Muhammad” WH867 5 pp.

Chapter 8 Continued The Qur’an Excerpts from Suras 61 “The Battle

Array," 70 "The Ways of Ascent,” and 88 “The Overwhelming Day”

WH868 6 pp.

Ban Zhao Admonitions for Women WH166 14 pp. The Popul Vuh The Origins of Maya Civilization WH701 8 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction The Breakdown of the Roman Order in

the West WHS035 2 pp.

Norman H. Baynes The Decline of Roman Power in Western Europe: Some Modern Explanation

WHS035-1 14 pp

Hans Delbrück Decline and Dissolution of the Roman Military System

WHS035-2 18 pp.

W. H. C. Frend The Monks and the Survival of the East Roman Empire in the Fifth Century

WHS035-4 24 pp.

A. H. M. Jones Why Did the Western Empire Fall? WHS035-3 10 pp. Chapter Introduction Orientalism: Can Western Research

Methodology Be Applied to the East? WHS044 3 pp.

Edward Said Introduction to Orientalism WHS044-1 30 pp. Bernard Lewis The Question of Orientalism WHS044-2 22 pp. Edward Said, Oleg Grabar,

and Bernard Lewis Orientalism: An Exchange WHS044-3

20 pp.

Chapter Introduction Meccan Trade: The Question of the Reliability of the Early Islamic Historical Tradition

WHS049 3 pp.

Patricia Crone Introduction to the Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam

WHS049-1 9 pp.

R. B. Serjeant Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam: Misconceptions and Flawed Polemics

WHS049-2 30 pp.

Patricia Crone Serjeant and Meccan Trade WHS049-3 27 pp. Chapter 9 — The Rise of World Religions: Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism

Primary Sources

Ahmad ibn Jabir al-Baladhuri

The Conversion of the Church of John the Baptist into a Mosque

WH869 4 pp.

Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Mas'ud Entertainers and Party-Crashers WH850 8 pp. Nizam al-Mulk Advice to a King WH854 6 pp. Abu Ya'la Hamza ibn Asad

Ibn al-Qalanisi A Royal Filicide WH859 4 pp.

Kumārajīva The “Devadatta” chapter of the Lotus Sutra

WH901 11 pp.

Prince Shotoku’s Constitution WH209 5 pp. The Laws of Manu WH926 12 pp. The Mahabharata WH914 44 pp. Ārya Śūra The “Viśvamtara” story in Ārya Śūra’s

Jātakamālā WH900 16 pp.

Abhayadatta “Lūyipa,” “Ghandhapa,” and “Laksmīnkarā” in The Lives of the Eighty-Four Siddhas

WH902 10 pp.

St. Augustine of Hippo The Two Cities WH420 16 pp. Secondary Sources

Richard Eaton Mass Conversion to Islam: Theories and Protagonists

WHS026-1 25 pp.

Chapter 10 — Remaking the World: Innovation and Renewal on Environmental

Frontiers in the Late First Millennium Primary Sources

The Popul Vuh The Origins of Maya Civilization WH701 8 pp. The Nihongi The Origins of Japan WH199 3 pp.

Chapter 11 — Contending with Isolation: ca. 1000–1200 Primary Sources

Murasaki Shikibu The Diary of Lady Mursaki WH154 8 pp. Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of the Genji WH171 9 pp. Anonymous The Salic Law WH421 14 pp. The Digest of Roman Law Fugitive Slaves and Maroon

Communities WH411 5 pp.

Anonymous The Norse Discovery of America WH417 11 pp. Secondary Sources

Chapter Introduction Heian Court Culture WHS007 2 pp. Ivan Morris Men and Women in Heian Japan WHS007-1 23 pp. Doris G. Bargen Spirit Possession in Heian Literature WHS007-2 17 pp. Chapter 12 — The Nomadic Frontiers: The Islamic World, Byzantium, & China ca. 1000–1200

Primary Sources Usama Ibn Munqidh An Arab Opinion of the Crusaders WH426 5 pp. Anna Comnena The First Crusade Reaches Byzantium WH430 6 pp. William of Tyre Why the Crusaders Failed WH428 4 pp. Farid al-Din ‘Attar A Mystical Tract Pope Gregory VII The Papacy Lays Claim to Universal

Empire WH414 3 pp.

Pope Calixtus II and Emperor Henry V

Church and State Compromise over the Investiture

WH415 3 pp.

Heloise Woman is More Bitter than Death WH423 10 pp. Secondary Sources

S. M. Stern Ya’qub the Coppersmith and Persian National Sentiment

WHS045-1 23 pp.

Chapter 13 — The World the Mongols Made Primary Sources

Rashid al-Din Mongol Government WH873 5 pp. William of Rubruck A Mission to the Great Khan WH429 9 pp. Ibn Battuta A Traveler's Account of the Delhi

Sultanate WH851 7 pp.

Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur

The Moghul Empire of India WH880 7 pp.

Nizam ud-din Auliya Morals for the Heart WH917 11 pp. Zia ud-din Barni Fatawa-yi-Jahandari WH918 17 pp. Marco Polo On Kubilai Khan WH155 7 pp. St. Francis of Assisi The Rule of St. Francis WH416 6 pp. Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law WH422 13 pp. Roger Bacon A Plea for the Study of Languages WH431 5 pp.

Secondary Sources Chapter Introduction On the Trail of Marco Polo WHS014 2 pp. Frances Wood Where Did Marco Polo Go? WHS014-1 21 pp. Peter Jackson The Trouble with Marco Polo's Travels WHS014-2 27 pp.1

Chapter 14 — The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century

Primary Sources D. T. Niane From Sundiata: En Epic of Old Mali WH018 10 pp. Henry Knighton The Impact of the Black Death WH418 6 pp. William Langland The Peasant’s Life WH424 8 pp. Christine de Pizan Just and Unjust War WH432 13 pp. Margery Kempe A Chaste Life WH433 9 pp. Thomas à Kempis The Blessed Sacrament WH434 12 pp. Leon Battista Alberti The Value of Marriage and Family WH435 15 pp.

Chapter 15 — Expanding Worlds: Recovery in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Primary Sources

Gomes de Azurara Henry the Navigator's Search for New Lands

WH436 4 pp.

Alvise da Cadamosto A Venetian Describes the Portuguese West African Trade

WH437 11 pp.

Anonymous Vasco da Gama Explores the Indian Ocean

WH438 19 pp.

Christopher Columbus Journal of the First Voyage WH439 16 pp. Secondary Sources

Chapter Introduction Aztec Human Sacrifice WHS016 2 pp. Jacques Soustelle The Man, World and Time WHS016-1 8 pp. Michael J. Harner The Ecological Basis for Aztec Sacrifice WHS016-2 10 pp. Inga Clendinnen Aztecs: An Interpretation WHS016-3 6 pp. Chapter Introduction Ottoman Origins: Holy Warriors or

Tribal Pasture-Seekers WHS046 2 pp.

Paul Wittek The Rise of the Ottoman Empire WHS046-1 18 pp. Cemal Kafadar Between Two Worlds: The Construction

of the Ottoman State WHS046-3 16 pp.

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