By September 18th, I ask that you sign up to do your research assignment on one of the primary sources listed below. Only 2-3 students can choose each primary source. Most of the primary sources listed are documents but there are two that are images: “Cave Drawings from Lascaux” and “Hunefer’s Book of the Dead.
All primary sources listed below are available in Worlds of History: Volume I to 1550 (7th edition). I’ve indicated the chapter, source number, and page numbers for each.
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Primary Source | Location in Worlds of History |
“Cave Drawing from Lascaux France c. 15 000 B.C.E.” | Chapter 1, Source 3, Figure 1.4, page 11 |
Epic of Gilgamesh | Chapter 2, Source 2, pages 38-46 |
Enheduanna, The Exaltation of Inana | Chapter 2, Source 4, pages 49-51 |
Hammurabi’s Code | Chapter 2, Source 5, pages 52-55 |
Hunefer’s Book of the Dead | Chapter 2, Source 7, pages 59-61 |
The Rig Veda | Chapter 3, Source 2, pages 80-82 |
The Upanishads | Chapter 3, Sources 3 AND 4, pages 82-85 |
Confucius, The Analects | Chapter 4, Source 1, pages 111-112 |
Laozi, Daoism: The Way and the Power | Chapter 4, Source 2, pages 113-117 |
Han Fei, “Legalism” | Chapter 4, Source 3, pages 118-121 |
Cicero, “Letter to His Brother Quintus” | Chapter 4, Source 6, pages 130-134 |
“Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan” | Chapter 4, Source 7, pages 135-137 |
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations | Chapter 4, Source 8, pages 137-140 |
Ban Zhao, Lessons for Women | Chapter 5, Source 2, pages 150-155 |
Vatsyana, “On the Conduct of Wives, Husbands, and Women of the Harem” | Chapter 5, Source 3, pages 155-160 |
Plato, The Symposium | Chapter 5, Source 4, pages 160-164 |
Ovid, The Art of Love | Chapter 5, Source 5, pages 164-170 |
Svetasvatara Upanishad | Chapter 6, Source 1, pages 178-180 |
The Lotus Sutra | Chapter 6, Source 4, pages 187-190 |
“Judaism and the Bible” | Chapter 6, Source 5, Sections from Genesis, pages 193-196 |
“The Christian Bible: Jesus According to Matthew” | Chapter 6, Source 7, pages 205-208 |
Paul, Letters | Chapter 6, Source 8, pages 209-210 |
Eusebius, Life of Constantine | Chapter 7, Source 2, pages 222-224 |
The Disposition of Error | Chapter 7, Source 4, pages 229-233 |
Selections from the Quran | Chapter 7, Source 5, pages, 235-241 |
Epic of Sundiata | Chapter 7, Source 8, pages 250-252 |
Faxian, “Travels on the Silk Road and Seas” | Chapter 8, Source 3, pages 274-282 |
Ibn Battuta, Travels | Chapter 8, Source 4, pages 282-288 |
Ulrich von Liechtenstein, The Service of Ladies | Chapter 9, Source 2, pages 304-309 |
Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love | Chapter 9, Source 3, pages 310-313 |
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji | Chapter 9, Source 6, pages 319-324 |
Zhou Daguan, “Sex in the City of Angkor” | Chapter 9, Source 7, pages 325-329 |
Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies | Chapter 9, Source 8, pages 329-332 |
“Grant to the Jews” | Chapter 10, Source 2, pages 338-340 |
Fulcher of Chartres, “The First Crusade: Pope Urban’s Speech at Clermont” | Chapter 10, Source 3, pages 340-346 |
Chronicle of Solomon bar Simson | Chapter 10, Source 4, pages 346-349 |
Ibn al-Athir, “A Muslim History of the First Crusade” | Chapter 10, Source 5, pages 349-352 |
Ibn al-Athir, “The Conquest of Jerusalem, 1231” | Chapter 10, Source 6, pages 352-354 |
Ibn Fadlan, “The Viking Rus” | Chapter 11, Source 2, pages 371-376 |
Igor de Rachewiltz (modern translator), The Secret History of the Mongols | Chapter 11, Source 5, pages 387-391 |
Ibn al-Athir, “The Mongols” | Chapter 11, Source 6, pages 391-394 |
John of Plano Carpini, History of the Mongols | Chapter 11, Source 7, pages 395-399 |
Giovanni Boccaccio, “The Plague in Florence” from the Decameron | Chapter 12, Source 3, pages 417-422 |
Saint Ephrem of Syria, “Hymn to Paradise” | Chapter 13, Source 3, pages 440-443 |