By September 16th, I ask that you sign up to do your research assignment on one of the primary sources listed below. Only ONE student can choose each primary source. Most of the primary sources listed are documents but there is one visual source “Cave Paintings.”
All primary sources listed below are available in Sources for the Frameworks of World History (our tutorial reading textbook). I’ve indicated the chapter, source number, and page numbers for each.
To sign up for your topic, please come to my office (McCaffray Hall also known as the ADMIN building, Third Floor, 3091) during one of the following times:
- Wednesday September 4th 1-3 pm
- Thursday September 5th 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
- Monday September 9th 1-4 p.m.
- Tuesday September 10th 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
| Primary Source | Location in Sources for Frameworks of World History |
| “Cave Paintings” | Chapter 1, Source 1.4, pages 4-5 |
| “The Plague in Athens” from History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides | Chapter 2, Source 2.3a, pages 11-14 |
| “The Plague of Justinian” from History of the Wars of Justinian by Procopius | Chapter 2, Source 2.3b, pages 14-17 |
| The Code of Hammurabi | Chapter 3, Source 3.2, pages 20-24 |
| A Peace Treaty between Rameses II and Hattusill III, the Egyptian Version | Chapter 3, Source 3.3, pages 24-27 |
| “The Hymn to Purusha” from The Rig Veda | Chapter 3, Source 3.4, pages 27-28 |
| On the Sacred Disease by Hippocrates | Chapter 4, Source 4.1a, pages 31-33 |
| The Analects by Confucius | Chapter 4, Source 4.2, pages 35-37 |
| The Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 4, Source 4.3, pages 38-40 |
| Zoroastrianism: Yasna 19 | Chapter 4, Source 4.5, pages 42-43 |
| The Hebrews: Second Isaiah | Chapter 4, Source 4.6, pages 43-45 |
| “Book 3, Chapter 3” from The Nichomachean Ethics by Aristotle | Chapter 4, Source 4.7, pages 45-47 |
| Correspondence with Trajan by Pliny the Younger | Chapter 5, Source 5.1, pages 49-52 |
| Rex Gestae Divi Augusti : The Achievements of Divine Augustus by Augustus Caesar | Chapter 5, Source 5.2, pages 52-55 |
| Rock Edict XIII from the Rock and Pillar Edicts by Ashoka | Chapter 5, Source 5.3, pages 55-57 |
| “The First Emperor” from The Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian | Chapter 5, Source 5.4, pages 57-59 |
| Lessons for Women by Ban Zhao | Chapter 6, Source 6.1, pages 65-68 |
| The Law of Manu | Chapter 6, Source 6.2, pages 68-70 |
| Mahayana Buddhism: The Lotus Sutra | Chapter 7, Source 7.1a, pages 81-84 |
| The Disposition of Error by Mou Tzu | Chapter 7, Source 7.1b, pages 85-86 |
| Christianity: The New Testament | Chapter7, Source 7.3a, pages 89-92 |
| History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours | Chapter 7, Source 7.3b, pages 92-94 |
| Islam: The Quran | Chapter 7, Source 7.4a, pages 94-98 |
| “The Revolt of the Laon Commune” from De Sua Vita by Guibert of Nogent | Chapter 8, Source 8.1a, pages 101-105 |
| Wise Practitioners: The Arabian Nights | Chapter 8, Source 8.2, pages 107-111 |
| Informed Officials: Description of the Barbarous Peoples by Zhao Rugua | Chapter 8, Source 8.3, pages 112-114 |
| Worldly Travelers: from Travels by Ibn Battuta | Chapter 8, Source 8.4, pages 114-117 |
| “On the Huns” from Res Gestae by Ammianus Marcellinus | Chapter 9, Source 9.1b, pages 123-124 |
| Poems by Du Fu | Chapter 9, Source 9.2a, pages 125-126 |
| Further Reflections on the Things at Hand by Chu Hsi | Chapter 9, Source 9.2b, pages 126-129 |
| The Merits of the Turks by Al-Jahiz | Chapter 9, Source 9.3, pages 129-131 |
| A History of India by Abū al-Rayhān al-Bīrūnī | Chapter 9, Source 9.4, pages 131-134 |
| The Russian Primary Chronicle | Chapter 9, Source 9.5b, pages 139-142 |
| The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu | Chapter 10, Source 10.1, pages 143-145 |
| Epic of Sundiata | Chapter 10, Source 10.4, pages 153-156 |
| Popol Vuh | Chapter 11, Source 11.1, pages 157-160 |
| Chronicles by Pedro Cieza de León | Chapter 11, Source 11.4, pages 167-170 |
| “The Siege of Antioch” from The Chronicle by Fulcher of Chartres | Chapter 12, Source 12.1a, pages 171-176 |
| “The Siege of Antioch” from The Perfect History by Ibn al-Athīr | Chapter 12, Source 12.1b, pages 176-179 |
| The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey Villehardouin | Chapter 12, Source 12.2, pages 179-182 |
| The Poem of the Cid | Chapter 12, Source 12.3, pages 182-185 |
| The Tale of the Heike | Chapter 12, Source 12.4, pages 186-189 |
| Magna Carta | Chapter 12, Source 12.6, pages 190-193 |
| The Secret History of the Mongols | Chapter 13, Source 13.1a, pages 195-199 |
| The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun | Chapter 13, Source 13.2a, pages 201-203 |
| The Decameron by Boccacio | Chapter 13, Source 13.2c, pages 204-208 |
| “The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381” from Chronicles by Jean Froissart | Chapter 14, Source 14.1b, pages 215-218 |
| Inscription of the World Voyages by Zheng He | Chapter 14, Source 14.2a, pages 218-220 |
| A Journal of the First Voyage by Vasco da Gama | Chapter 14, Source 14.3a, pages 223-226 |
| Letter Describing His First Voyage by Christopher Columbus | Chapter 14, Source 14.3b, pages 226-229 |