Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A Companion Reader / Edition 2

by Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg

Overview

A distinctive, primary source reader with the same global emphasis as the full and concise editions of its companion survey text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393937787
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	02/24/2016
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Pollard, lead author of Volume 1 Full and Concise (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence at San Diego State University, where she has been teaching courses in Roman History, World History, and witchcraft studies since 2002. Pollard is founding Co-Director of the Center for Comics Studies and co-Champion of Comics and Social Justice for the SDSU President’s Big Ideas Initiative (2020–present). Her research investigates women accused of witchcraft in the Roman world and explores the exchange of goods and ideas between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean in the early centuries of the Common Era. Pollard is currently working on two comics-related projects: an analysis of comics about ancient Rome over the last century and a graphic history exploring the influence of classical understandings of witchcraft on their representations in modern comics. She has also published on various pedagogical and digital history topics, including writing about witchcraft on wikipedia, tweeting on the backchannel of the large lecture, and digital humanities approaches to visualizing Roman History. Pollard is also deeply immersed in assessment; she has served as both the assessment coordinator for the Arts and Science Division at San Diego State University and has served as consultant to the College Board. She is also the co-editor of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A Companion Reader 4th Edition.

Clifford Rosenberg, lead author of Concise Edition Volume 2 (Ph.D., Princeton University) is associate professor of European history at City College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Professor Rosenberg specializes in the social and political history of modern Europe, especially France, and on the relationship between the continent and its colonial hinterlands. He has published a book on immigration control and the transformation of citizenship in interwar France. His current research concerns the spread of tuberculosis from France to Algeria and back, and efforts to combat it, from 1830 to the present. He is also the co-editor of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A Companion Reader 4th Edition.

Table of Contents

Preface xv

Chapter 1 Becoming Human

Finding Lucy (3.2 million years ago and 1974) 1

New Skulls and a *"Bushy" Human Family Tree (7 million years ago and 2002) 13

What Foraging Hadza Grandmothers Suggest about Homo erectus Lifestyle (1.8 million years ago and 1999) 17

Rachael Moeller Gorman, Cooking Up Bigger Brains (1.8 million years ago and 2008) 21

What Happened to the Neanderthals? (45,000-30,000 years ago and 2008) 26

Temple Grandin, Dogs Make Us Human (2005) 31

*Clive Gamble, Human Tool Use and the "Pioneer Phase" of Technological and Behavioral Development (1993) 34

Chapter 2 Rivers, Cities, and First States, 3500-2000 BCE

*Royal Standard of Ur (c. 2600-2400 BCE) 37

Mencius, On the Legendary Sage Kings (c. 2400-2200 BCE) 38

*Visual Source

The Curse of Agade (c. 2150-2000 BCE) 41

Ptah-Hotep, Precepts (2300 BCE) 46

*Domesticated Animals (c. 2000 BCE) and Egyptian Labor (2125-1795 BCE) 50

*Domesticated Corn (c. 4000 BCE) 53

Casebook | Humans and the Environment in the Second Millennium BCE

Lament for Ur (c. 2000 BCE) 57

Hekanakhte's Household (2002/1 BCE) 62

Natural Disasters and the End of the Xia Dynasty (c. 1550 BCE) 65

Competing Flood Narratives in the Second Millennium BCE 69

Environmental Changes Influence Harappan Civilization (1700-1500 BCE) 78

Chapter 3 Nomads, Territorial States, and Microsocieties, 2000-1200 BCE

The Code of Hammurapi (c. 1792 BCE) 83

*Nebamun Inspecting Flocks and Herds (1350 BCE) 87

Amarna Letters (c. 1340-1320 BCE) 89

Egyptian Account of the Battle of Qadesh (c. 1274 BCE) 92

Shang Dynasty Oracle Bones (c. 1200 BCE) 96

Catalog of the Greek Ships that Sailed to Troy (c. 1200 BCE) 99

Chapter 4 First Empires and Common Cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1250-325 BCE

Rig-Veda (c. 1700-1100 BCE) 107

Upanishads (first millennium BCE) 109

When Sennacherib's Forces Met Hezekiah (c. 700 BCE) 111

Cyrus the Great, The Decree for the Return of the Jews (c. 538 BCE) 118

Herodotus, Persians Debate Governance (c. 522 BCE) 120

Thucydides, "Melian Dialogue" (416/15 BCE) 123

Guanzi, How to Rule (completed c. 122 BCE) 129

Chapter 5 Worlds Turned Inside Out, 1000-350 BCE

Zoroaster, Yasna 30.1-11 from the Gathas (1000-600 BCE) 133

Confucius, Analects (fifth century BCE) 136

Mencius, Humane Government (c. 371-289 BCE) 139

Aristotle, Politica (384-322 BCE) 142

Aristotle, On the Constitution of Carthage (384-322 BCE) 147

The Buddha, Sermons and Teachings (fourth century BCE to first century BCE) 148

Chapter 6 Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian World, 350-100 BCE

Arthashastra, Duties of a King (c. fourth century BCE) 153

The Jataka or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births (c. 300 BCE) 156

Asoka, Three Edicts (ruled 269-231 BCE) 159

Arrian, Alexander Adopts Persian Ways (324 BCE) 162

Livy, Cato Speaks Against the Repeal of the Oppian Law (195 BCE) 167

1 Maccabees, Resisting Hellenism (167 BCE) 171

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (first century CE) 177

Chapter 7 Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rome, 300 BCE-300 CE

Pliny the Elder, The Seres (c. 77 CE) 183

Diodorus Siculus, On the Slave Revolt in Sicily (136-132 BCE) 185

The Debate on Salt and Iron (81 BCE) 189

Josephus on the Roman Army (c. 70 CE) 193

Sima Guang (eleventh century CE), Han Battle Tactics in 184 CE 198

Keeping the Records of the Military (Rome in 81 CE and Han in 3/2 BCE) 201

Chapter 8 The Rise of Universal Religions, 300-600 CE

Eusebius, The Conversion of Constantine to Christianity (fourth century CE) 205

Priscus, The Court of Attila (449 CE) 209

Salvian of Marseilles, On the Governance of God (fifth century CE) 213

Gregory of Tours, On the Conversion of Clovis to Christianity (sixth century CE) 216

Taming Frontier Deities in China (third-tenth centuries CE) 221

Han Yu, Memorial on the Bone of the Buddha (819 CE) 226

Chapter 9 New Empires and Common Cultures, 600-1000 CE

Quranic Comments on the Torah and the Gospels (early seventh century CE) 230

Ibn Ishaq, Biography of Messenger of God (eighth century CE) 232

Pact of Umar (ninth century CE) 236

Avicenna, The Life of Ibn Sina (early eleventh century CE) 238

Abu Ûthmân al-Jâhiz, On the Zanj (c. 860 CE) 240

Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, Journey to Russia (920 CE) 242

Ouyang Xiu, On the Eunuch Zhang Chengye (d, 922 CE) 246

Njal's Saga, Kolskegg and Thrain: Icelanders on the Move (c. 1000 CE) 251

Chapter 10 Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE

The Rise of Chinggis Khan (c. 1206) 256

Yuan Cai, The Problems of Women (twelfth century) 260

Two Views of the Fall of Jerusalem (1099 CE) 265

Joseph ben Abraham, Letter from Aden to Abraham Yiju (c. 1130) 269

Francesco Pegolotti, Advice to Merchants Bound for Cathay (c. 1340) 273

Chihab Al-'Umari, The Pilgrimage of Mansa Musa (1342-1349) 277

Casebook Mobilizing for War in the Age of the Mongols

*Images of Mongol Horsemen and a Medieval European Knight (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries) 282

'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini, Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror (mid-thirteenth century) 285

Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhen, Conscription and Professional Soldiers in Song China (960-1127 CE) 288

Ziya' al-Din Barani, The Challenges of Raising an Army (1357) 291

Chapter 11 Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300s-1500s

Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (1353) 295

The Ordinance of Laborers (1349) 300

Ibn Battuta, Visit to Mombasa and Kilwa, Rhila (c. 1358) 304

The Voyages of Zheng He (1405-1433) 307

Leo Africanus, On Timbuktu (1526) 310

Bernal Díaz, A Spanish view of Tenochtitlán (1567) 312

Galileo Galilei, Letter to Madame Cristina di Lorena, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1615) 315

Text Permissions 321