Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
A Companion Reader
Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-11
Volume 2 includes Chapters 10-21
Laetoli Footprints (3.6 million years ago)
Peopling the Earth: Genetic and Linguistic Evidence (1993)
African Language Map (2010)
Rachael Moeller Gorman, Cooking Up Bigger Brains (2008)
Temple Grandin, Dogs Make Us Human (2005)
Clive Gamble, Human Tool Use and the “Pioneer Phase” of Technological and Behavioral Development (1993)
Chapter 2 - Rivers, Cities, and First States, 4000–2000 bce
Domesticated Corn (4000 bce)
Egyptian Domesticated Animals
Early Egyptian King Cutting an Irrigation Ditch (3100 bce)
Ptah-Hotep, Precepts (2300 bce)
The Royal Standard of Ur (c. 2600– 2400 bce)
Mencius on the Legendary Sage Kings (c. 2200–2400 bce)
Sargon of Assyria Records His Deeds for Posterity (722–705 bce)
The Curse of Agade (2150–2000 bce)
Chapter 3 - Nomads, Territorial States, and Microsocieties, 2000–1200 bce
Egyptian Funerary Texts (c. 2000 bce)
Guanzi, How to Rule (completed c. 122 bce)
Code of Hammurapi (c. 1792 bce)
Relief of Assyrians Crossing the Euphrates (c. 701 bce)
Egyptian Account of the Battle of Qadesh (c. 1274 bce)
Casebook: Women and Rulership in Ancient Times
- Images of Hatshepsut of Egypt (r. c. 1479–1458 bce)
Dio Cassius, Livia
The Zuo Zhuan, Mother and Son: Alienation and Reconciliation (c. 463–389 bce)
Royal Women at the Court of Xerxes (c. 464–415 bce)
Chapter 4 - First Empires and Common Cultures in Afro-Eurasia, 1200–350 bce
Rigveda (1700–1100 bce)
Upanishads (First Millennium bce)
Genesis 22, The Near-Sacrifice of Isaac (c. 722 bce–c. 586 bce)
Cyrus the Great, The Decree for the Return of the Jews
Herodotus, The Persians Debate the Governance
Thucydides, The Plague
Chapter 5 - Worlds Turned Inside Out, 1000–350 bce
Homer, Shield of Achilles (c. 750 bce)
Confucius, The Analects
Mencius, Humane Government (c. 371–289 bce)
Aristotle, Politics (384–322 bce)
Aristotle, On the Constitution of Carthage (384–322 bce)
Aśoka, Three Edicts (r. 269–231 bce)
Chapter 6 - Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian World, 350 bce–250 ce
The Buddha: Sermons and Teachings
Ketubot, Jewish Premarital Agreements
Pliny, The Seres (c. 77 ce)
Artha Shastra, Duties of a King
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (First Century ce)
The Questions of King Milinda (c. 100 bce)
The Jataka or Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births (c. 300 bce)
Chapter 7 - Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rome, 300 bce–300 ce
Polybius, The Roman Maniple versus The Macedonian Phalanx
Diodorus Siculus, On the Slave Revolt in Sicily (136–132 bce)
The Debate on Salt and Iron (81 bce)
The Legend of Meng Jiangnu (Third Century bce)
Pliny the Younger and Trajan, Exchange on Prosecuting Christians (c. 98-117 ce)
Vindolanda Tablet (Second Century ce)
Chapter 8 - The Rise of Universal Religions, 300–600 ce
Priscus at the Court of Attila (449 ce)
Salvian of Marseilles, On the Governance of God (Fifth Century ce)
Eusebius, The Conversion of Constantine to Christianity (Fourth Century ce)
Gregory of Tours, On the Conversion of Clovis to Christianity (Sixth Century ce)
Taming Frontier Deities in China:The Magistrate and the Local Deity (220–589 ce)
Taming Frontier Deities in China:“Yu gaui lu” (618–907 ce)
Han Yü, Memorial on the Bone of the Buddha (819 ce)
Chapter 9 - New Empires and Common Cultures, 600–1000 ce
Quran (50-3)
Ibn Ishaq, Biography of Messenger of God (Eight Century ce)
Pact of Umar
Bishop Daniel of Winchester, Advice to Boniface on the Method of Conversion (723 ce)
Ibn Fadlan’s Journey to Russia (920 ce)
Avicenna, The Life of Ibn Sina
Abû Ûthmân al-Jâhiz, On the Zanj (c. 860 ce)
Chapter 10 - Becoming “The World,” 1000–1300 ce
The Secret History of the Mongols (Thirteenth Century)
Training and Equipping the Mongol Warrior (Thirteenth Century)
Yuan Tsai, The Problems of Women (Twelfth Century)
Two Views of the Fall of Jerusalem: Raymond of Aguilers and Abu L-Muzaffar Al-Abiwardi, On the Fall of Jerusalem (1099)
Joseph Ben Abraham, Letter from Aden to Abraham Yiju (c. 1130)
Letters between Pope Innocent IV and Güyük Khan (1245-1246)
Francesco Pegolotti, Advice to Merchants Bound for Cathay (c. 1340)
Casebook: Mobilizing for War in the Age of the Mongols
Images of a Mongol horseman and a medieval knight (Fourteenth Century)
‘Ala-ad-Din ‘Ata-Malik Juvaini, Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror (Mid-Thirteenth Century)
Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhen, Conscription and Professional Soldiers in Song China (960–1127)
Ziauddin Barani, The Challenges of Raising an Army (1357)
Chapter 11 - Crises and Recovery in Afro-Eurasia 1300s–1500s
Boccacio, The Decameron (1353)
Jean Froissart, On the Jacquerie (1358)
- Chihab Al-‘Umari, The Pilgrimage of Mansa Musa (1342-49)
Galileo Galilei, Letter to Madame Cristina Di Lorena, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1615)
Ibn Battuta, Visit to Mombassa and Kilwa, Rhila (c. 1358)
Kabir, Three Poems (Fifteenth Century)
Leo Africanus, On Timbuktu in Africa (1526)
Chapter 12 - Contact, Commerce, and Colonization, 1450s–1600
Christopher Columbus, On World Geography (Late Fifteenth Century)
The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (1519)
Arana Xajilá, Plague in Central America (1519–1560)
Juan Sepúlveda, On the Causes of Just War with the Indians (?)
Cabeza de Vaca, Years as a Wandering Merchant (1542)
- William Bradford, Treaty with the Indians (c. 1650)
- Colonel Benjamin Church, In the Nipmuck Country (1675–1676)
- Nzinga Mbemba, Letters to the King of Portugal (1526)
- Vasco da Gama, Round Africa to India (1498)
- Galeota Peirera, A Portuguese Voyage to China (1561)
Martin Luther, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)
Otto von Guericke, The Destruction of Magdeburg (1631)
Chapter 13 - Worlds Entangled, 1600–1750
Jean de Lery, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (1578)
Luis Brandaon, Letter to Father Sandoval (1610)
Richard Ligon, A True & Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (1657)
- Thomas Phillips, Buying Slaves at Wyhdah (1694)
- Alexander Hamilton, A New Account of the East Indies (1688–1723)
Casebook: Coerced Labor in the Early Modern World
Robert Walsh, Description of a Slave Market in Rio de Janiero (1820s)
Heinrichs von Füch Notes on the Treatment of the Natives in Northeast Siberia (1744)
Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa, Mercury Mining in Huanacavelica and Silver Mining in Potosí (1620s)
Captain William Dampier, The General Slavery at Achin (1688)
Chapter 14 - Cultures of Splendor and Power, 1500–1780
- Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Turkish Letters (1589)
Xu Jie, Economic Change in China (Sixteenth century)
Zhang Han, Yiwen Ji (Sixteenth Century)
Roger Cotes, Preface to Newton’s Principia Mathematica (1713)
Simon Schaffer, Information Sources for Principia Mathematica (2008)
Jahangir, Policy toward the Hindus (Seventeenth Century)
Abu’l Hasan, Jahangir’s Dream (c. 1618–1616)
Voltaire, Sixth Philosophical Letter (1734)
Adam Smith, On Baubles and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism (1776)
Chapter 15 - Reordering the World, 1750–1850
Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)
- Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen (1791)
Maximilien Robespierre, Report on the Principles of a Revolutionary Government (1793)
- Olaudah Equiano, The Case against the Slave Trade (1789?)
- George Valentia, Calcutta (1809)
Testimony for the Factory Act (1833)
- Domingo Sarmiento, Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants (1868?)
Chapter 16 - Alternative Visions of the Nineteenth Century
- Honda Tokiashi, A Secret Plan of Government (1798)
- Abd al-Wahhab, The History and Doctrines of the Wahhabis (Eighteenth Century)
- Nathanial Isaacs, Descriptions of Shaka and the Zulu Military (1836)
- Maulvi Syed Kutb Shah Sahib, Call for Hindu-Muslim Unity (1858)
- Proudhon, What Is Property? (1840)
Chapter 17 - Nations and Empires, 1850-1914
Raja Rammohan Roy, Practice of Burning Widows Alive (1820)
Temple Wage Chart (1877)
Cecil Rhodes, Confession of Faith (1877)
Edward D. Morel, The Black Man’s Burden (1920)
Criminal Tribes Act (1871)
Eugene Lyons, Assignment in Utopia (1937)
Chapter 18 - An Unsettled World, 1890-1914
Casebook: Rubber
Chapter 19 - Of Masses and Visions of the Modern, 1910-1939
Chapter 20 - The Three-World Order, 1940-1975
- Yamagata Aritomo, The Coming Race War (1914–1915)
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)
- Hanna Lévy-Hass, Diary of Bergen-Belsen (1944–1945)
- E. B. Sledge, At Okinawa (1945)
- George F. Kennan, Baghdad (1944)
- George F. Kennan, The Long Telegram (1946)
- Juan and Eva Perón, The Peróns Justify Their Regime (1944–1951)
- Isabel and David Crook, Chinese Revolution (1930–1940)
- Nahum Goldmann: Conflicting Perspectives on Israel/Palestine (1969)
- Fawaz Turki: Conflicting Perspectives on Israel / Palestine (1972)
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
- Nelson Mandela, The Rivonia Trial (1964)
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)
- Hermann Muller, One Hundred Years without Darwinism Are Enough (1959)
Chapter 21 - Globalization, 1970–2000
World Energy (1850–2000)
Sean Daily and Daniel Zwerdling, Farmer Suicides and Farming in India (2009)
Voice of Bangladeshi Bloggers, Bangladeshi Workers in Kuwait (2008)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Summary for Policymakers (2007)