Appendix: Using This Sourcebook with Primary Textbooks
The documents in this primary source reader supplement and reinforce World History Volume 1 (to 1500) and Volume 2 (from 1400). One example of alignment is provided below.
World History Volume 1 (to 1500)
Chapter 8: “The Americas in Ancient Times”
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- The Inca Empire
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- Quipu
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- Quipucamayoc
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- Bernabé Cobo, History of the Inca Empire, 1653
Chapter 12: “India, the Indian Ocean Basin, and East Asia”
Chapter 13: “The Post-Roman West and the Crusading Movement”
- 1b
- Avicenna, The Canon of Medicine, 1025
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- The First Crusade, 1096-1099
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- Fulcher of Chartres, Pope Urban II’s Speech at Council of Clermont, 1095
- 2b
- Raymond of St. Giles, The Capture of Jerusalem, 1099
- 2c
- Ibn Al-Athir, The Conquest of Jerusalem, ca. 1231
Chapter 14: “Pax Mongolica: The Steppe Empire of the Mongols”
- 1a
- Shen Kuo, The Dream Pool Essays, 1088
- 3
- The Magna Carta, 1215
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- The Mongol Empire
- 4a
- Ala Ad Din Ata Malik Juvani, The History of the World Conqueror, 1252-1260
- 4b
- Friar Giovanni DiPlano Carpini, The Mongols Whom We Call the Tartars, 1252
- 4c
- Marco Polo, The Description of the World, ca. 1307
Chapter 15: “States and Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa”
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- Yoruba Sculpture, 1100-1400
- 6a
- Copper Mask
- 6b
- Bronze Head
- 6c
- Terracotta Head
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- Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa, 1354
Chapter 16: “Climate and Plague in the Fourteenth Century”
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- The Black Death
- 5a
- Marchione di Coppo Stefani, Florentine Chronicle, ca. 1380
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- Ahmad al Maqrizi, The Bubonic Plague in Syria and Egypt, 1453
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- The Ordinance of Labourers, 1349
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- The Cremation of the Strasbourg Jewry, 1349
Chapter 17: “The Ottomans, the Mamluks, and the Ming”
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- Inscriptions of Zheng He, 1431
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- Michael Kritovoulos, The Siege of Constantinople, 1453
World History Volume 2 (from 1400)
Chapter 2: “Exchange in East Asia and the Indian Ocean”
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- Japan Encounters the West, 1587-1635
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- The Bateren Edict, 1587
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- Edict Expelling Christian Missionaries, 1635
- 24
- Emperor Qianlong, Letter to George III, 1793
Chapter 4: “The Islamic World”
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- Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Suleiman the Magnificent, 16th Century
Chapter 5: “Foundations of the Atlantic World”
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- The Reformation and Counter-Reformation
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- Martin Luther, Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, 1520
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- Menno Simons on Infant Baptism, 1527
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- St. Francis Xavier, Letter from Japan to the Society of Jesus at Goa, 1551
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- Catholic Propaganda, 1535
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- Protestant Propaganda, ca. 1500
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- Jean Domat, On Social Order and Absolutist Monarchy, 1697
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- The Transatlantic Slave Trade
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- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789
- 21b
- Diagram of the Brooks Slave Ship, 1787
Chapter 6: “Colonization and Economic Expansion”
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- First Contact in the Americas
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- Christopher Columbus, Journal Excerpts, 1492
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- Michele da Cuneo: Letter on the Second Voyage, 1495
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- Revolutionary Technologies
- 13a
- Gutenberg Bible
- 13b
- Bronze Cannon
- 13c
- Mariner’s Astrolabe
- 13d
- World Map
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- The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
- 14a
- Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, 16th Century
- 14b
- Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, 1568
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- Arthur W. Gilbert, The Potato, 1917
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- The Industrial Revolution
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- Watt & Boulton Steam Engine
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- Richard Arkwright’s Spinning Frame
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- Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786
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- Leeds Cloth Merchants’ Statement, 1791
Chapter 7: “Revolutions in Europe and North America”
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- The Scientific Revolution
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- Andreas Vesalius, De Humani Corporis Fabrica
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- Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (Selected Aphorisms), 1620
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- William Harvey, On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, 1628
- 20d
- Isaac Newton, “The Tides” in The Principia, 1687
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- The Enlightenment
- 22a
- Voltaire, On Tolerance, 1763
- 22b
- Cesare Beccaria, An Essay on Crimes and Punishments, 1764
- 22c
- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776
- 22d
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
- 22e
- Camilo Henríquez, “Earthquakes are nothing more than phenomena of nature”, 1813
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- Atlantic Revolutions
- 25a
- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776
- 25b
- Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789
- 25c
- The Haitian Constitution, 1801
