Description
Book SynopsisTHE HUMAN RECORD is a leading primary source reader for world history, providing balanced coverage of the global past. Each volume contains a blend of visual and textual sources that are often paired or grouped together for comparison, as in the Multiple Voices feature. A prologue entitled Primary Sources and How to Read Them serves as a tool that helps you approach, and get the most from, each document. Approximately one-third of the sources in the Eighth Edition are new, and these documents continue to reflect the myriad experiences of the peoples of the world.
Table of ContentsPrologue: Primary Sources and How to Read Them. Part I: THE ANCIENT WORLD. 1. The First Civilizations. 2. Newcomers: From Nomads to Settlers. 3. Transcendental Reality: Developing the Spiritual Traditions of India and and Southwest Asia: 800���200 B.C.E. 4. The Secular Made Sacred: Developing the Humanistic Traditions of China and Hellas: 600���200 B.C.E. 5. Regional Empires and Afro-Eurasian Interchange, 300 B.C.E.���500 C.E. Part II: FAITH, DEVOTION, AND SALVATION: WORLD RELIGIONS TO 1500. 6. Universal Religions of Salvation in an Uncertain World: 1���600 C.E. 7. Islam: Universal Submission to God. Part III: CONTINUITY, CHANGE, AND INTERCHANGE: 500���1500. 8. Asia: Change in the Context of Tradition. 9. Two Christian Civilizations: Byzantium and Western Europe. 10. Africa and the Americas. 11. Adventurers, Merchants, Diplomats, Pilgrims, and Missionaries: A Half Millennium of Travel and Encounter: 1000���1500.
