History

• Pre-reading questions for each selection help students identify the critical themes within each document.
• Integrative questions at the end of each section prompt students to compare and contrast sources from within a particular culture or across cultures.
• More emphasis on non-Western civilizations makes the text more global in scope by balancing the number of selections dealing with Western civilization—with selections from other traditions.
• Informative introductions provide a general introduction to each major epoch and to each selection and summarize the world events of a particular period to facilitate a more meaningful understanding, and gives students added insight on a document's origin and author.
• A broad, significant and reflective selection of documents (includes documents which represent people's attitudes toward history, literature, science, philosophy, religion, politics, economics, law, biography, and mythology, and which are either of major significance to that particular civilization during their period of history, or give substantial insights into the nature of the society from which they sprang) gives students a varied and substantial selection of documents which highlight different areas affecting/influencing a particular civilization at a given period of its history or over a long period of time.
• Fully or lengthy selections of original source materials (fewer total selections than other texts, but deeper analysis is possible) enable students to gain the fullest possible understanding of how that document either provides substantial insight into the nature of society, or how the document itself shaped society.

• Pre-reading questions for each selection help students identify the critical themes within each document.
• Integrative questions at the end of each section prompt students to compare and contrast sources from within a particular culture or across cultures.
• More emphasis on non-Western civilizations makes the text more global in scope by balancing the number of selections dealing with Western civilization—with selections from other traditions.

I. EARLY CIVILIZATIONS.

II. THE CLASSICAL WORLD.

III. THE POST-CLASSICAL WORLD.

World History: Volume 1 (to 1500)  [PRIMARY SOURCE READERS]   (Western and World History)

This two-volume reader spans the world and its history from the third millennium B.C. to the late 20th century. The illuminating anthology examines significant documents that will acquaint students with major world civilizations and help them understand the historical forces and ideas that have shaped the world in which they live.

Selections in this reader include documents that represent people's attitudes toward history, literature, science, philosophy, religion, politics, economics, law, biography, and mythology, and which are either of major significance to that particular civilization during their period of history, or give substantial insights into the nature of the society from which they sprang. Informative introductions to each of the six sections, as well as individual readings, summarize the world events of a particular period to facilitate a more meaningful understanding, and to give students added insight on a document's origin and author.

• Pre-reading questions for each selection to help students identify the critical themes within each document.
• Integrative questions at the end of each section that prompt students to compare and contrast sources from within a particular culture or across cultures.
• More emphasis on non-Western civilizations, making the text more global in its approach.

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