Civilization in the West, Volume I (to 1715), Primary Source Edition (with Study Card)

The Primary Source Edition of Civilization in the West blends social and political history into a fascinating narrative that brings history to life. With 40 primary source documents, this edition offers an examination of all aspects of world history plus a wealth of original documents that help make the material come alive.  “Document Analysis” questions encourage readers to delve deeper into the documents and to explore how they relate to the events of the time.

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Added document section at the back includes: Document 1.1 “Near Eastern Law Codes” (1300s BCE, 2000 BCE) Document 1.2 An Egyptian Folk Tale (1986-1937 BCE) Document 2.1 Homer, from The Iliad (c. 700 BCE) Document 3.1 Aristotle, Excerpt on Slavery from The Politics (c. 350 BCE) Document 3.2 Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars from “Speech of Pericles” (c. 420 BCE) Document 4.1 Plutarch, “Life of Cato the Elder” from Lives (c. 100 CE) Document 5.1 Augustus, “The Deeds of the Divine Augustus” (14 CE) Document 5.2 The Gospel According to Luke (40-120 CE) Document 6.1 Benedict of Nursia, “Rule of St. Benedict” (c. 530 CE) Document 7.1 From the Qur’an (c. 650 CE) Document 8.1 From the Annals of the Abbey of Xanten (845-853 CE) Document 8.2 Einhard, from The Life of Charlemagne (829-836 CE) Document 9.1 Geoffrey de Villhardouin, from Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade (c. 1200) Document 10.1 Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, (1302) Document 10.2 Dante, from “Paradiso”of Divine Comedy (1321) Document 11.1 Niccolo Machiavelli, from The Prince (1513 CE) Document 12.1 Christopher Columbus, “A Letter from the New World” (1492) Document 12.2 Hernan Cortes, “Second Letter to Charles V of Spain” (1519) Document 13.1 John Calvin, Selections from Institutes of the Christian Religion (1537) Document 13.2 Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises, “Rules for Thinking With the Church” (1535) Document 14.1 Jacques-Auguste de Thou, from “Onthe Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day” (1604-08) Document 14.2 John Hawkyns, “Report on the Spanish Armada” (1588) Document 16.1 James VI of Scotland (later James I of England), from The True Law of Free Monarchies (1598)   Documents.   Maps.    Chronologies, Genealogies, and Figures.   Preface.   About the Authors.   Introduction: The Idea of Western Civilization.   1. The First Civilizations. The Visual Record: ötzi's Last Meal: Life and Death in Prehistoric Europe. Before Civilization. The Dominance of Culture. Social Organization, Agriculture, and Religion. Mesopotamia : Between the Two Rivers. The Ramparts of Uruk. Tools: Technology and Writing. Gods and Mortals in Mesopotamia. Sargon and Mesopotamian Expansion. Hammurabi and the Old Babylonian Empire. The Gift of the Nile. Tending the Cattle of God. Democratization of the Afterlife. The Egyptian Empire. Religious and Royal Consolidation under Akhenaten. Between Two Worlds. The Hebrew Alternative. A King Like All the Nations. Exile. Nineveh and Babylon. The Assyrian Empire. The New Babylonian Empire. Persian Expansion. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. A CLOSER LOOK: DISCOVERING THE PHARAOHS. Documents. The Code of Hammurabi. A Homesick Egyptian. The Kingdom of Israel . 2. Early Greece, 2500–500 b.c.e. The Visual Record: Hecuba and Achilles: The Birth of Greek Civilization. Greece in the Bronze Age to 800 b.c.e.   Islands of Peace. Mainland of War. The Dark Age. Archaic Greece , 800–500 b.c.e. Ethnos and Polis. Technology of Writing and Warfare. Colonists and Tyrants. Gender and Power. Gods and Mortals. Myth and Reason. Investigation and Speculation. Art and the Individual. A Tale of Three Cities. Wealthy Corinth. Martial Sparta. Democratic Athens. The Coming of Persia and the End of the Archaic Age. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading . A CLOSER LOOK: THE AGONY OF ATHLETICS. Documents. Hector and Andromache. The Race of Iron. Two Faces of Tyranny. 3. Classical and Hellenistic Greece, 500–100 b.c.e. Alexander at Issus : The Spread of Greek Civilization. War and Politics in the Fifth Century b.c.e. The Persian Wars. Thermopylae and Salamis. The Athenian Empire. Private and Public Life in Athens. Pericles and Athens. The Peloponnesian War. Athenian Culture in the Hellenic Age. The Examined Life. Understanding the Past. Athenian Drama. Art and the Human Image. From City-States to Macedonian Empire, 404–323 b.c.e. Politics after the Peloponnesian War. Philosophy and the Polis. The Rise of Macedon. The Empire of Alexander the Great. The Hellenistic World. Urban Life and Culture. Women in Public Life. Alexandria . Hellenistic Literature. Art and Architecture. Hellenistic Philosophy. Mathematics and Science. Cultural Resistance. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading . A CLOSER LOOK: TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION. THE WEST AND THE WIDER WORLD: REPRESENTING THE BUDDHA: FROM APOLLO TO CHRISTIAN SAINT. Documents. The Two Faces of Athenian Democracy. Socrates the Gadfly. Greeks and Barbarians. Alexander Calls a Halt. 4. Early Rome and the Roman Republic, 800–146 b.c.e. The Visual Record: Eternal Rome : From Village to Empire. The Western Mediterranean to 509 b.c.e. Merchants of Baal. The Western Greeks. Italy ’s First Civilization. From City to Empire, 509–146 b.c.e. Latin Rome. Etruscan Rome. Rome and Italy. Rome and the Mediterranean. Republican Civilization. Farmers and Soldiers. The Roman Family. Social Effects of Expansion. Roman Religion. Republican Letters. The Crisis of Roman Virtue. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. A CLOSER LOOK: HANNIBAL’S ELEPHANTS. Documents. The Twelve Tables. Polybius Compares Rome and Carthage. Cato’s Slaves. 5. Imperial Rome, 146 b.c.e.–192 c.e. The Altar of Augustan Peace: The Making of the Roman Empire. The Price of Empire, 146–121 b.c.e. Winners and Losers. Optimates and Populares. The End of the Republic. The Crisis of Government. A Life Worth Leading. The Augustan Age and the Pax Romana 155. The Empire Renewed. Augustus’s Successors. Religions from the East. Jewish Resistance. The Origins of Christianity. Geographical Tour. A Tour of the Empire. The Western Provinces. The Eastern Provinces. The Culture of Antonine Rome. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. A CLOSER LOOK: A DAY IN THE PAX ROMANA. Documents. The Reforms of Tiberius Gracchus. Cicero on Justice and Reason. Peter Announces the Good News. 6. The Transformation of the Classical World. The Visual Record: A Bride’s Trousseau: The Synthesis of Christianity and the Classical Tradition. The Crisis of the Third Century. Enrich the Army and Scorn the Rest. An Empire on the Defensive. The Barbarian Menace. Roman Influence in the Barbarian World. Diocletian, the God-Emperor. Constantine, the Emperor of God. The Triumph of Christianity. Imperial Christianity. Divinity, Humanity, and Salvation. The Call of the Desert. Monastic Communities. Solitaries and Hermits. A Parting of the Ways. The Barbarization of the West. The New Barbarian Kingdoms. The Hellenization of the East. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. A CLOSER LOOK: THE STAINLESS STAR OF WISDOM’S DISCIPLINE. Documents. Tacitus on the Germans. Religious Toleration and Persecution. Love in the Two Cities. 7. The Classical Legacy in the East: Byzantium and Islam. The Visual Record: From Temple to Mosque: The Continuity of Civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Byzantines. Justinian and the Creation of the Byzantine State. Emperors and Individuals. Families and Villages A Foretaste of Heaven. Iconoclasm. The Rise of Islam. Arabia before the Prophet. Muhammad, Prophet of God. The Triumph of Islam. The Spread of Islam. Authority and Government in Islam. Umayyad and `Abbasid Caliphates. Islamic Civilization. The Byzantine Apogee and Decline, 1000–1453. The Disintegration of the Empire. The Conquests of Constantinople and Baghdad. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. THE WEST AND THE WIDER WORLD: INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY. Documents. The Qur’an. An Arab’s View of Western Medicine. A Turkish Guest in Constantinople. 8. The West in the Early Middle Ages, 500–900. The Visual Record: The Chapel at the Waters: The Western Empire Reborn. The Making of the Barbarian Kingdoms, 500–750. Italy : From Ostrogoths to Lombards. Visigothic Spain : Intolerance and Destruction. The Anglo-Saxons: From Pagan Conquerors to Christian Missionaries. The Franks: An Enduring Legacy. Living in the New Europe. Creating the European Peasantry. Rural Households. Creating the European Aristocracy. Aristocratic Lifestyle. Governing Europe. The Carolingian Achievement. Charlemagne and the Renewal of the West. The Carolingian Renaissance. Carolingian Government. Carolingian Art. Geographical Tour: Europe in the Ninth Century. England. Scandinavia. The Slavic World. Muslim Spain. After the Carolingians: From Empire to Lordships. Disintegration of the Empire. Emergence of France and Germany. Cluny. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. A CLOSER LOOK: THE JEWS IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES. Documents. Two Missionaries. From Slave to Queen. Charlemagne and the Arts. 9. The High Middle Ages. The Visual Record: From the Syrian Desert to the Welsh Marshes: A Kings and His Castles. The Countryside. The Peasantry: Serfs and Freemen. The Aristocracy: Warriors and Heiresses. The Church: Saints and Monks. Crusaders: Soldiers of God. Medieval Towns. Italian Cities. Northern Towns. The Fairs of Champagne. Urban Intellectuals. The Invention of the State. The Universal States: Empire and Papacy. The Nation-States: France and England. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. A CLOSER LOOK: CATHEDRALS OF LIGHT. Documents. Visions Like a Flame. Pope Urban II Summons a Crusade. Saint Francis of Assisi on Humility and Poverty. The Great Charter. 10. The Later Middle Ages, 1300–1500. The Visual Record: Webs of Stone and Blood: European Civilization at the End of the Middle Ages. Politics as a Family Affair. The Struggle for Central Europe. A Hundred Years of War. Life and Death in the Later Middle Ages. Dancing with Death. The Plague of Insurrection. Living and Dying in Medieval Towns. The Spirit of the Later Middle Ages. The Crisis of the Papacy. Discerning the Spirit of God. Heresy and Revolt. Religious Persecution in Spain. William of Ockham and the Spirit of Truth. Vernacular Literature and the Individual. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. Documents. The Black Death in Florence . Convivencia. A Woman Before the Inquisition. 11. The Italian Renaissance. The Visual Record: A Civic Procession: Community Building in Renaissance Venice. Renaissance Society. The Urban Environment. Production and Consumption. The Experience of Life. The Quality of Life. Renaissance Art. An Architect, a Sculptor, and a Painter. Renaissance Style. Michelangelo. Renaissance Ideals. Humanists and the Liberal Arts. Renaissance Science. Machiavelli and Politics. The Politics of the Italian City-States. The Five Powers. Venice : A Seaborne Empire. Florence : Spinning Cloth into Gold. The End of Italian Hegemony, 1450–1527. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. A CLOSER LOOK: THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE. Documents. On the Family. The Renaissance Man. The Lion and the Fox. The Siege of Constantinople. 12. The European Empires. The Visual Record: Astride the World: The Age of Monarchies. European Encounters. A Passage to India. Mundus Novus. The Spanish Conquests. The Legacy of the Encounters Geographical Tour: Europe in 1500: The Age of the New Monarchies. Boundaries of Eastern Europe. Central Europe. Western Europe. The Formation of States. Eastern Configurations. The Western Powers. The Dynastic Struggles. Power and Glory. The Italian Wars. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. A CLOSER LOOK: ISABELLA OF CASTILE. Documents. A Momentous Discovery. The Halls of Montezuma. Last Words. The Kingdom of France. 13. The Reform of Religion. The Visual Record: Sola Scriptura: The Bible and the Reformation. The Intellectual Reformation. The Print Revolution. Christian Humanism. The Humanist Movement. The Wit of Erasmus. The Lutheran Reformation. The Spark of Reform. Martin Luther’s Faith. Lutheranism. The Spread of Lutheranism. The Protestant Reformation. Geneva and Calvin. The English Reformation. The Reformation of the Radicals. The Catholic Reformation. The Spiritual Revival. Loyola’s Pilgrimage. The Counter-Reformation. The Empire Strikes Back. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. A CLOSER LOOK: UTOPIA. Documents. A Dutch Wit. Luther on Marriage. The Eternal Decree. Heavenly Vision. 14. Europe At War, 1555–1648. The Visual Record: The Massacre of the Innocents: War and European Society. The Crises of the Western States. The French Wars of Religion. One King, Two Faiths. The World of Philip II. The Burgundian Inheritance. The Revolt of the Netherlands. The Struggles in Eastern Europe. Kings and Diets in Poland. Muscovy ’s Time of Troubles. The Rise of Sweden. The Thirty Years’ War, 1618–1648. Bohemia Revolts. The War Widens. The Long Quest for Peace. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. A CLOSER LOOK: THE MONSTROUS REGIMENT OF WOMEN. Documents. Catholics and Huguenots. Cannibals. War Is Hell. Fire and Sword. 15. The Experiences Of Life In Early Modern Europe , 1500–1650. The Visual Record: Haymaking: Agriculture in a European Community. Economic Life. Rural Life. Town Life. Economic Change. Social Life. Social Constructs. Social Structure. Social Change. Peasant Revolts. Private Life. The Family. Communities. Popular Beliefs. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. A CLOSER LOOK: SEX AND THE MARRIED MAN. Documents. Living by One’s Wits. The Peasants’ Revolt. A Feminine Perspective. The Devil’s Due. 16. The RoyalState in the Seventeenth Century. The Visual Record: Fit for a King: The Grandeur of the European Monarchy. The Rise of the Royal State. Divine Kings. The Court and the Courtiers. The Drive to Centralize Government. The Taxing Demands of War. The Crises of the Royal State. The Need to Resist. The Right to Resist. The English Civil War. The English Revolutions. The Zenith of the Royal State . The Nature of Absolute Monarchy. Absolutism in the East. The Origins of French Absolutism. Louis le Grand. Questions for Review. Key Terms. Discovering Western Civilization Online. Suggestions for Further Reading. Documents. A Glimpse of a King. A Short, Sharp Shock. The Nature of Man. A Close Shave.