Foreword by Robert André LaFleur Introduction Volume 1 Part 1: Ancient Australia: 40,000 bce-Fourth Millennium bce 1.1.1 Australian Aboriginal Cave Paintings1.1.2 Late Paleolithic Mortar and Pestle1.1.3 Neolithic Arrowhead1.1.

4 Mesolithic Ornamental Club1.1.5 Beaker Culture Drinking Vessel Part 2: Egypt and the Near East: Fourth Millennium bce-First Century ce 1.2.1 Egyptian Bronze Age Sickle1.2.2 Old Kingdom Sculpture of Man Making Beer1.2.

3 Vizier Ptah-Hotep''s Advice on Family Life1.2.4 Sumerian Administrative Tablet with Cuneiform Script1.2.5 Egyptian Hymn to the Nile1.2.6 The Sumerian Flood Myth from the Epic of Gilgamesh 1.2.

7 Terracotta Relief of a Babylonian Harp Player1.2.8 Code of Hammurabi on Property Crime1.2.9 Medical Strictures from the Code of Hammurabi1.2.10 Egyptian Wood Lyre1.2.

11 Egyptian Alabaster Canopic Jar1.2.12 Hymns from the Egyptian Book of the Dead1.2.13 Model of an Assyrian Home1.2.14 Clean and Unclean Foods according to the Book of Deuteronomy1.2.

15 Gold Model Chariot from Ancient Persia1.2.16 Terracotta Figurine of an Egyptian Scribe1.2.17 Herodotus Describes the Domestic Animals in Egypt1.2.18 The Egyptian Practice of Embalming1.2.

19 Health and Hygiene in Ancient Egypt1.2.20 Religious Rituals in the Nile Delta1.2.21 Phoenician Law Concerning Sacrifices1.2.22 Persian Customs as Witnessed by Herodotus1.2.

23 Josephus on Jewish Marriage and Family Law1.2.24 Josephus on Rules of War1.2.25 Travel and Trade around the Red Sea Part 3: Ancient Asia: Fourth Millennium bce-Third Century ce 1.3.1 Harappan Seal1.3.

2 Jomon-Period Fukabachi Cup1.3.3 Bronze Dagger from Shang Dynasty1.3.4 Shang Dynasty Oracle Bone1.3.5 Moral Precepts from the Mahabharata1.3.

6 The Laws of Manu on Hindu Women1.3.7 Mourning for Parents during the Zhou Dynasty1.3.8 The Arthashastra on an Ideal Mauryan Leader1.3.9 Bronze Dotaku Ritual Bell1.3.

10 Clay Model of a Han Dynasty House1.3.11 Tirukural on Renunciation of Flesh1.3.12 Strabo''s Observations on Urban Life in India1.3.13 The Instruction of Children in Han China1.3.

14 Ban Zhao on Reverencing the Husband1.3.15 The Indian Caste System in the Vishnu Purana Part 4: Ancient Greece: 2000 bce-Second Century bce 1.4.1 Minoan Boxers Fresco1.4.2 Minoan Pithoi 1.4.

3 Late Bronze Age Copper Oxhide Ingot1.4.4 A Scene of the Trojan War from the Iliad 1.4.5 Building a Boat in Homer''s Odyssey 1.4.6 Hesiod''s Notes on Farming and Harvesting1.4.

7 Solon''s Legal Reforms for Athens1.4.8 Education in Solon''s Athens1.4.9 Ostraka , or Classical Greek Voting Ballots1.4.10 Bronze Corinthian Helmet1.4.

11 The Essentials of Effective Oratory According to Plato1.4.12 A Greek Krater Depicting a Potter at Work1.4.13 Public Works Programs of Pericles1.4.14 A Military Funeral Procession during the Peloponnesian Wars1.4.

15 Terracotta Greek Theatrical Mask1.4.16 Funerary Stele from the Athenian Necropolis of Kerameikos1.4.17 A Description of Spartan Life1.4.18 Xenophon on Teaching Obedience to Slaves1.4.

19 Xenophon on Managing the Household1.4.20 Strabo Describes the Wonders of Alexandria1.4.21 The Importance of Learning Philosophy According to Plutarch1.4.22 Plutarch''s Views on Physical Education1.4.

23 How to Choose a Teacher in Ancient Greece1.4.24 Greek Views on the Benefits of Nursing1.4.25 The Requisite Physical Attributes for Greek Athletes Part 5: Ancient Rome: Second Century bce-460 ce 1.5.1 A Roman Senator on Living With, and Without, Matrimony1.5.

2 Cato the Elder on Uppity Women1.5.3 Roman Perfume Vases1.5.4 Cicero on Professions and Social Status1.5.5 A Good Roman Father''s Responsibilities1.5.

6 Cato the Elder''s Philosophy on Slave Ownership1.5.7 Quintilian on How an Orator Should Dress1.5.8 Recipes from a Roman Cookbook1.5.9 Seneca''s Advice on Treating the Help Kindly1.5.

10 Buying a Farm in the Country1.5.11 An Ideal Retirement according to Pliny the Younger1.5.12 Pliny the Younger on Being Stood Up for Dinner1.5.13 Pliny the Younger''s Tuscan Villa1.5.

14 Seneca on the Benefits of Fasting1.5.15 Great Buildings of Rome1.5.16 Bronze Extraction Forceps1.5.17 Bronze Sistrum1.5.

18 Portable Terracotta Stove1.5.19 Scale for Bronze Coins1.5.20 Roman Terracotta Oil Lamp1.5.21 Quintilian''s Prescription for Educating a Child1.5.

22 Roman Ivory Dice1.5.23 Roman Ivory Toiletries1.5.24 Tasks of the Priests of Jupiter1.5.25 Juvenal''s View on Urban Life in Rome1.5.

26 Poverty in the Roman Capital City1.5.27 Pliny the Younger and Trajan Discuss How to Punish Christians1.5.28 Roman Gladiator Mosaic1.5.29 Roman Gold Collar with Sardonyx Medallion1.5.

30 Character of Visigoth King Theodoric II Part 6: Byzantine Empire and Russia: Fourth-Mid-Twelfth Century ce 1.6.1 Byzantine Pilgrimage Flask1.6.2 Digest of Justinian on Fugitive Slaves1.6.3 The Institutes of Justinian on Marriage1.6.

4 Racing Factions in the Byzantine Capital1.6.5 A Description of the Rus from the Risala 1.6.6 The Book of the Eparch on Economic Regulation in Constantinople1.6.7 Icon of Saint Eudocia1.6.

8 Gold Solidus1.6.9 Illuminated Illustration from Homilies on the Virgin 1.6.10 The Great Fair at Thessalonica Part 7: Islamic World: Seventh-Sixteenth Centuries ce 1.7.1 Heaven and Hell According to the Koran1.7.

2 The Koran on Women and Inheritance1.7.3 The Sunnah on Charity1.7.4 The Sunnah on Prayer1.7.5 The Sunnah on Women and Slaves1.7.

6 Koran Scroll Fragment1.7.7 Laws Governing Mecca1.7.8 Al-Khwarizmi on Algebra1.7.9 Baghdad under the Abbasids1.7.

10 Muslim Views on Marriage1.7.11 Small Plaques for Casket1.7.12 Bronze Ewer Inlaid with Silver1.7.13 Body Diagram from the Anatomy of the Human Body 1.7.

14 Ceremonial Ottoman Caftan Part 8: Africa: 4000 bce-Sixteenth Century ce 1.8.1 Saharan Prehistoric Cave Painting1.8.2 Egyptian New Kingdom Fresco Depicting Nubian Servants1.8.3 Hunters of the Horn of Africa1.8.

4 Bronze Relief of Benin Warriors1.8.5 Yoruba Ancestor Monolith1.8.6 Tellem Rain Sculpture1.8.7 Ethiopian Orthodox Gospel Book1.8.

8 Description of Timbuktu and Its People Part 9: The Americas: First-Sixteenth Centuries ce 1.9.1 Nazca Trophy Head Vessel1.9.2 Moche Clay Trumpets1.9.3 Tiwanaku Bronze Axe and Tupu Pins1.9.

4 Mississippian Stone Frog Pipe1.9.5 Classic-Period Sculpture of a Maya Scribe1.9.6 Ancestral Pueblo Turquoise Beads1.9.7 Maya Almanac from the Dresden Codex1.9.

8 Aztec Spear-Throwers1.9.9 Christopher Columbus''s Notes on the Carib and Taino Peoples1.9.10 Illustration of Aztec Tribute from the Mendoza Codex1.9.11 Cortes''s Descriptions of the Aztec City of Tenochtitlán1.9.

12 The Administration of Inca Provinces1.9.13 Andean Chuspa Bag1.9.14 Pre-Inca and Inca Religions1.9.15 Pomo Cooking Basket Part 10: Central and East Asia: Sixth-Fourteenth Centuries ce 1.10.

1 Haniwa Horse from Yayoi-Period Japan1.10.2 Sui Dynasty Flutist Figurine1.10.3 Tang Dynasty Poem "Drinking Alone by Moonlight"1.10.4 The Kojiki on Cosmic Origins1.10.

5 Bai Juyi''s Poems on Middle and Old Age1.10.6 Tang Dynasty Poem "The Charcoal-Seller"1.10.7 The Tale of Genji on Life in the Heian Imperial Court1.10.8 Song Dynasty Marble Polo Ball1.10.

9 Song Dynasty Metal Coin1.10.10 Samurai Behavior Described in the Genpei Seisuiki 1.10.11 Marco Polo''s Description of the Mongol Capital1.10.12 Mongol Koumiss Flask1.10.

13 Marco Polo''s Description of Mongol Warriors1.10.14 Marco Polo on Chinese Paper Money1.10.15 The Women of Kublai Khan''s Court1.10.16 Yoshida Kenko on Sake1.10.

17 Liu Chi on Corruption during the Yuan Dynasty1.10.18 Medical Treatment as Described in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms 1.10.19 Yuan Dynasty Jingdezhen Blue-and-White Porcelain Ewer1.10.20 Scene from Aya no Tsuzumi , a Japanese Noh Play Part 11: Europe in the Middle Ages: Fifth-Fifteenth Centuries ce 1.11.

1 Merovingian Grooming Accessories1.11.2 Salic Law on the Punishment for Stealing Livestock1.11.3 Monastic Life According to The Rule of St. Benedict 1.11.4 A Vassal''s Contract1.

11.5 Laws Concerning Anglo-Saxon Women1.11.6 Anglo-Saxon Vendetta and Tort Law1.11.7 A Monastic Fish Farm1.11.8 Song of Roland on Frankish Military Culture and Chivalry1.

11.9 Viking Rune Stone1.11.10 Land Grant to a Jewish Community in Medieval Germany1.11.11 The Fall of Jerusalem during the Crusades1.11.12 Bankruptcy in Medieval England1.

11.13 Pledging Allegiance to the Count of Flanders1.11.14 The Rights of Individuals on Anglo-Saxon Social Classes1.11.15 Charter for a Butchers'' Guild1.11.16 Description of Students at the University of Paris1.

11.17 Knight Chess Piece from Florence1.11.18 Thirteen-Century Charters for English Cities1.11.19 Acknowledgment of King''s Authority over Vassal''s Marriage1.11.20 Violence and the Supernatural in Viking Life1.

11.21 Running a Manorial Estate in England1.11.22 Illustration from the Luttrell Psalter of English Servants1.11.23 Account of the Black Death at Avignon1.11.24 The Statute of Laborers from Fourteenth-Century England1.

11.25 University of Heidelberg''s Charter of Privileges1.11.26 An English Guide to Being a Good Hunter 1.11.27 Wax Seal with Hanseatic Cog1.11.28 Helmet and Bevor1.

11.29 Italian Tarot Card Depicting the Knight of Wands1.11.30 Marriage of Margery PastonVolume 2 Part 12: The Emergence of Modern Europe: 1500-1700 ce 2.12.1 A Venetian Ambassador''s Description of Germany2.12.2 The Book of the Courtier 2.

12.3 Italian Medicinal Jar ( Albarello )2.12.4 Church Law from the Council of Trent2.12.5 John Calvin''s Ordinances for the Regulation of the Churches 2.12.6 Commentary on English Women''s Fashions2.

12.7 A Description of Dutch Town Life2.12.8 European Horse Tournament Armor2.12.9 Italian Gunpowder Flask2.12.10 A Renaissance Education in England2.

12.11 Hunting Wild Boar2.12.12 William Harrison''s Description of England2.12.13 Stephen Gosson''s The School of Abus.