week2 essay Part 1

List of Primary Sources in HIS 233 Eligible for Use in Analytical Essay Assignments

Week 2 Module 1

Law Code of Hammurabi Hammurabi, The Code of Hammurabi

Zoroastrianism The Soul’s Destination, Iranian Afterlife Isaiah 45, Cyrus as Liberator Isaiah 56, Hebrew Afterlife

Week 2 Module 2 Classical Greece

Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration from the Peloponnesian War Xenophon, The Polity of the Spartans

Rome and China Confucius, Analects Plutarch, The Training of Children

Week 3 Module 1

Silk Roads Faxian, The Journey of Faxian to India Marco Polo, The Travels of Marco Polo

Abbasid Caliphate Yakut, Baghdad under the Abbasids Islamic Architecture, Abbasid Period Week 3 Module 2

The Song Dynasty Pictorial Images from Northern Song and Southern Song Dynasties

Medieval European Towns Documents Concerning the Origin of Guilds Guibert de Nogent, The Revolt in Laon Account of the setting up of self-government in Ipswich in A.D. 1200 The Chronicles of Venice, How the Doges Were Chosen Southampton Guild Organization, 14th Century

Week 4 Empires of Western Africa

Al-Bakri, Kingdom of Ghana Leo Africanus, Timbuktu Al-Umari, Kingdom of Mali Proverbs from Ghana

The Aztec Empire Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Memoirs of the Conquistador

Hernan Cortés, Second Letter to Charles V Cortés’ letter to the King of Spain, Moctezuma's Greeting to Hernan Cortes Miguel León-Portilla, Broken Spears, Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico