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Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Mesopotamia

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Israel

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Persia

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Egypt

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Hellenistic World

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Christian Origins

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Late Antiquity

Internet East Asian History Sourcebook

Internet African History Sourcebook

Internet Medieval Sourcebook

Internet Modern History Sourcebook

Internet Women's History Sourcebook

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WEB READINGS

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Human Origins

Mesopotamia

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Gilgamesh Summary

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Code of Hammurabi

Akkadian Cylinder Seal

Egypt

The Hebrews

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Introduction to Genesis

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The Hebrew Creation Story (Genesis 1-3)

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The Flood (Genesis 6:5-9:17)

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Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22)

Ancient India

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Upanishads

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Online Schools - Buddhist Studies

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Buddha

Ancient China

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Lao Tzu: Tao te Ching

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Confucius: Analects (selections)

Ancient Greece

Views of Troy

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Homer

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Homer's Odyssey: "Polyphemos"

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Odyssey: "Journey to the Underworld"

Views of Athens

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Thucydides: "Pericles' Funeral Oration"

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Thucydides 3.82-83: "The Corcyran Revolt"

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Thucydides: "The Melian Debate"

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Heraclitus

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Greek Philosophy: Plato

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Greek Philosophy: Plato: Allegory of the Cave, The Divided Line

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Plato's Theory of Forms Schematic

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See Illustrations to Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Hellenistic Greece

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Theocritus: The Cyclops

Greek Philosophy: Hellenistic Philosophy

Rome

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Livy: "Rape of Lucretia"

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Polybius: "The Constitution of the Roman Republic"

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Juvenal: On the City of Rome

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Epictetus: The Enchiridion

Early Christianity

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The Beatitudes (Luke 6:20-26)

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Paul: Salvation by Faith (Romans 3:21-28)

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Paul: On Marriage vs. Celibacy (1 Corinthians 7:25-31, 36-40)

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Christian Beginnings: Roman View

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The Murder of Hypatia

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Leo I: The Petrine Doctrine

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St. Augustine: "Conversion" (from the Confessions)

Islam

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Introduction to the Qu'ran

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The Qu'ran (selections)

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Muhammad's Last Sermon

The European Middle Ages

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Liudprand of Cremona: Embassy to Constantinople (963)

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Abelard: History of My Calamities

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Thomas Aquinas: "Reasons for the Proof of the Existence of God" (1270)

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Boccaccio: Introduction to the Decameron

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Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales : Prologue [Parallel Texts] {Reduce your font size}
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See also Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales: Prologue to Wife of Bath's Tale [Parallel Texts]

The Diary of Lady Murasaki Shikibu (Japan, c. AD 1020)

The Italian Renaissance

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Petrarch: The Ascent of Mount Ventoux

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Humanism

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Niccolò Machiavelli: from The Prince

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Machiavelli: from The Prince

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Michel de Montaigne: On Cannibals (1580)

Discovery and Reformation

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Martin Luther

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Martin Luther: The Freedom of a Christian

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William Shakespeare: Sonnets 55 and 73

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John Donne: Good-morrow

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John Donne: Song

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John Donne: A Hymn to God the Father

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John Donne: Death Be Not Proud

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Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress

Scientific Revolution and European Enlightenment

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Galileo Discovers the Moons of Jupiter

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Rene Descartes: from Discourse on Method {Reduce your font size}

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Thomas Hobbes: from Leviathan

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Montesquieu: Spirit of the Laws (1748)

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Voltaire: A Treatise on Toleration

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from The Life of Olaudah Equiano
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 For further information, see African Slave Trade

The Industrial Revolution of the Eighteenth Century

Political Revolutions and Their Consequences

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: from The Social Contract

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Declaration of the Rights of Man (France, 1789)

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Olympe de Gouge: Rights of Women (1791)

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William Wordsworth: The World Is Too Much with Us

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Wordsworth: "The Excursion" (1814)

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William Wordsworth: from Tintern Abbey {Tintern Abbey} {Tintern Abbey}

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John Keats (1795-1821): Ode on a Grecian Urn

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John Stuart Mill: On Liberty

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: from The Communist Manifesto

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Walt Whitman: from Song of Myself

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Charles Darwin: from The Origin of Species

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Nietzsche: Parable of the Madman

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Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals