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America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
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America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
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America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
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America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
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America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
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America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
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America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
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America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
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America and Its Sources: A Guided Journey through Key Documents, 1865-present
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World History I to 1500
: Ascendancy of the East
Editor in Chief:
Joseph T. Stuart, University of Mary
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1. Domestication of Plants and Animals in the Fertile Crescent
2. Religion and Culture in the Earliest Civilizations of the Near East
3. Earliest Civilizations of Africa
4. India
5. China, Japan, and Korea
6. Revolutions in Human Thought
7. Earliest Civilizations of the Americas
8. The Greeks
9. The Romans
10. The Rise of Christianity
11. European Peoples
12. Ascendancy of the East
13. Formation of Western Christendom
14. The Medieval Age
15. The Renaissance
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Procopius: Alaric’s Sack of Rome (410)
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Muhammad al-Tabari: People of Basra after the Death of Yazid (ca. 900s)
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Muhammad al-Tabari: Caliphate of Yazid (ca. 900s)
Muhammad al-Tabari: ‘Abd al-Malik Reforms the Coinage (ca. 900s)
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Ibn Sina (Avicenna): On Medicine (ca. 1020)
Muhammad al-Mawardi: “On Qadis” (ca. 1045–1058)
Kai Kaus on the Purchase of Slaves (1082–1083)
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The Journey of William of Rubruck (1255)
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Ascendancy of the East
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