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World History I to 1500
: The Renaissance
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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Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peace (1324)
Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron (ca. 1350–1353)
Marchionne di Coppo Stefani: Florentine Chronicle (ca. 1375–1385)
Leon Alberti: On Painting (1435)
Petrarch: Letter to Lapo de Castiglionchio (ca. 1351)
Petrarch: Letter to Francesco Nelli (1360)
Petrus Paulus Vergerius: “Concerning Liberal Studies” (ca. 1400)
The Croyland Chronicle: Battle of Bosworth Field (1486)
Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger: Malleus maleficarum (1486)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada (1491)
Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus (1492)
Alhambra Decree (1492)
Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America (1493)
A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama (1497–1498)
Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly (1509)
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince (1513)
Requerimiento (1513)
Giorgio Vasari: “Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor” (1550)
Short-answer Questions: World History I, Unit 15
Key Terms: World History I, Unit 15
Key Concepts: World History I, Unit 15
Key Arguments: World History I, Unit 15
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