World History Workbook. Volume 1, The Ancient World to 1500

121 Pages·2009·2.48 MB·English

by  Andrea Reider

THE
WORLD HISTORY
WORKBOOK

THE ANCIENT WORLD TO 1500
THE
WORLD HISTORY
WORKBOOK
Volume 1
David Hertzel
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But then, if I am right, certain professors of education must be wrong when
they say that they can put a knowledge into the soul which was not there
before, like sight into blind eyes.
—from the dialogue of Plato’s Republic

Contents
List of Projects ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: What Is History? 3
Chapter 2: The Grand Narrative: Universals in History 29
Chapter 3: The Complex Narrative: Contrasting Concepts
and Traditions 69
Appendix of Primary Sources
1. Socrates: A Socratic Dialogue between Meno and Socrates,
recorded by Plato 86
2. An Anglo-Saxon Blessing for the Fields 88
3. Life among the Zulu: Three Texts 89
Amatongo 89
The Healing Spirits of the Zulu 92
Becoming a Doctor 97
4. Two Articles on the Discoveries at Blombos Cave 99
5. Hymn to the Nile, a Prayer from Ancient Egypt 100
6. Code of Hammurabi (Selected Laws), c. 1780 B.C. 102
7. The Mahabharata 104
8. From the Hymns of Homer 106
Glossary 107
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Projects
Chapter 1
Project 1: Primary Sources and Interpretations 7
Project 2: Interpreting Historical Sources 13
Project 3: Historical or Unhistorical? 19
Project 4: Methods Historians Use 25
Chapter 2
Project 5: The Paradox of Genealogy 33
Project 6: In Your Own Words 37
Project 7: Universals in Literature I 41
Project 8: Myth and the Mahabharata 47
Project 9: Universals in Literature II 49
Project 10: Characteristics of Shared Words: Descent of
the Indo-European Word Mead 55
Project 11: Descent of the Indo-European Word Mater 59
Project 12: Descent of the Indo-European Word Ster 61
Project 13: Borrowing Words and Adapting the Comparative Method 63
Project 14: Inherited Culture 67
Chapter 3
Project 15: What the Qur’an Says about Jesus 73
Project 16: Interpreting an Anglo-Saxon Blessing for the Fields 77
Project 17: Comparative Religions: Islam, Animism of the Zulu,
Christianity of the Anglo-Saxons 81
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