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Introduction -- Document 1. King Hammurabi, The Laws of Hammurabi, ca. 1770 BCE -- Document 2. Rameses II and Hattusila III, An Egyptian-Hittite Treaty of Alliance, 1259 BCE -- Document 3. Anonymous, A poem reflecting peasant discontent in China, ca. 800 BCE -- Document 4. King Ashurbanipal, Assyrian Imperialism, ca. 630 BCE -- Document 5. Plutarch, Solon's reforms in Athens, ca. 574 BCE -- Document 6. Sun-tzu, The Art of War, ca. 500 BCE -- Document 7. Thucydides, The Athenian-Melian Conference, ca 410 BCE -- Document 8. Aristotle, Observations on Politics, ca. 350 BCE -- Document 9: Ashoka, An Expression of Remorse, ca. 256 BCE -- Document 10. Han Feizi, Legalism and the Way of the State in Qin China, ca. 221 BCE -- Document 11: Plutarch, A Plan for the Redistribution of Land in the Roman Empire, ca. 133 BCE -- Document 12. Free Market or Government Regulation? The Salt and Iron Debates in Han China (81 BCE) -- Document 13. Wang Mang, Edict on Land Reform (9 CE) -- Document 14. Strabo, A Description of Alexandria, 1st c. CE -- Document 15. A Trader's Handbook: The Periplus Maris Erythraei [Guidebook of the Erythraean Sea], c. 50 CE -- Document 16. Pliny and Trajan, Letters, c. 111 CE -- Document 17. Suetonius, on Octavian Augustus, 121 CE -- Document 18. Life, Trade, and Politics along the Silk Roads: the Kharosthi Inscriptions -- Document 19. Roman and Persian Accounts of the Capture of the Roman Emperor Valerian in 260 CE -- Document 20. The Theodosian Code (438) -- Document 21. Priscus Panites, Huns and Romans (c. 450 CE) -- Document 22. The Laws of the Salian Franks (507-511) -- Document 23. The Institutes of Justinian (533) -- Document 24. Corpus Juris Civilis, Justinian on Slavery (533) -- Document 25. The Quran, On the Inheritance of Property (610-632) -- Document 26. Chinese Tang Emperor Taizong, On Effective Government (648 CE) -- Document 27. Tang Legal Code, selections, 653 -- Document 28. Charlemagne, Capitularies on the Missi Dominici (802) -- Document 29. William I, "the Pious," Foundation Charter of the Monastery at Cluny (910) -- Document 30. A Venetian Commenda (1073) -- Document 31. Abu Abayd Amr al-Bakri, Book of Highways and of Kingdoms (11th century) -- Document 32. Domesday Book, Excerpts (1086) -- Document 33. Feudal Contracts, excerpts (1127-1380) -- Document 34. Behâ ed-Din, A Muslim View of the Crusades (1191) -- Document 35. Anonymous, Observations on Hangzhou, 1235 -- Document 36. Marco Polo on Paper Money and the Chinese Economy, c. 1300 -- Document 37. Rashid al-Din, Political Influence of Mongol Women, Compendium of Chronicles (Early 14th Century) -- Document 38. The Travels of Ibn Battuta (1331) -- Document 39. Balduccio Pegolotti, On Overland Trade to China (1310-1340) -- Document 40. Parliament of England, An Excerpt from the Statute of Laborers (1351) -- Document 41. Ibn Khaldūn on Muslim Traders (1377) -- Document 42. The Spanish king's Requierimento (1513) -- Document 43. Jacob Fugger's letter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1523) -- Document 44. A Spainiard's account of Aztec tribute. Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, Aztec Tribute (1526) -- Document 45. Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, On Suleyman the lawgiver (ca. 1530) -- Document 46. Pedro de Cieza de Leon, Chronicles of the Incas (1553 CE) -- Document 47. Russian tsar Ivan IV, grant tot the Stroganovs to colonize Siberia (1558) -- Document 48. A Spaniard's view of the Columbian exchange (1590) -- Document 49. Eskander Bey Monshi, Biography of Shah Abbas I, (ca. 1600) -- Document 50. Huo Ju-hsia, From a memorandum on the Portuguese in Macao (seventeenth century) -- Document 51. Muscovite merchants complaints to the Russian tsar Alexis I about English traders (1646) and the tsar's response in his decree on English merchants (1649) -- Document 52. Tokugawa Iemitsu, Injunctions to peasants (1649) -- Document 53. John Keymer, on Dutch trade and commerce (early seventeenth century) -- Document 54. Thomas Mun, England's treasure b y foreign trade (1664) -- Document 55. English bill of rights (1689) -- Document 56. On slavery and the slade trade: letters from the kings of the Kongo to the king of Portugal (1526) A European account of the slave trade (seventeenth century) Malachy Postelthwayt, The national and private advantages of the African trade considered (1746) a Virginian planter's view of slavery (1757) -- Document 57. Canassatego, Onandaga chief and spokesman for the Iroquois Nation, address to the Europeans (1742) -- Document 58. Anonymous, the declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen (1789) -- Document 59. William Wilberforce, on the horrors of the slave trade (1789) -- Document 60. George Washington, farewell address (1796) -- Document 61. Thomas R. Malthus, an essay on the principle of population (1798) -- Document 62. Michael Sadler, a parliamentary committee report on child labor in England (1832) -- Document 63. Lin Zexu, the Chinese reaction to British opium traders (1839) -- Document 64. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a demand for equality for women (1848) -- Document 65. Sergei Stephanovich Lanskoi, the debate over abolishing serfdom in Russia (1859) -- Document 66. Boston commercial bulletin, Indians as obstacles to the development of the west (1867) -- Document 67. Jules Ferry, Colonialism and the preservation of capitalism (1890) -- Document 68. Sergei Witte, a memorandum on the industrialization of Russia (1899) -- Document 69. John A. Hobson, the economic taproot of imperialism (1902) -- Document 70. Baron Yeiivhi Shibusawa, the rise of the Japanese cotton textile industry (1910) -- Document 71. Emiliano Zapata, the plan of Ayala (1911) -- Document 72. Rosa Luxrmburg, women's suffrage and the class struggle (1912) -- Document 73. William McAdoo and Robert Lansing, the American decision to make loans to the Allied Powers (1915) -- Document 74. Mohandas K. Gahndim a condemnation of British imperialism in India (1922) -- Document 75. Adolf Hitler, German war aims regarding Poland and Russia (1939) -- Document 76. Dean G. Acheson, the American need for overseas markets (1944) -- Document 77. Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Vietnamese independence (1945) -- Document 78. Jean Monnnet, the European coal and steel community (1953) -- Document 79. Mao Zedong, the collectivization of agriculture in China (1955) -- Document 80. Nelson Mandela, I am prepared to die speech (1964) -- Document 81. Mikail Gorbachev, the quest for nuclear disarmament (1986) -- Document 82. Deng Xiaoping, reform policies in China (1987) -- Document 83. Osama bin Laden, a declaration of jihad against the United States (1996) -- Document 84. Condoleezza Rice, Asia-Pacific ecnonmic integration (2006) -- Document 85. Nadege Rolland, China's belt and road intitiative (2018) -- Document 86. Vladimir Putin, on the historical unity of Russians and Ukranians (2021) -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the authors
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