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CHAPTER 10: BECOMING "THE WORLD," 1000 - 1300 CEThe Rise of Chinggis Khan (c. 1206)Yuan Cai, The Problems of Women (twelfth century)Two Views of the Fall of Jerusalem (1099 CE)Joseph Ben Abraham, Letter from Aden to Abraham Yiju (c. 1130)Francesco Pegolotti, Advice to Merchants Bound for Cathay (c. 1340)Chihab Al-'Umari, Description of Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage (1342 - 1349) CASEBOOK: MOBILIZING FOR WAR IN THE AGE OF THE MONGOLSImages of Mongol Horsemen and a Medieval European Knight (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries)'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini, Genghis Khan: The History of the World Conqueror (mid-thirteenth century)Ouyang Xiu and Fan Zhen, Conscription and Professional Soldiers in Song China (960 - 1127 CE)Ziya' al-Din Barani, The Challenges of Raising an Army (1357)CHAPTER 11: CRISES AND RECOVERY IN AFRO-EURASIA, 1300S - 1500S Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (1353)*Ordinance of Laborers (1349)Ibn Battuta, Visit to Mombassa and Kilwa, Rhila (c. 1358)*The Voyages of Zheng He (1405-1433)Leo Africanus, On Timbuktu (1526)*Bernal Diaz, A Spanish View of Tenochtitlan (1567)Galileo Galilei, Letter to Madame Cristina di Lorena, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1615)CHAPTER 12: CONTACT, COMMERCE, AND COLONIZATION, 1450S - 1600Christopher Columbus, On World Geography (late fifteenth century)The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (1519)Arana Xajila, Plague in Central America (1519 - 1560)Juan Sepulveda, On the Causes of Just War with the Indians (1547)Cabeza de Vaca, Years as a Wandering Merchant (1542)*Gulbadan Banu Begun, Court Etiquette in the Mughal Empire (1537)*Jean Calvin, On Predestination (1536)Nzinga Mbemba, Letters to the King of Portugal (1526)Anonymous Journal of Vasco da Gama's Voyage around Africa to India (1499)Galeota Pereira, A Portuguese Voyage to China (1561)Martin Luther, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)CHAPTER 13: WORLDS ENTAGLED, 1600 - 1750 Jean de Lery, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil (1578)Otto von Guericke, The Destruction of Magdeburg (1631)Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbadoes (1657)Thomas Philips, Buying Slaves at Whydah (1694)*Thomas Thistlewood, The Brutality of Sugar Plantations (1756)CASEBOOK: COERCED LABOR IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLDRobert Walsh, Description of a Slave Market in Rio de Janeiro (1831)Heinrich von Fuch, Notes on the Treatment of the Natives in Northeast Siberia (1744)Antonio Vasquez de Espinosa, Mercury Mining in Huanacavelica and Silver Mining in Potosi (1620s)Captain William Dampier, The General Slavery at Achin (1697)CHAPTER 14: CULTURES OF SPLENDOR AND POWER, 1500 - 1780Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Turkish Letters (1589)Xu Jie, Economic Change in China (sixteenth century)*Lan Dingyuan, Notes from a County Magistrate (1720)Roger Cotes, Preface to Newton's Principia Mathematica (1713)*John Lockeand Enlightenment Universalism (1689)Jahangir, Policy toward the Hindus (seventeenth century)Abu'l Hasan, Jahangir's Dream (c. 1618 - 1622)Voltaire, Sixth Philosophical Letter (1734)Adam Smith, On Baubles and the Demise of Feudalism (1776)CHAPTER 15: REORDERING THE WORLD, 1750 - 1850Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)Olympes de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen (September 1791)Maximilien Robespierre, Report on the Principles of Revolutionary Government (1793)Olaudah Equiano, The Case against the Slave Trade (1789)George Valentia, Calcutta (1809)Testimony for the Factory Act (1833)*Commissioner Lin Zexu, Letter to Queen Victoria (1840)CHAPTER 16: ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURYHonda Toshiaki, A Secret Plan of Government (1798)'Abd-Allah ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab, Wahhabi Reformers in Mecca (1803)Nathaniel Isaacs, Descriptions of Shaka and the Zulu Military (1836)Maulvi Syed Kutb Shah Sahib, Call for Hindu-Muslim Unity (1858)Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Property? (1840)CHAPTER 17: NATIONS AND EMP
