Textbook and Materials

The required materials for this course are:

Text: Patterns of World History, volume 1, brief 3rd edition

By: Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers and George B. Stow

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018

ISBN: 978-0-19-939961-1 Combined Volume

ISBN: 978-0-19-069731-0 Brief Edition

You can also use the combined volume, 2nd edition, Oxford University, 978-0-19-939961-1, which covers the same material. Please note that you can use this same textbook for HIS 112. If you are wondering whether you must buy the textbook, then please watch this short video.

Text: The Epic of Gilgamesh

Publisher: Penguin Classics

ISBN: 978-0-14-044100-0

Text: Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

By: R.K. Narayan

Publisher: Penguin Classics

ISBN: 978-0-14-303967-9

You may also read these for extra credit:

Confucius, Analects (ISBN 9780486284842)

Bartolome De Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (ISBN 9780140445626)