3. From “ e History of Wei,” quoted in ibid., p. 10.
4. From “ e Law of Households,” quoted in ibid., p. 32.
5. From “On the Salvation of Women,” quoted in ibid., p. 127.
6. Quoted in B. Ruch, “ e Other Side of Culture in Medieval Japan,” in
K. Yamamura, ed., e Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 3, Medieval
Japan (Cambridge, 1990), p. 506.
7. K. W. Taylor, e Birth of Vietnam (Berkeley, Calif., 1983), p. 76.
8. Quoted in ibid., pp. 336–337.
9. Confucius, Analects, 17:2.
CHAPTER 12
1. Norman F. Cantor, ed., e Medieval World, 300–1300 (New York,
1963), p. 104.
2. Alessandro Barbero, Charlemagne: Father of a Continent, trans. Allan
Cameron (Berkeley, Calif., 2004), p. 4.
3. Quoted in Marvin Perry, Joseph Peden, and eodore Von Laue,
Sources of the Western Tradition, vol. 1 (Boston, 1987), p. 218.
4. Oliver J. atcher and Edgar H. McNeal, eds., A Source Book for
Medieval History (New York, 1905), p. 208.
5. Quoted in R. H. C. Davis, A History of Medieval Europe from Constantine
to Saint Louis, 2nd ed. (New York, 1988), p. 252.
6. Quoted in Hans E. Mayer, e Crusades, trans. John Gillingham (New
York, 1972), pp. 99–100.
CHAPTER 13
1. Quoted in P. Cesaretti, eodora: Empress of Byzantium, trans.
R. M. Frongia (New York, 2004), p. 197.
2. Procopius, Buildings of Justinian (London, 1897), pp. 9, 6–7.
3. Quoted in J. Harris, Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium
(New York, 2007), p. 118.
4. Quoted in C. S. Bartsocas, “Two Fourteenth-Century Descriptions of
the ‘Black Death,’” Journal of the History of Medicine (October 1966),
p. 395.
5. Quoted in M. Dols, e Black Death in the Middle East (Princeton, N.J.,
1977), p. 270.
6. G. Boccaccio, e Decameron, trans. F. Winwar (New York, 1955),
p. xiii.
7. J. Froissart, Chronicles, ed. and trans. G. Brereton (Harmondsworth,
England, 1968), p. 111.
8. Ibid., p. 89.
9. Quoted in J. Burckhardt, e Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy,
trans. S. G. C. Middlemore (London, 1960), p. 81.
CHAPTER 14
1. From A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama (London, 1898),
cited in J. H. Parry, e European Reconnaissance: Selected Documents
(New York, 1968), p. 82.
2. H. J. Benda and J. A. Larkin, eds., e World of Southeast Asia: Selected
Historical Readings (New York, 1967), p. 13.
3. Parry, European Reconnaissance, quoting from A. Cortesão, e Summa
Oriental of Tomé Pires, vol. 2 (London, 1944), pp. 283, 287.
4. Quoted in J. H. Parry, e Age of Reconnaissance: Discovery,
Exploration, and Settlement, 1450 to 1650 (New York, 1963), p. 33.
5. Quoted in R. B. Reed, “ e Expansion of Europe,” in
R. DeMolen, ed., e Meaning of the Renaissance and Reformation
(Boston, 1974), p. 308.
6. K. N. Chaudhuri, Trade and Civilization in the Indian Ocean: An
Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge, 1985),
p. 65.
7. Quoted in M. Leon-Portilla, ed., e Broken Spears: e Aztec Account
of the Conquest of Mexico (Boston, 1969), p. 51.
8. Quoted in Parry, Age of Reconnaissance, pp. 176–177.
9. Quoted in B. Davidson, Africa in History: emes and Outlines
(London, 1968), p. 137.
3. F. Hirth and W. W. Rockhill, trans., Chau Ju-kua: His Work on the
Chinese and Arab Trade in the Twel h and irteenth Centuries, Entitled
Chu-fan-chi (New York, 1966), p. 115.
4. al-Mas’udi, e Meadows of Gold: e Abbasids, ed. P. Lunde and
C. Stone (London, 1989), p. 151.
5. Quoted in G. Wiet, Baghdad: Metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphate, trans.
S. Feiler (Norman, Okla., 1971), pp. 118–119.
6. L. Africanus, e History and Description of Africa and of the Notable
ings erein Contained (New York, n.d.), pp. 820–821.
7. E. Yarshater, ed., Persian Literature (Albany, N.Y., 1988), pp. 125–126.
8. Ibid., pp. 154–159.
9. E. Rehatsek, trans., e Gulistan or Rose Garden of Sa’di (New York,
1964), pp. 65, 67, 71.
CHAPTER 8
1. S. Hamdun and N. King, eds., Ibn Battuta in Africa (London, 1975), p. 19.
2. e Book of Duarte Barbosa (Nedeln, Liechtenstein, 1967), p. 28.
3. Herodotus, e Histories, trans. A. de Sélincourt (Baltimore, 1964), p. 307.
4. Quoted in M. Shinnie, Ancient African Kingdoms (London, 1965), p. 60.
5. C. R. Boxer, ed., e Tragic History of the Sea, 1589–1622 (Cambridge,
1959), pp. 121–122.
6. Quoted in D. Nurse and T. Spear, e Swahili: Reconstructing the
History and Language of an African Society 800–1500 (Philadelphia,
1985), p. 84.
7. Hamdun and King, Ibn Battuta in Africa, p. 47.
8. Ibid., p. 28.
9. Ibid., pp. 28–30.
CHAPTER 9
1. Hiuen Tsiang, Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World, trans.
S. Beal (London, 1982), pp. 89–90.
2. “Fo-Kwo-Ki” (Travels of Fa Xian), ch. 20, p. 43, in ibid.
3. E. C. Sachau, Alberoni’s India, vol. 1 (London, 1914), p. 22.
4. Quoted in S. M. Ikram, Muslim Civilization in India (New York, 1964),
p. 68.
5. Hiuen Tsiang, Si-Yu-Ki, pp. 73–74.
6. D. Barbosa, e Book of Duarte Barbosa (Nedeln, Liechtenstein, 1967),
pp. 147–148.
7. Quoted in R. Lannoy, e Speaking Tree: A Study of Indian Culture and
Society (London, 1971), p. 232.
8. Quoted in S. aru and K. Lalita, Women Writing in India, vol. 1 (New
York, 1991), p. 77.
9. Quoted in A. L. Basham, e Wonder at Was India (London, 1954),
p. 426.
10. Quoted in S. Hughes and B. Hughes, Women in World History, vol. 1
(Armonk, N.Y., 1995), p. 217.
CHAPTER 10
1. e Travels of Marco Polo (New York, n.d.), pp. 128, 179.
2. Quoted in A. F. Wright, Buddhism in Chinese History (Stanford, Calif.,
1959), p. 30.
3. Chu-yu, P’ing-chow Table Talks, quoted in R. Temple, e Genius of
China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention (New York,
1986), p. 150.
4. Quoted in E. H. Schafer, e Golden Peaches of Samarkand:
A Study of T’ang Exotics (Berkeley, Calif., 1963), p. 43.
5. Quoted in J. K. Fairbank, E. O. Reischauer, and A. M. Craig, East Asia:
Tradition and Transformation (Boston, 1973), p. 164.
6. A. M. Khazanov, Nomads and the Outside World (Cambridge, 1983), p. 241.
CHAPTER 11
1. Cited in C. Holcombe, e Genesis of East Asia, 221 b.c.–a.d. 907
(Honolulu, 2001), p. 41.
2. Quoted in D. J. Lu, Sources of Japanese History, vol. 1 (New York, 1974), p. 7.
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