Reading list
for 7th-grade World History
1. Students analyze the causes and effects of the vast
expansion and ultimate disintegration of the Roman Empire .
Averil Cameron, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity
AD 395-600
Michael Grant, The Emperor Constantine
Dimitris J. Kyrtatas, The Social Structure of the Early Christian
Communities
Ross Shephard Kraemer, Women’s Religions
in the Greco-Roman World: A Sourcebook Primary Sources
L'Orange, H.-P., Art Forms & Civic Life in the Later
Roman Empire
Ramsay MacMullen, Christianizing the Roman Empire (AD 100-400)
2. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious,
and social structures of the civilizations of Islam in the Middle
Ages.
Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples
Marshall Hodgson, Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe,
Islam and World History
Stephen Humphreys, Islamic History: a framework for enquiry
Jerry Bentley, Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural
and Exchange in Pre-Modern Times
Janet Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony: The World system
A.D. 1250-1350
3. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious,
and social structures of the civilizations of China in the Middle
Ages.
Robert Hymes and Conrad Schirokauer editors, Ordering the World: Approaches
to State and Society in Song Dynasty China
John Langlois, China Under Mongol Rule
Robert Hymes, Way and Byway
Jack Weatherford, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern
World
Susan Mann, Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese
History Primary Sources
J.J. Saunders, The History of the Mongol Conquests
4. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious,
and social structures of the sub-Saharan civilizations of Ghana
and Mali in Medieval Africa.
Philip Curtin, African History
Roland Oliver, Medieval Africa, 1250-1800
Nehemia
Levtzion, Medieval West Africa: Views from
Arab scholars and Merchants
Said Hamdun
and Noël King, Ibn Battuta in Black
Africa
5. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious,
and social structures of the civilizations of Medieval Japan.
Thomas Conlan, State of War
Conrad Totman, Japan Before Perry
Carl Streenstrup, Sata Mirensho: A Fourteenth Century Law Primer Primary
Sources
6. Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious,
and social structures of the civilizations of Medieval Europe.
Renate Bridenthal et. al, Becoming Visible: Women in European
History
Charles Tilly and Wim Blockmans, eds., Cities and States
and the Rise of States in Europe , A.D. 1000 to 1800
Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States
R.I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society
7. Students compare and contrast the geographic,
political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Meso-American
and Andean civilizations.
Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation
Leon Portilla, Broken Spears
Irene Silverblatt, Sun, Moon, and Witches: Gender Ideologies
and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru
Jaques Soustelle, Daily Life of the Aztecs
Steve Stern, Peru’s Indian Peoples and the Challenges
of Spanish Conquest
8. Students analyze the origins, accomplishments, and geographic
diffusion of the Renaissance.
Renate Bridenthal et. al, Becoming Visible: Women in European
History
Gene Brucker, Renaissance Florence
Lauro Martines, Power and Imagination: City-states in Renaissance
Italy
Guido Ruggiero, Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage,
and Power at the End of the Renaissance
9. Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.
Renate Bridenthal et. al, Becoming Visible: Women in European
History
David Englander, Culture and belief in Europe , 1450-1600:
An Anthology of Sources Primary Sources
Steven Ozment, Protestants: The Birth of a Revolution
Steven Ozment, When Fathers Ruled: Family life in Reformation
Europe
Ulrike Strasser, State of Virginity : Gender, Religion,
and Politics in an Early Modern Catholic State
James Tracey, Europe 's Reformations
10. Students analyze the historical developments of the Scientific
Revolution and its lasting effect on religious, political, and
cultural institutions.
Alain Corbin, The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French
Social Imagination
Thomas Kuhn, The Essential Tension
Joel Mokyr, Lever of Riches
Margaret Wertheim, Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics
and the Gender Wars
11. Students analyze political and economic change in the sixteenth,
seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries (the Age of Exploration,
the Enlightenment, and the Age of Reason).
Kenneth Adrien, Andean Worlds: Indigenous History, Culture,
and Consciousness under Spanish Rule, 1532-1825
Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human
Societies
Steve Stearns, Peru 's Indian Peoples and the Challenge
of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640
David Ringrose, Expansion and Global Interaction, 1200-1700
Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created:
Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present
Sidney
Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in
Modern History
Kathleen Wilson, The Island Race
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