Chapter One: The Greek Culture 1: The Odyssey by Homer 2: Poetics by Aristotle Chapter Two: The Roman Culture 1: Commentaries on the Gallic War by Gaius Julius Caesar 2: The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Chapter Three: The Hebrew Culture 1: Genes/s from The Hebrew Bible 2: The Ten Commandments by Moses Chapter Four: The Christian Culture 1: Matthew from The New Testament 2: The Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas Chapter Five: Chinese Attractions 1: An Interpretive Essay on The Ming Dynasty Comes to Power by Lung-Kee Sun 2: The Travels of Marco Polo by Rustichello da Pisa Chapter Six: The European Ethics 1: To Marcus TuUius Cicero by Francis Petrarch 2: The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione Chapter Seven: The European Expansion 1: Treaty between Spain and Portugal concluded at Tordesillas by Spain and Portugal 2: The True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo Chapter Eight: The Protestant Reformation 1: Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Martin Luther 2: Decrees of the Council of Trent Chapter Nine: The West Uprising after Renaissance 1: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber 2: The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Chapter Ten: The Scientific Revolution 1: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus 2:The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin Chapter Eleven: The Enlightenment 1: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 2: Letters Concerning the English Nation by Voltaire Chapter Twelve: American Revolution 1: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen by the National Assembly of France 2: The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson Chapter Thirteen: Socialism and Communism 1: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 2: Capital: Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx Chapter Fourteen: Mniticnituralism and Globalism 1: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel Huntington 2: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn References Acknowledgements