Unit One Greco-Roman Civilization 1
Part One General History:Ancient Times:Greece and Rome 1
Part Two Article:On Spartan Strategy 11
Part Three Original Record:From Augustus to Tiberius 17
Unit Two Classical Civilization of China 25
Part One General History:Classics and Chin Empire 25
Part Two Article:State Control of Bureaucrats 34
Part Three Original Record:Classics from Lun Yü,Mencius,and Yao Tien 40
Unit Three Great Three Religions 46
Part One General History:The Rise of Islam 46
Part Two Article:The Sinicization of Buddhism 56
Part Three Original Records:Sentences from the Holy Bible 61
Unit Four The Chinese Empire Opening to the World 67
Part One General History:The Growth of Han Empire 67
Part Two Article:Sale of Office in the Later Han 76
Part Three Original Record:The Selections from New Discourses 82
Unit Five The Flowering of Traditional China 88
Part One General History:The Sui,Tang,and Song Dynasties 88
Part Two Article:Military Families and the Southern Song 97
Part Three Original Record:The Turfan Documents 102
Unit Six Italian Renaissance 108
Part One General History:Origins&Art 108
Part Two Article:The Discovery of the Individual in Renaissance Europe 118
Part Three Original Record:The Prince 124
Unit Seven Absorption of Nomadic Civilization into Agricultural Civilization 130
Part One General History:China in the Mongol Empire 130
Part Two Article:What Set the Mongols in Motion? 139
Part Three Original Record:Khubilai's Life in Shandu 144
Unit Eight The Empire Trying to Be“Blue China” 150
Part One General History:The Maritime Expedition of Zheng He 150
Part Two Article:From Rebel Base to Imperial Capital 159
Part Three Original Record:Stone Record of the Pacification of the Pirates 164
Unit Nine Religious Reform 170
Part One General History:Luther and Lutheranism 170
Part Two Article:The Diversity of Revelations 179
Part Three Original Record:Institutes of the Christian Religion 185
Unit Ten Iberian Expansion 190
Part One General History:Portugal's and Spain's Colonial Conquest 190
Part Two Article:The Theory of Natural Slavery 200
Part Three Original Record:The Documents of Iberian Expansion 206
Unit Eleven The Last Dynasty of China's Dynastic Circle 213
Part One General History:The Ching Dynasty Before 1800 213
Part Two Article:Social Discrimination in Traditional China 222
Part Three Original Record:A Bridge and Its Man 227
Unit Twelve Three Bourgeois Revolutions 234
Part One General History:The English Revolution 234
Part Two Article:The Central Themes of the American Revolution 245
Part Three Original Record:The Documents of French Bourgeois Revolution 251
Unit Thirteen Industrial Revolution 257
Part One General History:The Age of Machines 257
Part Two Article:The Industrial Revolution—an Overview 268
Part Three Original Record:Reminiscences of the First Railroad Over the Allegheny Mountain(1879) 273
Unit Fourteen The Semi-Colonial and Semi-Feudalist China 280
Part One General History:The Opium War 280
Part Two Article:The Great Policy Debate in China,1874:Maritime Defense vs Frontier Defense 290
Part Three Original Record:Treaty of Nanjing(Nanking),1842 296
Unit Fifteen The Meiji Restoration of Japan 303
Part One General History:The Establishment of the New Government 303
Part Two Article:The Military 314
Part Three Original Record:Thoughts on the Political Economy 319
Unit Sixteen Two World Wars 325
Part One General History:The First World War 325
Part Two Article:Nazi Foreign Policy 336
Part Three Original Record:The Documents of WW Ⅱ 343
Unit Seventeen Russian Revolution of 1917 349
Part One General History:The Revolution of 1917 349
Part Two Article:The Sources of Soviet Conduct 360
Part Three Original Record:The October Revolution 365
Unit Eighteen The Rise of Modern China 370
Part One General History:The Birth of the People's Republic 370
Part Two Article:To Reform a Revolution:Under the Righteous Mandate 379
Part Three Original Record:The War of Resistance Against Japan 385
Unit Nineteen The Cold War 391
Part One General History:The Beginning of the Cold War 391
Part Two Article:US Foreign Policy and Origins of the Cold War 401
Part Three Original Record:The Iron Curtain 407
Unit Twenty China on the Way to a Rich Power 413
Part One General History:Economic Reform and the Open Door Policy 413
Part Two Article:The Rise of China 421
Part Three Original Record:Deng Xiaoping's Speech 427
附:翻译练习参考答案 432
Unit One 432
Unit Two 434
Unit Three 436
Unit Four 438
Unit Five 440
Unit Six 442
Unit Seven 444
Unit Eight 446
Unit Nine 447
Unit Ten 449
Unit Eleven 450
Unit Twelve 452
Unit Thirteen 453
Unit Fourteen 455
Unit Fifteen 456
Unit Sixteen 458