Popular controversies in world history: investigating history's intriguing questions 2 The ancient world to the Middle Ages
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VOLUME ONE
Prehistory and Early Civilizations
Introduction,
xv
List of Contributors,
xix
Chapter I
Tool use is characteristic of hominids and apes, but not of other animal
species,
1
PRO Talaat Shehata
CON Patrick G. Zander
Chapter
2
Agriculture, or the domestication of plants, diffused from its start in the Middle
East to the rest of the world,
23
PRO Olena Smyntyna
CON
Harald Haarmann
Chapter
3
The Great Flood referred to in the Book of Noah and in Gilgamesh resulted
from the flooding of the Black Sea by an influx of higher-level water from the
Mediterranean via the Dardenelles and Bosporus,
51
PRO
Harald Haarmann
CON John
Lee
Chapter
4
Much of what is now considered to be Classic culture actually
has Afroasiatic roots,
75
PRO Talaat Shehata
CON
Harald Haarmann
vi
I Contents
Chapter
5
China s head start in technological innovation was retarded by its efficient and
centralized imperial government,
103
PRO Talaat Shehata
CON John Lee
Chapter
6
The findings of Neolithic drawings at
Catalhöyük
in Turkey are a fraud,
127
PRO Justin Corfield
CON
Harald Haarmann
Chapter
7
The existence of Atlantis is not entirely mythical,
149
PRO
László Kocsis
CON Cheryl Golden
Chapter
8
Lemuria is not the invention of religious enthusiasts, but rather, actually
existed,
179
PRO
László Kocsis
CON Claire Brennan
Chapter
9
Native American peoples came to North and South America by boat
as well as by land bridge,
207
PRO Peter
N.
Jones
CON James Seelye
Chapter
10
The ancient Egyptians used volunteers, not slaves, to build the pyramids,
227
PRO
Harald Haarmann
CON Talaat Shehata
Chapter 11
Ancient Egyptian obelisks were raised by a hitherto undiscovered
technology,
249
PRO Talaat Shehata
CON Patrick G. Zander
Chapter
12
The Beta Israel (or Falasha) People of Ethiopia are one of the Lost
Tribes of Israel,
271
PRO Barry
Stiefel
CON Talaat Shehata
Contents
I
vii
Chapter
13
Ancient findings of Ancient Babylonian cities confirm the
Old Testament,
295
PRO Benjamin D. Thomas
CON Thaddeus Nelson
Index,
317
VOLUME TWO
The Ancient World to the Early Middle Ages
Introduction,
xv
List of Contributors,
xix
Chapter I
The Ark of the Covenant is in Axum, Ethiopia,
1
PRO Talaat Shehata
CON Thaddeus Nelson
Chapter
2
The Greek city-states were democratic by our modern American
definition,
21
PRO Cenap
Çakmak
CON John Lee
Chapter
3
The Ogham Celtic script is derived from the Norse Rune script,
43
PRO Justin Corfield
CON
Harald Haarmann
Chapter
4
The Trial of Socrates, described by Plato, was an actual event that
occurred in
399
все,
rather than merely a philosophical device used
by Sophists in teaching Apologia,
63
PRO Todd W. Ewing
CON John Lee
Chapter
5
Pushyamitra
Sunga,
a Hindu ruler in the second century
все,
was a great
persecutor of the Buddhists,
83
PRO Caleb Simmons
CON K. T. S.
Sarao
Chapter
6
The Shroud of Turin is actually the wrapping shroud of Jesus,
103
PRO Justin Corfield
CON Thaddeus Nelson
viii
I Contents
Chapter
7
A Staffordshire inscription points to the location of the Holy Grail; it
may be in Wales,
125
PRO John Lee
CON Juliette Wood
Chapter
8
Nestorius did not intend to argue that Christ had a dual nature, but that view
became labeled Nestorianism,
145
PRO Mark Dickens
CON Annette Morrow
Chapter
9
The Celtic Church that arose after
400
ce as
distinct from Roman Catholicism
is a modern construct, rather than a historical reality,
175
PRO Michael Greaney
CON Joseph P. Byrne
Chapter
10
The inhabitants of Easter Island who erected the monoliths were from South
America, not from Polynesia,
203
PRO Chris Howell
CON
Harald Haarmann
Chapter 11
The Roman Empire s collapse was primarily due to social and political
problems rather than the Barbarian invasions,
229
PRO Heather Buchanan
CON
László Kocsis
Chapter
12
The Hawaiian and other Polynesian seafarers developed navigation methods
based on observation of constellations and currents, so that they could sail
intentionally from Tahiti to Hawaii and back,
257
PRO
Harald Haarmann
CON Claire Brennan
Chapter
13
The Toltecs and Maya developed wheels for religious reasons, but not for
wheelbarrows or other practical uses. The reason is that they had sufficient
slave labor,
281
PRO Talaat Shehata
CON
Harald Haarmann
Contents
I
ix
Chapter
14
Native American languages can be traced to three grand linguistic roots,
301
PRO
Harald Haarmann
CON Peter
N.
Jones
Chapter
15
The historical Buddha was born in
563
все
and lived to
483
все,
325
PRO Anita Sharma
CON K. T. S.
Sarao
Index,
347
VOLUME THREE
The High Middle Ages to the Modern World
Introduction,
xv
List of Contributors,
xix
Chapter I
North American rune stones point to extensive exploration by the Norse of
North America,
1
PRO Justin Corfield
CON
Harald Haarmann
Chapter
2
The Ancestral Puebloans lined up their communities so that, although miles
apart, they could signal each other with fires by line of sight to
communicate,
25
PRO Linda Karen Miller
CON Peter
N.
Jones
Chapter
3
The Mayan kingdoms died out from disease,
49
PRO Justin Corfield
CON Chris Howell
Chapter
4
The Chinese explorations of the 1420s reached both coasts of North and South
America,
69
PRO Justin Corfield
CON Eric Cunningham
χ Ι
Contents
Chapter
5
The technologies that allowed Europe to dominate the world were all imported
from the East: compass, lateen-rigged sail, gunpowder, windmill, stirrup,
moveable type,
93
PRO David Blanks
CON Talaat Shehata
Chapter
6
Richard III was innocent of the charge of murder,
117
PRO Charles Beem
CON Jeffrey Mifflin
Chapter
7
Columbus intentionally underestimated the circumference of Earth in order to
get funding,
141
PRO Talaat Shehata
CON Joseph P. Byrne
Chapter
8
European pathogens caused the decline of Cahokia and Mississippian mound
builders,
165
PRO Chris Howell
CON James Seelye
Chapter
9
Shakespeare s plays were written by someone other than William Shakespeare
of Stratford-upon-Avon,
191
PRO Alexander Hugo
Schulenburg
CON Jeffrey Mifflin
Chapter
10
Galileo willfully violated the injunctions of the Inquisition and was thus guilty
at his
1633
trial,
225
PRO Joseph P. Byrne
CON Arthur K. Steinberg
Chapter 11
The Man in the Iron Mask was Count
Èrcole
Antonio Mattioli,
249
PRO Justin Corfield
CON Heather K. Michon
Chapter
12
Prince Louis Charles (Louis
XVII),
also known as the Lost Dauphin,
survived captivity during the French Revolution and was allowed to escape in
1795, 267
PRO John Lee
CON Lorri Brown
Contents
I
xi
Chapter
13
Charles Darwin got his idea of evolution from social Darwinist Herbert
Spencer who published first,
287
PRO Ian Morley
CON A. J.
Angelo
Chapter
14
Slavery was unprofitable for slave owners,
309
PRO
Radica
Mahase
CON Jerry
С
Drake
Chapter
15
Lincoln maneuvered the South into firing the first shot at Fort Sumter,
333
PRO Rolando
Avila
CON Lee Oberman
Index,
355
VOLUME FOUR
The Twentieth Century to the Present
Introduction,
xv
List of Contributors,
xix
Chapter I
The Progressive movement in the United States and in other countries in the
first decade of the 20th century represented a middle-class, conservative
reaction against the rise of both big business and big labor that had created a
status revolution,
1
PRO Kevin Wilson
CON Arthur K. Steinberg
Chapter
2
The captain of the ship Californian was guilty of gross negligence in not
coming to the rescue of the survivors of the Titanic,
25
PRO Tim J. Watts
CON Elizabeth D.
Schäfer
Chapter
3
The assassins of Archduke Ferdinand were funded by the Serbian
government,
49
PRO
László Kocsis
CON Steve Garrin
xii
I Contents
Chapter
4
The deaths of over one million Armenians in Turkey were due to a Turkish
government policy of genocide,
83
PRO James
Frusetta
CON Cenap
Çakmak
Chapter
5
The British had shipped weapons aboard the
Lusitânia,
in effect using women
and children as human shields for a war cargo,
107
PRO Ardhana Mudambi
CON Justin Corfield
Chapter
6
Woodrow Wilson s neutrality in World War I was so blatantly pro-British that
he forced the Germans into attacking U.S. shipping,
127
PRO Walter F. Bell
CON Justin Corfield
Chapter
7
Mahatma
Gandhi would not have been a world leader without the
influence of Rabindranath Tagore,
147
PRO Rajini
Pani
CON Rajshekhar
Chapter
8
Sacco
and Vanzetti were innocent,
171
PRO
Annessa
Babic
CON Arthur
К.
Steinberg
Chapter
9
Warren Harding was murdered, rather than dying of food poisoning,
193
PRO Elizabeth D.
Schäfer
CON Kimberly K. Porter
Chapter
10
Marcus Garvey was railroaded,
217
PRO
Kelton R.
Edmonds
CON Tim J. Watts
Chapter 11
Franklin D. Roosevelt had knowledge of an impending Japanese attack and
used Pearl Harbor as an excuse to spur American entry into World War II,
241
PRO Rolando
Avila
CON Paul W. Doerr
Contents
I
xiii
Chapter
12
Alger
Hiss s
1950
conviction for espionage was not an example of Cold War
hysteria. He was a Soviet spy and deserved his punishment,
263
PRO Jeffrey H. Bloodworm
CON Annessa
Babic
Chapter
ІЗ
John
F.
Kennedy was elected U.S. president in
1960
only because of voter
fraud committed by his connections in the mafia,
287
PRO Christian
Nuenlist
CON John H.
Barnhill
Chapter
14
Lee Harvey Oswald was not the sole assassin of John F. Kennedy,
309
PRO Rajshekhar
CON Tim J. Watts
Chapter
15
Considering the refusal of Saddam Hussein to comply with United Nations-
imposed inspections, it was reasonable for George W. Bush and his
advisers to assume that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction
and that justified the invasion,
333
PRO Dan Tamir
CON Christian
Nuenlist
Index,
361
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