This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, whohave analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviewsof a wide range of pre-modern societies.* Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity throughto the Age of Discovery* Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies aroundthe globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from theGreeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient India* Explores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials

List of Figures viiNotes on Contributors xiSeries Editor's Preface xvii1 Introduction 1Richard J. A. Talbert and Kurt A. Raaflaub2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography inIndia 9Christopher Minkowski3 Humans, Demons, Gods and Their Worlds: The Sacred andScientific Cosmologies of India 32Kim Plofker4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes inEarly China 43Hsin-Mei Agnes Hsu5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China 64John B. Henderson6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires74Michael Loewe7 The Mississippian Peoples' Worldview 89Kathleen DuVal8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination 108Barbara E. Mundy9 Inca Worldview 128Catherine Julien10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of theUniverse in Early Mesopotamian Writings 147Piotr Michalowski11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt169Gerald Moers12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of WorldGeography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees182James M. Scott13 'I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea':Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World 197Susan Guettel Cole14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of GlobalStructure 215James Romm15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia 236Daniela Dueck16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery? 252Richard J. A. Talbert17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in ItsHistorical Context 273Adam J. Silverstein18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View ofthe Lands of the Infidels 291Emilie Savage-Smith19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: ClassicalTraditions and Contemporary Concerns 311Natalia Lozovsky20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500-1750 330David BuisseretIndex 344