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1/15: Introduction & Signups
1/18: Ancient Near East
Chp 1
Chp 2 Herodotus, hieroglyphics, Osiris, Great Pyramid, Rameses II, Nefertiti
1/29 & 2/1: Greek Polis: Athens and Sparta Chp 3 Book Quiz #1 Gilgamesh Acropolis, Peloponnesian War, Pericles, Delian League
2/5: Greek Culture Chp 4 Humanism, Olympics, Dionysus, Homer, Zeus, Aristotle
2/8: Hellenistic World Chp 5 Chaeronea, Demosthenes, Divine Kingship, phalanx
2/12: Roman Republic Chp 5 Latifundia, plebeians, Law of Twelve Tables, Carthage, Paterfamilia
2/19: President's Day Holiday
2/15 & 22: The Roman Empire
aqueducts, Barracks Emperors, Circus Maximus, Queen Zenobia
2/26: The Roman Collapse Chp 6 (to page 176) Pax Romana, Appian Way, citizenship, Mithraism
3/1: Early Christianity Chp 6 (176 to end) Edict of Milan, catacombs, St. Augustine of Hippo, Gnostics
3/5: Midterm Exam (Assignment #1 due)
3/8: NO CLASS
3/12-16: Spring Vacation
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3/19 & 22: Byzantium & Early Islam Chp 7 (to page 211) Hagia Sophia, Empress Theodora, Greek fire, Koran, Five Pillars of faith, Caliph
3/26: Latin Christendom Chp 7 (211 to end) monasticism, Visigoths, Beowulf, Charlemagne, Irish monks
3/29: Medieval States Chp 8 Book Quiz #2 Song of Roland Holy Roman Empire, Cluny, Vikings, feudalism, guilds
4/2: The Crusades Pope Innocent III, Templars, Saladin, Fourth Crusade, Ottoman Turks
4/5: Medieval Thought Chp 9 St. Thomas Aquinas, chivalry, jousts, illuminated manuscripts, Cathedrals, pilgrimages
Chp 10 Book Quiz #3 Canterbury Tales Black Death, indulgences, Purgatory, Joan of Arc, Magna Carta
4/12: European Expansion Chp 11 Henry the Navigator, Francis Drake, Montezuma, Hernan Cortes, Bartolome de las Casas
4/16 & 19: The Renaissance Chp 12 Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Gutenberg, Machiavelli, de Medici
4/23 & 26: Protestant Reformation Chp 13 Book Quiz #4 The Prince Martin Luther, John Calvin, Henry VIII, Jesuits, Catherine de Medici
4/30: Constitutionalism Chp 14 Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell, Mary of Orange, John Locke
5/3: Absolutism Chp 15 Phillip II, Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIV, mercantilism, Thomas Hobbes, Treaty of Westphalia
5/7: Final Exam (Assignment #2 due) |
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