1/15: Introduction & Signups

1/18: Ancient Near East

Chp 1
Fertile Crescent, ziggurats, Catal Huyuk, Code of Hammurabi

1/22 &25: Ancient Egypt

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

Assignment #1

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

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

4/9: The Late Medieval Crisis

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

Assignment #2

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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