Survey of British Civilization 
History 211,  Summer Syllabus

 

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Clayton Roberts, David Roberts and Douglas R. Bisson, A History of England,  Volume I,   Prentice Hall, Paperback, Latest  Edition

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Date Topic Reading Assignment Activity

First Week

June 22, 2007
June 23, 2007
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Study Guide 1

Study Guide 2


 

Introduction
The Earliest Inhabitants
The Neolithic Revolution
Stonehenge
The Celts
Roman Britain
(55 BCE-450 CE)
Hadrian's Wall
The Roman Town
The Countryside
The Collapse of Roman Rule
 
 

 

Roberts, Chapter 1-2

Review the Course Requirements  

 
Second Week

June 29, 2007
June 30, 2007



Study Guide 3


Study Guide 4

Study Guide 5

Anglo-Saxon England
(450-1066)
Conversion to Christianity
English Monarchy
Alfred the Great
Anglo-Saxon Government
The Structure of Society
Open Fields and Royal Boroughs
Monasticism and Learning
The Survival of the English Monarchy
Norman England
Feudalism
The Norman Church
The Angevins
The 12th Century Renaissance
Henry II
Wales, Ireland, and Scotland
Richard I and King John
Magna Carta
Roberts, Chapter 3-4-5
 
Third Week

July 6, 2007
July 7, 2007

 

 

 

Study Guide 6



Barons and Knights
The Cathedral
Henry III
Wales, Gascony, and Scotland
The Origins of Parliament
Edward II
Edward III
The Evolution of Parliament
The Black Death
The Peasants' Revolt
John Wyclif and Lollardy
Richard II
Henry IV
The War of the Roses
Richard III

 

 

 

 

Roberts, Chapters
6-7-8

First Examination
July 714, 2007

Chapters 1-8
pp. 1-214
Study Guides 1-6
 

Fourth Week

July 13, 2007
July 14, 2007


Study Guide 7

 


The Reign of Henry VII 
(1485-1509)

Industry
The New Learning
Medieval and Modern
Henry VIII
(1509-1547)
War and Reformation
The Divorce
 Break with Rome
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
The Tudor Revolution In Government
Scotland and France
Queen Mary
The Spanish Connection
Somerset and Reform
Ket's Rebellion
Economic Crisis
Northumberland
Queen Mar
y




Roberts, Chapters
 9-10-11
 








 
Fifth Week

July 20, 2007
July 21, 2007


 


Study Guide 8

Elizabeth I 
(1558-1603)
Elizabeth and the Church
The Catholic Threat
The Puritan Threat
The Rise of the Gentry
The Elizabethan World Picture
The Early Stuarts
The Accession of James I
James and the Law
Government by Court Favorites
Charles I and the Arts
Charles I and Parliament
The Expansion of England
The English Revolution
Roundheads and Cavaliers
The Commonwealth
The Restoration
The Restoration Settlement
James II
The Glorious Revolution

 







Roberts, 
Chapters 12-13-14
 


 

Cromwell


Tower

The Restoration.ppt

William and Mary

Canterbury

Sixth Week
July 27, 2007
July 28, 2007

Study Guide 9


 
The War of the League of Augsburg
The New World Trade
The Social Pyramid
The Augustan Age
The Act of Union with Scotland
The Hanoverian Succession
The Winning of an Empire
Roberts, 
Chapters 15-16
 

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