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Sessions |
Topic |
Reading
Assignment |
Suggested Project and
Other Activities
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First
Session
August 23, 2011
11:00-12:15
Room 127, Bisdorf
Study Guide 1
Office Hours |
Introduction
The Origins of Western Civilization
Paleolithic and Neolithic World |
The Ancient Near East
Chapter 1
Purchase Notebook for
History Notes
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Introductions
Review the
Course Requirements
Complete
"Introduction on Blackboard"
Check course Requirements on
Blackboard
Essay on "Search for Alexander"
On-Line
Lecture on Blackboard
"Paleolithic Culture"
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Second Session
Thursday
August 30, 2011
Study Guide 2
Study Guide 3
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Gods and Empires in the
Ancient Near East
The Sumerians
"The Code of Hammurabi"
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Chapter 1-2
Blackboard
Quiz 1:
Paleolithic, Neolithic, and
Mesopotamian Civilization.
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Turn in your "Alexander"
essay
100 points
On-Lectures
Lectures on Blackboard
"Neolithic Civilization"
"Sumerians, Part One"
"Sumerian Religion" |
Third
Session
Thursday
September 6, 2011
Study Guide 4
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Gods and Empires in the
Ancient Near East
The Sumerians
The Egyptians
"The Instruction of
Ptah-Hotep"
"The Story of Osiris and Isis"
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Coffin and Stacey
Chapter 2
Blackboard
Quiz 2: Sumerians
Quiz 3: Egyptian Civilization
Pick a question from Assignment Page for Week 3 from Written Material on
Egypt
100 points
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On-Line Lectures on Blackboard
"Archaic Egypt"
"Old Kingdom"
"New Kingdom"
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Fourth
Session
Thursday
September 13, 2011
Study Guide 5
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Minoan Crete
The Mycenaeans
The Greek Dark Ages
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On-Line Lectures on Blackboard
"Minoan Artifacts"
"Mycenaean Tomb"
"Mycenaean Fortifications" |
Fifth Session
September 20, 2011
Study Guide 6
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The
Palace of Knossos |
Turn in History Notebook
for Grading
100 points + Grade
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Sixth Session
September 27, 2011
Study Guide 7
Study Guide 8 |
The
Greek Experiment
Archaic Greece
Archaic Polis
The Classical Greek Civilization
Pericles
Greek Philosophy and Religion
The
Macedonian Empire
Alexander
Hellenistic Culture
"Pericles' Speech" |
Minoan Civilization
Quiz 4: Greek
Culture
Quiz
5: Politics in Ancient Greece
Quiz 6: Classical and Hellenistic Greece |
On Line Lectures on
Blackboard
"Dark Age Greece"
"Archaic Greece
"Ancient Delphi"
"The Golden Age of Athens"
"Philip II and Alexander of Macedonia"
Check Blackboard for
Take-home Exam
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Seventh Session
October 4, 2011
Study Guide 9
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Roman Civilization
Early Rome
The Early Republic
The War with Carthage
Augustus |
Quiz 7: Early Rome |
"Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle"
"The Roman Republic"
"Octavian Caesar
Augustus"
The Empire |
Eighth Session
October 11, 2011
No Class Meeting
Study Guide 10
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Crisis of the Third Century
A Balance Sheet
Christianity
and the Transformation of the Roman World
German Invasion
Eastern Rome |
Quiz 8: Imperial
Rome
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"Transformation of Rome"
"After the Fall,
Medieval Europe" |
Ninth
Session
October 18, 2011
Study Guide 11
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The Byzantine,
Islamic, and Early Medieval Worlds |
Coffin and Stacey
Chapter 8-9
Quiz 9: Rome's Three Heirs |
Last Day for
First Museum Project,
October 18, 2011
The Museum
Project must be copied into Word and sent to your instructor
as an email attachment
Museum/Field Project
"The
Byzintines"
"Muhammad"
"What do Muslims Believe" |
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Tenth Session
October 25, 2011
Study Guide 12
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The Expansion of Europe
Agricultural Revolution
The Growth of Towns
Feudalism
Reform of the Church
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Eleventh
Session
November 1, 2011
Study Guide 13
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Economic Depression
Social and Emotional Dislocation |
Coffin and Stacey
Chapter 10
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"The Norman Invasion of
England"
Second
Examination
Taken in the Classroom
An Exam Book
and Scantron
Study Guide
November 1,
2011 |
Twelfth Session
November 8, 2011
Study Guide 14
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The Russians
The Mongols
The Rise of the Ottomans |
Coffin and Stacey
Chapter 11
Turn in History Notebook
100 points + Grade |
"The Chruch
Prior to the Reformation" |
Thirteenth Session
November 15, 2011
Study Guide 15 |
The
Civilization of the Renaissance
The Renaissance and the Middle Ages
Renaissance in Italy
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Fourteenth Session
November 29, 2011
Study Guide 16 |
The Renaissance in
Italy
The Renaissance in the North
Christian Humanism
Erasmus
Thomas More
Literature, Art, and Music
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Quiz: The Age of
the Renaissance |
Second Museum
Project Due by
November 29, 2011
"The
Protestant Reformation" |
Fifteenth Session
December 5, 2011
Study Guide 17
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Reformation of Religion
The
Roman Catholic Church
The Lutheran Upheaval
The Spread of Protestantism
The English Reformation
Catholicism Transformed
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"Chartre Cathedral"
"Notre Dame Cathedral"
Quiz: The
Reformation |
"The Renaissance" |
Sixteenth Session
Final Exam Week
December 12 through December 19, 2011
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Final Exam Week |
Final Exam
Schedule for the Alexandria Campus
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The Third Exam will cover
Chapter 7-12-13;
Lectures.
Study Guides 11, 16, and 17 |
