History of Asian Civilization I
History 253

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Textbook:  Rhoads Murphey,  A History of Asia, Pearson-Longman, New York, Latest Edition, Paperback;  ISBN 0-321-34054-X

Date Topic Reading
Assignment
Activity
First Week
January 17, 2007

Study Guide 1


 

Introduction
Monsoon Asia as a unit of Study
Prehistoric Asia
Paleolithic Cultures
Neolithic Revolution
Peoples and Early Kingdoms 
of South East Asia
Murphey,
Chapter 1

 

 

Second Week
January 24, 2007

Study Guide 2



 

 

Asian Religions and Their
Cultures
Hinduism
Buddhism
Confucianism
Taoism
Judaism in Asia
Shinto
Asian Religions:  Some Reflections

Murphey, 
Chapters 2
 
Third Week
January 31, 2007

May 22-24, 2006

Study Guide 3

 
Traditional Societies in Asia
Marriage
Child Rearing
The Status of Women
Sexual Customs
Education, Literacy, andthe Printed Word
Material Welfare
Murphey, 
Chapter 3

 

Fourth Week
February 7, 2007


Study Guide 4


 
The Civilization of Ancient India
The Aryans
The Mauryan Dynasty
The Empire of Ashoka
Kushans
Southern India
Ceylon
The Guptas and the Empire of Harsha
Murphey, 
Chapter 4
  Guide to the Sackler Gallery


 

Fifth  Week
February 14, 2007

Study Guide 5



The Civilization of Ancient China
The Shang Dynasty
The Zhou Dynasty
The Qin

 

Murphey 
Chapter 5

 
Sixth Week
February 21, 2007



The Qin
The Han Dynasty
 
Murphey, 
Chapter 5

Guide to the Freer Gallery
 
Seventh Week
February 28, 2007

Study Guide 6

Medieval India and
Islamic Advance
The Delhi Sultanate
South India
Murphey, 
Chapter 6
 

 
First Examination
Chapters 1-4
February 28, 2007

Eighth Week

March 7, 2007


Southeast Asia
 Southeast Asia
Medieval Burma and Thailand
Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
Murphey, 
Chapter
 7
 Museum Projects due in my Office before 4:00 on
March 9, 2007
 
Ninth Week
March 21, 2007

Early and Medieval Southeast Asia
 
Murphey,
Chapte
7

 

Tenth Week

March 28, 2007

Study Guide 7

 

China:  The Golden Age
The Sui
The Tang
The Song (Sun
 

Murphey
Chapter 8
 
Eleventh Week

April 4, 2007


 

Early  Japan and Korea
 
Murphey
Chapter 9
Paper due in my Office before 4:00 on April 6, 2007
 
Twelfth Week

April 11, 2007

Study Guide 8
 

Classical Japan Murphey
Chapter 9
Second Examination
April 11, 2007

Early Japan


The Creation Story
Thriteenth Week

April 18, 2007

Study Guide 9
 

Mughal India and CentralAsia
Mughal India and Central Asia
Murphey
Chapter 10
The Yamato Period

Heian Japajn

Life in Heian Japan

Fourteenth Week

April 25, 2007

 

New Imperial Splendor in China:  The Ming Dynasty Murphey
Chapter 11
Muslim in India

Sultanate of Delhi

Fifteenth Week

May 2, 2007

 

New Imperial Splendor in China:  The Ming Dynasty Murphey,
Chapter 11
Moghuls
Sixteenth Week

May 9, 2007

    Final Examination

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