HIST-101: Western Civilization I                                                   Fall 2008

Class Schedule:

Week 1:  Introduction; Mesopotamia; Egypt

               Readings:

               8/25 – None   

   8/27 – Text Book (TB), 2-18

   8/29 – TB, 19-29

Week 2: Assyrians; Early Greece; Society and Politics in Archaic Greece

               9/1 – TB, 31-46;   Code of the Assura

               9/3 – TB, 47-57;   Hesiod: Theogony

               9/5 – TB, 58-70;   Xenophon: Polity of the Spartans,   Spartan War Machine       

Week 3: Culture of Archaic Greece; Classical Greece

               9/8 – TB, 70-74;    Heraclitus

               9/10 – TB, 74-80;   Law Code of Gortyn ,  Funeral Oration of Pericles

               9/12 – TB, 80-90;     Aristotle:  The Politics                        Reading Assignment 1

Week 4: Philip, Alexander, Hellenistic Kingdoms and Culture

               9/15 – TB, 92-99;   Plutarch:  Murder of Philip II,  Life of Alexander (selections)

               9/17 – TB, 99-107;   Athanaeus

               9/19 – TB, 107-119;  Hellenic & Hellenistic Science            Paper 1 Assigned    

Week 5: Rome: Before, Early and Middle Republic

               9/22 – TB, 120-128; Etruscans;  Livy: Romans Declaring War

               9/24 – TB, 128-133;  Twelve Tables                                    Reading Assignment 2

               9/26 – TB, 134-143;  Polybius:  Maniple vs. Phalanx,   Character of Hannibal                             

Week 6: Republican Collapse, Augustus, Roman Peace and its Collapse

               9/29 – TB, 143-151; Cicero's Letters (selections)                           

               10/1 – TB, 152-160; Deeds of Augustus;   Tacitus (paragraphs 1-9)

               10/3 – TB, 161-170; Life of Antoninus Pius

Week 7: Early Christianity and the Empire

               10/6 – TB, 170-185; Pliny & others;   Felix & Hippolytus    Paper 1 Due 10/6

               10/8 – TB, 185-193; Edicts;  Codex Theodosianus 

               10/10 – No Class

Week 8:  Mid-Term Exams

Week 9: Rise of the Germanic Kingdoms, Roman Empire in the East

               10/20 – No Class

               10/22 – TB, 194-199; Tacitus:  Germania

               10/24 – TB, 199-205; Procopius:  On Justinian

Week 10: Society and Culture in Late Antiquity, Islam and Byzantium

               10/27 – TB, 205-211

               10/29 – TB, 212-221; Pact of Umar;  Baghdad under the Abbasids

               10/31 – TB, 221-228; Farmer's Law                                    Reading Assignment 3

Week 11: Catholic Kingdoms in the West, the Carolingians, Early Medieval Economics

               11/3 – TB, 228-231; Bede:  Conversion of England

               11/5 – TB, 231-239; Charlemagne;  Annals of Xanten

               11/7 – TB, 240-244; Inventory of Asnapium;  Fairs & Markets      Paper 2 Assigned

Week 12: Economic Expansion, Heirs of the Carolingians, Britain

               11/10 – TB, 246-254; Revolt in Laon

               11/12 – TB, 254-266; Papal Election Decree;  Election of Hugh Capet

               11/14 – TB, 267-271; Laws of William I;    Henry II                      Reading Assignment 4

Week 13: New States; The Crusades; Orders of Society

               11/17 – TB, 271-275; Russia: Vladimir; The Varangians

               11/19 – TB, 276-281; Siege of Jerusalem;  Usamah Ibn Munqidh

               11/21 – TB, 282-291; In Praise of the New Knighthood

Week 14: Social & Religious Movements, Latin Culture

               11/24 – TB, 291-295; Solet Annuere                                     Paper 2 Due 11/24

               11/26 – TB, 295-303; University of Paris; Courses: Theology & Medicine 

               11/28 – No Class (Thanksgiving)

Week 15: Vernacular Achievement & Architecture, Exam Prep

               12/3 – TB, 303-312

               12/5 – Exam Prep

               12/7 – No Class (Reading Day)

Week 16:  Final Exams

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