Course Outline (subject to change)
Please refer to the course website and print out the appropriate lecture outlines prior to the class
Week 1- Introduction
1-18 What is History? What does an Historian do? McKay 4-6,
Caves to towns- Mckay 6-8
Egypt- McKay 16-21
Mesopotamia- McKay 8-15
Israel- McKay 36-40
Persia- McKay 44-47
Week 2- Greece
1-25 The Rise of Greek Civilization
Homer, Sparta, Athens, and the Persian Wars- McKay 66-74
The Peloponnesian Wars and Greek Religion- McKay 78-83
1-27 The Hellenistic Age
Alexander the Great- McKay 93-109
Hellenistic Intellectual Advances- McKay 109-117
Week 3- Greek Thought
2-1 The Pre-Socratics- McKay 80-82
2-3 Socrates, Plato and Aristotle- McKay 82-84
*History vs. Hollywood Due Today*
Week 4- Rome- From Republic to Empire
2-8 The Roman Republic- McKay 123-145
2-10 The Roman Empire- McKay 151-177
Week 5- The Fall of the Roman Empire
2-15 Wars and Invasions- McKay 177-184, 188-189
2-17 The Teutons and Byzantium- McKay 191-200, 207-220
*Secondary Source Assignment Due Today*
Week 6- Christian Monasticism
2-22 Early Christians and Saint Augustine- McKay 200-203
2-24 Roots of Monasticism and the Rule of St Benedict- McKay 203-207
Week 7- The Early Middle Ages
The Merovingians –
The Carolingians- McKay 235-251
*Bibliography for Paper is Due Today*
3-3 Economics
Feudalism- McKay 251-254
The Manor- McKay 254
Week 8- The New Millennium
3-15 The Vikings and the Development of Norman Rule- McKay 255-259
3-17 Revival and Reform-
The Political Makeup of Europe- McKay 265-268
Week 9- The High Middle Ages
3-22 Church Revival and Crusades- McKay 271-289
3-24 Three Social Classes
Those who work- McKay 295-311
Those who fight- McKay 311-318
Those who pray- McKay 318-324
*Medieval Architecture Project Due Today
*Thesis Statement is Due Today*
Week 10- The Later Middle Ages- Crisis
The Black Death- McKay 381-387
The Hundred Years War- McKay 397-393
The Avignon Papacy- McKay 393-394
The Great Schism- McKay 394-396
Week 11- Some Other Stuff
4-5 Medieval Technology
Nautical- McKay 505-506
The Clock- McKay 433-434
Agrarian- Horse Collars and Crop Rotation-
*Medieval Technology Due Today
4-7 A Paradigm Shift
Week 12- The Renaissance- McKay 415-449
The Rise of Big Business- McKay 353-356
Cultural Revival
4-14 The Northern Renaissance
Week 13- Education
4-19 Humanism and the Printing Press
4-21 Education
Scholasticism- McKay 358-360
The University- McKay 356-358
*Research Outline Due Today*
Week 14- The Reformation
4-26 The Early Reformers- McKay 455-459
John Wycliffe- McKay 395
John Huss- McKay 397
Girolamo Savonarola- McKay 420
Thomas à Kempis
Desiderius Erasmus- McKay 452-453
4-28 The Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther- McKay 459-470
Ulrich Zwingli-
John Calvin- McKay 470-473
Henry VIII- McKay 473-476
The Counter-Reformation- McKay 477-483
Week 15- Final Exam