Course Outline

 

Week 1- Introduction

9-7       What is History? What does an Historian do? McKay 4-6,

9-9       Origins of Civilization-

                        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

            9-13     The Rise of Greek Civilization

                                    Homer, Sparta, Athens, and the Persian Wars- McKay 66-74

                                    The Peloponnesian Wars and Greek Religion- McKay 78-83

            9-17     The Hellenistic Age

                                    Alexander the Great- McKay 93-109

                                    Hellenistic Intellectual Advances- McKay 109-117                  

Week 3- Greek Thought

            9-21     The Pre-Socratics- McKay 80-82

            9-23     Socrates, Plato and Aristotle- McKay 82-84

Week 4- Rome- From Republic to Empire

            9-28     The Roman Republic- McKay 123-145

            9-30     The Roman Empire- McKay 151-177

            *Primary Source Assignment Due Today*

Week 5- The Fall of the Roman Empire

Wars and Invasions- McKay 177-184, 188-189

10-7     The Teutons and Byzantium- McKay 191-200, 207-220

 And The Last of the Emperors

Week 6- Christian Monasticism

            10-12   Early Christians and Saint Augustine- McKay 200-203

            10-14   Roots of Monasticism and the Rule of St Benedict-  McKay 203-207

Week 7- The Early Middle Ages

            10-19   The Rise of the Franks

                                    The Merovingians –

                                    The Carolingians- McKay 235-251

            *Bibliography for Paper is Due Today*

            10-21   Economics

                                    Feudalism- McKay 251-254

                                    The Manor- McKay 254

Week 8- The New Millennium

            10-26   The Vikings and the Development of Norman Rule-  McKay 255-259

            10-28   Revival and Reform-

                                    Politics in Europe- McKay 265-268

                                    Church Revival and Crusades- McKay 271-289

Week 9- The High Middle Ages

            11-2     NO SCHOOL

            11-4     Three Social Classes

Those who work- McKay 295-311

Those who fight- McKay 311-318

Those who pray- McKay 318-324

                        *Thesis Statement is Due Today*

 

Week 10- The Later Middle Ages- Crisis

            11-9     Pestilence and Warfare

The Black Death- McKay 381-387

The Hundred Years War- McKay 397-393

                        *History vs. Hollywood Due Today

            11-11   NO SCHOOL

Week 11- Some Other Stuff

11-16   Ecclesiastical Breakdown

                        The Avignon Papacy- McKay 393-394

                        The Great Schism- McKay 394-396   

11-18   Medieval Technology and Education

                                    Nautical- McKay 505-506

                                    The Clock- McKay 433-434

                                    Agrarian- Horse Collars and Crop Rotation-

Week 12- The Renaissance- McKay 415-449

            11-23   From Italy to the North

                                    The Rise of Big Business- McKay 353-356

                                    Cultural Revival

            11-25   NO SCHOOL

Week 13- Education

            11-30   Education

                                    Scholasticism- McKay 358-360

                                    The University- McKay 356-358

12-2     Humanism and the Printing Press

            *Paper Due Today*

Week 14- The Reformation

12-7     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

            12-9     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-  Wrap Up

            12-14   The Religious Wars

            12-16   Review for Exam