JOHN C. KINCHELOE   Northern Virginia Community College                              

Week 1 =

Introduction / What is Civilization?
By end of first week READ:

Week 2 =

Mesopotamia & Egypt                                                                                   ? -500  B.C.E.

READ:
 -T = Ch. 1

Week 3 =

An Ancient Maritime World                                                                        

READ:
-T= Ch. 2  
 -B = The Epic of Gilgamesh (Read in its entirety.)
-Online Primary Documents

The Idea of Classic Greece                                                                            1150-480 B.C.E

READ:
-T= Ch. 3 

Herodotus: On the Kings of Sparta, c. 430 BCE -   http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/herodotus-sparta1.asp

Aristotle: The Polis, from Politics - http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/Aristotle-politics-polis.asp

Thucydides: Pericles' Funeral Oration from the Peloponnesian War -  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.asp

Women, by Semonides of Amorgos (Poem 7)-   http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/sem_7.shtml

Week 5 =
Hellenistic Civilization & Alexander the Great                                            359-200 B.C.E  

READ:
-T= Ch. 4    

-Online Primary Documents =

-Alexander the Great Speach = https://aronnirmal.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/speech-of-alexander-the-great/

-Decree of the satrap Ptolemy Lagides    http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/lagides.htm         

=Babylonian Chronicles

-Ptolemy III Chronicle (BCHP 11)    http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-ptolemy_iii/bchp_ptolemy_iii_01.html

ROME                                                                                                            753B.C.E.–305 C.E.

READ:
-T= Ch. 5 

-Online Primary Documents :

-Roman law, The Twelve Tables=  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/12tables.asp

-Roman view of the afterlife=  http://alexm.here.ru/mirrors/www.enteract.com/jwalz/Eliade/180.html

-The Roman Candidate = http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/54candidate.asp

Roman Culture                                                                                           753B.C.E.–305 C.E.

READ:
-T= Ch. 5 (continued)

-Online Primary Documents = 

-Slavery in the Roman Republic (Plautus, Pseudolus, Act. I, Sec. 2) http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/slavery-romrep1.asp

-Women's Life in Greece and Rome http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-privatelife242.shtml

-Life of an upper class man - http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/plinyyoung-letters3-1.asp

-Grandeur of Rome -  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/pliny-natihist-rome.asp

1. On the Resurrection, by Justin Martyr http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/justinmartyr-resurrection.html

2. The Didache, The Lord's Teaching Through The Twelve Apostles To The Nations http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/didache-roberts.html

3. The First Epistle of Clement of Rome To The Corinthians: Clement of Rome http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/1clement-hoole.html

The Islamic World

 READ:
-T= Ch. 7

 -Online Primary Documents 

-THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD'S LAST SERMON    http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/muhm-sermon.asp

-MUHAMMAD PROCLAIMS THE QUR'AN   http://www.mircea-eliade.com/from-primitives-to-zen/233.html

-THE KORAN: "THE WOMEN"     http://web.archive.org/web/20000229204333/http:/www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/koranonwomen.htm

-Saga of Banded Man (Read entire saga)

Group 7 Discussion Lead
-Complete Chapter Quiz
READ:
-T= Ch. 9

-Online Primary Documents:

-Pope Innocent III.  -Summons to a Crusade 1215-  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/source/inn3-cdesummons.asp

-Pope Innocent III - Letters on Papal Policy-   http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/innIII-policies.asp

-Magna Carta.   http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/magframe.asp

-Decree of the Emperor Henry IV Concerning a Truce of God  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/dechenry.asp

The Middle Ages: the Christian Church & Era of Crisis                                                     1300-1500                   
READ:
-T= Ch. 10 
-Document= Read "Canterbury Tales" 

PLAAAAGGUUUUE:
http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/perspectives/petrarca.php

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/perspectives/marchionne.php

-Complete Chapter Quizzes
READ:
-T= Ch. 11 & 12

-O =Documents =

Columbus Letter to the King and Queen of Spain (1494)   http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus2.asp
John Cabot, Voyage to North America (1497)  http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497cabot-3docs.asp

Vasco da Gama, Round Africa to India (1497-1498) - http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497degama.asp

READ:
-T= Ch. 13

-O =Documents =
-Martin Luther: Letter to the Archbishop of Mainz, 1517 http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lutherltr-indulgences.asp

-Calvin: Letter to the King [on the Clergy]    http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/source/calvin-onclergy.asp

-Martin Luther Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)     http://history.hanover.edu/texts/luthad.html