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Week
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Topic
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Readings
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August 23
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Introduction and Background
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None
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Aug. 28-30
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Ancient Civilizations
The Hebrews
|
from
the Epic of Gilgamesh
from Hammurabi's
Code
Herodotus on
Mummification
from the Old
Testament
|
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Sept. 4-6
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Rise of the Greeks
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from
Homer, The Iliad
from Herodotus, The
History
Solon,
Select Fragments
from Plato, The
Republic
from Aristotle, Politics
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Sept. 11-13
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Classical Greek Civilization
|
from
Aristotle, The Poetics
from Sophocles, Antigone
from Aristophanes,
The Clouds
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Sept. 18-20
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The Hellenistic World and
the rise of Rome
|
Alexander
the Great
Cicero, How to
Make Right Decisions
Plutarch on
Tiberius Gracchus
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Sept. 25-27
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The Roman Empire
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Augustus,
Res Gestae
from Tacitus, The
Annals
from Virgil, The
Aeneid
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Oct. 2
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Test 1
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|
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Oct. 4
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Christianity
|
|
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Oct. 9-11
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Christianity and the Heirs of Rome
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Paul,
Epistles
Early Church
Councils
from the Koran
about
Charlemagne
|
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Oct. 13-21
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Fall Break
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|
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Oct. 23-25
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The High Middle Ages
|
Urban II's Speech
at Clermont
Declaration
of the Powers of the Count of Toul over the City of Toul, 1069
Innocent
III, Letters
|
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Oct. 30-Nov. 1
|
High Medieval Culture
|
Rules
of the University of Paris
from Aquinas, Summa
Theologica
from Dante, The
Divine Comedy
Hildegarde of
Bingen, O virga ac diadema
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Nov. 6-8
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The Late Middle Ages
|
The English Peasant
Revolt (from Froissart's Chronicles)
from Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales
the Great Schism
(from Froissart's Chronicles)
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Nov. 13-15
|
Renaissance and Reformation
|
Petrarch
Letter
from Machiavelli, The
Prince
from Erasmus, Praise
of Folly
from Thomas More, Utopia
Luther, The 95
Theses
Luther, Letter to
the Archbishop of Mainz
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|
Nov. 20
|
Test 2
|
|
|
Nov. 27-29
|
The Expansion of Europe
|
letter
from Columbus
Las Casas on the
Destruction of the Indies
Voyages of John
Hawkins
Dutch Documents on
the Slave Trade
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Dec. 4-6
|
Medieval to Modern
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