Week 1 | Readings & Assignments | Jan 16
| The Uses of History | Bookmark this page (on phone, computer, etc.) Read Syllabus
| Jan 18 | What's Human? | Gorman, “Cooking Up Bigger Brains” |
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Week 2 | Readings & Assignments | Jan 24
| Peopling the Planet
| McNeills, Introduction and Chapter I Mithen, “A Lost World Revealed”
| Jan 26 | Neolithic Transformations | McNeills, Chapter II Diamond, “The Worst Mistake”
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Week 3 | Readings & Assignments | Jan 30 | River Valley Urbanization | McNeills, Chap III, pp 41-65
| Feb 1 | Invention of Writing/Primary Sources
| Three Flood Myths: Gilgamesh (Babylonian) Genesis, bks 6-9 Satapatha Brahmana, “The Ida” Essay #1A Due!
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Week 4 | Frontiers and Conflicts
| Readings & Assignments | Feb 6 | Behind City Walls
| Primary Documents on Ancient Hierarchies and Food Essay #1B Due!
| Feb 8 | Beyond City Walls
| Anthony, “Economic and Military Effects of Horseback Riding” CWHF “Africa South from the Sahara” Part 1
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Week 5 | Frontiers and Conflictcont'd | Readings & Assignments | Feb 13 | Bantu Expansion (Game) | CWHF “Africa South from the Sahara” Part 2 Bantu Expansion addendum
| Feb 15 | Midterm! | Exam #1! |
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Week 6 | Ancient Political Economies | Readings & Assignments | Feb 20 | Empires, Commerce, & Politics | McNeills, Chap III, pp 65-81 Primary Documents on Ancient Statecraft
| Feb 22 | Film Discussion 1: 300 | Filmpack 1 (300) Essay #2A Due!
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Week 7 | Readings & Assignments | Feb 27 | Continental Empires | Salt and Pepper in Antiquity
| Mar 1 | Imperial Collapse | Documents from Falling Empires Essay #2B Due!
| Week 8 | S P R I N G | B R E A K |
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Week 9 | Universalist Religions | Readings & Assignments | Mar 13 | Doctrines and Institutions | McNeills, Chap IV, pp 82-108 Buddhist Texts Christian Texts Islamic Texts
| Mar 15 | Geographies of Faith | Conversion Documents Essay #3A Due!
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Week 10
| Readings & Assignments | Mar 20 | Vikings!
| Viking Documents Essay #3B Due! | Mar 22 | CLASS CANCELLED! | SNOW DAY |
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Week 11 | Fragile Environments cont'd | Readings & Assignments | Mar 27 | Americas/Pacific Tropics | McNeills, Chap IV, pp 108-15
| Mar 29 | Midterm! | Exam #2! |
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Week 12 | Eurasian Middle Ages
| Readings & Assignments | Apr 3 | Governments & Peasantries | Agriculture in Outer Eurasia Emperor Henry IV, Truce of God Chuyuki, Edict against Enryakuji (and other documents)
| Apr 5 | Towns and Technology | McNeills, Chap V, pp116-37 Urban documents
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This quiz will ask you questions on the readings for Week 13 'Careers, Transfers and Dual Admissions' You will be asked 5 randomly selected questions and will have 30 minutes to answer them. Once you start the quiz the clock will countdown even if you log out of Canvas. After 30 minutes your quiz will automatically submit whether you finished. MWF Schedule M: Reading Response 4 Rodriguez & One Prewriting Question DUE. In class, we will discuss features of Rodriguez's narrative essay in terms of the Unit 1 Essay Assignment. For next class, please complete Reading Response 5 Graff and respond to at least two further Prewriting Questions, using a mix of strategies. The best quarterback in Week 13 (going into Monday Night Football) finished sixth at the position in average yards per dropback, eighth in success rate, and 19th in total offense. In Baltimore, the Ravens quarterback only averaged 5.2 yards per play (passes, sacks, and runs). He finished sixth in our tables.
Week 13 | Readings & Assignments | Apr 10 | Pagans, Jihadis, and Crusaders | The First Crusade Documents | Apr 12 | Film Discussion #2: Kingdom of Heaven | Filmpack #2 (Kingdom of Heaven)
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Week 14 | Readings & Assignments | Apr 17 | The Fringes of Islam | McNeills, Chap V, pp 150-52 Salt in West Africa Ibn Battuta, excerpts from Travels Essay #4A Due!
| Apr 19 | Mongols! | Eating with the Mongols
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Week 15 | Readings & Assignments | Apr 24 | Cooling, Famine, Plague | Records of the Plague Essay #4B Due!
| Apr 26 | Pacific Rim Empires | McNeills, Chap V, pp 147-50 and 153-54 Excerpt from “The Pristine Myth” Inspection of the Chupaychu |
Week 16 | Readings & Assignments | May 1 | Technology and Politics in Eurasia | McNeills, Chap V, pp 137-47 | May 3 | The Invention of the Globe | McNeills, Chap VI, pp 155-74 International Encounters
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EXAM WEEK! Tuesday, May 8, 1:00 pm Exam #3 guide! |
I personally feel that the issues raised in this weeks readings is snarly mislead. The lack of representation in the areas this article addresses is more likely linked to a lack of quality in the performance in these areas. People within these professions who raise theas issues are just virtue signaling and hold no con. Week 13 Predictions: Our Picks Against the Spread Lamar Jackson and the Ravens’ juggernaut of an offense will get their stiffest test against the San Francisco 49ers in a game that feels.
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