Western Civilization I

  

COURSE INTRODUCTION
 

X Syllabus Fall 2008
X Primary Source Reading Assignments
X How Would You Do?
 X Guidelines for Source Analysis
 X Transformational Learning Experiences
 X How to Recognize a Culture of Peace
 X Skills Analysis Worksheet
X History as an Academic Discipline
X Personal Course Objectives
X A Crossroads in History

RESEARCH PROJECT
X Research Guidelines
X Research Proposal
 X Research Report

 


 

THE ANCIENT WORLD
 

X Paleolithic and Neolithic Societies
X A Paleolithic Art Gallery
X Film: The Dawn of History 
X Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
X Ancient Myths and Legends
X Comparison of Flood Stories
X PPT: Major Transformations in Human Society
X PPT: Egyptian Civilization
 X Links for Comparison of Flood Stories
X Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
X Aristotle’s Ethics
X PPT: Ancient Greek Civilization
X The Hippocratic Oath Today
X Roman Civilization: The Republic
 X Roman Republic Diagram
X Pax Romana and the Roman Contribution
X PPT: Ancient Rome
X Pax Romana
X Wrapped in the Star-Spangled Toga
 X A Comparison of Ancient Civilizations
X How Did the Ancient World Measure Up?
 

THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
 

X Early Christianity
X The Rise of the Christian Church
X A Hammer Struck at Heresy
X The Fall of Rome
X Film: The Roman World
X PPT: The Byzantine Empire
X PPT: Islamic Civilization
X PPT: Charlemagne
X Medieval Life Chart
X Medieval Institutions Chart
X PPT: The Middle Ages
X Trial by Ordeal
X The Peasant and the Milk Pail
X The Rise of National States
X The Ascendancy of the Church
X PPT: The Crusades
X Crusades and Jihads
X PPT: Crusades and Jihads

 Resources for Medieval European History

THE EARLY MODERN WORLD
 
 Grace before the Meal, by Anthonius Claessins, c. 1538-1613

X The Waning of the Middle Ages
X The Calamitous 14th Century
X Oration on the Dignity of Man
 X What Historians Say About Columbus
 X PPT: The Roots of the Protestant Reformation
 X PPT: The Protestant Reformation in Germany
 X PPT: Henry VIII & the Reformation in England
 X PPT: John Calvin & the Reformation in Geneva
 X PPT: The Society of Friends
X PPT: The Catholic Reformation
X Protestantism, Capitalism, and Democracy
 X Prot-Cap-Dem Worksheet
 

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