WORLD CIVILIZATIONS I (TO 1500 CE)

 

History 110

Professor Kathleen Addison (email: kathleen.addison@csun.edu)

Resource Page

 

Harrupan civilization, pre-Aryan Indus Valley, city of Mohenjo Daro

Close up view of the Rosetta Stone, showing Egyptian hieroglyphics

solstice at Stonehenge, a neolithic monument in Salisbury Plains, England.

Stone tablet with drawing from the Epic of Gilgamesh; Mesopotamian third milennium b.c.e.

 

 

 

 

Syllabus

Assignment #1 due at the first exam.

Assignment #2 for exam #2  revised 6/15/11 7:45 pm

ASSIGNMENT #3

FINAL ASSIGNMENT, OPTIONAL

Study Guide for Test #1

Study Guide for Test #2   Revised 6/15/11 7:45 pm

Here is your final study guide!!

 

LINK FOR PPTS on my other site  -- this is the link to Pierce college; review the Final exam stuff there for extra fun!

SECTION I: 

Readings: Mesopotamia and the Near East

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Hammurabi’s Law code (excerpts)

Instructions of Ptah-hotep (Egypt)

Book of the Dead (Egypt)

Exodus: Moses (Israel) 

Assyrian conquests

 

India and Eastern World

India:  The Laws of Manu

India:  Some background on Hinduism and Vedic Literature

China:  Confucius’ Analects (selections)

China:  on the Mandate of Heaven  -

Group Work: 

                PreVedic and Vedic Society

                Aryan Migration and Laws of Manu

                Legalism

                China Outlines

Addison's Links on Eastern Religion/Philosophy Outlines:

1.   Hinduism and the Vedic Traditions

2.  Classical Hinduism

3.  Confucianism/Taoism

Group Work:

China

                1.            Sui Empire (589-618 C.E.) 

                2.            Tang Empire (627-907)

                3.            Song (960-1279)

CONNECTIONS TO THE WEST

Silk Road

Malay

1.  Mongols in Russia;  2. Effects of Mongols in Russia

 

 

Western World: 

READINGS

Persia:  Herodotus On the Customs of the Persians  -

Pericles’ Funeral Oration (Justification of Athenian Empire)

Plato's Allegory of the Caves

RomeLivy's account of The Rape of Lucretia (for founding Rome apart from Etruscans)

 

Selections from the Law of 12 Tables

Western World Group Work: 

Group 1:  Rise of the Persian Empire

Group 2:  Persian Wars – Athenian Empire

Group 3: Peloponnesian Wars

Group 4:  Hellenic to Hellenistic Era:  Alexander the Great

Bonus:  Animated Map of Alexander's Conquests

Group 5:  Hellenistic Characteristics

Extra credit works: 

Roman Engineering by Luis Rodriguez

Olmec Overview:  Jessica Pavia

Outline of Networks of Trade and Connection by jackae.bahadoor

Middle Ages by Joanna Torres