exam must be completed in an essay format. Please do not use sources beyond the textbook, class notes/lectures, and primary sources assigned on the syllabus. You must work on your own and neither collaborate nor write with any other student. For this exam

COURSE SCHEDULE

Part I: Settling the “West”

14 January

Course Introductions

16 January

The practice of history

Pavlac, 1-16
http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/WhyStudyHistory.htm/

18 January

The Ancient World,

Pavlac, Ch. 2 & 3

Code of Hammurabi

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp

Epic of Gilgamesh, “The Flood”

http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab11.htm

21 January

Greek Politics

Pavlac, 57-71

Thucydides, The Funeral Oration of Pericles

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.asp

23 January

Greek Culture

Pavlac, 71-79

Plato, The Apology of Socrates

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html

25 January

Roman Republic

Pavlac, 81-90

The Twelve Tables

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/12tables.asp

Sallust, “Life in Rome in the Late Republic”

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/63sallust.asp

(Quiz 1 on Moodle)

28 January

Roman Empire

Pavlac, 90-103

Pliny the Elder, “The Grandeur of Rome”

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/pliny-natihist-rome.asp

30 January

Rise of Christianity

Pavlac, 105-114

Christian Beginnings

http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/xtians.html

Part II: The Formation of “Western” Institutions

1 February

Byzantium, Or the Eastern Empire

Pavlac, 114-119
Nika Riot
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/procop-wars1.asp
Racing Factions
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/procop-factions.asp

4 February

West “versus” East

Pavlac, 119-122

Ibn Ishaq, Selections from the Life of Muhammad

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/muhammadi-sira.asp

6 February

Defining the “Middle Ages”

Pavlac, 127-138

The First European Empire

The Franks

8 February

Medieval Political and Social Systems

Pavlac, 139-177

Fiefs and Jurisdiction

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/feud-fief2.asp

Charter of Homage and Fealty

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/atton1.asp

11 February

Part III: Movement Toward the Modern “West”

The Plague

Pavlac, 177-180

Boccaccio, The Decameron, Introduction
http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/boccacio2.asp

The Black Death and the Jews

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/1348-jewsblackdeath.asp

13 February

Renaissance—Intro

Pavlac, 185-198

Petrarch, Letters

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/petrarch1.asp

15 February

Renaissance Art

Giorgio Vasari, “Life of Leonardo da Vinci, 1550”

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/vasari1.asp
(Quiz 3 on Moodle)

18 February

Machiavelli, The Prince

Historical Source Discussion

Worksheet Due in Class; take quiz in class

20 February

Western Expansion

Pavlac, 211-220

Christopher Columbus, extracts from journal

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/columbus1.asp

Hernan Cortes, Second Letter to the Emperor Charles V, 1520

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1520cortes.asp

22 February

Luther’s Reformation

Pavlac, 199-203

Martin Luther, Letter to the Archbishop of Mainz, 1517

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lutherltr-indulgences.asp

Luther Against the Peasants

http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/peasants1525.html

25 February

Exam 1

27 February

Other Reformations—Counter Reformation, Henry VIII

Pavlac, 203-205

Letter of Thomas Cranmer

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cramner-hen8.asp

Henry VIII, Act of Supremacy

http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/Sources/ActSupremacy.html

Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/loyola-spirex.asp

1 March

Religious Violence after the Reformation

Pavlac, 205-210

http://history.hanover.edu/texts/magde.html

Content Quiz 4

4 March – Break

6 March – Break

8 March – Break

11 March

Part IV: The Age of Revolutions in the Modern Era

Scientific Revolution

Pavlac, 223-228

Nicolas Copernicus, The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies, 1543 excerpt

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1543copernicus2.asp

The Crime of Galileo: Indictment and Abjuration of 1633

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1630galileo.asp

13 March

The Enlightenment

Pavlac, 228-241

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, chapter 13

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/hobbes-lev13.asp
John Locke, Second Treatise on Government, excerpts

http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/Sources/Locke-2ndTreatise.html

Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, excerpts

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/mod/rousseau-soccon.asp

15 March

Enlightened Despots

Frederick II, Political Testament

http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/Sources/Frederick the Great.html

18 March

Industrial Revolution

Pavlac, 263-273

Robert Owen, Observations on the Effect of the Manufacturing System

http://orion.it.luc.edu/%7Esjones1/owen.htm

20 March

French Revolution, The Founding of a Republic

Pavlac, 241-254
Readings from French Revolution and Human Rights

Worksheet due in class

22 March