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Texts:
Nelson, ed.  A Global Perspective, Vol. I  (HBJ)                    [GP]
Anglin & Hamblin, World History to 1600  (H-C Outline)       [WH]
The Holy Bible (pref. King James trans.)                                 [HB]
Robinson, ed.  Anthology of Greek Drama, First Series (HRW)   [GD]
Shakespeare: Henry the Fifth (New Folger PB)                        [H5]
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              Course Theme: GODS, COMMUNITIES, INDIVIDUALS 

Jan. 19:  Course introduction
             Chronological and Spatial Perspectives 
              Basic Concepts of History [WH 1-12]

Unit 1:  The Relations Between Humans and Their Gods

Jan. 22:  Independent States in Syria - Palestine  [WH 31-35]
              The Bible, Genesis, Chaps. 1-4; 6-9  [HB]
               (Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah)

Jan. 26:  Milton, excerpts from Paradise Lost (handouts);
              The Bible, Book of Revelation (Apocalypse), Chap. 12

Jan. 29:  Babylonian Culture  [WH 15-22]
              Gilgamesh  [GP 7-14]

Feb.  2:  Ancient India  [WH 45-66]
              Bhagavad Gita   [GP 45-56]
              Pure Land Sutra  [GP 158-63]

Feb.  5:  Classical Greece [WH 93-99], Greek Culture  [WH 104-11]
              Sophocles,  Oedipus the King  [GD]

Feb.  9:   Oedipus the King  (cont.)

Feb. 12:  Sophocles,  Antigone  [GD]

Feb. 16:  Antigone (cont.)
               Paper #1  due

Feb. 19:  Religion in the Roman Empire  [WH 137-47]
               The Gospel According to Matthew, Chaps. 1-5, 13, 26-28  [HB] 

Feb. 23:  Pre-Islamic Arabia, Muhammad, Arab Empire [WH 221-33]
              Koran  [GP 174-181 & handout supplements]

Feb. 26:  Protestant Revolt, Reformation, Wars of Religion [WH 443-58]
              Luther, "Ninety-Five Theses" (handouts);

March  2:  Mid-term Exam
 

UNIT 2:   INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES IN CONFLICT 
 

March  5:   The Bible:  1 Samuel 16-18 (David and Goliath) [HB]
                                  Judges 13-16 (Samson); 

March  9:  Homer,  The Iliad, excerpts from Books I, XX, XXII (handouts) 

March 12:  The Iliad (cont.)  Book 24  [GP 27-44]

March 23:  Aeschylus, Agamemnon  [GD]

March 26:  Thucydides, “Pericles' Funeral Oration,” from
                  History of the Peloponnesian War  [GP 57-66]
                  Appian, "The Destruction of Carthage" (handout) 

March 30:  Sun Tzu,  The Art of War  [GP 78-91] 
                  Kanehira  [GP 342-54]

April  6:    Arab Empire, Decline and Recovery  [WH 233-44]
                 Islam in India  [WH 292-99]
                  Koran, Sura 8: "The Spoils"  [GP 174-81] 

April  9:     Medieval Western Europe  [WH 252-67]
                 The Song of Roland  (excerpt)   [GP 183-205]

April 13:    Pre-Columbian America  [WH 344-48; 354-66; 372-74]
                 The Conquest of New Spain  [GP 402-16]

April 16:    Renaissance  [WH 434-42]
                  Machiavelli,  excerpts from The Prince  [GP 381-93]

April 20:    Shakespeare,  Henry the Fifth  [H5]

April 23:     Henry the Fifth  (cont.) 

April 27:     Kenneth Branagh, dir. Henry the Fifth (1988 film)

April 30:     Oral Reports

May   4:      Oral Reports (cont.)

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Course Assignments:
                                               Date
Quiz Average          10%
Paper 1 (Essay)       10%          Feb. 16 
Mid-term Exam       20%          March  2
Paper 2 (Research)  20%          April 23 
Oral report              10%          April 30,  May 4
Final Exam              30%          Week of May 6 - 13 (tba)