World Civilization

UGC 111 TAs

Summer 2014 Andrea Nero ([email protected])

Donald T. McGuire, jr William Pritchard ([email protected])

111A Norton Hall, 645-0745 office hrs: TBA

[email protected]

office hrs: TBA

SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND ASSIGNMENTS

NB: all readings are expected to be done before the class at which topic is discussed. Midterm and final exams will test students’ understanding of both the assigned readings and the class lectures.

Textbook: P. von Sivers et al, PATTERNS OF WORLD HISTORY, Oxford University Press

Week One

M 26-V: No class MEMORIAL DAY

T 27-V: Paleo/Neolithic: VON SIVERS Skim 4-33; read carefully: 10-13, 21-28, 37-40, 62-64.

visit Lascaux Cave: http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml

Read Smithsonian article on Gobekli Tepe

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/30706129.html

W 28-V: Mesopotamia, VON SIVERS 40-47 plus box on 48-49

Read Epic of Gilgamesh, Prologue + Tablets I – III at

http://www.angelfire.com/tx/gatestobabylon/temple1.html

Read Prologue, Laws 1-50, Epilogue of Code of Hammurabi in “Text” section at

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.asp

R 29-V: Egypt, VON SIVERS, 47-52, 56-57

View & read about Narmer Palette, both reverse and obverse sides at

http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/narmer/index.html

Look at Magical Bricks and Coffin of Meresamun at

http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/highlights/egypt.html

Read full article on Tut & DNA at

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/09/tut-dna/hawass-text

Week Two

M 2-VI: Near East—Assyria, Israel and Phoenicia VON SIVERS 57-60

Read Exodus c. 1-22 at http://www.ebible.org/kjv/Exodus.htm

Look at Phoenician alphabet at http://www.ancientscripts.com/phoenician.html

Skim article, especially 293-296, about the Uluburun shipwreck at

http://www.scribd.com/doc/53923310/Uluburun-Bass-AJA-1986

T 3-VI: Bronze Age Greece and the eastern Mediterranean VON SIVERS, 52-58, 60-62

Read Iliad Book 24 available at:

http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/homer/iliad24.htm

Read Odyssey Book 9 available at

http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/homer/odyssey9.htm

View ALL images of Palace at Knossos, including plans, panoramio, etc:

http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Palace_at_Knossos.html

W 4-VI: Classical Greece and Persia VON SIVERS, 65-66, 199-205

Read Herodotus 1.1-15 and 107-130 at

http://www.iranchamber.com/history/herodotus/herodotus_history_book1.php

R 5-VI: Greece VON SIVERS, 205-207, 228-229

Look at Overview of Athenian Agora at Agora website:

http://www.agathe.gr/overview/

Read Antigone lines 1-541 at

http://www.enotes.com/antigone-text/antigone?start=1

Week Three

M 9-VI: Rome VON SIVERS , 208-210

Read Livy Histories 1.1 to 1.13 at

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy01.html

Read selections from Twelve Tables at

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

T 10-VI Rome: VON SIVERS, 210-211

Read Achievements of Augustus at

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/14resgestae.html

Read Pliny’s letters about eruption of Vesuvius at

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~afutrell/404b/web%20rdgs/pliny%20on%20vesuvius.htm

Visit Pompeii’s House of the Vetii at

http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Pompeii/vettii/vettii.html

View “General Introduction” and “Additional Comments”

W 11-VI: Rome

VON SIVERS, 223-225, 229-232

Read Pliny letter about handling of Christians at

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/texts/pliny.html