World Civ 10100 Updated Reading Schedule

Week 4
9/16 Nubia, Indus Valley
Textbook: 45-50; 65-68
Web: Ancients on Nubia and Ethiopia
Assignment: Response paper on article on Racism and the Study of Nubia (Online), due
9/23
9/18 Early China
Textbook: 54-65
Week 5
9/23 Cosmopolitan Late Bronze Age and the Assyrian Empire
Textbook: 82-95
Web: The Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II
9/25 Israel and Phoenicia
Textbook: 96-110; 204-205 (Oral Societies and Literacy)
Web: Genesis 12-24; Exodus 19-20
Exam #1
Week 6
9/30 Iran and Early Greece
Textbook 116-134
10/2 Classical Greece, Alexander, and the Hellenistic World
Textbook: 134-146
Week 7
10/7 The Roman Republic
Textbook: 150-155
Timeline Quiz
10/9 Imperial Rome
Textbook: 155-164
Web: The Deeds of Augustus; Finley, The Roman Empire in the Year One. (Optional)
Paper #1 due
Week 8
10/14 NO CLASS-Columbus Day
10/15 TUESDAY - MONDAY SCHEDULE
Imperial China
Textbook: 164-175 (Review 54-65)
10/16 India and Southeast Asia
Textbook: 178-202
Week 9
10/21 The Silk Road and the Indian Ocean
Textbook: 210-217; 224-226

10/23 Saharan Trade Routes, Sub-Saharan Africa

Textbook: 217-224; 226-227
Web: The Book of Routes and Realms
Exam #2
Week 10
10/28 The Byzantine Empire
Textbook: 254-260
10/30 The Early Middle Ages
Textbook: 260-265
Web: The Conversion of Clovis
Week 11
11/4 The Sasanid Empire and the Rise of Islam
Textbook: 228-52, 332-33 (Conversion)
Web: The Quran (Introduction and Selections)
11/6 The Rise of Western Europe
Textbook: 265-80
Web: Urban at Clermont
Exam #3
Week 12
11/11 China: Sui, Tang, and Song Empires
Textbook: 282-297
Web: Selection of Tang poetry (Optional)
11/13 Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
Textbook: 297-303
Paper #2 due
Week 13
11/18 Classic & Post-Classic Mesoamerica
Textbook: 306-317
11/20 North American and Andean Civilization
Textbook: 317-330
Map Quiz
Week 14
11/25 The Mongols
Textbook: 336-59
11/27 NO CLASS - Thanksgiving
Week 15
12/2 The Tropics, Mali, and the Dehli Sultanate
Textbook: 368-79
Web: Mansa Musas Pilgrimage

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Exam #4
Indian Ocean Trade, Zimbabwe, and Social Change
Textbook: 379-88

Week 16
12/9 Discussion of Gender
12/11 The Latin West, Review
Textbook: 390-415
Paper #3 due