Hist 1500: World History to 1500 C.E.

 

Course Essentials:

 Syllabus: Hist 1500--9:00am MWF

 

Revised Reading Schedule

 

Your FINAL EXAM  will be available through Chitester at various campus testing from April 23 to April 30

Final Exam Study Guide

Final Exam Review Part 1: Powerpoint

 

Guidelines for Writing Assignments

 

Powerpoints:

Human Pre-History and the Neolithic Revolution

Early Civilizations: Mesopotamia and Egypt

Early Civilizations: India and China

Persia and the Mediterranean World

Islam

Post-Classical India and China

The Byzantine Empire

The Mongols

The Renaissance

Global Integration 1500

 

Discussion Questions for the Sherman reader:

Chapter One

Chapters Two and Three

Chapters Four and Five

Chapter Six

 

Items of Interest:

 Mesopotamia Endangered: Witnessing the Loss of History:

            Archeologist Joanne Farchakh discusses the looting of early Mesopotamian sites in contemporary Iraq in this video webcast from UC-Berkeley

How to Understand Islam

                Malise Ruthven  reviews recent works on Islam in  the November 8 edition of the New York Review of Books

 

 

A  monumental 6th century Buddha of the Bamiyan valley of central Afghanistan destroyed in 2001