Western Civilization    Fall 2012

Student Outlines

UNIT ONE Lectures

  1. Neolithic and the Sumerians: 1Sumer
  2. Mesopotamian Empires: 2Akkadian
  3. Ancient Egypt: 3Egypt
  4. Late Bronze Age Aegean: 4LBA
  5. Assyria and Persia: 5Assyria
  6. Formation of the polis: 6polis
  7. Classical Greece: 7Athens
  8. Alexander: 8Alexander
  9. Hellenistic Kingdoms: 9Hellenistic
  10. Ancient Rome: 10Rome

UNIT TWO Lectures

  1. Byzantium and Islam: 11Byzantium
  2. Charlemagne: 12Charlemagne
  3. Investure Controversy:13Feudalism
  4. Crusades:14Crusades
  5. Papal Imperialism: 15HMA
  6. What is Gothic? 16Gothic
  7. Crises of 14th century:17Plague
  8. Trials of the Roman Church: 18%20Papal%20Trials

UNIT THREE Lectures

  1. Mediterranean Colonialsim: 19Colonialism
  2. Renaissance: 20Renaissance
  3. Reformation: 21Reformation
  4. Counter-Reformation: 22Counter%20Ref
  5. Religious Warfare: 23Religious%20Warfare
  6. Absolutism: 24Absolutism
  7. Commerce and Capitalism: