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Homework
Homework must be typed on a word processor and brought to class by 10:30 a.m. every Monday. See the Grading page for rules about missed work.
For Quiz 1
Unit 1: Ancestors of the West
Read/explore:
- Online: Studying Western Civ
- Workbook Documents: Ancestors of the West (6 documents)
Gilgamesh: The Flood, Gilgamesh: Death of Enkidu, Code of Hammurabi, Cross-sections of an Egyptian Pyramid, Ziggurat, The Old Testament: Exodus
- Noble, Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, Chapter 1 -- Terms
- Neolithic Revolution
- civilization
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- ziggurat
- cuneiform
- pharoah
- Akhenaten
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- Exodus
- Babylonian Captivity
- Assyrians
- Cyrus
- Zoroastrianism
- Covenant
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Do homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay, plus at least one tool that historians use. Create it in a word-processing program (save the file!), then print it out to bring to class. If you go over one page, print the second page on the back, not a separate page.
For Quiz 2
Unit 2: Ancient Greece
Read:
- Workbook Documents: Ancient Greece (6 documents): Homer: The Iliad, Sappho: Poem, Kouros nude, The Parthenon, Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Plato: The Republic
- Noble, Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, Chapter 2 (through page 54 only) -- Terms
- Minoans
- Knossos
- Mycenaeans
- The Iliad and the Odyssey
- phalanx
- helots
- democracy
- polis
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- Persian Wars
- Peloponnesian War
- Sappho of Lesbos
- Sophists
- Socrates
- Sophocles
- Aristophanes
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Homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay. Create it in a word-processing program (save the file!), then print it out to bring to class. If you go over one page, print the second page on the back, not a separate page.
For Quiz 3
Unit 3: Hellenistic Empire
Read:
- Workbook Documents: Hellenistic Empire (5 documents)
Plutarch: Philip of Macedon's Assassination, Hippocrates, Diogenes Laërtes: Life of Diogenes the Cynic, Statue of Aphrodite-Isis, Pergamon frieze
- Workbook: Hanukkah as Historical Analysis
- Noble, Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, Chapter 2 (from page 54 to end only)
- Alexander
- Ptolemy (general)
- Library at Alexandraia
- Hermaphrodite
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- Cynics
- Hellenizing Jews
- Hanukkah
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Homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay.
Unit 4: Rome
Read:
- Workbook Documents: Rome (5 documents)
Cato the Censor (Elder): On Agriculture, Cicero: Scipio's Dream, Tacitus: Admitting Provincials to the Senate, The Pantheon, Juvenal: Satire on Women
- Noble, Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, Chapters 3 and 4
- Etruscans
- imperium
- senate
- council of the plebs
- legion
- Carthage
- Cato
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- Gracchus Brothers
- Sulla
- Cicero
- Tacitus
- Christianity
- Paul
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Homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay.
For Quiz 4
Unit 5: Late Antiquity
Read:
- Workbook Documents: Late Antiquity (3 documents)
St. Augustine: Confessions, St. Augustine: City of God, The Rule of St. Benedict of Nursia
- Noble, Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, Chapters 5 and 6
- Diocletian
- Constantine
- heresy
- pope
- Visigoths
- Justinian's Code
- Benedict of Nursia
- Augustine
- original sin
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- Muhammad
- Islam
- Quran
- Shi'ites
- Franks
- Charlemagne
- dowry
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Homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay.
Unit 6: Expansion of Europe I
Read:
- Workbook Documents: Expansion of Europe (first 5 documents)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Beowulf, Bernard of Angers: Miracles of St. Foy, Pope Gregory VII Bans Lay Investiture, Letter from Henry IV
- Noble, Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, Chapter 7 (through page 189 only)
- nitrogen-fixing crops
- lumber
- primogeniture
- feudalism
- chivalry
- Cluny
- Bernard (of Clairvaux)
- manor
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- Jews
- lay investiture
- excommunication
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- William the Conqueror
- El Cid
- Novgorod
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Homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay.

For Quiz 5
Unit 7: Expansion of Europe II
Read:
- Workbook Documents: Expansion of Europe (last 4 documents)
Plan of Medieval Manor, Song of Roland, Peter Abelard: Sic et Non, Heloise: First Letter to Abelard
- Noble, Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment, Chapter 7 (from page 189 to end only)
- Latin
- vernacular
- Peter Abelard
- Bernard of Clairvaux (again)
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Song of Roland
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- Romanesque
- First Crusade
- Pope Urban II
- Ibn al-Athir
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Homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay.
Unit 8: Medieval Civilization at Its Height (1150-1300)
Read
- Workbook Documents: Medieval Civilization at Its Height (5 documents)
Andreas Capellanus: Art of Courtly Love, Magna Carta, Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica, Chartres Cathedral, Reliquary of St. Ursula
- Noble, Chapter 8
- interdict
- Henry II of England
- Magna Carta
- Jenghiz Khan
- guilds
- "just price"
- usury
- Francis of Assisi
- friars
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- "Poor Clares"
- mysticism
- Albigensian
- anti-Semitism
- Bologna
- curriculum
- Trotula of Salerno
- Thomas Aquinas
- troubadors
- Unam sanctam
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Homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay.
For Quiz 6
Unit 9: The Transformation of Medieval Civilization (1300-1500)
Read
- Workbook Documents: The Transformation of Medieval Civilization (4 documents)
Boccaccio: The Decameron, Catherine of Siena: Dialog, Joan of Arc's Trial, Hans Holbein: Dance of Death
- Noble, Chapter 9
- Babylonian Captivity
- St. Catherine of Siena
- *Great Schism
- Hussites
- Hundred Years' War
- Joan of Arc
- *Henry VII of England
- *Savonarola
- *William Tell
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- Lithuania
- fall of Constantinople
- Granada
- *conversos
- Black Death
- Statute of Laborers
- *ale
- *jacquerie
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Homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay.
Unit 10: The Renaissance
Read
- Workbook Documents: The Renaissance (9 documents)
Christine de Pisan: Book of the City of Ladies, Masaccio: The Trinity, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man, Machiavelli, Fra Bartolomeo: Portrait of Savonarola, Donatello's and Michaelangelo's David, Brunelleschi: Plan for Church of Santo Spirito, Sir Thomas More: Utopia, Erasmus: In Praise of Folly
- Noble, Chapters 10 and 11
- *humanism
- Boccaccio
- The Canterbury Tales
- *Christine de Pizan
- Petrarch
- civic humanism
- Isabella d'Este
- Donation of Constantine
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- *The Prince
- Giotto
- Masaccio's Trinity
- Michaelangelo's David
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- Gutenberg
- *Utopia
- Philosophy of Christ
- Albrecht Dürer
- Castiglione
- Alberti
- Marco Polo
- Prince Henry "the Navigator"
- *Vasco de Gama
- Christopher Columbus
- *Treaty of Tordesillas
- Hernán Cortés
- *Bartolomé de las Casas
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Homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay.

For Quiz 7
Unit 11: Age of the Reformations
Read
- Workbook Documents: Age of the Reformations (6 documents)
Martin Luther: Ninety-Five Theses, Lucas Cranach: Christ and Antichrist, Reformation Woodcut, John Calvin: On the Christian Life, St. Teresa of Avila: My Life, Bernini: Ecstasy of St. Teresa
- Noble, Chapter 12
- The Imitation of Christ
- indulgences
- Martin Luther
- Huldrych Zwingli
- Calvinists
- Anabaptists
- Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor)
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- Henry VIII
- Bloody Mary
- Elizabethan Settlement
- Teresa of Avila
- Spiritual Exercises
- Christina of Sweden
- Council of Trent
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Homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay.
Unit 12: Europe in the Age of Religious War
Read
- Workbook Documents: Europe in the Age of the Religious War (3 documents):
Hammer of Witches, Edict of Nantes, Hic Mulier (The Mannish Woman)
- Noble, Chapter 13
- midwives
- witch-hunts
- Revolt of the Netherlands
- Spanish Armada
- Philip II
- Huguenots
- Saint Bartholemew's Day Massacre
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- Edict of Nantes
- Richelieu
- Puritans
- Charles I
- Thirty Years' War
- Shakespeare
- baroque
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Homework:
Create a one page mini-essay with a thesis statement that describes the main point of the unit. Use all the terms and the titles of all assigned workbook documents in your mini-essay. |