History 103: Western Civilization
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.

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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
    • Exodus
    • Babylonian Captivity
    • Assyrians
    • Cyrus
    • Zoroastrianism
    • Covenant

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.

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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
    • Persian Wars
    • Peloponnesian War
    • Sappho of Lesbos
    • Sophists
    • Socrates
    • Sophocles
    • Aristophanes

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.

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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
    • Cynics
    • Hellenizing Jews
    • Hanukkah

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
    • Gracchus Brothers
    • Sulla
    • Cicero
    • Tacitus
    • Christianity
    • Paul

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.

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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
    • Muhammad
    • Islam
    • Quran
    • Shi'ites
    • Franks
    • Charlemagne
    • dowry

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
    • Jews
    • lay investiture
    • excommunication
    • Eleanor of Aquitaine
    • William the Conqueror
    • El Cid
    • Novgorod

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.

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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
    • Romanesque
    • First Crusade
    • Pope Urban II
    • Ibn al-Athir

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
    • "Poor Clares"
    • mysticism
    • Albigensian
    • anti-Semitism
    • Bologna
    • curriculum
    • Trotula of Salerno
    • Thomas Aquinas
    • troubadors
    • Unam sanctam

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.

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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
    • Lithuania
    • fall of Constantinople
    • Granada
    • *conversos
    • Black Death
    • Statute of Laborers
    • *ale
    • *jacquerie

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
    • 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

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.

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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)
    • Henry VIII
    • Bloody Mary
    • Elizabethan Settlement
    • Teresa of Avila
    • Spiritual Exercises
    • Christina of Sweden
    • Council of Trent

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
    • Edict of Nantes
    • Richelieu
    • Puritans
    • Charles I
    • Thirty Years' War
    • Shakespeare
    • baroque

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.