HISTORY 106 – World Civilizations through 1600ce
Section 3807
Professor Al Smith – office hours: By appointment, only in summer
Syllabus / Schedule - Summer 2019
THIS SEMESTER’S THEME:
WAR and SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: This means that in all of the readings and discussions, we will be concerned with the concept of organized human conflict and resolution as motivators for historical change.
TEXTS: “Why We War by Al Smith
HISTORY 106 COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Students will be able to demonstrate factual knowledge of key political, economic, social and cultural events and issues in Early World Civilization.
- Students will be able to apply critical thinking (including causal analysis and skeptical inquiry) to historical concepts and developments in Early World Civilization.
- Students will be able to evaluate, analyze and interpret primary and secondary historical sources and make historical arguments based on these sources about Early World Civilization.
The Timeless Tale of the Hero's Journey: Full Film!
THE 7-WEEK SUMMER SEMESTER’S WORKLOAD
HOMEWORK (due each day)
A - Discussion Question: due daily - This means discussion is a percentage of your grade. Each day you are responsible for bringing me a typed question about History into class. It may be about the readings / video assigned. But, it may also be about anything historical that you were interested in. At the beginning of each class of the week, I will answer your question. These are worth 20 points each week.
HOMEWORK (due each week)
B – Weekly Essay. At the beginning of each week, I will provide a topic or topics to guide the week’s readings. It will be in your Reading Schedule (below). Each week, you will complete a 150 WORD analytical response on readings and lecture from the class. The response is due in class the end of each week. We will review the week prior to due date. Your summative assessment (final project) will be the Course Learning Objectives, above.
GRADING SCALE: Daily Discussion Questions = 20 points per week = 100 points
6 Weekly Essays = 100 points each = 600 points
3 Course Learning Objectives = 100 points each = 300 points
1000 points possible
REQUIRED MATERIALS: Text(s); Computer / internet & printer access; thumb drive (suggested); recorder
A NOTE ON READING: Your performance relating to weekly reading is directly linked to your success with course assignments. If you do not read the course material you will not succeed on the writing, testing, or discussion/participation levels.
Remember: you also have access to many Student Success Support Services, such as the Tutorial Center. The Library & Learning Center has resources that can make or break an assignment. The Writing Center is open, as is the Office Administration Center -- all of these counts towards helping with your success. ONLY YOU can access them!
There is homework due weekly so familiarize yourself with the format
=========================================================================
OTHER STUDENT RESOURCES:
LINK TO ALL ASSESSMENT / ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS<CLICK>
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
TIMEMAPS - Interactive World Maps
WORLD INTERACTIVE MAPS
BIG HISTORY
READING / VIEWING SCHEDULE History 106
Week #1 – Beginning Monday, 6/24/2019
TOPIC: Analyze the defining characteristics of the origin of civilizations. Then, analyze and isolate the effects of the development of 3 agricultural and animal husbandry evolutions on social organization in 3 separate regions.
READ: These linked articles / videos:
Are there Universals? - Discussion Commentaries
Humankind – first humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMOtzeJzPf4
Humankind – Agriculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhzQFIZuNFY
Gobekli Tepe Ancient History being Uncovered! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFgcmXRHcLU&feature=related
MATRIARCHY as SOCIAL ORGANIZATION - Inanna (Isis, Demeter, Ceres)
When God Was A Woman - Merlin Stone
Civilized Life?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdBbo6TBLyw
Human Ecology
HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on each day of the week’s instruction - AND- you will complete a 150 WORD analytical response on readings and lecture from the class. The response is due in class the end of each week. WHO (persons)- WHAT (events)- WHEN (in time and compared to now)- WHERE (geographic determinism & human ecology)- WHY (significance) was important?
====================================================
Week #2 – Beginning Monday, 7/1/2019
TOPIC: Integrate the lecture with the readings below in a summary of this week’s classes. Use the Who (was important), What (were they important for), When (were they important), Where (did events occur) and Why (does it matter, today) method to outline your essay.
WATCH THIS FILM: Ancient African Civilization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMh8Zzuvl18
DO THIS ASSIGNMENT & BRING IT TO CLASS WEDNESDAY
VIDEOGRAPHY
Nubia & Kemet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfRdmx8J_3g
ORIGINS: First Cities?
Mesopotamia?
Indus Civilization
Harappa
MINOAN ATLANTIS
MYCENEANS - Civilization of Heroes
TROY the film
Schlieman and Troy
Reconstructed Troy
SHANG China
HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on each day of the week’s instruction - AND- you will complete a 150 WORD analytical response on readings and lecture from the class. The response is due in class the end of each week. WHO (persons)- WHAT (events)- WHEN (in time and compared to now)- WHERE (geographic determinism & human ecology)- WHY (significance) was important?====================================================================
Week #3 – Beginning Monday, 7/8/2019
TOPIC: Compare Asoka (Ashoka) with Alexander the Great. How did they see war? What were their justifications? What political systems motivated the formation of democracy? How did they motivate and unify peoples? How did empire change the ways people lived?
WATCH THIS VIDEO: SHANG China
THEN, DO THE ASSIGNMENT BELOW & BRING IT TO CLASS WEDNESDAY
VIDEOGRAPHY
Early Americans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itCWu-m-23E
Olmecas, Mayapan & Azteca Mexica
Olmec Archaeology
Xi (?)
Polynesian Expansion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfdMVcn3wsg
Who Discovered America??
Indo - European Languages
The Persian Empire
Empires and Imperialism.
300 - the movie
The Real "300."
Thermopylae
What distinguishes a philosophy from a religion?
Three Minute Philosophy Series - Pythagoras
MACEDONIAN ARMY
HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on each day of the week’s instruction - AND- you will complete a 150 WORD analytical response on readings and lecture from the class. The response is due in class the end of each week. WHO (persons)- WHAT (events)- WHEN (in time and compared to now)- WHERE (geographic determinism & human ecology)- WHY (significance) was important?
=====================================================================
Week #4 – Beginning Monday, 7/15/2019
TOPIC: Integrate the lecture with the readings below in a summary of this week’s classes. Use the Who (was important), What (were they important for), When (were they important), Where (did events occur) and Why (does it matter, today) method to outline your essay.
QIN SHI HUANG DI
REPUBLICAN ARMY OF ROME
CARTHAGE
HANNIBAL BARCA
ROME – Republic into Empire
Bible Timeline
A student video - the Spread of Islam and another - Spread of Islam
Universal Cosmology: Joseph Campbell, "The Psyche and the Symbol,"
Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions & politics.
Buddhism & synthesis.
Saint Patrick
"King" Arthur?
INTERNATIONAL FOOD DAY!
HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on each day of the week’s instruction - AND- you will complete a 150 WORD analytical response on readings and lecture from the class. The response is due in class the end of each week. WHO (persons)- WHAT (events)- WHEN (in time and compared to now)- WHERE (geographic determinism & human ecology)- WHY (significance) was important?
====================================================================
Week #5 – Beginning Monday, 7/22/2019
TOPIC: How did the vents of the European Crusades combine with the Mongolian expansion to influence the modern world? Don't overlook Plagues and Renaissance!
All "Crusades"
History of the Mediterranean - Crusades (http://explorethemed.com/Crusades.asp?c=1)
Interactive Map - Crusades (http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/socialstudies/in_motion_08/jat/p_353.swf)
Comparative Feudalism
Samurai of the Kamakura / Kyoto Period
MONGOLS! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ53WqklIo8
Genghis Khan
Mongol Empire
Kublai Khan - Yuan Dynasty & Japan
Marco Polo
PLAGUE! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics
Full Ming Fleet Film
The Medici & Renaissance
HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on each day of the week’s instruction - AND- you will complete a 150 WORD analytical response on readings and lecture from the class. The response is due in class the end of each week. WHO (persons)- WHAT (events)- WHEN (in time and compared to now)- WHERE (geographic determinism & human ecology)- WHY (significance) was important?
======================================================================
Week #6 – Beginning Monday, 7/29/2019
TOPIC: Integrate the lecture with the readings below in a summary of this week’s classes. Use the Who (was important), What (were they important for), When (were they important), Where (did events occur) and Why (does it matter, today) method to outline your essay.
NOTES
NOK Culture - Sub-Saharan Africa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVT--v-fAKw
AFRICA KINGDOMS
MAP
West Africa
Introduction to the Smith book: Blacks in the Americas
Islam & Ifa Chango oba ni koso
Santeria Orisha.
Anasazi
Grand Chaco
Chaco Canyon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRnn7bQh6Zg
Images of Chaco https://www.google.com/search?q=chaco+canyon&client=firefox-a&hs=ekl&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=6G8QVIXuLuqoigLH1IBg&ved=0CEcQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=656
TEOTIHUACAN
Survivors! (Mankind - episode #6)
FOOD (Connections & Collapse)
HOMEWORK: Discussion Question brought typed to class on each day of the week’s instruction - AND- you will complete a 150 WORD analytical response on readings and lecture from the class. The response is due in class the end of each week. WHO (persons)- WHAT (events)- WHEN (in time and compared to now)- WHERE (geographic determinism & human ecology)- WHY (significance) was important?
=====================================================
Week # 7 – Monday, 8/5/2019
Pachacuti
Machu Picchu
NOTES
Aztlan - Engineering Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZyB47qGXoI
Columbian Exchange – Crash Course (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPA5oNpfM4)
West Africa
Slavery – (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY)
& Middle Passage (from the movie Amistad)
Pirates & Privateers – (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIDRRIwe2Lw)
HOMEWORK:
COURSE LEARNING OBJECTVES (CLOs) classroom activity.
Due in class the last day of the week’s instruction.
NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED
FINAL TOPICAL DISCUSSION: Can War and Civilization Become Disentangled?
Federal Spending Priorities since 1981 AND Your Tax Dollars at Work!
COST OF WAR COUNTER
CORPORATE PROFIT (-EERING?)