Survey of Early Western Civilization

History 004 Fall Semester 2003 MWF 11-11:50 AM BRH 210

Candace Gregory Office: TAH 3059

Email: cgregory@csus.edu Tel# 278-3824

Office Hrs: MWF 9-10 AM

Required Texts:

Mark Kishlansky, et al., Civilization in the West, Fifth Edition

Sources of the West: Volume I, Fifth Edition

Course Description and Goals:

Survey of the earliest civilization with emphasis placed upon the contribution of the Hellenic, Roman, and Medieval eras to the west. Continues to the close of the Middle Ages. Stress is placed on social, economic, as well as political factors. 3 units.

This class is designed to provide an overview of western European history from the earliest civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, through the first Western civilizations of Greece and Rome, the rise of the Medieval cultures, development of Christianity, and creation of the precursor to modern western states. The course will conclude with the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, periods of transition in which the west encounters new peoples, begins to build global empires, and undergoes tremendous changes internally due to the Renaissance and Reformation.

Requirements:

This is primarily a lecture course, although discussion by students is encouraged. Readings are assigned daily and are to be done BEFORE you come to class. All work is due on the assigned date; NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED. There will be three tests (including the final exam), two map quizzes, and four prÈcis of primary source readings.

Attendance / Tardy:

Attendance is mandatory and will be checked daily. You are allowed to miss three classes over the course of the semester. After those three absences, each subsequent absence will result in a loss of FIVE points from your final grade. If you miss more than five classes, you will receive an F for the course. Naturally, there are sometimes extenuating circumstances that will require you to miss a course. Each student must see me personally (or via email) if that is the situation.

Tardiness will not be tolerated. You are allowed to be tardy three (which is defined as arriving after the class roll has been called); after three, you will lose five points from your final exam grade for each subsequent tardy. More than five tardies will result in an F for the course. If you are late to class, or must leave class early, please be as quiet and unobtrusive as possible.

Final Grade Components:

5% (each) PrÈcis of Primary Source

10% (each) Map Quiz

20% (each) Three Tests (including final exam)

Grading Scale:

A 93-100 C 73-77

A- 90-92 C- 70-72

B+ 88-89 D+ 68-69

B 83-87 D 63-67

B- 80-82 D- 60-62

C+ 78-79 F 59 and below

Cell Phones:

Please turn off all cell phones or beepers before class begins. If your cell phone rings in class, you will be asked to leave and will miss that dayπs class.

Integrity and Scholarship:

DO NOT CHEAT! If you are caught cheating on a writing assignment, test, the final exam, or a daily quiz, or any other assigned work, you will receive an F for the course. You are held accountable for all university guidelines in regard to plagiarism and cheating.

Plagiarism:

≥Plagiarismãthe use of anotherπs personπs ideas or wording without giving proper creditãresults from the failure to document fully and accurately. Ideas and expressions of them are considered to belong to the individual who first puts them forward. Therefore, when you incorporate ideas or phrasing from any other author in your paper, whether you quote them directly or indirectly, you need to be honest and complete about indicating the source to avoid plagiarism. Whether intentional or unintentional, plagiarism can bring serious consequences, both academic, in the form of failure or expulsion, and legal, in the form of lawsuits. Plagiarism is a violation of the ethics of the academic community.≤ William G. Campbell, Stephen V. Ballou, and Carole Slade, Form and Style: Thesis, Reports, Term Papers, 6^th edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982), p. 52.

For more information on plagiarism, and how to avoid it, go to:

http;//www.Indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html

This syllabus can and may be changed at any time.

Reading and Writing Assignments

Wednesday 3 September

Introduction to class, Review of Syllabus and course goals, requirements

Friday 5 September Mesopotamia

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 1-18

Sources 1 and 2

Monday 8 September Egypt

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 18-24, 26-27

Sources 6 and 11

Wednesday 10 September Hebrews and Babylon

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 24-36

Sources 5 and 8

Friday 12 September Early Greece to 300

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 23-68

Sources 4 and 9

Monday 15 September Classical Greece

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 69-86

Sources 10 and 13

Wednesday 17 September Hellenistic World and Macedon

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 86-103

Source 16

Friday19 September Etruscans and Early Rome

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 103-124

Map Quiz 1

Monday 22 September Roman Republic

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 124-133

Source 21

Online: The Twelve Tables, excerpt

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/12tables.html

Wednesday 24 September End of the Republic

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 135-146

Source 22

Online: On the Gracchi

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/appian-civwars1.html

Friday 26 September Augustan Age and Pax Romana

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 147-168

Sources 19 and 18

Monday 29 September Barbarians and the Crises of the Third Century

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 169-177

Source 25

Wednesday 1 October Constantine and the Triumph of Christianity

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 177-187

Sources 26 and 24

Friday 3 October Barbarization of the West

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 187-195

Source 29

Monday 6 October TEST I

Wednesday 8 October Byzantines

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 197-208, 220-228

Sources 33 and 34

Friday 10 October Islam

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 209-213

Source 35

Monday 13 October Islamic Civilization

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 213-220

Online: Islamic Conquest of Spain

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/conqspain.html

Online: Battle of Tours

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/arab-poitiers732.html

Online: Three Accounts of the Battle of Tours

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/732tours.html

Wednesday 15 October Early Middle Ages: Barbaric Kingdoms

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 229-240

Sources 30 and 31

Friday 17 October Early Middle Ages: Culture

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 240-246

Source 28

Online: Ordeals

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ordeals1.html

Monday 20 October Carolingians

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 246-262

Source 32

Map Quiz 2

Wednesday 22 October High Middle Ages: Society

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 263-277

Sources 37 and 38

Friday 24 October Class Canceled

Monday 27 October Crusades

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 277-279

Sources 36 and 39

Wednesday 29 October High Middle Ages: Towns and States

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 280-301

Source 42

Online: Town Charter

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1201cambridge.html

Friday 31 October Hundred Yearsπ War

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 303-314

Online: Froissart, Battle of Crecy

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/froissart1.html

Online: Treaty of Troyes

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1420troyes.html

Monday 3 November Late Middle Ages: Plague and Revolt

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 314-322

Online: Boccaccio

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/boccacio2.html

Online: Black Death and the Jews

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/1348-jewsblackdeath.html

Online: Froissart, the Jacquerie

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/froissart2.html

Wednesday 5 November Schism

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 322-324

Online: University of Paris

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/grtschism2.html

Friday 7 November Renaissance Society and Art

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 335-350

Sources 51 and 52

Monday 10 November Italian City States

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 350-366

Source 53

Wednesday 12 November Test II

Friday 14 November Encounters

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 367-381

Sources 57 and 60

Monday 17 November Early Modern: New States

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 381-402

Source 56

Online: Thomas Cranmer on Henry VIIIπs Divorce

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/cramner-hen8.html

Wednesday 19 November Northern Renaissance and Humanism

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 403-412

Sources 54 and 55

Friday 21 November Luther

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 412-419

Source 62

Monday 24 November Calvin

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 419-426

Source 63

Wednesday 26 November Catholic Reformation

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 426-436

Sources 64 and 65

Friday 28 November Thanksgiving, No Class

Monday 1 December Wars of Religion: France and Spain

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 437-453

Sources 71 and 72

Wednesday 3 December Wars of Religion: Eastern Europe and the HRE

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 453-468

Source 67

Friday 5 December Early Modern Life: Economics and Society

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 469-489

Online: Piers Plowman

http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/authors/langland/pp-pass6.html

Monday 8 December Early Modern Life: Private Life and the Family

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 489-495

Source 69

Wednesday 10 December Witch Hunts

Readings: Kishlansky, pp. 495-503

Source 49