H 113 History of Western Civilization I
Dr. Erik L. Lindseth, IUPUI, Fall 2007

Section #2713     Monday and Wednesday 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.               CA 215

Required Texts: Course Profile

Levack, Muir, Veldman, Maas, The West: Encounters and Transformations, Vol. I: to 1715
Plato, The Last Days of Socrates, ed. Tredennick/Tarrant (Penguin)
Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania, ed. Mattingly/Handford (Penguin)
Einhard & Notker, Two Lives of Charlemagne, ed. Thorpe (Penguin)                    

Study Topics

Essay Guide

Early Modern Notes

Week of	Lecture Topic	Reading
Aug. 20	Introduction & the origins of "the West" in the East	Ch. 1 (Levack)
Aug. 27	Indo-European migrations and Ancient Greece	Ch. 2 , 3
Sept. 3	Labor Day Holiday on Monday - Classical Greece	read Plato
Sept. 10	The Hellenistic World Greek Review	Ch. 4 - Plato discussion
Sept. 17	The Roman Republic	Ch. 5 - paper due
Sept. 24	Caesar, Augustus, and the Roman Empire	Ch. 6 - read Tacitus
Oct. 1	Empire to 500 A.D. - Barbarian Invasion Roman Review	discuss Tacitus
Oct. 8	Midterm Exam Essay questions	Ch. 8 - paper  due
Oct. 15	The Feudal Age and the Frankish 'Renaissance'	read Charlemagne
Oct. 22	The High Middle Ages	Ch. 9
Oct. 29	The Late Middle Ages and the Great Schism	Ch. 10 - paper due
Nov. 5	The Renaissance and Christian Humanism	Ch. 11
Nov. 12	The Reformation	Ch. 13
Nov. 19	Wars of Religion - Thanksgiving Break	Ch. 14
Nov. 26	The English Civil War	Ch. 15
Dec. 3	Early "Modern" Europe	Ch. 16
Dec. 10	Final Exam - Monday Dec. 17, 1:00-3:00