Discussion Lead Schedule = WC1-Honors (Fall 2016)

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Week 3 = September 8 (Thr.)

An Ancient Maritime World

Noah and the Flood (Genisis 6-8) https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+6-8&version=NIV

Book of Jonah https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jonah+1-4&version=NIV

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Week 4 = September 12 & 15

The Idea of Classic Greece 1150-480 B.C.E

The Odyssey (book 12) http://www.bartleby.com/22/12.html

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Week 5 = September 19 & 22

Hellenistic Civilization & Alexander the Great 359-200 B.C.E

Artemisia at Salamis, 480 BCE http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/480artemisia.asp

Herodotus: Hellenes & Phoenicians, c. 430 BCE http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/430phoenicia.asp

Herodotus: Why the Nile floods in summer http://web.archive.org/web/20010608064203/http://classics.holycross.edu/Courses/Ancient_science/reads/Hdt2.19ff.html

-Ptolemy III Chronicle (BCHP 11) http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-ptolemy_iii/bchp_ptolemy_iii_01.html

-The Diadochi Chronicle http://www.livius.org/cg-cm/chronicles/bchp-diadochi/diadochi_03.html

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Week 6 = September 26 & 29

ROME 753B.C.E.–305 C.E.

The Carthaginian Attack on Sicily, 480 BCE http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/480carthage.asp

Mithridates & The Roman Conquests in the East, 90-61 BCE http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/mithradates1.asp

Justinian's Digest - Book XIV (Title I-II) (529 - 565 A.D.) http://www.admiraltylawguide.com/documents/digestxiv.html

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Week 7 = October 3 & 6

Roman Culture 753B.C.E.–305 C.E.

-Slavery in the Roman Republic (Plautus, Pseudolus, Act. I, Sec. 2) http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/slavery-romrep1.asp

-Women's Life in Greece and Rome http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-privatelife242.shtml

-A sketch of Rome http://legacy.fordham.edu/Halsall/ancient/pliny-natihist-rome.asp

-Life In Rome In The Late Republic: http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/63sallust.asp

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Week 8 = October 13 (Thr.)

Christianity and the Byzantine Rome 305-568 C.E.

Mathew 4:18-22 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+4%3A18-22&version=NIV

Luke 5:1-11 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+5%3A+1-11&version=NIV

Mathew 14:22-34 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+14%3A22%E2%80%9334&version=ASV

Mathew 3 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mathew+3&version=NIV

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Week 9 = October 17 & 20

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Week 10 = October 24 & 27

The Islamic World--------Documents subject to change

-THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD'S LAST SERMON http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/source/muhm-sermon.asp

-MUHAMMAD PROCLAIMS THE QUR'AN http://www.mircea-eliade.com/from-primitives-to-zen/233.html

-THE KORAN: "THE WOMEN" http://web.archive.org/web/20000229204333/http:/www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/koranonwomen.htm

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Week 11 = October 31 & November 3

The Rise and Expansion of Europe: Early 1000-1300

Maritime Ordinances of Trani (1063 A.D.) (Italy) http://www.admiraltylawguide.com/documents/trani.html

Port of Arles: The Navigation Code (1150) (france) http://www.admiraltylawguide.com/documents/arles.html

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Week 12 = November 7 & 10

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Week 13 = November 14 & 17

The Middle Ages: Era of Crisis and New Encounters

http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/perspectives/petrarca.php

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/plague/perspectives/marchionne.php

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Week 14 = November 21 (Mon.)

Age of Discovery 1350-1550

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Week 15 = November 28 & December 1

The Renaissance / Reformation 1350-1550

-Voyage of Columbus http://www.historycentral.com/documents/columbus.html

-Vasco da Gama, Round Africa to India (1497-1498) http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1497degama.asp